Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney.
Yeah, it's a real shame the hardcore neoconest neocons aren't electable. Just one more war in the Middle East, bro, please, just one more and I'll quit, I promise!
And the Democrats could run literally anyone, some high fructose boomer soulless poison like a Warren-Buttigieg ticket and the zombiefication of America will be complete. No more worries, no more troubles, no more pain. Just a forever stream of Jimmy Kimmel episodes with a tv dinner for one.
Just what kind of realignment would that be?
Far-right Italian/Polynesian White supremacy. No but seriously, Republicans would bleed some upper middle class boomers who can clutch their pearls about "norms" and "democratic traditions" and "proper way things are done in a democracy" until their home gets foreclosed over their fourth reverse mortgage. At the same time Republicans could gain some (lower-ish) middle class non-Whites. Blacks and Latinos don't fetishize the "norms" and "process" and whatnot, they don't mind if their politicians are a little saucy.
If Republicans want to take more Black and Latino votes, they have to:
Run some Black and Latino candidates, but it can't be tokenism. They must actually relate to their community and don't feel like they hate themselves for their race and secretely wish they were white, but also don't just play the ethnic card and expect people vote for them because they are the same skin tone and hair texture. These candidates will also appeal to Whites because they will get to feel good about not being racist by voting for the based and redpilled Black man or the far-right Latina.
Dial down the pro-life messaging. Yes, the Republican base doesn't
like abortion, but it's not as die hard against it as pro-life lobby groups think it is or wish it was. Tudor Dixon, for example, lost the Michigan governorship over repeatedly and proudly saying she would ban abortion in any and all cases except when the mother's life were immediately and directly in danger. That only appeals to a couple hardcore religious fundamentalists and alienates everyone else. You can still be pro life, just don't go out of your way to say on tv that YES INCLUDING AN INCESTUOUS RAPE OF A 10 YEAR OLD.
Reject free trade. Right or wrong, people want the jobs. No two ways about it.
Reject foreign wars. How does everybody not realize that Americans don't know and don't care about not-America. Some Americans like the warm and fuzzy feeling they get from the idea that America is "doing the right thing", but that ship has sailed and sunk. After decades of completely pointless intervention wars, nobody feels warm and fuzzy, all they have is the bitter taste of sinking money and lives in some weird countries on the other side of the planet that they can't pronounce or find on a map.
Increase anti-corporation rhetoric. This is a no brainer, nobody likes corporations. Tech companies bad, banks bad, big pharma bad. Tech companies are already Democrat so no loss there, big pharma sends a lot of money, but come on, after two years of covid, people are ready and open wide to hate big pharma more than ever. Banks will be a tough habit to kick. I am not holding my breath.
Increase anti-woke rhetoric. No more drag queen storytime in public schools, no more CRT. Youngkin won an upset in Virginia last year despite being a gigacoprorate hedge fund drone with zero personality, just because parents, yes including if not especially Black and Latino parents, didn't want their kids to learn about "blood play" and anal fisting in school. Also no school lockdowns over covid. There is no day care for preteens if school is closed, and if there is they can't afford it, simple as. We've liberated women by sending them to work, so now the kids have to be somewhere too. Can't be home alone.
I think it would be great if DeSantis won because then eddie would finally have a right wing Italian in charge of both his countries
