A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die

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10. It's a double bind for the GOP.

Not only do they have to acknowledge white racism in their electoral success, they ALSO have to acknowledge that their dog don't hunt. The GOP wanted to roll back the New Deal as an affront to "free market principles". But nobody really wants that to be rolled back. So they have to use white resentment as a Trojan horse to sell it to racist white working class voters (Reagan Dems and the like) so that they associate government intervention with "handouts to THOSE PEOPLE". Take away white resentment and then what do you have?

On top of that, even if a right-of-center party drops the white resentment, it still has to get past the fact that even "color-blind" free market policy will tend to hurt marginalized groups (because free markets tend to reward access to resources, which marginalized groups don't have) and marginalized group voters at this point associate "free market principles" with "racism/white resentment" the same way the 1964 election made Dems the civil rights party and the Repubs the anti-civil rights party.