2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why does the "hacker left" (wikileaks, anonymous, etc.) want Trump to be president? [View all]Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)If you look at the ideological divide among older voters, you see divisions along liberal versus conservative lines (voting-rights versus alleged-voting-security, workplace-gender-equality versus workplace-deregulation, domestic-labor-rights versus global-corporation-profits, etc.).
If you look at the ideological divide among younger voters, you see more divisions along populist versus establishment lines (fix-the-rigged-system versus status-quo, bankster-regulation-and-justice versus Wall-Street-and-financial-sector-deregulation, legal-and-economic-equality versus rules-do-not-apply-to-the-rich).
The Republican Party is shifting from a conservative message to a right-wing-populist message.
Trump is trying to redefine the Democratic Party as the party of the elite, the party of the status quo, the party of the establishment, the party of rules-do-not-apply-to-the-rich, the party of globalization of trade, etc.
This is the Republican Party's transition year and I'm not sure they can win this year. If they succeed in this redefinition of the parties, we lose the Senate and lose much ground in the House in 2018 and lose the presidency in 2020.