Is the Republican Party doomed to be the party of uneducated whites thanks to Donald Trump?

Question

I'm a lifelong Republican. I have an Ivy League graduate degree and a white-collar, professional job, and I live in a large city in the Northeast. My favorite politician ever is Mitt Romney.

I'm dismayed by the rise of Donald Trump: the racism, the poorly-thought policies; the appeal to low-information voters and the simplistic arguments.

I'm more concerned that the GOP could be forever tarnished by Donald Trump and relegated to being a populist party that appeals only to uneducated whites.

Can the GOP recover post Trump and remain a party for the educated and the affluent? Or is it doomed, meaning that well-educated center-right voters will have to join another party?

For the record, I will never vote Democratic: the anti-Christian leanings, the pandering to identity politics, the latching onto every nontraditional social movement, the desire to punish people who work, etc. are all unacceptable.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hard to tell. I am working on my 2nd Master's degree, have a service sector job in health care and refused to vote for Mitt Romney. I voted Constitution Party. And I live in the South. I supported Cruz this time, Ron Paul last time. I would have voted for Rand Paul, Walker, or Cruz if they were the GOP nominee. Now I will probably vote Constitution Party again. Unless Trump selects Gingrich as Veep. Then I will have some serious thinking to do. But anyway, the reason the Republican Party is in trouble is they refuse to oppose Obama's horrible and illegal enslavement of the American people to government. In fact, they are in favor of it. Mitch McConnel is just as evil as Obama and wants to enslave the American people just as much. I doubt I will vote for an Republican on the national level as long as McConnel is part of the party. I voted for Becky Gerritson in my congressional race but she lost and I won't vote for the communist republican they have had there the last 6 years. Of course like you I won't vote Democrat because I have ethics and do things like think. And read. but anyway to answer your question, no they are not doomed. If they get back to being the party of limited government, individual liberty and opposing Democrat tyranny and championing the poor like Gingrich did with his welfare reform in the Contract with America that helped lower poverty rates and illegitimacy rates, especially among minorities, then you will see a resurgence. Otherwise Democrat tyranny will turn us into Venezuela or North korea or Greece.

Answer 2

It's not possible for a lifelong Republican to have Mitt Romney as their favorite politician ever. Mitt Romney is a loser. No honest Republican could like him. That's why he lost the easiest race in the history of the Republican Party in 2012. Since you lean left, you should just change to the Democrat Party. The Republican Party does not want you. Those uneducated whites that you are talking about, built this country. They do more honest work on any give day than you will do in your entire life. Please leave the Republican Party as soon as you can.

Answer 3

I am CEO, college educated and I support Trump. It is not just the uneducated that support him

Answer 4

_ Seems like it. Trump is in full control.

Answer 5

What's wrong with the GOP being the Big Tent Party, and including lower educated folks.



For decades, Democrats proudly proclaimed themselves the party of the working man, and by that, they meant the lower educated blue collar worker.



Why shouldn't Republicans proudly claim that now?

Answer 6

You are too pessimistic about Donald Trump. I am not a Republican but I see in him a lot of potential. He is unvarnished, not rehearsed, and has his own ideas, and an open mind to other solutions. He has shown flexibility in that way by adjusting some of his previous rigid notions about national security and anti-terrorism and improving American jobs. We need a big change. We dont want more institutionalized corruption and cozy alliances between politicians, insiders and Wall St. Thats what Trump's platform started out as, like Bernie Sanders.



He is not anti-Christian, but he is not conservative, but you cannot get a conservative elected by a majority of moderates in this country. We are not Saudi Arabia or a Latin Catholic country. We are a mixture. Moderate candidates are always elected.



You may think of Obama as a liberal, I do not. He turned out to have bad judgment, like Hillary, as far as foreign decisions but Trump would never be dangerous like Hillary. In both her bad judgment and volatile temperament as well as her desire for militarism and war. Donald is patriotic but does not want to start more wars. He wants to realign allies and priorities in American foreign policy.



I agree with all of his ideas about a ban on Muslim immigration, a better border barrier, and working with China on shifting jobs, and working with Russia against terrorists, rather than antagonizing Russia and China for pursuing their own interests in their region.

Answer 7

I'll put my two hinky-dink Master's degrees in Computer Science and Network security against your bullshit "Ivy League Degree" any day of the week.



And, what I lack in connections and birthright I more than make up for in a command of the facts.



Trump isn't my first pick, but the reason working class voters have gravitated to Trump is BECAUSE of Mitt Romney and the 2012 election.



All Romney could do was smile at him as Obama kicked his teeth in.



You see Trump as vulgar. The "low-information-voters" see him as brawler, and to be honest I'd rather lose with Trump than lose one more time with a smiling dumbass like Romney.

Answer 8

I would have preferred Cruz. But what exactly is your question supposed to accomplish, Counselor?

Answer 9

the Dems have been the party of the Uneducated Blacks for about 52 years. (As LBJ planned it, and stated so.) Everybody needs a party.

Answer 10

Lots of people in America are just disgusted with the system. They really don't care what Trump represents, or the consequences. They WANT to break the system. That's the whole point.