What's the vibe among American conservatives?

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The biggest reason for that was the fact that he followed Kushner's lead (supposedly) and adopted a typical "anti-racist" Republican platform. He dropped all of the stuff that won him the election in 2016, and instead opted to run on letting blacks out of prison and increasing legal immigration. He did nothing about the BLM riots, he did nothing about election security, and he did next to nothing in terms of economic COVID relief for normal people. For the most part, he gave up even the dog whistles. It's like he did everything he could to throw the election.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So the Republican expectation was they could expect to win all future elections using racism, even though stuff like legal immigration or civil rights represented a culture that was against that? Unless his second term was going to cut Hart-Celler into pieces and begin mass deportations, it was suicide of the highest order.