Trump will be President so now

Republicans only ever won state and local elections because of gerrymandering.

They're trying it with these voter ID laws and felony restrictions, but Democrats always RISE.


And if someone seriously thinks Trump will win, they must be one of the "poorly educated," racist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic, and Xenophobic dumbasses that makes up Trump's base.

The GOP will have to completely change their platform to be MUCH more inclusive of minorities (especially racial minorities) if they ever want to win the White House again.

Until then, the Democrats will not "decline."

If I remember correctly, the change happened because LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So I guess early republicans opposed slavery, but didn't think African Americans should be equal citizens.

Added to that, I also know that Evangelicals in America didn't vote until the government started desegregating schools, and when they lost that fight they started going after gays, abortion, and ****ography, and the right just keep doing more and more to court that voter demographic. So the Evangelicals have paid a pretty big part in the shaping of the modern Republican party.

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Democrats are making big gains in places like Utah, Georgia & North Carolina that used to be HEAVILY Republican. I'd say the trend is going to keep going until Republicans take up a more moderate stance.

Well a lot of the country is moving to the left, or away from the GOP. So the safe and leaning blue will stay blue. The swing states are already moving to the left, and the deep red states are too small to ever make up.

If Hillary has a great presidency, it'll be impossible for the GOP to win with their current platform because 1) a good economy 3-4 terms in a row is a good sign Democratic economics work 2)minority voters are increasing and her immigration and criminal justice reform will further secure that growing electorate 3)she'll obviously change voter ID laws and gerrymandering cutting off their local/state strategy 4)millennials are overwhelmingly liberal so I wouldn't be surprised if an improved Bernie type comes along and gives us a Reagan landslide soon.

It literally comes down to a Clinton presidency and how she moves the country.

The country has moved to the left on social issues, and the Republican party didn't move along. A president who doesn't support gay marriage can't really win anymore.

I think Hillary will get two terms, and after that we can either expect a very moderate Republican or a centre-left Democrat (like Sanders).

The Republican party would have to get their **** together. It's divided between a Trump camp of xenophobes and another camp of intellectual Republicans (as contradictory it might sound). The Trump-camp, even with a normal candidate, can't win elections because of minorities and anti-racism/anti-populism. The other camp can win, but I think they wilm stay losing in primaries.

Nnnnnnnn;
#GoodByeTrump

It's not even that the Republican party didn't move further left with the rest of us—the reacted to us going further left by going even further right.

This. It also doesn't help that the Republican party continually insists on going with an anti-LGBT platform, either. If they would stop trying to pander to the fundamentalist Christian sect of their party and start bringing in policies beneficial to the average person, then they would do better.

As more cities in the South move to the left, the southern strategy is going to prove obsolete for the Republican party.

Ok so the decline will start in 2020 when moderate/anti-Trump republican Ohio governor John Kasich beats Hillary to become the next US president.

The GOP won't play games in 2020 ^

If Hillary follows through on at least half of her promises (immigration / criminal justice reform; debt free college), I can't see GOP winning until 2024. Besides, you'll have to take into account that GOP can't run on their old platform (anti-LGBT among other things) given what Trump has done to their party image. If this election is showing us anything, it's that the far right policies aren't working in convincing anyone. Most people are moderates to centrist lefts than anything else; if only because of Trump and the GOP platform.

Republicans need to become more socially liberal - that's it. From a British perspective, there were people here who thought our Conservative Party would never form a government again because their views were way too outdated. But the party leadership modernised and dragged the grassroots along with them.

I'm not sure if the Republicans are actually capable of such large reform, though. Religion doesn't play a very big role in politics here like it does in the US. And your primary system gives way too much power to the extremists who turn out to vote in them, hence Trump and Cruz ended up as the top two candidates this year.

The GOP would basically need a Bill Clinton (to the extreme) that will shift the Republicans to the left. That will never make in roads to African Americans and Trump calling all Spanish-Speaking individuals as rapists and thieves. They won't be forgetting that. It'll take decades to undo that damage.