To Win Minority Vote, GOP Has to Show it’s Ready to Battle Privileged Interests
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The party establishment seems to think the answer begins with amnesty and more low-skilled labor — which just happens to be the policy preference of the GOP’s donor class. Beyond this, the party’s top consultants offer only rhetorical tweaks around the typical GOP package of low-tax corporatism.
A better minority outreach can be found in libertarian populism.
The libertarian populist argument is that the game is rigged in favor of the big and well-connected and against the small and unconnected. This argument should be aimed mainly at the “47 percent” that Mitt Romney wrote off and denigrated: working-class voters who find it hard to get ahead.
Political analyst Sean Trende noted that a large potentially Republican bloc of voters stayed home in 2012 — working-class white voters. Some conservatives have argued that the GOP can and must win these voters.
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