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This is not only a good idea but it has to happen owing to demographics if the GOP wants to survive over the next decades as the US becomes increasingly multi-ethnic. But the transition is not likely to be easy or quick. There appears to be considerable resistance to it.However, such a transition would force Democrats back to their working class roots and aid the progressive wing which is the only moderately left cohort in the US.Then the two parties would more closely reflect the make-up of American population. and the distribution might eventually become similar.The US tends to be a centrist country and should this occur there would be a center-right and center-left party, with fringe extremes. In close elections, those fringes could make a difference.The HillRubio: GOP must rebrand as
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This is not only a good idea but it has to happen owing to demographics if the GOP wants to survive over the next decades as the US becomes increasingly multi-ethnic. But the transition is not likely to be easy or quick. There appears to be considerable resistance to it.This is not only a good idea but it has to happen owing to demographics if the GOP wants to survive over the next decades as the US becomes increasingly multi-ethnic. But the transition is not likely to be easy or quick. There appears to be considerable resistance to it.However, such a transition would force Democrats back to their working class roots and aid the progressive wing which is the only moderately left cohort in the US.Then the two parties would more closely reflect the make-up of American population. and the distribution might eventually become similar.The US tends to be a centrist country and should this occur there would be a center-right and center-left party, with fringe extremes. In close elections, those fringes could make a difference.The HillRubio: GOP must rebrand as
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However, such a transition would force Democrats back to their working class roots and aid the progressive wing which is the only moderately left cohort in the US.
Then the two parties would more closely reflect the make-up of American population.
and the distribution might eventually become similar.
The US tends to be a centrist country and should this occur there would be a center-right and center-left party, with fringe extremes. In close elections, those fringes could make a difference.
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Rubio: GOP must rebrand as party of 'multiethnic, multiracial, working class' voters
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