Not in their primaries.
With so many states ridiculously gerrymandered, Republican candidates - in non-state-wide races - really only need to beat other republicans. If the Evangelical/anti-abortion block can reliably deliver around 1/3 of voters, they will reliably swing a primary. That keeps the party captured by their radicals, and keeps the country stuck with the ideology of a minority of the minority.
scarabic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Republicans have no good strategies left, only bad ones to choose between. They have a base that thinks ending immigration would be a good thing, when it’s immigration that keeps our economy afloat. What do you even do with that?
They’ve gotten a great deal of mileage out of the abortion issue over the last 30 years. And now they’ve finally struck down Roe, delivering a long-promised victory to their base and seemingly legitimizing their long drive for this. Perhaps that emboldens them to overplay their hand?