• MEDIA: GOP elites want to turn from Trump. Will the base let them?

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 30 12:36:20 2022
    Via Brave,
    <URL:https://search.brave.com/news?q=%22Donald+Trump%22+immigration>
    see Los Angeles Times' Melanie Mason on whether Kellyanne Conway
    worries that Ken Griffin will allow Ron DeSantis to run to Donald
    Trump's right on the National Question: <URL:https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-18/gop-elites-want-to-turn-from-trump-will-the-base-let-them>
    | In 2012, after two consecutive bruising presidential losses, party
    | stalwarts decided it was necessary to remake Republicans' image. Fox
    | News' Sean Hannity said he "evolved" in his thinking on immigration
    | and endorsed a pathway to citizenship. The Republican National
    | Committee commissioned what was widely called an autopsy, which
    | prescribed softening stances on social issues and promoted
    | immigration reform as a way to attract voters of color, young people
    | and women.
    |
    | The Republican grassroots felt differently. Conservative shock jock
    | Rush Limbaugh railed against the document. Four years later, the
    | party backed a candidate whose hard-line immigration stance could be
    | summed up with the phrase, "Build the Wall."

    Besides DeSantis, what other MAGA candidate might campaign as a tribune
    for legacy American proles by promising to make immigration "safe, legal
    and rare"?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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