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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mel221 who wrote (81438)	7/4/2018 6:19:25 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 353877

" now California is now permanently blue." The credit for that goes to R. Governor Pete Wilson. Proposition 187 Turned California Blue

To: mel221 who wrote (81438)	7/4/2018 6:42:04 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 353877

And now California is now permanently blue. It used to be reliably red. Until the Republicans, with a legislative majority but a demographic minority, tried to impose unpopular policies on the majority. In other words, they over-reached. That showed the majority that they could no longer just ignore state level politics any more and galvanized them to vote. It was a major example of an own goal. Rule by a minority isn't very stable without cooperation of the majority. Either tacitly by not voting, or having a fear campaign by the minority to suppress opposition. When pushed too far, the minority either loses at the ballot box or lose their heads in the uprising.

To: mel221 who wrote (81438)	7/4/2018 7:18:33 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 353877

<<Hispanics are an important and soon to be dominant constituency of the Democratic party,>> What happens when Hispanics are no longer content to just be constituents and start banding together to vote Hispanics into office by throwing mainstream white Democrats out of office? That's the question I see looming. Will the Democrat party be taken over the same way the GOP is being (possibly) taken over by Trump supporters? Will the country split increasingly more along race and ethnic lines? A recent poll showed white males aged 18-34 are continuing to leave the Democrat party in large numbers.