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“The former vice president will say that there’s a fundamental divide between … limited government conservatism and populism, and that divide is unbridgeable,” said a Pence aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the speech for reporters. “Populism and liberalism are on the same road to ruin.”
[I think this really does speak to the divide within the GOP. To win the White House, the GOP really needs both sides, but at this point I don't see any candidate doing that successfully. Trump did in 2016, but he's clearly picked one lane to focus on [at least as far as his messaging goes; I doubt he has any policy plans to regulate the banks or big business in order to help the common man], and Pence is making the case for the other.]
“Why would you attack populism if you’re trying to be the Republican nominee?” Gingrich said in an interview. “I mean, it’s now the base of the party.”
A Pew Research Center project that used polling to analyze Republicans found in 2021 that about 23 percent of Republicans belong to the “Populist Right.” Such Republicans “are deeply conservative and reliably vote Republican” but also “hold hard-line immigration views” as well as economic views [that are more populist than corporate]
“They are the sole Republican-oriented group in which majorities say the economic system in the country unfairly favors powerful interests, that businesses in this country make too much profit and that taxes on household income over $400,000 should be raised,” Pew wrote in the report.
a younger generation of [Republican] lawmakers has embraced policies such as sick leave for rail workers, compensation caps for banking executives and refusing to cut Social Security and Medicare — policies on which they have at least some common ground with Democrats.
- Pence will argue that government intervention in free markets, refusing to address Social Security and Medicare spending and retreating on foreign policy are anathema to the Republican Party.
[I think this really does speak to the divide within the GOP. To win the White House, the GOP really needs both sides, but at this point I don't see any candidate doing that successfully. Trump did in 2016, but he's clearly picked one lane to focus on [at least as far as his messaging goes; I doubt he has any policy plans to regulate the banks or big business in order to help the common man], and Pence is making the case for the other.]
“Why would you attack populism if you’re trying to be the Republican nominee?” Gingrich said in an interview. “I mean, it’s now the base of the party.”
A Pew Research Center project that used polling to analyze Republicans found in 2021 that about 23 percent of Republicans belong to the “Populist Right.” Such Republicans “are deeply conservative and reliably vote Republican” but also “hold hard-line immigration views” as well as economic views [that are more populist than corporate]
“They are the sole Republican-oriented group in which majorities say the economic system in the country unfairly favors powerful interests, that businesses in this country make too much profit and that taxes on household income over $400,000 should be raised,” Pew wrote in the report.
a younger generation of [Republican] lawmakers has embraced policies such as sick leave for rail workers, compensation caps for banking executives and refusing to cut Social Security and Medicare — policies on which they have at least some common ground with Democrats.
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