Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: “The Republican enterprise is devoted to stoking anger and social resentment, not to enacting legislation.”
shows that moving politics away from bread-and-butter economic concerns is the best way for Republicans to hold their supporters together.
Two of the party’s four key coalition groups are conservative across the board and welcome the party’s opposition to Democrats’ government initiatives. So does a third group, the “Ambivalent Right,” which though more moderate on issues such as abortion, immigration and same-sex marriage, is also skeptical of larger government.
But Pew characterizes nearly a quarter of the GOP’s supporters as the “Populist Right,” hard-liners on immigration who are also “highly critical of the economic system.” If politics ever became more about economics than culture, the party’s hold on many in this group could become tenuous.But here is the most disturbing Pew finding: “Perhaps no issue is more divisive than racial injustice in the U.S.
Pew found that among “the four Republican-oriented typology groups, no more than about a quarter say a lot more needs to be done to ensure equal rights for all Americans regardless of their racial or ethnic background; by comparison, no fewer than about three-quarters of any Democratic group say a lot more needs to be done to achieve this goal.”
This gulf on one of the central questions facing our nation suggests that, for now at least, Republicans have a powerful interest in keeping a politics of resentment alive. The angry
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