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The death of a brand

November 4, 2008 - 8:45 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-11-04 22:37:36

No, Obama won because he was Black. That’s it. It’s all he ran on. Being Black. It’s a strength. And like all strengths, a weakness too.

The popular vote was 51-49. The problem is that Reps are scared of being populist. A real, populist party that the Republicans are likely to transform to, will be different.

It will argue: Whites, you won’t GET ANYTHING out of the Welfare State, that is for Blacks and Hispanics only. You will be pushed to the back of the line. You are a second class citizen in your own country. White Men: Obama hates you, he is a “Race Man” who hates Whites (this has the virtue of like the others, being actually true and easily proven).

This is the proven way to win — to exploit the internal contradictions of the Democrats the way Lee Atwater and Jessie Helms did. By pointing out ala Rudy after Dinkins, that if you elect a Dem, particularly a Black Dem, they put the “race Man” politics over the safety and security of the White majority (Crown Heights Riots, where Dinkins let Blacks kill and burn with impunity).

The other way forward, is by labeling Dems and Obama as traitors, by reliance on easily proven foreign money. Show that both took lots of cash from Hamas, Hezbollah, Saudis, etc. Show people that the Dems took the Muslim money and follow Muslim orders: on security, on Gitmo, on terrorists, and more.

To win, a real Republican Party needs to focus populist anger and take great chisels to the Dem coalition and whack off great parts of it. You can’t be the party of Black Nationalism and resentment and be the party also of the White Majority. You can’t be for the average working guy and for mass immigration that turns him into a despised and discriminated person in his own nation. You can’t be the party of “we crave the world’s approval” and be the party of Patriotism.

No, we need the end of RINOs, end of GWB, the end of anything other than hard-nosed, brutal, populist politics. Defining the opposition as the enemy of the majority, and hammering that home.