The Electorate

What I'm finally realizing with the Trump primary victories is that the Republican Party is composed of a wide range of types of people. Liberal critiques that called Republicans racist felt false to me, for I am open to all races.  But it is undeniable that southern Democrats in the late 60's felt abandoned by their party and turned to the Republicans to support their vision of an American state having rights of self-government.  Sadly, many of those were people steeped in a tradition and education of racism.  And it is surely unmistakeable that the votes of people like that have helped Republicans win many elections, even if we disavow and reject their racist views.

It appears that this type of Republican that doesn't so much care about the intellectual value of capitalism and conservatism that is giving Trump support in 2016.  No mainstream Republican has ever been blatantly vilifying Mexicans and Muslims in general as Trump did in 2015. But he was rewarded with this behavior, even as more reasonable approaches were offered.

I am suspicious that these people also find Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio unacceptable  because of their Hispanic background.

Not that the Democrats don't also have their problems with loons. They rely on voters who reject Biblical traditional values.  They see no value in the unborn human life and would accept abortion through the ninth month.  They have even abandoned the Democrat Party-supporting black church's view that gay marriage should not be legalized.

So, I am disappointed that the reasonable views of a Marco Rubio who seeks solutions to problems by working with others have been rejected by my party.  A hard line may feel satisfying but the extreme won't pass through the legislative process.