As long as the economy is OK, Micah, I disagree. People are Republicans because they are conservative on social and economic issues. Evidently the race-immigration strain was stronger in the party than we thought, as I alluded to earlier. But Trump’s victory wasn’t a unifying one, and his stances aren’t conventional Republican ones. The main thing campaigns do is show people which candidates line up with their stances. This rhetoric just tells many Republican voters that Trump isn’t quite in line with their views.
