TRUMP HAS MADE ROMNEY’S GOP MORE DIVERSE. You’ve heard years of accusations that former President and now President-elect Donald Trump is a racist, sexist, homophobic bigot who is also a fascist and the new incarnation of Adolf Hitler. It has been said so many times in Resistance World that most Trump supporters just shrug and tune it out. But now we’ve had an election, and it turns out Trump assembled a broad and diverse group of supporters to win a second term and perhaps teach the Republican Party new lessons in coalition building.
How to see that? Compare the exit polls from Tuesday’s election with those from the last losing GOP campaign before Trump — Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss to President Barack Obama. Do that and you will see changes in the makeup of the electorate that voted for a Republican candidate. The bottom line is that Trump has made Romney’s Republican Party more diverse and more inclusive than it was a dozen years ago.
