RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans

by Stanley B. Greenberg

Overview

A leading pollster and adviser to America’s most important political figures explains why the Republicans will crash in 2020.

For decades the GOP has seen itself in an uncompromising struggle against a New America that is increasingly secular, racially diverse, and fueled by immigration. It has fought non-traditional family structures, ripped huge holes in the social safety net, tried to stop women from being independent, and pitted aging rural Evangelicals against the younger, more dynamic cities.

Since the 2010 election put the Tea Party in control of the GOP, the party has condemned America to years of fury, polarization and broken government. The election of Donald Trump enabled the Republicans to make things even worse. All seemed lost.

But the Republicans have set themselves up for a shattering defeat.

In RIP GOP, Stanley Greenberg argues that the 2016 election hurried the party’s imminent demise. Using amazing insights from his focus groups with real people and surprising revelations from his own polls, Greenberg shows why the GOP is losing its defining battle. He explores why the 2018 election, when the New America fought back, was no fluke. And he predicts that in 2020 the party of Lincoln will be left to the survivors, opening America up to a new era of renewal and progress.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250311764
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	705,857
File size:	26 MB
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About the Author

STANLEY B. GREENBERG is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller It's the Middle Class, Stupid! and polling adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and CEOs across the globe. He lives in Connecticut and Washington, D.C., with his wife, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The New America
2. The GOP Counterrevolution Against the New America
3. The GOP Battle Against Multiculturalism
4. The Tea Party–Trump Decade
5. President Trump’s GOP in Battle
6. The New America Strikes Back
7. Is This All They Have to Offer WorkingPeople?
8. How Did Democrats Let Donald Trump Win?
9. After the Crash
Acknowledgments

Notes

Editorial Reviews

When Stan Greenberg says, America is at a turning point, you know he’s conducted hundreds of surveys and listened to real people and their aspirations like no one else. In RIP GOP, he offers a framework for understanding this current battle for our values and country that no one else has been brave enough to write. Because he is betting on the new, multi-cultural America defending its values and defeating the Donald Trump’s Republican Party, I am betting Stan Greenberg has it right.” – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

“Provocative, insightful and deeply personal — RIP GOP shows how Republicans weaponized hatred, sexism and bigotry to hijack the Oval Office. Through vivid detail and analysis, backed up by hard data, Stan Greenberg outlines a blueprint for the New American majority to destroy the rigged system that made Donald Trump possible as he offers the hope that we can create an America that builds opportunity for everyone, not just the wealthy and the well-connected.” —Senator Elizabeth Warren

"In these trying times, Greenberg gives us rational cause to be optimistic about the victory of a progressive New America. Engrossing, thoughtful, and carefully reasoned." —Robert B. Reich

"It took a man with five college degrees who has elected five of the most amazing leaders in the world to write a book that makes sense of this screwed up country. It is convincing." —James Carville

"Methodically and meticulously researched...Greenberg predicts that the rage engendered by Donald Trump will lead to his defeat in 2020, Democratic control of the Senate and the collapse of the current Republican party. Imagine the past midterms on steroids." —The Guardian

From the Publisher

2019-06-11
If demography is destiny, then it would appear that the Republicans are in big trouble.

Democratic pollster Greenberg takes up the argument he began to unfold in America Ascendant (2015): The GOP is fighting a war, mostly on the cultural front, that it cannot hope to win, its "original sin" being the much-in-the-news war on women's rights to control their own bodies. This culture war is being waged by a bloc of evangelical states that are ever less important in the electoral mix, in large part because millennials, who tend to be socially liberal, are moving to the big cities, depopulating the countryside, and turning that culture war into an urban-vs.-rural battleground that the moribund white majority will eventually lose. Try as it might, the Trump administration cannot change the fact that the foreign-born populations of the U.S. is growing, with 12 million foreign-born migrants swelling the population of the nation's cities and suburbs. Given that "every religious denomination is coping with drops in the number of those who are religiously observant," and given that younger people generally support gay marriage and multiculturalism, it's the GOP's world to lose. That said, as Greenberg notes, there's still the business of messaging: The Democrats, he argues, have to change their notion that government can be a ladder to lift the poor and instead hammer on the more robust point that American workers need a level playing field. "Working people are no fools," writes the author, and they're now seeing the effects on their paychecks and lives of tariffs, cuts in health care and social services, and the like. Winning the blue-collar white vote won't be the easiest thing, Greenberg allows, but Trump lost significant numbers of those voters between 2016 and 2018—and 2020 is coming up fast.

Prognostication is always a risky business, but Greenberg makes a good case for a near-term future in which tea partiers and Trumpies will be largely irrelevant.

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