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For John, BLUF:  The link to this article was sent to me twice, once by a Conservative Republican and once by a Progressive.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The 6 Kinds of Republican Voters

From The Old Gray Lady, by Mr Nate Cohn, 17 August 2023

Here is the lede plus two:

AFTER EIGHT YEARS of Republican fealty to Donald J. Trump, few would argue that the party is still defined by Ronald Reagan’s famous three-legged stool of the religious right, fiscal conservatives and neoconservative hawks.

But if the Republican Party is no longer in Reagan’s image, it’s not necessarily a populist-conservative MAGA monolith, either.

The last New York Times/Siena College poll found that only 37 percent of Republicans count as part of Mr. Trump’s loyal base.

The poll shows a Republican coalition as follows♠:

• The Moderate Establishment (14%).  Highly educated, affluent, socially moderate or even liberal and often outright Never Trump.
• The Traditional Conservatives (26%).  Old-fashioned economic and social conservatives who oppose abortion and prefer corporate tax cuts to new tariffs.  They don’t love Mr. Trump, but they do support him.
• The Right Wing (26%).  They watch Fox News and Newsmax. They’re “very conservative.” They’re disproportionately evangelical.  They believe America is on the brink of catastrophe. And they love Mr. Trump more than any other group.
• The Blue Collar Populists (12%).  They’re mostly Northern, socially moderate, economic populists who hold deeply conservative views on race and immigration.  Not only do they back Mr. Trump, but he himself probably counted as one a decade ago.
• The Libertarian Conservatives (14%).  These disproportionately Western and Midwestern conservatives value small government.  They’re relatively socially moderate and isolationist, and they’re on the lower end of Trump support compared with other groups.
• The Newcomers (8%).  They don’t look like Republicans.  They’re young, diverse and moderate. But these disaffected voters like Democrats and the “woke” left even less.

Which of the six an I?  And which are yoou?

Don't think about this as Pro-Trump or anti-Trump.  The Grand Old Party has been around since 1854. (First gatherihng in a Ripon, Wisconsin schoolhouse on 20 March 1854)  It was founded by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of slavery into the western territories.

Picking a political party is picking the future of these United States.

Those who pick the Democratic Party are not bad peoople.  They are our Brothers and Sisters, Cousins and Friends.  It is just that they have picked a party that has, since the 1960s, made choices that have been bad for Middle and Loower Class Americans.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Remember, it is The Old Gray Lady and their use of English words may not be exactly the same as yours.