How can we peel away Whites who are oppressed by Republicans from the Republican Party? Surprise! It's already happening by the millions each year.
In Zen Buddhism we call the discovery of compassion for oneself and others in the face of total denial from society either kensho (seeing your reality) or satori (sudden remembering). Christians call it conversion, and atheists might call it coming to your senses. In each of the individual cases cited below, the writer or the actual person has told us in some detail of the thought process and the human interactions that led these characters and people into delusion and then out again. In the case of mass polling, the question is not generally asked, but we do have some clues.
This Diary began as a comment to The Republicans' Southern strategy still works. Here's how liberals can counter it.
That's where this all started, when Barry Goldwater hired Strom Thurmond's campaign strategist, Harry Dent, Sr., for his 1964 campaign of vicious hatred against LBJ and Blacks, and so on through Nixon-Ford-Reagan-Bush-Bush, and through strategists Kevin Phillips, Lee Atwater, and Karl Rove, and the growing misogyny, bigotry, Mammonism, warmongering, and !!!More Guns More!!! that we have seen from them ever since.
But now there is nobody left whom the Tea Parties will allow them to recruit, and they continue to lose Angry Old White Guys in the normal manner without replacing them all.