Everyone believes in identity politics, even when they pretend they don’t. Republican political consultants and Beltway Right hacks are trying to sabotage frontrunner Donald Trump because they think he’ll turn the GOP into a party into of (SHOCK! HORROR!!) “white identity politics”. [Are Republicans for freedom or white identity politics, by Ben Domenech, The Federalist, August 21, 2015] Hypocritically, to stop him they are counting on religious tribalism—specifically that of the Church of Latter Day Saints, better known as the Mormons. [How Mormons Could Prevent a President Trump, by Mike Garner, The Federalist, March 21, 2016]
Though Trump easily won Arizona’s crucial winner-take-all primary, he lost badly in Utah, mostly because of Mormon voters. Opposition to Trump by Mormons was also a critical factor in his losses to Cruz in Wyoming and Idaho [Mormon Voters Really Don’t Like Donald Trump – Here’s why, by McKay Coppins, Buzzfeed, March 24, 2016]. A recent poll suggested Utahans would actually vote for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump in a general election, flipping the state to the Democrats for the first time since 1964. [Poll: Utah would vote for a Democrat for president over Trump, by Lisa Riley Roche, Desert News, March 21, 2016] ...
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