transgenders, would that increase registration in our party? I don't think so. In fact I think we would lose some of the LGBTQ vote.

I think it gets down to who and what you support....win some lose some.

Since the 60s and 70s when the Democratic Party began taking on the sole guardianship of civil rights for all, Democratic support has become less reliable and less stable. Republicans on the other hand dove into the appeal of further marginalizing the marginalized and their defenders.

It's so much easier imagining all brown foreigners as villains than it is to understand the roots of inflation.

* it would certainly make things a lot easier. It's a BS lie and people need to stop spreading it.

If there is a trend of people leaving the Democratic Party, it's because of states that are trying to gerrymander every county and district. The party registration roles are what tells the Repukes where we Dems live. If they don't have that info - because the Dems have unregistered - then their little scheme doesn't work.

takes a special communicator to rise above repuke sludge

And unfortunately, hatred needs targets.

Now they''ve just aligned their registration with how they vote.

After the 2024 election, I looked at the registration by PA county and the most interesting stat was the number of voters who registered as independent. We have closed primaries, so if you want a primary vote, you have to be registered with a party.

We have to acknowledge the voters Trump pulled out, too, many of whom were first time or lapsed voters. IOWs, the "unlikely" voters. Time will tell if these voters continue to vote or not without Trump on the ballot. My guess is that they will not.

And how have they "exacerbated the problem"?