How to lose a generation in six years

By Fester:

I guess the Republican Party does not want to look at any possibility of winning or at least not getting blown out in the  the 1978 to 1993 birth cohort anytime soon as the prospective House Whip is looking to actively engage and enrage on a core issue --- not-fucking over friends, family members, classmates, colleagues:

"You build those conservative solutions, Chris, on the same time-honored principles of limited government, a belief in free markets, in the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage," Pence said. [my emphasis]

Sanctity of marriage to my ears means that people I went to school with, people who I have grown up with, people who I have worked with, and people who I am friends with will have a massive target on their faces and on their backs for being who they are.  I won't vote for a party that actively looks to fuck over my friends or people who are similar to my friends.  This is not profound political science or analysis, it is a fact of life.  And if the GOP continues down the narrowing path of seeking to win ever larger sub-group majorities of its current coalition by escalating its rhetoric on this issue, it will never receive a hearing among my age cohort as it will be perceived as attacking too many people I and everyone else in my cohort know.