https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/07/wedge-issue-dividing-trumpworld-392323
A cohort of establishment Republicans, social libertarians and new GOP converts oppose the strategy. Among them are Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka. They point to a raft of evidence—from the volatile bathroom debate in North Carolina that lost the GOP the governor’s race in 2016 to a bitter Republican primary in Pennsylvania’s 2018 gubernatorial race—that pushing anti-LGBTQ issues is slowly destroying the Republican Party, one high-profile race at a time. Kushner, the de facto leader of Trump’s 2020 operation, and Ivanka have previously worked to kill anti-LGBTQ measures inside the White House. One of the president’s favorite officials, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell, is a gay conservative who helped persuade Trump to use the power of American diplomacy to end the criminalization of homosexuality abroad.
The secret to electoral success is financial conservatism and social liberalism. Run an efficient government that treats taxpayers with respect and maintains an affordable social security net while leaving people alone to decide what's right in their bedrooms. The GOP seems to be doing the opposite - pushing for massive spending and expansion of government while hunting down the morally impure.
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