{"id":7381,"date":"2016-10-19T13:04:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7381"},"modified":"2016-10-19T13:04:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:04:03","slug":"the-fate-of-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/the-fate-of-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"8232\"<\/a>In a country that\u2019s not only becoming less white, but also more urban and secular, does the Republican Party have a future? On this month\u2019s edition of Up Next: Perspectives on the Future of Everything<\/a>, host Marty Lasden examines the GOP\u2019s prospects with history professor Donald T. Critchlow, author of Future Right: Forging a New Republican Majority. <\/p>\n

Being the academic that he is, Critchlow is not what you\u2019d call a typical Republican. Nor for that matter is he an evangelical Christian. But he does insist that his party can and should have a bright future\u2014demographic trends notwithstanding. \u201cThe assumption that demographics favor Democrats as the party of the future is wrong,\u201d he writes. \u201cThe Democratic base, an uneasy coalition of women, minorities, and young voters, is vulnerable to a Republican takeover.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, it\u2019s hard to talk about the Republican Party these days without mentioning a certain New York billionaire who made his fortune in real estate before morphing into a \u201creality\u201d TV star. But as with all of Lasden\u2019s \u201cUp Next\u201d interviews<\/a> (\u201cThe Future of Being Dead<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Future of Making Babies<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cThe Future of Space Exploration<\/a>\u201d included), this one takes us well beyond the news chatter of the day. Among the questions he raises: Can the Republican Party effectively reach out beyond its base at this point without alienating that base? How difficult would it be for a pro-family Republican to say that businesses should be required to provide paid parental leave to their workers? Does Donald Trump\u2019s nomination, in an odd sort of way, signal the waning influence of religion in American politics? And if, in November, Republicans lose by a landslide, which wing of the party is best positioned to pick up the pieces? <\/p>\n

With the 2016 presidential election rapidly approaching, this is one \u201cUp Next<\/a>\u201d episode you don\u2019t want to miss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a country that\u2019s not only becoming less white, but also more urban and secular, does the Republican Party have a future? On this month\u2019s edition of Up Next: Perspectives on the Future of Everything, host Marty Lasden examines the GOP\u2019s prospects with history professor Donald T. Critchlow, author of Future Right: Forging a New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}