And now you can try it yourself by clicking that button below. And all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Back in 1971 pat bu canon wrote a memo to president nixon arguing nixons path to reelection was via waging ruthless culture wars. Nixon buchanan argued, he said we will, quote, cut the Democratic Party and the country in half. My view is we would have far the larger half. Donald trump now has the same strategy but with an amazing wrinkle which is that he has the smaller half. Donald trump is rerunning the nixon play book but inside of a silent majority, he has allowed minority. But and this is the craziest part of all, its been successful so far. He is running the country despite receiving just 46 of the vote. He lost the popular vote by 3 million votes. Just so happens the coalition he put together is better distributed for the purposes of electoral college. Everywhere you look right now trump is digging into the strategy of high risk culture lines wh
and now you can try it yourself by clicking that button below. and all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. back in 1971 pat bu canon wrote a memo to president nixon arguing nixon s path to re-election was via waging ruthless culture wars. nixon buchanan argued, he said we will, quote, cut the democratic party and the country in half. my view is we would have far the larger half. donald trump now has the same strategy but with an amazing wrinkle which is that he has the smaller half. donald trump is rerunning the nixon play book but inside of a silent majority, he has allowed minority. but and this is the craziest part of all, it s been successful so far. he is running the country despite receiving just 46% of
endorsed donald trump president. thanks for joining me. first, i guess your history in american party politics, you have a very active member of the party and a valued conservative for a while. yeah, i absolutely have been. i was the nominee for congress in the second district up here in 2008. i served two terms as chairman of the new hampshire republican party, and i very proudly was very honored to be recruited oo serve on the board of national log cabin republicans, an organization i joined believing it would be the opportunity to engage in a principle fight to expand civil rights for all americans. and this is, you know, one of it reasons why i m so adamantly oppose to this president and this endorsements because he does not support civil rights for all americans. what has he done that to you makes an endorsement from the log cabin republicans inathema?
the vote. he lost the popular vote by 3 million votes. just so happens the coalition he put together is better distributed for the purposes of electoral college. everywhere you look right now trump is digging into the strategy of high risk culture lines where he has the smaller half. the president, though, only remembers it worked the first time around. atlantic david graham writes, quote, recent polling shows that donald trump has managed to reshape american attitudes to a remarkable extent on key issues, race, immigration and trade. there s just one catch, the public is turning against trump s views. on a day he toips to baselessly accuse congresswoman rashida tlaib of violence he continued his stream of insulting taunts with this. where has the democratic party gone? where have they gone where they re defending these two people over the state of israel? and i think any jewish people
you know, i don t think that obviously the american president isn t the thing that triggers this is a longstanding point of contention. right. that precedes donald trump. but does it matter what the american president does or says about this kind of extremely delicate issue? it is delicate. i mean, i think the government of india was concerned about feeling like all of a sudden there was going to be some effort at u.s. mediation, particularly coming on the heels of the visit of pakistan s prime minister. now, remember, pakistan also administers portions of what is the former princely state of kashmir. and pakistan also has a number of terrorist groups that have been fomenting and sending terrorists across into kashmir. there was a terrorist attack just in february that escalated tensions. so this is a very unstable combination of issues here and i think the best role that the united states can play would be, first of all, to encourage pakistan to really crack down on these