Another take on the Six Republican Parties

Plus: It's not Reagan's party anymore, the post-Dobbs abortion landscape, Brown's path to re-election, Pew's 11 facts about Hispanics

No. 281 | August 18, 2023

🗳️ Elections

Nate Cohn: The 6 Kinds of Republican Voters (The New York Times)

“After eight years of Republican fealty to Donald J. Trump, few would argue that the party is still defined by Ronald Reagan’s famous three-legged stool of the religious right, fiscal conservatives and neoconservative hawks. But if the Republican Party is no longer in Reagan’s image, it’s not necessarily a populist-conservative MAGA monolith, either.

The last New York Times/Siena College poll found that only 37 percent of Republicans count as part of Mr. Trump’s loyal base. And while majorities of Republicans side with Mr. Trump on almost every issue, those majorities are often quite slim: Around 40 percent of Republican-leaning voters support aid to Ukraine, support comprehensive immigration reform or say abortion should be mostly or always legal.

But if the Republican Party isn’t quite a MAGA monolith, what is it? To better understand the party today, we split Republican and Republica…