A lot of the major Republican donors have decided to sit out this year. Having made billions of dollars, they know a bad investment when they see one. But the unfortunate side effect of sitting on the sidelines is that many of them, disaffected by what they see, are failing to engage in ancillary causes that will be needed after the election.
I continue to run into solid conservative groups and activists who are struggling to fund significant and substantive causes because the donors have grown disgusted with the presidential race. Third party ground game organization in states like Colorado is one such example. There are still voters to get and voters to engage, but we are leaving them behind.
Likewise, some conservative donors need to start laying ground work now to map out a future post Trump. The reality is that many of Trump’s voters have legitimate grievances. While we may have all grown frustrated and angry with what we see as a group of people driving the GOP off a cliff, we must be willing to acknowledge that a lot of these people have been driven to desperate measures by very real concerns.
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A lot of conversations need to start taking place. But those conversations cannot happen without the donors stepping forward to facilitate the exchanges. The Trump disaster risks setting back the conservative cause by a decade. Already trust in democracy and democratic institutions is collapsing. But the damage can be mitigated. It will, however, require donors to get off the sidelines now.
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Sidelined Republican Donors Have a Mission https://t.co/cMT4oqTaDZ pic.twitter.com/GWRxOH2AaI
— The Resurgent (@resurgent) August 17, 2016
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