For the past eight years, the Republican Party has been having an honest conversation about the real things that ail us: inflation; the hollowing out of rural America; the rise of China; the housing crisis; the opioid crisis; the chaos at our southern border; free speech; and the decline of American power.
Has the conversation been frenetic and, at times, weird and wrongheaded? Yes.
More to the point, it is what we cared about. What the average American voter wanted to talk about.
And the Democrats?
The Democrats haven’t been talking about any of these things. The reason that the culture wars are so deeply offensive to so many voters is not that they’re racist or transphobic. It’s that voters want to know why reparations or gender fluidity is more important than rescuing the hundreds of millions of Americans who have seen their way of life dissolve in the face of globalization, automation, and shifting labor markets.
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-kamala-harris-lost-to-trump
Has the conversation been frenetic and, at times, weird and wrongheaded? Yes.
More to the point, it is what we cared about. What the average American voter wanted to talk about.
And the Democrats?
The Democrats haven’t been talking about any of these things. The reason that the culture wars are so deeply offensive to so many voters is not that they’re racist or transphobic. It’s that voters want to know why reparations or gender fluidity is more important than rescuing the hundreds of millions of Americans who have seen their way of life dissolve in the face of globalization, automation, and shifting labor markets.
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-kamala-harris-lost-to-trump