Republicans are out of touch
October 26 2020 02:30 AM
Jennifer Rubin
President Donald Trump won in 2016 by the narrowest of margins, against a candidate with rotten personal ratings in an election influenced by Russia and by an over-eager FBI director. It was the quintessential black swan event - an aberration possible only in unique circumstances.
That explanation sounded reasonable after a Democratic sweep in 2018, and would look even more credible should Joe Biden and the Democrats sweep to victory ... Depending on the magnitude of the Democrats' victory, the viability of a party infiltrated by rabid white supremacists and self-pitying evangelical Christians may be seriously in doubt. Maybe the days are coming to an end when voter-suppression techniques and a closed loop of fraudulent right-wing media could perpetuate a party representing a caricature of America in the 1950s.
That's a less blatant way of saying that Trump and the right-wing apparatus figured out how to game the system under unusual circumstances in an effort to diminish the power of anyone whom they did not consider a real American (ie, white and Christian).
They fleetingly produced a government that sought to beat back public policy preferences held by the vast majority of Americans. They convinced themselves they were the real America but, in fact, they rejected the social, economic and political changes that have transformed the United States over decades ...
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/republicans-are-out-of-touch-with-reality-of-the-us-39666968.html
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