This is a very defensive piece. A better approach is taken by Edward Luce in the Financial Times:
It is easy to dismiss the 45 per cent or more of America that would vote for Donald Trump as mad or bad. There are plenty of both, but Democrats are delusional if they think that saying so again and again is the way to get Joe Biden re-electe…
This is a very defensive piece. A better approach is taken by Edward Luce in the Financial Times:
It is easy to dismiss the 45 per cent or more of America that would vote for Donald Trump as mad or bad. There are plenty of both, but Democrats are delusional if they think that saying so again and again is the way to get Joe Biden re-elected. I have written about the liberal world’s intellectual shortsightedness on this question on many occasions, most recently here. Any attempt to do so gets instantly discounted as special pleading or, worse — giving comfort and succour to the enemy. That is how a hermetically-sealed universe helps to perpetuate some of the resentments that fuel Trump. You cannot keep telling people that they are idiots or racists and expect that they will see the light and change their vote. Is the American left in the business of defeating Trump, or merely of feeling unsullied when he wins? I sometimes wonder.
This is a very defensive piece. A better approach is taken by Edward Luce in the Financial Times:
It is easy to dismiss the 45 per cent or more of America that would vote for Donald Trump as mad or bad. There are plenty of both, but Democrats are delusional if they think that saying so again and again is the way to get Joe Biden re-elected. I have written about the liberal world’s intellectual shortsightedness on this question on many occasions, most recently here. Any attempt to do so gets instantly discounted as special pleading or, worse — giving comfort and succour to the enemy. That is how a hermetically-sealed universe helps to perpetuate some of the resentments that fuel Trump. You cannot keep telling people that they are idiots or racists and expect that they will see the light and change their vote. Is the American left in the business of defeating Trump, or merely of feeling unsullied when he wins? I sometimes wonder.