The electorate has been trending leftward for some time. The Republican candidate for President has only won the popular vote twice since 1988. Republicans could have done the sane thing and moderated their platform to appeal to a broader audience. Instead they chose to embrace populism and to drink deeply from the well of victimhood and…
The electorate has been trending leftward for some time. The Republican candidate for President has only won the popular vote twice since 1988. Republicans could have done the sane thing and moderated their platform to appeal to a broader audience. Instead they chose to embrace populism and to drink deeply from the well of victimhood and culture-war outrage. The apparent take away from the last three election cycles is that they lost or underperformed because they weren't extreme enough.
Populism is a scourge irrespective of which side it comes from because it cannot exist with a "them" on which everything wrong with society can be blamed.
The electorate has been trending leftward for some time. The Republican candidate for President has only won the popular vote twice since 1988. Republicans could have done the sane thing and moderated their platform to appeal to a broader audience. Instead they chose to embrace populism and to drink deeply from the well of victimhood and culture-war outrage. The apparent take away from the last three election cycles is that they lost or underperformed because they weren't extreme enough.
Populism is a scourge irrespective of which side it comes from because it cannot exist with a "them" on which everything wrong with society can be blamed.