The Republican strategy has been to
1) Use cultural issues to rile up voters to hate Dems
2) Use that hate to fight Dems tooth and nail on economic issues, fight wars
3) Roll over and die on cultural issues
Worth revisiting this. davidfrum.com/article/waterl…
1) Use cultural issues to rile up voters to hate Dems
2) Use that hate to fight Dems tooth and nail on economic issues, fight wars
3) Roll over and die on cultural issues
Worth revisiting this. davidfrum.com/article/waterl…
Talk radio and Fox News hosts have same incentives as politicians. If they go too hard on cultural issues, they'll be cancelled. They compensate by being "really tough" on Obamacare or Hunter's emails, profiting off of hate but not getting at what motivates the movement.
Trumpism was seen as a rebellion against the GOP, in reality it was the perfection of the con. He's getting his followers riled up about debate moderators and Leslie Stahl, none of them are even noticing Republicans are refusing to pass a stimulus bill or govern much at all.
Basically, they just cut out the middle man and made the talk show host president.
This all could be defensible if it was used to implement a free market agenda, which I'm broadly sympathetic to. And it does to a (very) limited extent, but the con is mostly driven by a need to sell more mattresses and pillows.
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