Given our collective refusal to learn simple lessons and to overthink the obvious, we should state the lessons of 2021 plainly. They are as follows...
https://twitter.com/Commentary/status/1455920549616668683
Americans don’t like to be humiliated abroad, and they don't like surrendering to terrorists. Voters don’t typically reward policies that make them feel both mortified and unsafe.
Americans like the United States and don't like being lectured about how awful it is. Moreover, voters don’t appreciate racial conflict. They will do what they can to avoid or defuse it whenever possible. Democrats have not given voters that option.
Americans do not believe the diminished life they’ve been forced to lead since the onset of COVID is preferable to the status quo ante. Democrats refuse to give them a way out, so they’re shopping around for someone who will.
Voters do not reward the party in power for presiding over rising rates of violent crime. They would be disinclined to do that even if the governing power was doing everything it could to fight crime, which Democrats most certainly are not.
Americans don’t want to spend trillions of dollars on nebulous progressive legislative priorities to the point that it inflates the currency and reduces their purchasing power. They don't borrow themselves into arrears, and they don't expect the country to either.
Voters need to feel secure, respected, and satisfied that their prospects for success and prosperity are not artificially circumscribed by government. When they don't feel that way, they will punish you. That's it. None of this is difficult.
But simple stuff like this is unsatisfying. It doesn't give you the chance to demonstrate your superior logic, if you're a pundit, and it severely limits your freedom of action, if you're a politician. These lessons will be ignored, I'd wager. But they will be taught.
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