America as a shared experience for all-- that there is not a zero-sum cultural war to be won, but collective greatness
to be achieved.
Trump is popularising America First nationalism, and pretending to solve an imaginary immigration crisis while using anti-woke ads to demonise Democrats as being out of the mainstream on cultural issues, when Democrats are really in the mainstream on many such as women's rights and abortion.
His is a populist approach: he is basically challenging globalisation with his tariffs-- that plays well with many working class folks. The Democratic Party needs to emphasize its own populism-- explain how Trump is actually putting America last, and that the spending money on the government helps America to be first through promoting research like the NSF, and NIH, and through immigration where the best and brightest in the world foreign nationals come here to study and then stay to make America stronger. The real key is to recreate the idea of America as a shared experience for all-- that there is not a zero-sum cultural war to be won, but collective greatness to be achieved. Democrats need to project themselves as the real patriots, and emphasize power of friendship and neighbourliness, and the government as an means to help promote the well-being of all Americans.
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