I see this all the time. If we just believe enough, we'll win! And when we don't, well, this or that segment of the party just didn't clap sufficiently hard.
That is not how any of this works.
First off, McAuliffe was the best we could do there? The man was awful. Enough with the Clinton era. It's over.
Secondly, people do not understand how much voters do not like to be lectured about what goes on with their children. Republicans just learned this CRT stuff can swing suburbs and independents.
Third, the most partisan people do not seem to know what goes on with voters. What they're seeing, reading, and listening to. I knew this was coming months ago. Why? Because I read other websites that don't agree with me. I've been banging this damn drum for months. If you never read ideas different from your own, you will have no idea where other people are coming from. And no, posting Twitter links to the most ridiculous shit some random Republican does is not reading the other side. Look at that Dallas Q-Anon story. Some small group of people do stupid shit, and that's what we preoccupied ourselves with half the day. The story was friggin everywhere.
Those people aren't even slightly representative of the average Republican voter. And they are absolutely not what independents are like.
There have been studies done on this. I don't have the one I'm thinking of in front of me, but it was discussed in Ezra Klein's book about polarization. The more partisan you are, the less you actually know about the other side.
And the reactions I'm seeing. It's like watching Michael Scott from the Office react to Pam after she learned he was dating her mom. "I'm just going to start calling you racist even harder."
The Bubble is going to be the death of us in a year, and people will blame everyone but themselves, because self-awareness and reflection is becoming increasingly impossible in a polarized, partisan echo chamber that subsists mainly on cable news and social media.
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