Sorry To Say, But America Does Not Want To Be Left Of Center

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32. Defeatist and ignores a ton of counter evidence

There was a poll conducted in the run-up to the election in which policies were stripped of their candidates and presented to voters on a level playing field. And Harris’s policies were drastically more popular than Trump’s.

Economic elites have spent decades and a lot of money redirecting populist anger from the top 1% to cultural elites, such as academics, TV pundits and other celebrities. And those cultural elites have helped them do it by being in many cases genuinely elitist, snotty and out-of-touch. Democrats are undeniably the party of the cultural elites. And people who are hurting economically distrust them for it.

Democrats also have failed to truly take on wealthy special interests in our society, and now they’re paying the price for it.

I’ve known enough low-information or brainwashed voters to know that the defeatism you’re spouting would warm the cold hearts of their manipulators: Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and others like them, who are now feathering their own nests off the successful leveraging of half the country’s civic disengagement and impotent anger.

Giving in to autocracy is not only the easy way out. It is the blinkered way out, because it ignores all the information about how this happened and the possible remedies that flow from it.