Does the party need to move right culturally to win more elections? [View all]

[geek tragedy]

Swing voters in this country are not fiscal conservatives/social liberals. They're the opposite--social conservatives (especially on race and immigration) who are open to more liberal economic efforts.



https://www.voterstudygroup.org/reports/2016-elections/political-divisions-in-2016-and-beyond

People assumed that we had won the culture wars going into the 2016 elections. It's pretty clear that we didn't.

Tr*mpism thrives in cultural polarization and political tribalism defined by identity.

How do we defuse that? The fashionable answer in some parts is to embrace economic populism, but how many Tr*mp voters would a socially liberal win over with single payer and free college(which would get demonized as a --you can guess it--free stuff for disfavored minorities and immigrants, and for snooty urban elites, respectively).

Seems pretty clear that some stuff--the call-out culture, privilege-shaming etc are going to have to be repudiated, since we'll need to be at pains to show that the party 'respects' those voters. But, will that be enough? I guess it was for Obama.