Jennifer L. Hochschild, a professor of government at Harvard, wrote about the problems Democrats are having in winning elections. Here’s her message:
The Democratic Party over the past few decades has gotten into the position of appearing to oppose and scorn widely cherished institutions–conventional nuclear family, religion, patriotism, capitalism, wealth, norms of masculinity and femininity, then saying “vote for me.” Doesn’t sound like a winning strategy to me, especially given the evident failure to find a solution to growing inequality and the hollowing out of a lot of rural and small-town communities. I endorse most or all of those Democratic positions, but the combination of cultural superiority and economic fecklessness is really problematic.
Taken from Thomas B. Edsall, “Trump Won’t Let America Go,” New York Times, (Dec. 12, 2021), p. SR5.
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