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Voters think the Dems have gone too far to the left, but the party’s leaders don’t seem to care.
Consider how her messaging hits the Clinton-Biden-Youngkin voters who just defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
Citing James Carville’s claims that Democrats lost last week because of “stupid wokeness,” Dana Bash wondered aloud whether the former Clinton strategist had a point.
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White men don’t walk through the world the way women and people of color do—which is to say, with constant pressure to over-perform.
The private-equity guy worth $440 million won the governorship by distancing himself (at least optically) from Trump and following the disingenuous Fox News culture-war playbook.
And neither will pedantic fact checks about how the pedagogy they’re concerned with isn’t actually Critical Race Theory.
Democrats aren’t going to win over the majority of white women, and they need to stop trying and instead court the diverse coalition that can save this country from itself.
“Critical Race Theory” has become a 21st-century version of Republicans’ Willie Horton appeal—and it’s working.
The nomination of a fixture of the Democratic establishment struck many Democrats, in hindsight, as a misread of the moment.
The worst thing that could possibly happen is for the party’s conservatives to read McAuliffe’s loss as a sign that Americans are turned off by the Democratic agenda.