Jon Chait lays out how Ted Cruz's troubled re-election campaign demonstrates the increasing unpopularity of the Republican policy agenda. Republicans thought they could run on their tax cuts, only to find out that cutting taxes for billionaires doesn't win you that many votes. Hunh!
Of course, Republican ideas have been unpopular for years. People, generally, want the government to do things for them. They want veterans taken care of. They want Social Security and Medicare strengthened. More and more, they want the government to take over health insurance. They want their roads fixed, their schools improved and big business watched.
Republicans have run and won on Dog Whistle politics. Since the Age of Trump turned the dog whistle into an air horn, Republicans are losing their voters. Of course, the worry is that as their policies become more toxic they will have to rely more on Trump-style ethno-nationalism.
It will get worse before it gets better.
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