Yglesias is basically doomposting that Democrats will get slaughtered in November. Nancy Tourneau is closer to where I am: Republicans are going to the ones - for once - who snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Republicans are rushing so far to the right on these bizarre culture war issues that they are going to continue to alienate suburban voters. As Tourneau points out, the Virginia governor's race - on which this strategy is based - was really just the mobilization of older white voters.
We are in a race in America as to whether we can save electoral democracy before the Trump generation dies off. A lot of pundits have written off The Emerging Democratic Majority, but it's a simple fact that older, white voters are way, way more conservative as a group than younger generations. They mainline Fox News propaganda until they believe MS13 is in a caravan to groom your grandkids into CRT. Or something.
Democrats need to make sure that voters understand how batshit insane Republicans have become and get their voters to the polls.
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