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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

The Future Of The Anti-Trump Coalition

 Greg Sargent has a nice rundown of how the anti-Trump majority that showed up in 2018 ad 2020 could be fraying. My hope was that the inroads that Democrats made in the suburbs could result in a near-term permanent majority, as those voters tend to vote. Even with the absence of Trump on the ballot, the batshit insanity of the GOP would - I hoped - cement them into the Democratic column. Gas prices, inflation and crime - the Unholy Trinity that gave us Reagan - imperils that.

There's still a hope that Dobbs has locked in an anti-GOP - as opposed to anti-Trump - majority. However, I just don't know. Polling seems pretty much trash these days, so we will find out on Election Day.

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