I've been thinking about the stuff I wrote about in Shibboleths for a few days, but I also haven't really slept since Tuesday so I don't think I made a coherent point.
Back in 2008, Adam Serwer famously said, "It's not that every Trump voter is racist, it's that racism isn't a deal breaker." You can add sexism and LGBTQ bigotry to that, too.
The problem with a great deal of the cultural left's argument is the opposite. It's the bigotry.
I'm not saying they are right or wrong, it's a big country and the bigotry is a huge part of his appeal.
I'm saying that the shift we saw since 2020 - which will likely be smaller than we saw on election day, but is very real - is about people who just don't prioritize bigotry, at least not in this election. How else do you explain the substantial shift in the Latino vote? The argument about Trump and MAGA's bigotry just isn't a big deal to them, the way it is to college educated voters.
I think the Bernie Sanders critique is kinda bullshit, precisely because Biden was substantively good for workers. The vibes, the fucking vibes, are what dragged Biden and then Harris down.
Once again, the Democrat's best hope is that Trump does exactly what he says he wants to do with deportations and tariffs and he tanks the economy. He largely failed in his first term, but then again, he's a notable failure in everything but conning people into thinking he's a business genius.
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