The acrimony and disorder of contemporary American politics, according to a host of conservative commentators, stem in significant measure from progressive elites' incendiary words and antagonistic conduct. Progressive elites, the conservatives say, shower contempt on the United States as it is and on the ordinary middle-class and working-class Americans who are devoted to their local communities, love their country, embraced the Tea Party movement a decade ago, and voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. Many Americans who live outside of major cities and beyond the wealthy, bright-blue suburban enclaves that surround them and a few who live there resent the routine allegations of bigotry and backwardness to which they are subject by Democratic Party politicians and the mainstream media outlets. In the face of such longstanding provocations, say conservatives, their indignation and anger are understandable.
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When it comes to the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, there is former President Donald Trump, and then there is everyone else.
A recent
Morning Consult poll found Trump leading 48% to former Vice President Mike Pence’s 13% among GOP voters. They were the only prospective Republican candidates in the double digits. The majority of the field failed to crack 5% of the vote.
After a failed reelection bid, a prolonged challenge to the results that has continued with at least one audit in a battleground state over 100 days into Joe Biden’s presidency, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and two impeachments, Trump finds himself in the same position as when he took his trip down the escalator in June 2015: larger than the array of candidates who could oppose him. According to
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki attends a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
A new study shows that when Democrats dive headfirst into policy messaging based on the “anti-racist” ideas of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, they become less popular. While the Left is trying to tie this to white grievance and racism, the actual research doesn’t bear that out. As always, one of the hottest hot takes comes from Johnathan Chait at the
New York Intelligencer. The subtext to his headline is “Guess why? because there are a lot of racists.”