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Mixed bag of political-R commentary (party games)

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Under President Trump, We Really Had a Wonderful Life
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/10/under...rful-life/

Who wouldn’t prefer a reality that kept Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, North Korea, and Iran in check, and brought stability to the Middle East through the Abraham Accords?


Biden’s Real Problem Isn’t His Russian Oil Policy, But His American One
https://spectator.org/biden-oil-embargo-russia/

Long before Joe Biden announced an embargo on Russian oil, he promised one on American oil.


The Democrats’ Working Class Voter Problem
https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p...-voter?s=r

INTRO: Republicans have increasingly been talking about becoming the party of the multiracial working class. This is less far-fetched than you might think. After all, in a loose sense they already are. In the 2020 election, Trump carried the overall working class (noncollege) vote by 4 points (Catalist two party vote), about the same margin he had in 2016. The same data source also shows Republicans carrying the working class Congressional vote in three of the last four elections (the exception was 2018 when the working class vote was split down the middle between Republicans and Democrats).

Democrats have generally comforted themselves that their poor performance among the working class was purely a matter of white working class voters, who they presumed were motivated by retrograde racial and cultural attitudes. But since 2012, nonwhite working class voters have shifted away from the Democrats by 18 margin points, with a particularly sharp shift in the last election and particularly among Hispanics. This gives Democrats’ nonchalance about their losing record among working class voters a bit of a whistling past the graveyard quality.

Data since the 2020 election confirm a pattern of declining Democratic support among the nonwhite working class. Put another way: education polarization, it’s not just for white voters anymore. As a result, Democratic strength among the multiracial working class continues to weaken... (MORE - details)
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