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The SE Cupp comment sounds like a long standing error that a lot of Democrats have made. Democrats have deemphasized economic liberalism, which is still very popular with a lot of voters. Democrats have embraced “lifestyle liberalism”, such as sexual issues and environmentalism. As you point out with SE Cupp, lifestyle liberals mostly associate with like minded people. This is why many commentators and policy makers don’t understand how issues like inflation are killing Democrat candidates this year.
As a recent Ricochet post noted, often when leftists see leftism fail, they want more leftism, but with different leftists in charge. Because they think THEN it will work.
Also, USA Today is available EVERYWHERE.
For fifty years, Democrats have looked at their advantage among the young — because the young get their information from the left-leaning media and professoriate — and imagine that this advantage will persist when the young become the old.
But where the Democrats have the media, the Republicans have — reality. And as the young get older, reality gradually comes to outweigh the comfortable illusions of the Left.
Especially when reality gets painful like now. Otherwise they can sometimes avoid facing it.
If you’re rich enough in California, you never have to see the human excrement on the streets, or hide in your bathtub to avoid stray bullets, or sit in traffic jams for hours on highways that the wealthy progressives won’t upgrade.
And you’ll always have power for your expensive freezers filled with expensive ice cream.