15. So it’s not a stretch for her to say that she didn’t believe the “more hard-line policies [Trump] touted,” because the rightwing media that she consumes told her not to believe them.
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16. Delusional or misinformed, either is a bad basis for strategy. Strategies require trust in voters being capable of determining on their own what’s good for them. This voter is clearly not capable. She says she should have voted for Kamala Harris. Why would anyone believe that?
17. **Todd Winant**
Articles like this also reveal the frightening paradox of democracy: the American people are the ultimate sovereigns of our political system, but the American people also don’t understand much about politics.
They have stopped the basic teaching of government in schools…
Look at how many people get it wrong or don’t participate. Republicans have fostered apathy!
18. What they do understand, and the Wall Street Journal piece makes this clear, is the fiction that’s created by the media they consume. And that fiction promises to make everything seem just fine, even when it isn’t.
Great analysis. This election showed the supremacy of narrative over fact. Trump voters bought into his “businessman” narrative, whereas I’ve seen the anti-Harris left bemoan how she “could have raised the minimum wage…addressed the housing crisis…legalized weed,” when she did all those things.
For the anti-Harris left, telling them “Harris promised to raise the minimum wage” or “Harris promised to ban Wall Street from the housing market” are met with “Bull. Shit.” Yet these same people cry, “It’s Harris’s fault for not promising progressive policies” even though they wouldn’t believe them
Illustrating to them that Harris did promise economically progressive policies counters their narrative that economic populism is the miracle pill. Even though more people who swung for Trump believed Harris would do M4A than those who swung for Harris.
19. Case in point is this 64-year-old “holistic coach” from Cornville, Arizona. Todd Winant told the Journal he had been a supporter of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s independent presidential campaign, but moved over to Trump, and is now “thrilled.”
20. As evidence, he cited talks to “end the war in Ukraine,” Trump’s “immigration crackdown” and his “decision to put Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman now the country’s intelligence chief, in his cabinet.”
21. That’s the kind of thing you might expect a voter to say when he does not see anything wrong with RFK Jr’s insane vaccine conspiracies, including that they cause autism, or that mandates for them are tantamount to the Holocaust.
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Articles like this also reveal the frightening paradox of democracy: the American people are the ultimate sovereigns of our political system, but the American people also don’t understand much about politics.
Look at how many people get it wrong or don’t participate. Republicans have fostered apathy!
“My whole nervous system relaxed,” Winant said.