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Friday, February 25, 2022

Will US Politics Finally Shift to the Center?

Will Democrats Throw It All Away in the 2024 Presidential Election?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-2024-presidential-election-republicans-trump-biden-approval-voting-crt-hispanic-swing-white-working-class-blue-collar-voters-11645801008
If they don’t broaden their appeal to swing voters and moderates, they’ll end up relying on Republicans to save democracy from Trump

Can the Political Center Reemerge in the US?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/opinion/defeat-trump-democrat-myths.html
David Brooks notes:
But Democrats also have to do something they’re really bad at: Craft a cultural narrative around the theme of social order. The Democrats have been blamed for fringe ideas like “defund the police” and a zeal for “critical race theory” because the party doesn’t have its own mainstream social and cultural narrative.
With war in Europe, crime rising on our streets, disarray at the border, social unraveling in many of our broken communities, perceived ideological unmooring in our schools, moral decay everywhere, Democrats need to tell us which cultural and moral values they stand for that will hold this country together.

This Is a Moment for America to Believe in Itself Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/opinion/ukraine-russia-us-war.html

Trump Praises Putin, Leaving Republicans in a Bind: G.O.P. leaders, while condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, were silent on comments made by the former president. Some figures on the right amplified them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/world/europe/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html

Trump and his supporters praise Putin and dismiss Biden as crisis unfolds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/23/republicans-putin-biden-ukraine/