[Peace-discuss] Liberals Need to Take Their Fingers Out of Their Ears

[David Green]

 I was willing to give Thomas Edsall a chance to "redeem" himself, but it's the same old mire of Identity Politics, taken as a given in understanding "red" and "blue" America in terms of "culture." Some reference to class in terms of jobs, but ultimately dismissed.
The article concludes with long quotes from Steven Pinker, who exemplifies liberal cluelessness. Pinker is just a complete ass, and he ends up making an ass of Edsall.
DG

    On ‎Thursday‎, ‎December‎ ‎7‎, ‎2017‎ ‎12‎:‎54‎:‎10‎ ‎PM‎ ‎CST, Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:  
 
  


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/opinion/liberals-conservatives-trump.html?ribbon-ad-idx=9&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article


Liberals Need to Take Their Fingers Out of Their Ears
Thomas B. Edsall DEC. 7, 2017 

Trump supporters on a bridge near the Mar-a-Lago Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., last month. Al Drago for The New York Times  
Given the triumph of contemporary conservatism, it may be time for liberals to take a look at the vulnerabilities of their own orthodoxies.

Democrats who yearn for President Trump to be taken down should examine this list of Republican strengths: victories in all threecontested special elections for the House of Representatives this year; Trump’s82 percent approval rating among Republican voters; his success with the current tax bill; his swift evisceration of key regulatory policies; the Gorsuch appointment to the Supreme Court; economic growth of over 3 percent in the last two quarters; the Dow Jones topping 24,000; and the unemployment rate dropping to 4.1 percent.

For the moment, the left is both stunned and infuriated by the vehement animosity it faces fromred America, which is made up of counties that are 84 percent less dense than blue America, 37 percent less racially and ethnically diverse, and 34 percent more white.

Voters in red America are 44 percent less likely to be college graduates and 22 percent more likely to have served in the armed forces. Geographically speaking, red counties are virtually nonexistent on the West Coast and on the East Coast north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Many Democrats continue to have little understanding of their own role — often inadvertent, an unintended consequence of well-meaning behavior — in creating the conditions that make conservatives willing to support Trump and the party he is leading.

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