The left: "You are mad. You are not like us."
Posted on 08/12/2024 4:53:28 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
ennsylvania is the most important battleground in this year’s election. A former manufacturing powerhouse that has played a pivotal part in the development of American democracy since the colonial era, the Keystone State is today a laboratory for the biggest trends redefining politics: above all, working- and lower-middle-class voters’ shift from the Democratic Party of their forebears to the GOP. Not to the generic Republican Party—to Donald Trump’s party.
Summarized briefly, the worldview of this crucial voting bloc goes something like this: The Biden-Harris economy is battering my finances, no matter what the government statistics say; illegal immigration and crime are a big problem; the public-health response to Covid abridged my traditional liberties in intolerable ways; Trump might be an insufferable asshole, but he often has a point. And I’m not weird for feeling or voicing any of this.
And therein lies the risk in the rhetorical strategy—denounced by Sen. Bernie Sanders but eagerly embraced by Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz—in framing the nominees on the other side of the national divide as “weird.”
With 19 Electoral College votes up for grabs in a state whose politics have proved notoriously difficult to predict, both campaigns are devoting a great deal of attention to Pennsylvania. As Charles McElwee, the founder of RealClearPennsylvania, himself a native of the state, told me, “it’s a place of culturally fractious regions, where the margins are so different by region, that if one group turns out more than the other, it can result in random and split outcomes.”
In 2016, Trump carried the state by a one-percentage-point margin. Four years later, Joe Biden bested Trump by a similarly narrow margin. As of this writing, the RealClearPolitics average has Trump ahead by a single percentage point.
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That the pronoun party calls anyone weird is weird.
They are exceptionally tolerant of everyone they agree with.
What a pathetic joke...the DIMs are the party of “weird”. It is pot calling the kettle black taken to the extreme.
Everything will be taken to the extreme this time.
Hell, they already tried to murder the opposition, and that went away from the news cycle within days. A bunch of elderly folks just walking around the Capitol building still has them ranting and raving over 3 years later. (And you KNOW they're planning a repeat if they do not win.)
Fetterman is weird.
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