Posted on 05/28/2021 2:56:05 AM PDT by Libloather
A New York Times opinion writer wondered in a new op-ed on Wednesday if the progressive cancel culture push will backfire on Democrats at the polls, and he isn't the only analyst asking the question.
"Is Wokeness ‘Kryptonite for Democrats?’" Times contributor Thomas Edsall's headline asked.
Edsall quoted several surveys finding most people are against the more radical campaigns, such as efforts to defund the police and upend traditional gender norms. And yet, he said, Republicans can still point to the extreme minority that is pushing these ideas to argue that the Democratic Party is increasingly beholden to the radicals.
"Although centrist Democrats make up the majority of the party in the polls I cited above, the fact that a substantial minority of Democrats takes the more extreme stance allows Republicans to portray the Democratic Party as very much in thrall to its more ‘radical’ wing," Edsall wrote.
Edsall shared an email he received from social psychologist Jonathan Haidt arguing that the left-wing policies will only serve to drag down the party.
"Wokeness is kryptonite for Democrats," Haidt wrote. "Most people hate it, other than the progressive activists. If you just look at Americans' policy preferences, Dems should be winning big majorities. But we have strong negative partisanship, and when people are faced with a party that seems to want to defund the police and rename schools, rather than open them, all while crime is rising and kids' welfare is falling, the left flank of the party is just so easy for Republicans to run against."
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Because they can only lie and cheat and steal to a limit, I guess. These people make Jim and Tammy Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart look like Mother Theresa or Pope Benedict XVI.
No... we love wokeness!! It’s the reason The Oscars had such high ratings... because we love to listen to self-righteous celebrities drone on and on...
We just wish we could be so woke instead of so Neanderthal!
and everybody loves Joe Biden who got more votes than any president in the history of the world... (even though many of his votes had to be counted 30 times - that’s OK)...
<< “If you just look at Americans’ policy preferences, Dems should be winning big majorities.” >>
Nonsense. Most Americans don’t want high taxes, open borders, abortion on demand, gun confiscation, ....
or "free" trade.
Nervous...what are they, racists?
Stalinism isn’t selling as well as it did in the old days.
But if you put a gun to people’s heads, they’ll buy it. Like in the old days.
It’s the midterms and Americans like divided government. The natural political progression here is the GOP takes the House and maybe the Senate.
The whole “wokeness” movement DEFINES the Democrats. It has since the 1960s.
Somehow, I doubt the Dems will give up wokeness. It is too much of their base.
There will be mucho weeding to be done when Dems are truly ready to reject their own poisonous PC policies.
The school systems will have to stop caving into it. The proudly biased judges will have to stop using WOKE as a legitimate template.
Weakwilly employers the same thing.
This foolishness has metastasized and morphed into the present monstrosity we have today.
Yep... it’s a bit rich to say woke policies represent the minority of Democrats, when 100% of elected Democrats, at every level, consistently vote in favor of this crap.
Young people grew up losing everything and were fed Obama lunches, Tran sports, and mystery vacations and the Democrats are worried about themselves.
“progressive” is also a term we use to describe cancers and other types of diseases that continue to worsen with time
They’ve been using wokeness like a flamethrower, but now are afraid that the wind might shift on them. It was all fine and dandy when it was other people’s lives being ruined.
They’ve been using wokeness like a flamethrower, but now are afraid that the wind might shift on them. It was all fine and dandy when it was other people’s lives being ruined.
They’ve been using wokeness like a flamethrower, but now are afraid that the wind might shift on them. It was all fine and dandy when it was other people’s lives being ruined.
They never back off. They just keep going.
Your statement assumes one fact no longer in evidence....an honest and fair election.
“It’s the midterms and Americans like divided government. The natural political progression here is the GOP takes the House and maybe the Senate.”
From your mouth to Gods ears.
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