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The Patriot Post Digest 3-27-2018
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The one area that Bartels doesn’t go into but should cause concern among Republicans is the loss of Millennial women. A Pew Research report30 found that in 2014, Democrats held a 21-point advantage over Republicans with women in this group. By 2018, the number of women who self-identified or leaned Democrat rose to 70%. Nearly three-fourths of women in the Millennial age group now identify as Democrats. Certainly, the election of Donald Trump played a big role in this, but we cannot discount the fact that Hillary Clinton was not nearly as popular among young women as Bernie Sanders. But with Clinton no longer a factor, Republicans will need to work much harder to reach this voting bloc with the message of Liberty.
In fact, Democrats aim to exploit women voters31 to take down Trump.
This issue aside, if we accept Bartels’ numbers and the idea that a larger percentage of Democrats are growing closer to Republicans on cultural issues, then why does the Left appear to be winning the culture war? This is where the power of the media comes into play. With much of the media and academia leaning heavily to the left, it becomes easier for progressives to steer the message. Consider the point that Republicans have been labeled increasingly more radical in recent years even while their fundamental policy stances have not changed all that much.
That’s because if any party has moved its fundamental policy stance, it’s been the Democrats. Former Clinton adviser and political prognosticator Dick Morris observes32 that Democrats tend to move further left based on negative outcomes during election cycles. This happened throughout the 1980s, and continued during the midterm drubbings Barack Obama received while in office. It seems counterintuitive to move further in a direction that voters reject, but leftists’ strategy is to drive everything their direction so the very terms of debate change over time.
So, if more Republicans are finding common cause with Democrats about the role of government, and young women are leaving the GOP in droves, is there any good news? Yes, and that is that progressives have not necessarily moved the electorate to the left, they have only succeeded in moving themselves further to the left. And in doing so, according to National Review’s David French33, they are deceiving themselves about the impact they are having on voters. They are not changing many minds; they’re only browbeating people. And they are in fact illustrating to the rest of the country just how out of touch they truly are. The downside is that we can expect deeper polarization. The upside is wave elections are not born out of polarized electorates.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Jimmy Carter Endorses John Bolton?5 — “The worst mistake that President Trump has made since he’s been in office is his employment of John Bolton.”
Ethanol Indoctrination Enters School Studies38 — The Renewable Fuels Association is going to “educate” children about the wonders of ethanol.
A Million More Baracks39 — He hasn’t quietly retired. Instead, Obama’s aim is still all about pushing his leftist agenda.
Video: Blacks in Power Don’t Empower Blacks40 — Conventional wisdom would suggest that all these political gains would lead to economic gains.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Tony Perkins: Trump on Military: Readiness, Set, Go41
Cal Thomas: Budget Contributes to National Insecurity42
Stephen Moore: No, Hillary Clinton: It’s the Red States That Are Dynamic43
Dennis Prager: Trump, Adultery, Morality44
Gary Bauer: March Against the Second Amendment45
For more of today’s columns, visit Right Opinion46.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Stephen Moore: “What hasn’t been noted for the record is that Clinton had her facts wrong. For at least the last two decades, most of the dynamism and growth … has been fleeing from the once economically dominant blue states that Clinton won and relocating to the red states that Trump won. Here’s the evidence. Of the 12 blue states that Hillary Clinton won by the largest margins … all but three of them lost residents through domestic migration (excluding immigration) over the last 10 years. … Now let’s contrast the Clinton states with the 12 states that went to Trump with the largest margins. Ten out of them … were net population gainers. The outpouring of residents from blue to red states almost has been one of the biggest demographic stories in American history, with a thousand people making the move every day on average. … While it is true that the blue states of the two coasts and several of the Midwestern states are richer than the redder states of the South and mountain regions, she failed to mention the giant transfer of wealth from Clinton to Trump states. IRS tax return data confirm that from 2006 to 2016, Clinton’s states lost $113.6 billion in combined wealth, whereas Trump’s states gained $116 billion. … We need national economic policies that have been shown to work at the state level. Trump wants to make America look like Florida and Tennessee. Clinton wanted to make America look more like Illinois and Connecticut. Maybe that’s the real reason why she lost.”
SHORT CUTS
For the record: “We do [education] all wrong. We put our kids in huge, locked compounds with lots of little, boxy rooms, and enslave them to a bell that has no concern for what they happen to be doing when it’s time to switch rooms. We take away all their responsibility for their behavior and learning, and are surprised when they lose interest in the business at hand. We turn schools into something resembling prisons and scratch our heads when our children come out of them ill-prepared for the adult world.” —Cheryl Magness
Tone-deaf: “The safety of students, families, and supporters participating in today’s #MarchForOurLives47 is our highest priority. BSO officers are onsite patrolling today’s march in Broward County. We join today’s marchers with a shared goal of keeping our schools and communities safe.” —Broward County Sheriffs Department, which bears some responsibility48 for the Parkland massacre, in a statement Saturday
That’s sexist! “Fundamentally, I think there’s just something [voters] find suspicious in a woman looking to succeed.” —former Hillary Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri
You realize most of those channels champion your policies, right? “It used to be that … there were three television stations. Basically, everybody watched the same thing, everybody got their news from the same sources, and so everybody had more or less a similar view of the world. But today because of, first, cable television and … now the Internet, people have 500 channels to choose from. And they are able to find the news that fits their views instead of fitting their views to the news, so that they are very biased in terms of how they see things.” —Barack Obama
Fantasy world: “We were able to negotiate with Iran, so that Iran would shut down its nuclear program. … Eventually Iran said to itself, ‘We will be better off if we’re able to trade, engage in commerce, sell our oil, import the parts that we need for our airlines.’” —Barack Obama
And last… “If you want to save millions of lives, ban abortion, not guns.” —Liz Wheeler
Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform — Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen — standing in harm’s way in defense of Liberty, and for their families. We also humbly ask prayer for your Patriot team, that our mission would seed and encourage the spirit of Liberty in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.
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