The Week: Will The GOP’s Culture War Blow Up In Its Face?

The short answer is no.

Let me repeat: the answer is NO.

The Week:

“With new stories about “cancel culture” and “woke” outrage breaking every few days, it sometimes seems as if the culture war has swallowed up everything in American politics. Yet it’s also the case that over the past seven weeks, the Democrats have passed a $1.9 trillion economic relief package and advanced an omnibus bill to protect voting rights and a pro-union bill that would significantly reform the country’s labor laws.

Political reality in the earliest phase of the post-Trump era somehow combines both of those poles — and gaining our bearings requires making sense of how they can both be true, and might even be connected below the surface. …”

Politico:

“President Joe Biden has a plan to tackle the rush of migrants at the southern border. But the White House knows implementing it will be political torture, sparking anger from left, told-ya-sos from the right, and endangering any slim hope for immigration reform.

The bind is one that the president and his team recognizes has no quick solution. But, for now, they are looking at a number of new proposals and ideas. …”

In case you didn’t hear it the first time, the answer is NO.

The top three priorities of Trump voters are “people have individual rights” like free speech followed by “secure national borders” and “severely restrict immigration.” Political correctness and immigration are the top two issues that motivate them and FOX News is gleefully covering the border crisis:

Joe is also outright losing the argument on immigration:

Yes, White working class voters who support Trump like the $1,400 and the child tax credit, BUT … political correctness/wokeness and immigration are by far the two issues that resonate the most with them.