 Views & Opinions |
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Sports talk radio, not NPR |
"The gulf between college-educated Democrats and everyone else has to do with a widening gap in how we use language," writes author Elizabeth Matthew. |
"Most college-educated Democrats do a lot of what I'll call 'textual analysis as lifestyle," writes Matthew. "The actual words said by others tend to matter a lot to us." But this emphasis on words alone "is not how language gets used among working-class people — that is, among most Americans," she writes. Kamala Harris's language was "too hollow, too impersonal, too simultaneously prim and punchy, and too devoid of warmth to connect with normal people." Normal people, she says, "garner as much from how something is said as from what is said." Donald Trump, in contrast, talks like the sports radio guys Matthew listened to as a child. "He deftly uses gesticulations, tone, epithets and facial expressions to convey meaning." The Democratic worldview is built on a foundation that is only "only language deep," she says. "But for most Americans, reality does not conform to language. In fact, it's the other way around." "Democrats need to rediscover sanity. This begins with a broad acknowledgment that — like it or not — there in fact are truths so primal that they cannot be gainsaid by words." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Tuesday, Nov. 12. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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Op-eds exploring key issues affecting the U.S. and world: |
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By Jeffrey McCall, professor of communication at DePauw University |
Reportage that continues a focus solely on anti-Trump hostility will come off as boring and unproductive. Americans are no longer going to read or watch a news agenda about how awful Trump is. Individuals' opinions of Trump are now fully baked in and not subject to change. |
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By Pedro DeJesus, attorney and political activist |
The Democratic Party has long assumed that Latinos would simply remain a reliable base of support and, some argue, that the party took the Latino community for granted. If that's true, this election shows that Trump and the GOP certainly filled the void. |
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By Douglas Schoen, author and pollster |
It is paramount that Democrats do not draw the absolute wrong conclusion from Harris's drubbing and move further to the left, with a continued embrace of "woke" policies, DEI and redistribution of wealth, as some Democrats have called for. |
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By J.P. Singh, Distinguished University Professor at George Mason University |
The current cultural anger is a hissy-fit type of anger about Americans not being able to get what we want from a world we can no longer manipulate. That does not lessen the misery of the workers who are now getting left behind, in a way their parents never did. It just helps us understand why the parents were ahead in the first place. |
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