 Views & Opinions |
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It's the contempt, stupid |
The 2024 presidential election was a rejection of many things, writes journalist Bernard Goldberg. But most of all, it was a rejection of "elite condescension" |
"To put it another way," he writes, "just because you wear a red MAGA hat, doesn't mean you're a bigot — no matter how many liberal and progressive pundits go on CNN and MSNBC and say you are." That condescension took many forms, says Goldberg. For instance, "if you thought inflation was a problem, it wasn't because it actually was — it was because you were too stupid to realize that Bidenomics was a great success." And "if you didn't believe our Southern border was 'secure,' it must have been because you were an anti-immigrant bigot." Most of the post-election analysis focuses on the candidates' differing policies and personalities. But make no mistake: "Democrats lost the presidential election not only because people were going broke just buying food at the supermarket or filling up the tank at the gas station. They also lost because of the contempt they've routinely shown half the country." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Friday, Nov. 8. 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 Max Burns, Democratic strategist |
The nine years of the Trump era have taken a bat to our democracy, and Trump's MAGA movement has exploited the nation's systemic weakness at every turn. |
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By Steve Israel, former US congressman (D-N.Y.) |
First, stop feeding into the narrative about the end of democracy. The most important guardrail will remain intact: the midterm elections, which are historically brutal for the sitting president's party. |
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By Dov Zakheim, former undersecretary of Defense |
Trump and the Republican Party, which is now very much his own, have won a strong mandate from the American people. Whether the various ideas about which Trump mused during the campaign trail will ever come into being is an open question, since the man is by nature transactional. Moreover, as former Defense Secretary Bob Gates has said, "the enemy has a vote." |
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By Ransom Miller, research associate with the Institute for Global Affairs |
The sole foreign policy issue on which Harris had an advantage — if you could call it that, among swing state Americans was "most likely to send U.S. troops into an unnecessary war," where she was 7 points ahead of Trump. Even on the question of which candidate would more effectively respond to a space alien invasion, Trump led by 7 points. |
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