After a monthlong honeymoon for the G.O.P. at the start of President Trump’s term, lawmakers are confronting a groundswell of fear and disaffection in districts around the country.
Those issues you brought up probably don’t even make the top 10 in terms of issues that are important to the average voter. Your average voter doesn’t care about “fixing” a system that they believe has been long since broken anyway, regardless of who is offering to do the fixing. It’s not even a matter of who’s right or wrong. It’s the fact that the entire issue is just not important to the average voter to begin with. To your average voter, it will just come off as Democrats being out of touch with kitchen table issues and just trying to implement “fixes” that will primarily cement their own power. Even if those fixes end up having benefits for the average voter, they’ll be seen as largely irrelevant if it doesn’t actually help them pay the bills.
Put that up against someone who’s making promises (regardless of how empty) that he will do things that will actually impact everyday voters, and the ones making those promises are going to win every time. Kamala Harris promising to fix the government while Trump is promising to actually bring prices down (Yes, I know…) would have just led to her losing by an even bigger margin.
That’s the rub. The issues that the average voter thinks they’re concerned about were spoon-fed to them by the liars. Which means we can either have Democrats also lie, or they can tell the truth and fix the actual problems.
Right. But here’s the thing.
Those issues you brought up probably don’t even make the top 10 in terms of issues that are important to the average voter. Your average voter doesn’t care about “fixing” a system that they believe has been long since broken anyway, regardless of who is offering to do the fixing. It’s not even a matter of who’s right or wrong. It’s the fact that the entire issue is just not important to the average voter to begin with. To your average voter, it will just come off as Democrats being out of touch with kitchen table issues and just trying to implement “fixes” that will primarily cement their own power. Even if those fixes end up having benefits for the average voter, they’ll be seen as largely irrelevant if it doesn’t actually help them pay the bills.
Put that up against someone who’s making promises (regardless of how empty) that he will do things that will actually impact everyday voters, and the ones making those promises are going to win every time. Kamala Harris promising to fix the government while Trump is promising to actually bring prices down (Yes, I know…) would have just led to her losing by an even bigger margin.
That’s the rub. The issues that the average voter thinks they’re concerned about were spoon-fed to them by the liars. Which means we can either have Democrats also lie, or they can tell the truth and fix the actual problems.