How We Really Lost The Election…
It seems that many of us in the Democratic Party assumed that we had won the culture wars, that liberal values have already triumphed, and that the nation was marching arm-in-arm toward the end of gender discrimination, of racial violence, of income inequality, and of discrimination against all minorities. Many liberals are crying into our Chardonnay today. We correctly believe that many of the people who voted for President Trump voted against their own economic interests. But the power of the culture wars actually has given the Trump uprising the color of a populist reaction against an elite.