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A large percentage of American voters reject the ongoing decline in standards of behavior.
The defeat that the Democratic Party has just sustained is being blamed by its more fanatical adherents on racism, misogyny, reaction against ‘lawfare,’ the stubbornness of Biden, the inarticulateness of Harris, the rubbishing of the Catholic church, open borders, potential involvement in foreign wars, the effects of COVID and inflation, and the focus on Trump’s personality.
But the sweep of Republican victories and near-victories suggest larger causes at work. Harris under-performed Mrs. Clinton and Obama as well as Biden and did so nearly everywhere. The Republican disaster in 1964 was a vote to sustain social security and the welfare state, such as it was. This year’s vote was a vote against seventy years of leveling down of standards of behavior.
Americans do not like sumptuary legislation, particularly federal sumptuary legislation. The extension of prohibitions against state-imposed racial discrimination first to private discrimination and then to ‘disparate impacts’ and ‘hostile environments’ has taken its toll.
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The defeat that the Democratic Party has just sustained is being blamed by its more fanatical adherents on racism, misogyny, reaction against ‘lawfare,’ the stubbornness of Biden, the inarticulateness of Harris, the rubbishing of the Catholic church, open borders, potential involvement in foreign wars, the effects of COVID and inflation, and the focus on Trump’s personality.
But the sweep of Republican victories and near-victories suggest larger causes at work. Harris under-performed Mrs. Clinton and Obama as well as Biden and did so nearly everywhere. The Republican disaster in 1964 was a vote to sustain social security and the welfare state, such as it was. This year’s vote was a vote against seventy years of leveling down of standards of behavior.
Americans do not like sumptuary legislation, particularly federal sumptuary legislation. The extension of prohibitions against state-imposed racial discrimination first to private discrimination and then to ‘disparate impacts’ and ‘hostile environments’ has taken its toll.
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The American Electorate Revolted Against False Values - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
With the election of Trump, a large percentage of American voters rejected the ongoing decline in standards of behavior.
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