The Democrats industrial policy argument didn't work. Nobody really cared about green jobs. They cared about inflation and believed that drill, baby, drill would lower the price of energy and food. Democrats need to make the connection between climate impacts and grocery bills and insurance premiums.
A backlash will occur if Trump tries to eliminate the jobs associated with mining, manufacturing and assembly of batteries, solar panels and electric vehicles. It will be like his attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare.
"The real lane here is for some combination of reasonable populist economics and social moderation...."
The Trump-reformed Republican Party is in the center of that lane. The Wall Street/country club Republicans are highly unlikely to displace Trumpist populism for the simple reason that Trumpist populism wins elections more reliably. It's hard to argue that John McCain and Mitt Romney achieved more to advance the conservative agenda than Trump has - especially since McCain and Romney were not in fact more conservative than Trump.
By the way, the mechanism by which the failures of McCain and Romney led to the Tea Party and thence to Trump is now going to play out in the Democratic Party, where Biden's failure of governance and Biden and Harris's combined electoral failure will lead to the ascendancy of the Progressive Left wing of the Democratic Party in reaction.
The Democrats industrial policy argument didn't work. Nobody really cared about green jobs. They cared about inflation and believed that drill, baby, drill would lower the price of energy and food. Democrats need to make the connection between climate impacts and grocery bills and insurance premiums.
A backlash will occur if Trump tries to eliminate the jobs associated with mining, manufacturing and assembly of batteries, solar panels and electric vehicles. It will be like his attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare.
"The real lane here is for some combination of reasonable populist economics and social moderation...."
The Trump-reformed Republican Party is in the center of that lane. The Wall Street/country club Republicans are highly unlikely to displace Trumpist populism for the simple reason that Trumpist populism wins elections more reliably. It's hard to argue that John McCain and Mitt Romney achieved more to advance the conservative agenda than Trump has - especially since McCain and Romney were not in fact more conservative than Trump.
By the way, the mechanism by which the failures of McCain and Romney led to the Tea Party and thence to Trump is now going to play out in the Democratic Party, where Biden's failure of governance and Biden and Harris's combined electoral failure will lead to the ascendancy of the Progressive Left wing of the Democratic Party in reaction.
This (democrat rehab) is actually rather hopeful-thanks!
I'm not really that sure what I learned.