Originally Posted by
mqt
That’s an impressive leap. Part of the issue with both parties is an inability to hold themselves accountable for being unpopular. You do not better policies or a better candidate when you lose the election by 5 million votes and 126 Electoral Votes, just as you don’t have better candidates or policies when you lose the House, Senate and White House as both parties have done in the last 4 years.
There’s a lot of data on both sides of the aisle that will tell either side they’re more right about how to run the Economy. There’s also a massive gap between the experiences of those in rural and urban areas, and between the rich and the poor. This leads to different sets of cultural values that obviously clash at times. The folly to me is in declaring that one side is right, and that it’s the fault of the people or the media for just not seeing it. If Republicans want to win in NY or CA, they need to find a way to resonate with the voters in those states, just as Democrats need to do so in FL or TX. Trump hasn’t proven that the Republicans have to choose his path, because that path just failed spectacularly in November.