After Democrats’ loss in Virginia last week, we’re just a year away from the 2022 midterms. Without a strong performance, Democrats could lose their majority in Congress, and with it the chance to pass ambitious progressive policy for years to come. Perhaps the strongest weapon in Democrats’ arsenal leading up […] Read more »
Commonsense Solidarity: How a working-class coalition can be built, and maintained
In 2021, Jacobin, a New York-based socialist magazine with a print circulation of 75,000 and an online audience of three million a month, collaborated with YouGov to survey working-class voting behavior in the United States. The work was done in conjunction with the newly formed Center for WorkingClass Politics. … […] Read more »
The Powerful G.O.P. Strategy Democrats Must Counter if They Want to Win
The Virginia election results should shock Democrats into confronting the powerful role that racially coded attacks play in American politics. No candidate would think of entering an election without a winning message on the economy or health care. Yet by failing to counter his opponent’s racial dog whistles, Terry McAuliffe […] Read more »
Could anti-Trump messaging be more effective in 2022 than in 2021?
A wise friend of mine recently observed that if Democrats can’t turn Virginia’s gubernatorial election into a referendum on former President Donald Trump, it’s hard to see how that strategy would work in swing states in 2022. It’s a very reasonable point, since Trump lost Virginia by 10 points last […] Read more »
Cancel Culture Debate Has Early ’90s Roots: Political Correctness
As the debate over cancel culture grows, NPR’s Ari Shapiro takes a look back at a similar phenomenon in the early 1990s: the moral panic over political correctness. NPR News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up here: opiniontoday.substack Read more »
U.S. stands out among 28 countries in perceptions of social tension
A new Ipsos Global Advisor poll, carried out in partnership with the Policy Institute at King’s College London, shows over half of Americans (57%) think that their country is divided by “culture wars.” Just over a third of people from 28 countries across the world (a Global Country Average of […] Read more »