By all accounts, the Democrats are about to be crushed in the elections this fall.
That is because the Democratic establishment is on the side of elites and not on the side of ordinary Americans.
Because they are on the side of a cultural elite, they are failing to curb the excesses of the "woke" cultural revolution.
Because they are on the side of economic elites, they are failing to do anything to address the growing economic distress and U.S. decline generally.
The problem is that the Republican establishment also is on the side of economic elites. There is a clash of economic elites. Democrats generally align with Silicon Valley and the Republicans with the fossil fuel industry, but neither represents the interests of the majority of Americans.
On the cultural front, the Republican leadership can be as wrong-headed as the Democratic leaders. At the one extreme, there are Democrats who favor gender reassignment surgery, including castrations and mastectomies, for teenage children. At the other, there are Republicans who want to go after a physician for giving an abortion to a 10-year-old victim of rape.
The best possible outcome on the cultural front would be a return to the old live-and-let-live liberalism, which many people now consider conservatism, without the extremes of the radical right.
The best possible outcome on the economic front would be victory for the economic nationalists who represent domestic business interests, over the free traders who represent the global tech and financial firms. And also victory for the few scattered pro-labor populists.
Both parties are war parties—the Democrats now even more than the Republicans. I see little hope on that front.
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