💬 Opinion 5h ago · Christian Britschgi

Which Way, Democrats?

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Which Way, Democrats?
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Which way, Democrats? The last couple of cycles of American electoral politics have followed the same basic pattern: Voters, angry about high prices and exhausted by the incumbent party's culture war, opt to throw the bums out. The incoming party then overreads their victory as a mandate to find new ways to hike consumer prices and launch their own aggressive culture war (and sometimes an actual war). 
We saw this story with Democrats in 2020, who were elected to end the madness of the first Tru

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