‘Well, We Just Have to Win Then’
13th October 2020
The Other McCain lays in out.
Politics is not about debate. Politics isn’t about compromise. It is not about “image.” Ultimately, politics is about power.
This is something Republicans have a habit of forgetting. Because the Republican Party represents the respectable middle class, its leaders tend to be concerned with bourgeois respectability, an encumbrance which does not inhibit Democrats. Having assembled a coalition of the aggrieved and impoverished — including criminals, drug addicts, perverts and decadent intellectuals — Democrats unapologetically advocate the selfish interests of their constituent groups, whereas Republicans seem almost embarrassed by their own middle-class supporters.