The commercials for GOP House and Senate candidates in Tennessee are angry, edgy, and all alike. They proclaim their love for guns, the police, and traditional values. They promise unconditional support for Trump and his efforts to drain the swamp and bring law and order to the country. They worry about how Christianity is being criminalized. They emphasize their lack of experience and ties to the establishment. Finally, and above all, they hate rioters, looters, and arrogant liberals (particularly Pelosi and AOC) who want to take their guns and call them racist.
What is noteworthy here is that there is no mention–none–of the pandemic, the recession, or rising inequality. Class is simply not an issue for these people, or their voters. It is 100 percent about the culture war. It’s not the economy, stupid.
Bernie Sanders’ supporters should be required to spend a day watching these commercials. To the left, it is so self-evident that they are correct on culture war issues, they refuse to acknowledge that another side has any right to exist. They will never get anywhere until they do.