"The idea that there are huge swaths of the United States populace who want and need the right wing’s unreality—their alternative reality—is a farce: a gaudy, festering artifice constructed and maintained by a million people who need it to be real for financial, political, and cultural purposes."
dems won in 1992 because the economy sucked and for nearly 40 years it has become the secret code that center-left dems cite as the supremacy of their messaging, even though both obama and biden won bigger with more progressive messages
Remember, the GOP is the unpredictable, violent father. You're not allowed to question him, unless you want a beating. So everyone -- EVERYONE -- displaces their angst or anxiety or fear or resentment onto mom, ie, the Dems. Why isn't she fixing everything?!