Is America exceptionally good or exceptionally bad?
I agree that the gloomy attitude on the Left is going to hurt them in 2022 and 2024. While certainly the Right is unreasonably self-assured, the majority of the population doesn’t seem to think that the country is as bad as some on the Left make it out to be. And as such, they are selling solutions to problems that a majority of voters don’t see. Compare this to the traditional “jobs and public safety” message that the GOP tends to run on.<p>The other trend I’ve noticed is that when events occur that should help support the narrative of the left (such as the awful murder of George Floyd), instead of focusing on making incremental improvements (improve training, ban chokeholds, end war on drugs), they go all in (defund the police * ).<p>* I know that “defund the police” doesn’t actually mean “defund the police” but maybe we should go with slogans that, and this is a tad crazy I know, don’t mean something other than what the actual goal is?