Democrats on the defensive on cultural issues

 Kaylee White:

For years, the Left has dominated much of the common culture and its institutions, from Hollywood to public schools to workers unions. But not anymore.

The hold Democrats once held on cultural issues is breaking, as evidenced by several recent elections. In November, Republican Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia gubernatorial election, performing shockingly well in blue counties among parents of K-12 children and suburban women because he made parental access to education a focal point of his campaign. In New York City, left-leaning voters rejected leftist mayoral candidates in favor of the more “moderate” Eric Adams, who promised them he would get tough on crime and support the city’s police. And just this week, San Francisco residents, who are easily more liberal than the vast majority of the country, recalled three school board members for pursuing pointless liberal policies when they should have been fighting to reopen the city’s schools instead.

The smarter Democrats — the ones who haven’t gotten their heads lost in the sand — can sense the tide is turning. Hence, why dozens of House Democrats are jumping ship now and retiring before the 2022 midterm elections and why the party’s House campaign arm warned its candidates this week that if they don’t figure out how to combat the GOP’s “alarmingly potent” culture war attacks, they will lose — badly.

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The strategy for Republicans, then, is simple: Lean into cultural issues. Appeal to parents who are fed up with being locked out of their children’s classrooms. Promise to give them a say in what their children are taught and whether their children wear masks or not. Commit to making sure the toxic racialism found in critical race theory never makes its way into their students’ schools. And vow to hold accountable the government officials who locked down businesses, shut children out of classrooms, and forced vaccine mandates on the public.

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One of the things the Republicans have going for them is that a majority of Democrats are bitterly clinging to the wrong side of these cultural issues.  From the teachers' unions to academia they are out of touch on the cultural issues and are still pushing the racism of CRT and DEI.