The Republican Party is winning the culture wars that they launched, and Democrats have absolutely no response to it. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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The Republican party is winning the culture wars that they launched and Democrats have absolutely no response to it. Wow. This, this makes me think of Lee Atwater, doesn’t it? This is a repeat of Lee Atwater. Lee Atwater was the dirty tricks guy, learned under Donald Segretti. Ran, you know, ran Bush’s campaign, Bush one. And, and in the end he was, he was really known as the dirty tricks guy. So now what he did is he went, if you remember, launched Ronald Reagan’s campaign in, in Phil, in Mississippi, in one of the most racist places in the entire country that you could launch a campaign and he was launching his, his, his, his culture campaign dealing with race and religion. Remember?
Yep. And, and, you know, that’s where the whole welfare queen talking point emerged, you know, talking about these people living high on the government dollar.
Mm-hmm.
While you’re working your butt off at work because the Republican party, and we’re seeing a lot of this now, too, always wants to pretend that they are the party of the working class. That we’ve got your back American worker.
And, and it’s working.
It, it is. That, that it’s been working since the eighties.
Yeah.
And so these people, they buy into that idea that yes, you are my party because you do care about my concerns. And you’re telling me more importantly, what’s to blame for it. Maybe, maybe it’s African Americans. Maybe it’s immigrants. Maybe it’s LGBTQ community, whatever it is. It’s always somebody else’s fault why your life is in shambles, basically.
Mm-hmm.
And the Democrats, once again, they’ve had 40 years to come up with a response to these culture wars. Once again, they’re back on their heels having to come out and address these issues where they don’t even know what they’re talking about or who they’re talking to.
Right. Here, here, generally here is what it is. It’s a polarization. The G, GOP has figured out it’s, it’s Lee Atwater relived. Okay. The polarization is centering around socialism, you know, be, be wary socialism is coming. Be wary of gays because they’re coming into your kid, they’re coming into your schools. The trans they’re coming to your schools to change the way that your children think. Same-sex marriage be very, very careful there. This, they’re, they’ve taken what I, I saw it described one time and I thought it was, I thought it was pretty accurate. They’ve taken this what they call this snowflake woke image and they’re attacking it.
Yeah.
The snowflake woke image. And they, and, and there’s no question it’s there. They have plenty to attack. But what, what people don’t understand is how dangerous it is when they start this polarization and division of all of these issues. It just, and unfortunately the American voter responds to it. Certainly, certainly the working class voter responds to it.
You know, and we look at polls right now. And right now on the social issues, I guess, you know, Roe V Wade, it’s a health issue, but it’s also a social issue. That’s about the only one of these things where the Republican party loses with the American public. They, they support having Roe versus Wade there. They do not support the overturning of it. But when we’re talking about all of these, you know, the trying to, to criminalize the LGBTQ community, the public actually supports those things.
I know.
They, they support the transgender athlete bans and the Democrats don’t understand that.
That’s true. What ends up happening though, is the a, it, it add it, it builds such steam behind it.
Yeah.
You see, it starts off small. And they’re talking about, they’ll take the, if you look at the right wing kind of media right now, what are you seeing? You’re seeing trans that are coming to your school kids and they’re.

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