It's gradual but cumulative: people are abandoning progressive orthodoxies. Every 1/1000th person who hears about Obama's misdeeds, every 2nd person whose neighborhood becomes unlivable because of bail reform, every person who's badly assaulted only to see the perpetrator released within 24 hours. Those people begin to add up, ideological convictions or not.
Of course it helps that progressives are naturally disdainful and intellectually inflexible and moralistic and completely unwilling to make honest and convincing arguments to people who disagree with them.
It's gradual but cumulative: people are abandoning progressive orthodoxies. Every 1/1000th person who hears about Obama's misdeeds, every 2nd person whose neighborhood becomes unlivable because of bail reform, every person who's badly assaulted only to see the perpetrator released within 24 hours. Those people begin to add up, ideological convictions or not.
Of course it helps that progressives are naturally disdainful and intellectually inflexible and moralistic and completely unwilling to make honest and convincing arguments to people who disagree with them.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/intransigence