From Virginia to New York, will the Dems learn the lesson that radicalism doesn’t pay?
If there is a lesson to be learned by looking at the results of the recent American election, it is this: in the US – as elsewhere – radicalism does not pay. By this I mean that the two big parties have realized that their respective extreme wings do not have to prevail if they are to win.
It seems like an elementary reasoning. Yet it took a long time for the more discerning politicians of the two sides to understand that with the breaking positions you win on Twitter and on social networks in general, but not in the polls. In this sense, citizens have imparted a healthy lesson in realism to those who ask for their consent.
True, the Republican success in Virginia is a real slap in the face for Biden, who a year ago in that state had detached Trump by ten points. The Democrats were therefore convinced that the result was easy enough.
Instead, the opposite happened because their candidate, former liberal governor Terry McAuliffe, set his campaign on the demonization of Trump and Trumpism, regardless of the issues that really interested voters.
The winning Republican, the 54-year-old Glenn Youngkin, instead understood that the game was played on the field of education, both secondary and university. In that sector, in fact, left wokism is doing irreparable damage by imposing on students a one-way ideology, which reads the whole of American history as dominated by issues of race or gender , and as if everything else counts for nothing. .
It is therefore inevitable that many voters traditionally close to the Dems decided to vote Republican to curb a drift that seems unstoppable. The fact is that the majority of citizens are tired of the diktats of the Woke counterculture, and would like to return to a more traditional way of reading political and historical events.
Youngkin was successful because he realized that these were the issues to be dealt with, proposing moderate solutions in line with tradition. Racism must be condemned always and everywhere, but it cannot become the pretext for imposing a single thought that leaves no room for the free debate of ideas. Among other things, he certainly had no fear in running in tandem with 57-year-old Winsome Sears, of Jamaican descent and the first black woman to obtain the position of vice-governor in Virginia.
In the democratic field, the famous "Squad" , the group of far-left deputies headed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, does not seem to have understood the lesson. In fact, Ocasio-Cortez argued that Democratic candidates like McAuliffe lost because they did not adopt the radical platform based on politically correct and cancel culture .
It happens, however, that the most striking victory obtained by the Democrats is that of New York, where Eric Adams, African American and former chief of the local police, became mayor based on very concrete ideas and the exaltation of the slogan "Law and Order" abhorred by his predecessor Bill de Blasio. Adams won by declaring his opposition to the cut in funds for the police, which is instead a workhorse of the extreme left of the party.
Certainly the American political landscape has become more complicated than in the past, and on many occasions it appears indecipherable. But it is clear that the two large traditional parties will only be able to recover their lost strength if they isolate their extreme fringes.
Democrats must publicly denounce the dangers of the woke counterculture, avoiding any compromise with it. For Republicans, it is best to avoid compromise with QAnon- style conspiracy and to keep extremists at bay . Only in this way can America maintain the leadership of the Western world.
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