Writing for Politico, Derek Robertson gets his mea culpa out of the way in the title of his article.
I Predicted the Culture Wars Would End in 2021. Oops.
What follows is his “process” observation.
Although probably not for the reasons he intended, history will deem Trump a transformational president. In breaking a taboo which other politicians had mutually agreed to leave alone, he gave Republicans a powerful political tool — and by doing so, ensured the caustic, divisive cultural politics that defined his presidency would long outlive it.
And you’ll like his punchline-style conclusion.
Trumpian cultural politics are … just the way we live.
Trump understood Republicans were tired of being “nice” Romney-style losers pushing “cool” technical issues, and intuited “hot” cultural issues were how to win.
