How are we doing, America?
Apparently some think that a good way to answer that question is by asking, “What scares you most about the coming year?”
Things people fear:
- DC becoming a state
- Puerto Rico becoming a state
- Undocumented people becoming voters
- Becoming a Communist country
- America turning into Venezuela
- Packing the Court
Frank Luntz summarized:
- “They're afraid.”
- “They're petrified.”
- “They're nervous that the country won't be the same America that they remember.”
- “They're nervous that the social and the cultural aspects of the country are changing.”
When liberals hear such resistance to social and cultural change, they conclude conservatives are racists who “don't like black and brown people.” This is not correct.
America is changing in multiple ways, and there is a lot of nuance to how those changes work out. Changes in the racial composition of this country are not the same as changes in its ideological composition.