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The Future of the GOP

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The Republican Party's Cultural War

The fight for the soul of the Republican party isn't about tax cuts or trade deals, it is this cultural combat that we have as a country. These voters are more angry than they were in 2016 and these people know that DeSantis is a cultural warrior for this time. The agenda of fear and divisiveness just doesn't play well with younger Republicans who come from communities of color. And so this seems to be this idea of wokeism, these cultural wars. It's because they don't have anything else to run on. They have to create these politics of cruelty and extremism and otherwise people. That's why we have to continue to fight to explain why democracy matters and why freedoms

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