A thoughtful and on-point op-ed:
But here's the thing: Being the guy who's going to put an end to wokeism would be fine if it wins the election. Yet by all indications, it won't be.
As the highly-regarded GOP pollster Myra Miller of The Winston Group explained, an ability and willingness to fight back against wokes is a priority to the Republican base and will dominate the GOP primary—but that's where it ends. "These issues are not nearly as much of a focus beyond the Republican base to key groups like independents," says Miller.
Which means there's a mismatch between the strategy being deployed by many of the Republican candidates and the strategy that will win the nominee the presidency. Strategists working for Trump and DeSantis and the others in the GOP field seem to be advising their candidates to run a hard-edged campaign from beginning to end that stresses the importance of keeping boys out of girls' bathrooms and rails against drag queen story hours. Yet these are not the things most important to the Americans likely to vote in November 2024.
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