That’s going to be the main topic for a few weeks.
In this piece from the American Institute for Economic Research, economics professor Don Boudreaux has some very sensible things to say on that, based on conversations he had with his siblings.
Here’s a representative paragraph: “My siblings hate people in Washington, Baton Rouge, Nashville (my brothers now live in Tennessee), or Hollywood telling them how to think about other people or what pronouns are prescribed and proscribed. My siblings resent the supposition that they are incapable of taking care of themselves — that, because they aren’t in the top one or ten percent, they have been cheated either by the fates or by fat cats and, therefore, that they are entitled to money earned by others.”
In short, they live and think the way most Americans did before so many of us were subjected to “progressive” teachers and professors with their obsessions over “diversity” and environmental calamity and using the right pronouns and avoiding microaggressions and allowing boys to play sports with girls and making things perfectly safe, and not going too hard on criminals, and blocking people from uttering “disinformation,” and so on.
The Boudreaux sibs understood that the country was rapidly sliding into a strictly controlled, collectivist society and didn’t like the looks of that. They voted to put the brakes on and reverse course.
Boudreaux concludes, “Trump defeated Harris in large part because very many Americans are like my siblings: ordinary, good, honest, hard-working people who are sick of being treated as if they are ignorant and helpless bigots.”
I think that’s right on target.