The Issues Game

Social life in Washington revolves around the issues. Democrats intuitively know this; Republicans usually don’t.

One reason for the discrepancy is that Republicans, despite their occupancy of the White House for 16 out of the last twenty years, remain attuned to the values of the heartland, where people go to parties to show off their new clothes, discuss china patterns, and chitchat about who’s sleeping with whom. Alas, these Republicans often show up in Washington salons dressed in all the wrong issues, and are only too grateful when the cosmopolitan Democrats set them straight. Let’s call this the Issues Game.

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Charlotte Hays

Charlotte Hays is the director of cultural programs at the Independent Women’s Forum and the author, most recently, of When Did White Trash Become the New Normal? A Southern Lady Asks the Impertinent Question.

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Social life in Washington revolves around the issues. Democrats intuitively know this; Republicans usually don’t.

One reason for the discrepancy is that Republicans, despite their occupancy of the White House for 16 out of the last twenty years, remain attuned to the values of the heartland, where people go to parties to show off their new clothes, discuss china patterns, and chitchat about who’s sleeping with whom. Alas, these Republicans often show up in Washington salons dressed in all the wrong issues, and are only too grateful when the cosmopolitan Democrats set them straight. Let’s call this the Issues Game.

CH

About the Author

Charlotte Hays

Charlotte Hays is the director of cultural programs at the Independent Women’s Forum and the author, most recently, of When Did White Trash Become the New Normal? A Southern Lady Asks the Impertinent Question.