{"id":162334,"date":"2021-01-25T03:47:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T00:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-trump-changed-democrats-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2021-01-25T03:47:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T00:47:23","slug":"how-trump-changed-democrats-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-trump-changed-democrats-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Trump changed Democrats and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a242ec4080d8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a242ec4080d8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-trump-changed-democrats-and-other-commentary\/#Polling_whiz_How_Don_Changed_Democrats\" >Polling whiz: How Don Changed Democrats<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-trump-changed-democrats-and-other-commentary\/#Media_watch_The_Rights_Porn_Problem\" >Media watch: The Right\u2019s Porn Problem\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-trump-changed-democrats-and-other-commentary\/#Watchdog_NYs_Runaway_Medicaid_Growth\" >Watchdog: NY\u2019s Runaway Medicaid Growth<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-trump-changed-democrats-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_Hwoods_China-Love_Will_Deepen\" >Conservative: H\u2019wood\u2019s China-Love Will Deepen<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-trump-changed-democrats-and-other-commentary\/#Culture_critic_Virtue_Hoarders_Phony_Elitism\" >Culture critic: Virtue Hoarders\u2019 Phony Elitism<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#How Trump changed Democrats and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/trump-11.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Polling_whiz_How_Don_Changed_Democrats\"><\/span>Polling whiz: How Don Changed Democrats<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Democrats spent the last four years agonizing over how they lost to Donald Trump and how to rejigger their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal to win again, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/bidens-team-and-priorities-show-how-the-democratic-party-changed-in-the-trump-era\/\">notes FiveThirtyEight\u2019s Perry Bacon, Jr. <\/a>\u201cWe now have a pretty detailed picture of where the Democratic Party landed\u201d: Post-Trump, \u201ca multiracial group of Obama-style Democrats are in charge.\u201d These Dems are solidly left of center, but \u201cmostly from the ideological middle of the party\u201d; they\u2019re establishment types who <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly \u201chaven\u2019t rocked the boat\u201d much. Yet their aim now is to \u201cenact more leftward-leaning policies \u2014 compared to the Obama administration, in particular \u2014 on both economic and racial issues.\u201d Its establishment pedigree notwithstanding, this party is thus \u201cperhaps the most left-leaning since the days of President Lyndon Johnson.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Media_watch_The_Rights_Porn_Problem\"><\/span>Media watch: The Right\u2019s Porn Problem\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At National Review, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/01\/the-rights-playboy-problem\/\">Kevin Williamson observes<\/a> that the Internet changed pornography and political journalism in \u201calmost exactly\u201d the same way: \u201cContent became largely free,\u201d and \u201crevenue crashed.\u201d And though \u201cthe quality of the product may have declined,\u201d it became \u201cmore outlandish and outrageous, which is what matters most.\u201d Like the smut biz, political journalism sells \u201ctitillation\u201d \u2014 usually not the sexual kind, \u201cbut people get an emotional charge\u201d in seeing rivals criticized or insulted, and readers \u201cseek out more extreme, more outrageous\u201d material. Now conservative talk-radio networks are trying to \u201creinvent themselves\u201d to compete with the \u201cQAnon-dominated post-Trump market\u201d in a \u201crace to the bottom.\u201d Similarly, the Republican Party is trying to figure out how to \u201cinclude both QAnon kooks\u201d and moderates. Alas, \u201cthis house cannot long endure half-kook and half-conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Watchdog_NYs_Runaway_Medicaid_Growth\"><\/span>Watchdog: NY\u2019s Runaway Medicaid Growth<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Despite a \u201conce-in-a-century pandemic\u201d that \u201cdecimated\u201d\u00a0revenues, Gov. Cuomo\u2019s Medicaid budget is barely changing, with 4.7 percent growth planned for next year, vs. 4.5 percent this year and 4.7 percent last year, warns the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.empirecenter.org\/publications\/governor-cuomos-budget-proposals\/\">Empire Center\u2019s Bill Hammond<\/a>. Yet \u201csteady\u201d\u00a0doesn\u2019t mean \u201csustainable\u201d growth. \u201cEven when the economy was strong,\u201d Medicaid\u2019s expansion was \u201cthrowing the state budget out of balance.\u201d Now, facing multibillion-dollar gaps, \u201cthe state can afford it even less,\u201d yet the gov makes \u201clittle effort to apply the brakes.\u201d Cuomo\u2019s betting Team Biden will send New York billions more, \u201crelying on short-term relief\u201d to \u201cput off a necessary reckoning.\u201d But unless he and lawmakers deal with the problem now, they\u2019ll \u201conly have to cut deeper when the temporary federal money inevitably goes away.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_Hwoods_China-Love_Will_Deepen\"><\/span>Conservative: H\u2019wood\u2019s China-Love Will Deepen<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIn 2020, ticket sales at the Chinese box office surpassed the North American box office,\u201d reports <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/21\/hollywoods-dependence-on-china-will-grow-after-covid\/\">The Federalist\u2019s Emily Jashinsky<\/a>, \u201cmaking China the world\u2019s top moviegoing market.\u201d Yet even before the pandemic, major studios were desperate to kowtow to Chinese Communist sensibilities, censoring <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> and even inserting pro-Beijing propaganda. Now, \u201cthe accelerated shift to streaming means insiders expect the domestic box office\u201d may never \u201cfully recover,\u201d making the Chinese market even more crucial for Hollywood dream makers. The movie moguls, of course, don\u2019t seem to mind the hypocrisies: \u201cThey wax sanctimonious about American politics, profiting off the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>\u2019s fawning coverage of it, while maintaining a calculated silence on the CCP to boost their bank accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Culture_critic_Virtue_Hoarders_Phony_Elitism\"><\/span>Culture critic: Virtue Hoarders\u2019 Phony Elitism<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Catherine Liu\u2019s new book, \u201cVirtue Hoarders,\u201d blasts the \u201cprofessional-managerial class (PMC), which dominates \u2018political organizations, publishing, media, private foundations, think tanks, and the university,\u2019 \u201d for its baseless but \u201cunshakeable sense of superiority to ordinary-working class people,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2021\/01\/21\/virtue-hoarders-our-scolding-elites\/\">Philip Hammond at Spiked<\/a> relates. Liu riducles \u201cthe pretentiousness of PMC self-experimentation\u201d\u00a0and charges that the \u201c \u2018vanguard corps of PMC elites\u2019 have been actively undermining professional integrity,\u201d rather than defending \u201cthe values of scholarship and human service\u201d they claim set them apart. They push an elitist society and resist \u201cthe populist hopes of recent years,\u201d which makes the book a timely \u201cpart of a larger discussion that has rumbled on over the past four years.\u201d It\u2019s a discussion that clearly \u201cneeds to be had.\u201d \u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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