A year after promising viewers a āred tsunamiā in the 2022 midterms, only to be left with egg on their faces after the GOP drastically underperformed, Fox News was once again wondering what went wrong after Democrats romped to victory in statewide elections on Tuesday night.
Despite recent polls showing President Joe Biden deeply underwater with voters and even losing to Donald Trump in several battleground states, the Democratic incumbent governor easily won victory over his MAGA-endorsed opponent in deep-red Kentucky. And over in Ohio, a state Trump won by eight points in 2020, voters overwhelmingly passed an amendment ensuring access to abortion care in the stateās constitution.
The continued drag that undoing Roe v. Wade has had on the GOP was especially apparent in Virginia, where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had promised to implement a 15-week abortion ban if the GOP was able to gain unified control over the stateās General Assembly. Instead, not only were Youngkinās hopes of a Republican sweep dashed, but the Democrats now control both chambers.
Regarding the steadfast belief that āconservatism is dyingā: no it isnāt. Christian schools, home schools, Christian colleges, and even regular schools, communities and colleges are pumping out kids that have the beliefs of their parents. I live in a rural area, and work (hypocritically) for a Christian based organization. Iām surrounded by young minds that are perfectly comfortable with the ideals of the religious right, and vote.
Society has been saying it for yearsā¦ We said it when I was back in college. āBubba in the white house is going to be the best! Weāll undo all the hell Reagan and Bush did!ā then Newt Gingrich (sounds like a diseaseā¦) made his āPromise to Americaā¢ā and everything got fucked.
I will say that the trend, year over year, for xtians has been they have been going down at roughly 1% per year, every year, for many years now. I think it is things like this that explain why the cons are getting increasingly radicalized in their positions and in their tactics. They have been denigrating the notion of democratic norms (the well-actually āthis is not a democratic countryā stuff that they love to pull, for instance). Their more wonky members starting laying the groundwork way, way back, according to McLeanās Democracy In Chains.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/modeling-the-future-of-religion-in-america/
I mean, the fact that about 1 in 3 is unaffiliated is quite staggering. I can remember a time where even admitting this was seen as rather āedgyā, now itās going to earn a shrug.
This is why they want religious schools, school vouchers, private schools, etc. Itās segregation light. This way they stay in their echo chamber.
But the data shows religiousness is going down. The ones that remain are becoming more radical.
This is also why they want Fox, to appeal to more than the religious.
People have been saying that conservatism is aging out since at least the 90ās. Instead we see resurgences throughout the years.
Some people have been saying that the current resurgence is more of a death throe. I truly hope so, but Iām worried.