Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For one, Silver’s blob metaphor is supposed to connote homogeneity and groupthink, but some of the most sustained backlash against “wokeness” has been led by organizations and public figures within the elite left-of-center sphere. At the same time, groups …
The recrimination game among Democrats and pundits is on in a big way, and a major theme is the idea that the party has lost working-class men—especially white and Latino men who don’t have college degrees—because of the way its candidates look and talk. There was even a primary news cycle—damaging at the time, but perhaps we’ll soon see Democrats’ …