Far from adjusting themselves to a liberalism thought to be on the rise, the GOP moved even further right as the tea party became the new political vogue. ADBut this isn’t working, and not only because former vice president Joe Biden is an older white guy who is rather hard to tar as an agent of the revolutionary left. It’s also failing because many older voters are petrified of what Trump’s astonishingly inept handling of the coronavirus pandemic means for their health and their very lives. ADBut more importantly for the long run, the 2020 electorate is not the electorate of the tea party wave, or even of 2016. The 14-point lead Biden enjoyed over Trump in the New York Times/Siena College poll released last week reflects all these factors.

Source: Washington Post June 28, 2020 20:15 UTC