Election Night in Arizona: MAGA Is Not The Way It Used to Be
They had been in combat mode for so long, they had become so inured to the ad hominem attacks, the sloganeering, the warring, the pyrotechnics, that they hadn t given much thought to that.
A better America, they said, would be energy-independent more fracking, more nuclear. And it would secure its southern border.
But that was mostly it. The rest of their program was things like defending free expression and fostering a greater sense of community. It wasn t really a program as much as the Bill of Rights.
Chris Glowacki said that in this better, futuristic America, there would be a middle ground room for hashing things out in a civilized way. You should be able to sit down and talk with each other, instead of saying, I don t agree with you, and I don t want to listen to you. There s too much of that on both sides.
Robby Starbuck, the music-video director-turned-Republican-congressional candidate in Tennessee, flew to Phoenix Tuesday afternoon to support Lake. When I asked him what kind of America Republicans pine for, he said it was one that embraced the old federalism states rights. If California wanted to give school children puberty blockers, that was California s business. Ditto with high taxes or low taxes or social services or whatever. What scared him was the emergence, over the past several years, of a Chinese-style social-credit system. He said that Covid, and the imposition of tyrannical anti-Covid policies, had been revealing. It reminded him of the Cuba his family had fled.
On the ground in Arizona.