The political press is preoccupied with the electoral implications of the virus crisis, and pundits insist the 2020 election will be about the Trump daily soap opera.
America could soon have its most combustible political environment in recent history.
Three months and the largest job loss in American history later, those numbers are exactly the same: 49% to 48%. How is that possible? Is the political climate so partisan that the loss of your livelihood can't change your political perspective? To some extent that could be true.
Your political views are still informed by the same economic inputs that formed them in February.
Businesses aren't guaranteed to reopen, and the political bubble formed by this alternate reality could portend large political realignments.
America's deep geographic, social and political divides will be pulled even further apart by this economic crisis.
Mr. Holmes is president of Cavalry LLC, a political consulting firm, and a former chief of staff and campaign manager for Sen. Mitch McConnell.
America could soon have its most combustible political environment in recent history.
Three months and the largest job loss in American history later, those numbers are exactly the same: 49% to 48%. How is that possible? Is the political climate so partisan that the loss of your livelihood can't change your political perspective? To some extent that could be true.
Your political views are still informed by the same economic inputs that formed them in February.
Businesses aren't guaranteed to reopen, and the political bubble formed by this alternate reality could portend large political realignments.
America's deep geographic, social and political divides will be pulled even further apart by this economic crisis.
Mr. Holmes is president of Cavalry LLC, a political consulting firm, and a former chief of staff and campaign manager for Sen. Mitch McConnell.
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