“Culture Wars” Are Tweaked and Front and Center Again Because It’s All One Party Has to Offer
This past month we’ve seen that while the Democrats debate policies, how they reflect their inclusive values, and how best to enact them, the Republican Party is obsessing about Dr. Seuss, Pepe LePue, the Potato Heads, discrimination against transgender people, preventing people who disagree with them from voting, demonizing immigration on the southern border, and locking in government control over women’s reproductive choices. They’re still trying, as well, to figure out ways they can demonize and marginalize all LGBTQ people after all those Court decisions that rejected such discrimination. The previous president was a useable egotist for the Republican Party “culture war,” and demonizing President Biden has become a centerpiece because he refuses to play their game of “Calvinball” with Republican spokespeople constantly and hypocritically changing the rules and moving the goalposts to appeal to their supporters. By his executive actions and appointments, Biden has defied their defi