Finn McRedmond: The worst of this strange decade of wokeness is over

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Measures designed to change material realities matter more than sociocultural pietiesDonald Trump will be inaugurated soon enough, and with him he brings a lesson for 2025.
47% : I wrote only two weeks ago that there was a benefit to Ireland's system being so stagnant and oriented towards the status quo: political stasis and the gravitational pull dragging everyone to the centre insulates the nation from major crisis points.
47% : Perhaps I have been beating this drum for too long but the progressive establishment of Ireland needs to pay attention to the political and social weather.
43% : It was a profound misreading of the room: as the working-class votes cleaved towards Trump, who thought they could be won back with the gilded and distant elite of Bel Air?
26% : It didn't work because those words hold much less power now than they may have once done - neither the fact that Trump is a convicted felon nor his loose relationship with the law mattered a jot to the median voter.
22% : [ Maureen Dowd: Democrats and the case of mistaken identity politicsOpens in new window ]The Democrats in the United States had certainly drifted far from the electorate, still in 2024 attempting to wage a campaign on progressive strictures, thinking that at the last minute calling Trump a fascist and warning the world he was a threat to democratic values everywhere would work.
21% : In 2016, the Democrats attempted to beat Trump on a platform of Hillary Clinton being a woman ("I'm with her" perhaps will go down as one of the most poorly conceived campaign slogans of modernity).

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