Going into Tuesday’s elections, the political class was obsessed with one poll showing President Biden running behind Donald Trump in key battleground states. The incumbent’s critics reveled in excruciating enumerations of his problems while many Democrats (often off the record) wondered whether he was up to the 2024 battle. Then the voters cast their ballots. Of a sudden, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan liked to say, attention has shifted to the more important fact about American politics: The profound weaknesses of a Republican Party that is at sea on the abortion issue, mired in what Democratic candidates couldn’t stop calling “MAGA extremism,” and astonished that its dog whistles — “wokeness” in the schools and crime — went largely unheard. Dionne is on X: @EJDionneRead the full opinion at The Washington Post.

Source: Washington Post November 10, 2023 13:38 UTC