I don't know what to do with the fact that my government is giving federal officers permission to summarily execute protestors at will -- or the knowledge that thousands (if not millions) of my fellow citizens are eager to lie in service of such violence

* Swing voters tend to have unusually weak (or conflicted) culture war allegiances, and are therefore more likely to vote based on economic conditions/messaging than the broader public is

Imo, three things are true:

*News consumers (/social media users) are a small minority of the voting public with eccentric preferences (generally, more ideologically coherent/extreme)

*Culture war cleavages increasingly determine partisanship (/whom voters trust on the economy)

The underlying study here actually indicates that economic messaging tends to be more effective at maximizing vote-share than culture war messaging

Yeah, I mean, I am marginally more sympathetic to this outlook than you are. But we agree its vastly overstated (and also relies a bit on conflating political parties with ideological movements; the Democratic Party circa 1936 was not synonymous with "the left")

I mean, that is exactly what my piece argues