Been thinking about the @davidshor “low trust voter” dynamics since @Wertwhile brought them up, and covid, and the Electoral College, and my related thought is do high trust conservative voters still exist, or is conservatism today defined by being a low trust person?
To the extent the GOP is now a low trust party, they need to do very well in states like AZ/WI/MI/PA/NC/GA, but the tension is the higher trust suburbs and exurbs continue to move away from them. A low trust path to 270 gets tougher.
And to the extent politics is sorting around education and social trust rather than race, lower turnout is going to benefit Democrats, so it’s Republicans who are going to end up fighting for higher turnout even if they don’t realize it yet.
Last one — Bernie/AOC progressives have moved the Democratic Party to the left, but many Extremely Online progressives are low trust people, and I wonder how that all nets out.
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