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Last year, in the wake of the Trumpian seizure of power and Elon Musk\u2019s vandalizing government agencies, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson sparked a brief tizzy among the chattering classes with their book \u201c<\/span>Abundance Liberalism<\/span>.\u201d The Democratic establishment was in a funk over losing the 2024 election, and the book seemed to offer a panacea for winning over the fickle American voter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The idea was that Democrats should drop their phobias about environmental degradation, urban sprawl, interstate highway construction and other quality-of-life considerations, and instead engineer the economy to crank out more stuff for the masses \u2014 housing, green energy jobs, infrastructure. All they have to do is defang regulations contained in the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, zoning restrictions and other examples of Luddite do-gooderism. Grateful voters would flock to the Democratic Party, and right-wing extremism would lose its steam.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a few problems with this thesis. A New York Times reviewer <\/span>noted<\/span> that the authors seemed to be channeling \u201ca few elite finance and\u00a0tech bros\u00a0in two or three coastal cities.\u201d Another reviewer <\/span>pointed out<\/span> the incongruity of proposing to gut regulations precisely when Trump and Musk were taking a <\/span>chainsaw to the federal government<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can be even more pointed. Ever Since Ronald Reagan appointed James Watt to head the Interior Department and Anne Gorsuch Burford to helm the Environmental Protection Agency, Republicans have relentlessly sought to eliminate regulations. Their success was mixed, but once Trump added his three \u2014 and counting \u2014 appointees to the Supreme Court, safety, environmental and other policies have fallen by the score. On a political level, Klein and Thompson\u2019s proposals are nonsensical: getting into a bidding war with Republicans over cutting regulations is like being suckered into a hot dog-eating contest with <\/span>Joey Chestnut<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides, Democratic administrations have tried to enact policies that improve the safety and prosperity of Americans. Barack Obama\u2019s Affordable Care Act wasn\u2019t nothing, whatever progressives think: At its height, <\/span>21 million people were insured<\/span> who otherwise would have been out of luck. Joe Biden pushed through the largest infrastructure program in decades, and the Chips and Science Act was a welcome start in reshoring high-tech manufacturing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The result? Since 2010, Republicans and GOP front groups have filed <\/span>over 2000 lawsuits<\/span> against ACA, and the second Trump regime has succeeded in gutting it. Trump has used executive orders to <\/span>halt<\/span> tens of billions of dollars of Biden\u2019s infrastructure funding, and Trump 2.0\u2019s <\/span>equity stakes in tech companies<\/span> are mainly a lever to financially benefit the president and his cronies personally by manipulating the companies\u2019 share prices through executive edicts and social media postings.<\/span><\/p>\n

To gloss over the rabidly partisan aspect of why government can\u2019t do things to improve Americans\u2019 lives in the breezy manner the authors have done \u2014 something that is obvious to any sentient observer \u2014 is either implausibly na\u00efve or disingenuous.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is another, more important reason why \u201cAbundance Liberalism,\u201d at least as the authors conceive it, is unlikely to work: The groups it hopes to convert don\u2019t want it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

There is another, more important reason why \u201cAbundance Liberalism,\u201d at least as the authors conceive it, is unlikely to work: The groups it hopes to convert don\u2019t want it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The evidence for this startling conclusion comes from the most significant <\/span>opinion study<\/span> you\u2019ve never read or read about. Published in May, the Johns Hopkins Agora Institute and ReD Associates conducted an in-depth research of conservatives in three red counties in Michigan, South Carolina and Wyoming. The authors describe the content of \u201cFaith, Freedom, Family, Place: An Ethnographic Study of Conservative Americans\u2019 Relationships to Democracy\u201d as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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This study relies on ethnographic research: sustained immersion in people\u2019s homes, lives, and communities through extensive interviews, observations, participation, and relationship-building. Where much democracy research documents what people say they believe, ethnography examines how and why political worldviews take shape within the full context of daily experiences, relationships, and social environments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The most fundamental issue the researchers attempted to resolve is the relationship their subjects had with what is commonly thought of as the American secular faith in democracy. What the study found is that the respondents either had a notion of what constituted democracy that greatly differed from what is taught in Civics 101 \u2014 when such a course is <\/span>even offered<\/span> \u2014 or rejected outright the very concept of democracy. In fact, the latter view was the majority opinion:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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14 out of 21 participants in this study had an immediate negative reaction when asked about democracy . . . Sarah (mid 30s, WY), a homeschooling mother, put it plainly: \u201cI don\u2019t like the word democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let that sink in. It\u2019s what many of us expected, but it\u2019s still surprising to see it in print, given the almost phobic avoidance by major media, academia and think tanks of any discussion of whether Americans actually believe in the nation\u2019s unofficial civic religion of democracy. It may also explain why ordinary, non-elite conservatives are untroubled by Donald Trump\u2019s assertions that he would be \u201cdictator on day one\u201d or that he intended to \u201cterminate\u201d parts of the Constitution. On the contrary, that\u2019s what they <\/span>want<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout our history, major domestic quarrels have erupted over economics: the prairie rebellion of the 1890s, the Progressive era, the New Deal. Political scientists commonly believe economics is the predominant political issue for most people, and they view it from the perspective of their own self-interest. From Gore Vidal\u2019s <\/span>notion<\/span> that\u00a0 \u201cThe only subject that a mature people in a so-called republic should be interested in is who collects what money, to spend on what, for whom\u201d to the Clinton campaign\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s the economy, stupid!\u201d, the primacy of economics is the conventional wisdom. And it\u2019s the leitmotif of Klein and Thompson\u2019s book.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for all the major media\u2019s hand-wringing about \u201c<\/span>\u201d being a driving force behind Trump\u2019s election victory in 2016, there is little discussion of that sort among the study\u2019s respondents. There is one reference by Maria from Michigan to losing her job as a result of \u201cthe economic collapse under Obama,\u201d which actually occurred under George W. Bush. (Economic growth was positive in seven of the eight years of Obama\u2019s presidency, with a rate of -0.2% only in 2009 as the effects of the financial collapse of 2008 were ongoing \u2014 nothing remotely as poor as the -3.4% gross domestic product decline in the last year of Trump\u2019s first term.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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The study describes Maria from Michigan this way: \u201cHer verdict on the Democratic Party as having dedicated its playbook to Satan and chosen the \u2018platform of death\u2019 does not leave room for normal civic constraints to apply.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What do the study\u2019s participants talk about? Their central concern is their own so-called \u201cmoral foundations.\u201d For them, any democracy is valid only insofar as it vigorously upholds \u201cfaith, family, freedom and place,\u201d as indicated in the study\u2019s title. Since they believe their values are under relentless attack by the institutions of democracy, then democracy must be sacrificed. In this mindset, political opponents are not acting in good faith but are outright demonic. The study describes Maria from Michigan this way: \u201cHer verdict on the Democratic Party as having dedicated its playbook to Satan and chosen the \u2018platform of death\u2019 does not leave room for normal civic constraints to apply.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It should be emphasized that these values mean <\/span>their<\/span><\/i> faith, not a non-Christian religion or no religion; <\/span>their<\/span><\/i> family (forcible family separation of immigrants or gay marriage don\u2019t count); <\/span>their<\/span><\/i> freedom (getting vaccinated as a civic responsibility to protect the frail and immune-deficient is incomprehensible to them) and <\/span>their<\/span><\/i> place (typically small-town and rural, cities being dens of iniquity).<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since Richard Nixon, Republican politicians have expressed the conceit that traditional, religious, conservative Americans constituted the \u201csilent majority.\u201d Televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr., expressed it as the \u201cmoral majority.\u201d But the subjects of the study did not believe they were the majority.<\/span> Rather,<\/span> they perceived themselves as a minority under pressure from a godless and wicked majority. The authors describe it:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Most participants believe that the cultural conditions necessary for a viable democracy no longer exist. A \u2018true\u2019 democracy of untrammeled majority rule would require a population with shared values, shared realities, and the capacity for self-governance conditions they feel America has lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Part of their rejection of democracy is the fact that they know they would be outvoted in a straight-up, ungerrymandered system: \u201cKyle (mid 20s, WY), a delivery driver, extends the logic: \u2018Every single small town would be outvoted by every single city. We wouldn\u2019t be able to feed people cows. We\u2019d all be eating seaweed.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The participants are similar to the authoritarian personalities that Canadian psychologist Robert Altemeyer studied for his 2008 <\/span> \u201cThe Authoritarians\u201d: \u201cThey bring strong loyalty to their in-groups, have thick-walled, highly compartmentalized minds, use a lot of double standards in their judgments, are surprisingly unprincipled at times and are often hypocrites.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Compartmentalization and hypocrisy are evident in the participants\u2019 attitudes toward Trump. One might think a twice-divorced serial adulterer and rapist (as <\/span>stipulated by the presiding judge<\/span> in the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit), compulsive liar and multiple indictee might be rejected by those for whom moral values are paramount. But as the study describes, they see him as a \u201cprotector\u201d of both their values and themselves. That people who claim to place such worth in untrammeled freedom and independence have a patriarchal loyalty to a dictatorial figure is further confirmation of Altemeyer\u2019s hypothesis about thick-walled, highly compartmentalized minds.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is the state of at least part of America anno 2026. The subjects of the Johns Hopkins study may not be representative of America, or even all people who call themselves conservative, but their large presence in thinly populated states or heavily gerrymandered states makes them an outsized electoral force for the foreseeable future. They are no more likely to be bribed by \u201cAbundance Liberalism\u201d than Afghan tribesmen were going to lay down their weapons because of international development aid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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That is a significant finding. It\u2019s a pity the big media won\u2019t report it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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