Will the GOP's culture war gambit blow up in its face?

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While Republicans and progressive activists are hurling invective at each other, Democrats in Congress and the White House are preparing to send substantial amounts of money, in the form of pandemic relief, to hundreds of millions of Americans. That's likely to be pretty popular — and opens up an intriguing possibility.

What if while Republicans are busy trying to bait Democrats on culture war issues, those Democrats end up winning public opinion in a big way by refusing to play along, changing the subject, and actually making the lives of most Americans concretely better?

If so, the culture-war play by the right could end up backfiring big time.

Read the rest of this article in The Week here:

https://theweek.com/articles/971303/gop ... -blow-face