Will Bunch/Philadelphia Inquirer: Democrats can’t keep ignoring the culture war. They should fight it — and win  The GOP's «culture war» on hot button issues like race in schools is trumping Democrat's emphasis on economics. It's time to fight back. In 2021, Biden-era Democrats like Terry McAuliffe, the party’s tired retread for governor in Virginia, literally tried to talk better mileage with the voters as their climate change and fix-road-and-bridges promises slowly ground through the sausage maker on Capitol Hill. Over the western mountains and at the edge of suburban sprawl in the Old Dominion State, angry voters searching for their pitchforks after imbibing days of propaganda about what their kids are taught about racism didn’t want to hear about fuel efficiency. They were out for blood. Just like Reagan in 1980, Republican Glenn Youngkin’s “Kill the Bastards” message carried the day in a state that had seemed to be trending Democratic blue for much of the 2010s. Once again, the Democrats showed up to a culture war gunfight brandishing a 2,000-page piece of legislation. xHaven't you heard? They don't exist. And if they do, well, who gives a crap what they have to say. They don't fit the neat unwoke-savvy political narrative. https://t.co/781E5CmIqs— @ijbailey (@ijbailey) November 7, 2021 Read more