{"id":1373403,"date":"2022-03-12T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373403"},"modified":"2022-03-12T20:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T01:00:58","slug":"politico-ukraine-war-helps-democrats-divert-attention-from-unpopular-culture-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-ukraine-war-helps-democrats-divert-attention-from-unpopular-culture-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Ukraine War Helps Democrats Divert Attention from Unpopular \u2018Culture Wars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitico-ukraine-war-helps-democrats-divert-attention-from-unpopular-culture-wars%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373403&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Ukraine war is good news for Democrats because it distracts from their unpopular domestic issues, an article in\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em> magazine argues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDems catch a break from the culture wars: War in Ukraine and the domestic economic fallout have given Democrats a chance to focus there instead of on other issues that dominated 2021,\u201d read the headline on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/12\/democrats-culture-wars-dnc-00016641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lead story<\/a>\u00a0by David Siders and Elena Schneider in the Saturday morning layout at Politico\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The article, which was about the Democrats\u2019 2022 campaign meeting in Washington, D.C., notes that \u201c[f]or\u00a0more than a year, Democrats have been on defense, with the party\u2019s own polling clarifying its vulnerability to the GOP\u2019s\u00a0<a class=\"js-tealium-tracking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/15\/gop-culture-war-attacks-alarmingly-potent-dccc-warns-00009265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201calarmingly potent\u201d attacks in the \u201cculture wars.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, the article then adds that the Ukraine war and \u201censuing economic fallout\u201d have now \u201cgiven the\u00a0Democrats a chance to put those matters aside and focus on an unlikely, more favorable set of issues eight months before the midterms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">For once, it\u2019s not banned books or transgender athletes nonstop on Americans\u2019 TVs, but foreign affairs and rising gas prices. In the past week, Biden\u2019s\u00a0<a class=\"js-tealium-tracking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/biden-approval-rating-ukraine-00015065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public approval ratings have ticked up<\/a>, and the generic ballot has improved slightly for Democrats. Democratic governors are proposing gas price relief, while the party\u2019s campaign arms are pummeling Republicans on taxes and health care costs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">The\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em> article, however, absolves the Democrats of blame for these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/mc-xpm-2001-01-25-3348021-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political disasters<\/a>, and even portrays their culture policies as Republican-initiated attacks:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">\u201cWhat\u2019s the GOP plan?\u201d Jaime Harrison, the DNC chair, said in his speech at the party meeting on Thursday night. \u201cHow will they bring down costs and address the needs of regular people? In the states, they\u2019re too busy attacking trans and queer kids, too busy taking away your reproductive freedom, too busy telling teachers what history they\u2019re not allowed to teach, to actually do their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">In the hotel bar late that night, DNC staffers raised their hands and cheered for Harrison\u2019s speechwriter. And it wasn\u2019t a one-off. At a meeting of state party chairs, Ken Martin, chair of Minnesota\u2019s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, said Democrats would not succumb to the \u201cdistraction and demagoguery\u201d of Republicans, who he said had \u201cset their sights on transgender kids\u201d instead of addressing \u201creal issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Meanwhile, Democrat support among blacks, Latinos, and whites is dropping to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/11\/poll-republicans-take-9-point-lead-hispanics-more-than-double-black-support-27-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record lows<\/a>\u00a0amid inflation, migration, and cultural negation. On March 2, Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/black-workers-lost-jobs-pandemic-still-look-work-recovery-uneven-2022-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The vast majority of Black workers who lost their jobs\u00a0said they were still looking for work\u00a0a year after the start of the pandemic\u00a0(68%), even as employers across the country complained that they couldn\u2019t find anyone amidst persistent labor shortages.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to the CARE at Work survey of nearly 2,000 Black workers in Southern California about their experience during the pandemic. The survey was conducted from May 2021 to July 2021.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBlack workers in times of crisis, in times of economic recessions and downturns, are oftentimes the first to be let go from work, and then the last to be hired back,\u201d D\u00e9j\u00e0 Thomas, the report\u2019s lead author, told Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Under President Donald Trump\u2019s low-immigration policies, however, black unemployment dropped to record lows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukraine war is good news for Democrats because it distracts from their unpopular domestic issues, an article in\u00a0Politico magazine argues. \u201cDems catch a break from the culture wars: War<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}