I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue, stemming from this, @ezraklein’s NYT op-ed on the subject, and Bobby Jindal’s piece today in The Federalist.
I’m workshopping the thought, but there seems to be a sense of expected responsiveness placed upon Democrats (but not the GOP.)https://twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/status/1222489936974229509 …
Where? So far as I can see, neither Jindal nor Ezra argues that Democratic voters has a moral obligation to vote Republican.
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Jindal argues that Democrats should “normalize” towards his viewpoints to adequately fight Trump. That’s placing responsibility of being “normal” or “sane” on Democrats. The “all they had to do was be sane” meme is all dependent on a specific reading of that idea.
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Republicans don’t have a moral obligation to vote Democratic, but Democrats don’t have a moral obligation to accede to Republican norms (Jindal suggests nominating Romney to run HHS, while also engaging in some weird wishcasting about 2008-2012.)
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