{"id":5962,"date":"2025-09-11T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:50:10","slug":"opinion-maga-was-built-in-decades-what-will-democrats-build-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=5962","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | MAGA Was Built in Decades. What Will Democrats Build Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"site-content\">\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: <!-- -->MAGA Was Built in Decades. What Will Democrats Build Next?<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"video-header\">\n<div class=\"css-1g7y0i5 e1drnplw0\"><button tabindex=\"100\" class=\"css-1rtlxy\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"close\"><svg width=\"60\" height=\"60\" viewbox=\"0 0 60 60\" fill=\"none\"><circle cx=\"30\" cy=\"30\" r=\"30\" fill=\"white\" fill-opacity=\"0.9\"\/><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M38.4844 20.1006L39.8986 21.5148L21.5138 39.8996L20.0996 38.4854L38.4844 20.1006Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M21.5156 20.1006L20.1014 21.5148L38.4862 39.8996L39.9004 38.4854L21.5156 20.1006Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-18ow4sz e1drnplw2\">\n<div aria-labelledby=\"modal-title\" role=\"region\">\n<header class=\"css-1bzlfz\">\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"css-1igvuto\"><span>Back<\/span><\/button><\/header>\n<div class=\"css-uzyn7p\">\n<div class=\"css-1vxywau\">\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">MAGA Was Built in Decades. What Will Democrats Build Next?<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">David Brooks, E.J. Dionne Jr. and Robert Siegel convene to discuss the state of America \u2014 and debate the best way to revive the country and its politics.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<dl class=\"css-p98d0w\">\n<dt class=\"css-xx7kwh\"\/>\n<dd class=\"css-4gvq6l\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">What populism offers people is a culture, a morality, a way of being a picture of masculinity and femininity, a sense of belonging. It is a full-service religion as well as a political ideology. The Democrats don\u2019t have any of that. They have ideas for policies and tax policies. So they might do this on a day-to-day basis. But if you\u2019re the Democrats, you have to think we have to create a counter-movement to what populism has. We need to create a culture, a sense of belonging, a sense of identity, a sense of right and wrong, a sense of masculinity and femininity, all sorts of other issues. And to me, that\u2019s a generational project. Populism didn\u2019t just start yesterday. It goes all the way back to America first. It goes back to the Know Nothing movement. It goes back to writers like Sam Francis and Christopher Lasch. It took decades to create the culture MAGA is. It\u2019s going to take decades for the Democrats to come up with a counterculture, but positioning themselves on the realm of values and ideas and vision is the first task. And what happens in a legislative game, it\u2019s not important. We don\u2019t have decades to protect our constitutional democracy. Of course, liberalism and social democracy have to have a moral story to tell. I think they do have a moral story to tell about how fairness and justice can undermine better lives for people, better family lives. But right now, we are in a crisis. Either you believe we are right now in a crisis or you don\u2019t. I do believe we\u2019re in a crisis, and that requires that you act that way. And then we can in the meantime have these long- term discussions that you want to have. But I don\u2019t think you can just sit there and say nothing\u2019s happening. We\u2019ll think for the long term.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: MAGA Was Built in Decades. What Will Democrats Build Next? transcript Back transcript MAGA Was Built in Decades. What Will Democrats Build Next? David Brooks, E.J. 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