[P]olling failed to capture the widespread feeling among Democrats, which grew after the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade and the Jan. 6 hearings over the summer, that their core democratic rights were increasingly at risk.
“I think that pundits sometimes project onto the public a crude materialism, where all people care about is pocketbook issues in the narrowest sense,” Mr. Raskin said. “People understand how precarious and precious a thing constitutional democracy is, and they don’t want to lose it.”
Everyone always assumes that materialism is just “the way people think” as if it’s a law written in stone. But people are complicated and are motivated by many things that have nothing to do with money. Good old Marxist theory only goes so far to explain how society works.
There’s a lot going on in this country right now that goes beyond “the economy stupid” and it would seem that many Americans do understand that. When they start putting certifiable nuts into important positions of power and taking away rights, it gets people’s attention.