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Captions will look like thisSince the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, Democrats have persistently made the case that Donald Trump and his supporters pose a threat to the stability of American democracy.
Despite all the warnings and the presence of hundreds of election-denying GOP candidates on the ballot across the country, voters do not seem to be treating perceived threats to the electoral system as a key issue.
They don't think the threats are real but they think they are less important than other problems. According to a New York Times/ Siena College poll, 71 percent of voters think democracy is at risk, but only 7 percent think it's the most important issue facing the country.
Republican voters who bought into Trump's claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent are part of the reason for the discrepancy. Democracy is protected below issues like the economy and inflation.
Democratic concerns about the future of U.S. democracy are correct according to many election experts. According to a tally by FiveThirtyEight, about 60 percent of Americans will have an election denier on their ballot. If they were to win, some of the candidates for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general would have power over the way elections are conducted in their states. Local officials and poll workers may be preparing to undermine voting procedures next month.
Democrats have warned that if the fate of American democracy is on the ballot, voters should prioritize other issues.
The most common explanation is that voters put the most importance on issues that affect them directly. Inflation, crime, gas prices, and other things are things that people experience in their daily lives, and that's more important than democracy.
In the two years since Trump tried to overturn the election, Americans have become desensitized to the GOP. The news media is blamed for treating the campaign to undermine democracy as just another partisan issue that should be viewed with the same "both sides" lens as the debate over tax rates and health care policy.
Many Republicans think that the election was fraudulent. Even among the minority of conservatives who accept that Joe Biden won, there is a widely held view that Democrats overstated how dangerous the GOP is. Democrats forfeited any chance to make that case because they allowed problems like inflation and crime to become the main issues, according to others on the right.
In deep red districts, most election-denying Republican candidates are running for seats and are expected to win easily. Some of the most consequential races are taking place in swing states like Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada and are expected to be close on Election Day.
Trump is the only real danger to democracy.
Democrats are trying to run against Donald Trump because he hasn't been in office for 21 months. Joe Concha, The Hill, said that pocketbook issues won't cut it when it comes to races for the Senate and the House.
Americans have become more aware of the dangers of democracy.
There is something bigger going on here than just the politics, or even the idea that voters are more motivated by pocketbook issues than a potential future need for abortion. People are adjusting toauthoritarianism. It suggests America's democratic future is at serious risk if Democrats lose in November.
People lost faith in American elections.
The bottom line is that the majority of the population sees democracy as broken and that Trump is trying to break it by an act of insurrection. They don't see it as a threat to our system of self-government because they see it as an ineffectual anti-inflation policy.
Few voters think that democracy is in danger.
Unless people are willing to fight on its behalf, liberalism will not make a comeback. Many people who grow up in liberal democracies begin to take their form of government for granted.
Voters aren't convinced by Democrats' warnings
Why do Americans care more about inflation than about the doomsayers in the partisan press? They think that only one of those problems is real.
warnings have turned into meaningless clichés because of excessive use.
The phrase "a threat to American democracy" is so common that it doesn't have any meaning.
Democrats haven't kept the issue at the top of voters' minds.
Some Democratic campaigns have run ads warning of an autocratic GOP, while the President claimed that Trump's fans had embraced'semi-fascist' tendencies.
Voters are not being made aware of the danger.
The results of next month's voting will determine if there are any more real elections in the future.
Attacks on democracy have been treated as a partisan debate.
The story of U.S. politics today is often depicted as an extreme Republican Party facing an almost-as-extreme Democratic Party dominated by over-educated elites who are hostile to the values of average Americans and leave them little choice. That is an attempt to turn a one-sided problem into a two-sided one.
The concrete issues that affect voters directly are prioritized by voters.
Swing voters, who are being watched and courted so much, are not interested in abstract ideas, crises or problems that are not going to happen soon. They focus on the here and now with some exceptions. There are pocket book issues. Problems of quality-of-life. The schools are better. Streets are safer. The cost of living.
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