Win or Lose, Trump Has Turned the Tide of the Culture Wars
When Donald Trump won his surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election, he brought with him what political scientists call a "thermostatic backlash" in the culture, a phenomenon in which public opinion shifts in the opposite direction following significant policy changes or other seismic political events.
Before the pandemic accelerated things, Trump's first term in office was defined by cultural backlashes like the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, and a...