In Opinion: When Michael Moore went against the conventional wisdom that was expecting a Republican “red wave” sweeping the midterm elections, I feared Moore had become unmoored, writes Clarence Page. Now, he looks like a prognosticating genius.
Filmmaker Michael Moore speaks at a rally for then-presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders in Ames, Iowa, on Jan. 25, 2020.
There he picked up on the discontent that led so many other middle-class Americans, many of whom helped elect Democrat Barack Obama twice before shifting to Trump. Although the tirelessly self-promoting star of “The Apprentice” seemed to share little in common with his socially, religiously and politically conservative core supporters, the barbs he threw at the establishment in both parties gave voice to their discontent, even if his proposed solutions were, to say the least, undernourished.
Well, “lied” was too strong a word, in my view, since it implies the media and pollsters knew better but puffed up the “red tsunami” anyway. Don’t blame the messenger for the message, especially when the message turns out to be right. “We’ve won seven of the last eight elections in the popular vote, we’ve got more registered, we have a new crop of young people every year, plus the fact that 70% of eligible voters are either women, people of color, or 18- to 25-year-olds, or a combination of the three,” he said, a profile that pretty well describes much of the Democratic Party’s base.
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