Episode 187 | VFL Culture: What Does the Election Reveal About U.S. Culture?
November 20, 2024 • Autumn Gardner, Hunter Beaumont
In the wake of the recent election, journalists, sociologists, political party leaders, and all of us are looking at the voting data, examining what ballot initiatives passed and where, and asking, “What does this data tell us about the people and culture in our country?” Autumn and Hunter discuss four themes that emerged from the election trends. 1) Legacy Media vs. Alternative Media 2) The Broad “Trump Voting Coalition” 3) The Abortion Issue, and 4) The Return to Political Norms.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.ft.com/content/392e1e79-a8c1-4473-ab51-3267c415b078
https://www.thefp.com/p/no-the-problem-isnt-the-voters by Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman
https://mereorthodoxy.com/the-doug-electionwww.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/upshot/trump-election-victory.html by Jake Meador
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/upshot/trump-election-victory.html by Nate Cohn
http://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/abortion-ballot-measures.html by Kate Zernike
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/05/g-s1-32760/colorado-abortion-vote-results by Bente Birkeland
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/06/us/elections/trump-america-red-shift-victory.html Vote by Zach Levitt, Keith Collins, Robert Gebeloff, Malika Khurana, Marco Hernandez
https://musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/contextualizing-the-2024-election by Musa al-Gharbi
