Nicholas Goldberg: In the election struggle between 'kitchen-table issues' and the fate of democracy, which side won?
As the nation holds its breath and the votes come trickling in, I keep coming back to the end-of-the-campaign words of Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a two-term Democrat who ran for reelection in a tight race in southeastern Michigan.on a stop in East Lansing in the final week of the race. “In fact, it’s not the kitchen table. Our democracy is the foundation of the home in which the kitchen table sits.
The pundits warned, with years of data to back them up, that most people care more about the kitchen table issues, and don’t have time in their crowded, bedraggled lives for abstract, seminar-worthy subjects like “Whither Democracy?” while they’re struggling to make ends meet. Slotkin’s point, though was that the two are inextricable, and that you can’t count on the daily benefits of American prosperity, jobs and stability if you allow the underlying pillars of democracy and rule of law on which society rests to crumble.
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