Between the blizzard of polls, pundits, and partisanship, most of the attention paid to the 2024 presidential election is understandably based on voters’ assessments of the relative merits of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. And while that process, however tortured it may be, provides a framework for the electorate to scrutinize this election’s diametrically opposed candidacies, to what extent are voters actually thinking beyond November 5 to the future? As we near the merciful conclusion to Election 2024, the results of this single election will signal not just who occupies the White House for four years, but what type of country we are likely to inhabit for a generation.
One truism in politics is that elections are not about the past, but the future. There is no better example than the great statesman Winston Churchill, who was credited with…
