Political Power Versus Cultural Power

Is this what you were referring to?

How The Left's Immense Cultural Power Affects Politics

Absolutely it is! Culture and behavior mutually influence each other (look up "reciprocal determinism"). One concrete example of this is to look at the major players in social media (how has the title of "influencer" become a career?).

 

A dipshit wondering out loud if we should drink bleach to prevent COVID probably helped more.

 

I acknowledged above that the Left has more cultural power although I defined it differently than in that Federalist piece, which I found inane. I think the cultural power which the Left dominates is largely in entertainment and largely on social issues.

That Federalist piece was notoriously vague and nonspecific, but seems to suggest that the news in the media are somehow shaping opinions away from the Right through suppression. Maybe slightly at the margins, in certain issues on the social side, certainly not on the economic side.

But I think with the Right fails to appreciate is that most of what they believe is really stupid and indefensible, and can't stand up to empiricism. The Right isn't losing the battle of persuasion because it is being suppressed, but because of a failure of basic supportable facts and logic. To suggest, as the piece does, that the biased media is harming "critical thinking" and that "critical thinking" would help the Right is something that is just bizarrely un-self-aware. In no sense would more "critical thinking" help the Right in the battle of ideas. Just the opposite. The Right largely ignores that arena.

The Right always think that it has stronger arguments and that it is been somehow suppressed. If so, they hide those arguments well. Maybe strong arguments from the Right are being suppressed so much that I never even see them. But doesn't seem like it.