Republican wave will be big if they solve nation's biggest problems

Each week, I look forward to reading Salena Zito's articles. Salena's latest article highlights why Democrats are losing the registration battle in Pennsylvania. Near the end of Salena's articles is something that's especially noteworthy:

When the Democrats took power in January of 2021, they believed they had won because everyone loved them again. They took this as a license to do whatever they wanted, and they behaved that way with everything they did. They put climate change into everything, racialized every issue they possibly could, and strove for a fundamental transformation of the country. When it came to such concerns as the southern border and Afghanistan, their answer was to ignore the problem.

This delusion is hurtling Democrats toward a painful defeat. But any Republican victory will be short-lived in places like Cambria County if they win and then make the same mistake.

The easiest way to avoid that trap is to a) solve the problems that are most important to families' standard-of-living and b) listen to the people. Let's face something together. The pandemic forced many families to examine their lives. Families took things like education for granted. Those days don't exist anymore because school boards and politicians shut them down or didn't listen to them. When parents listened into CRT being taught during their children's Zoom classes, school boards essentially said they were imagining things. That'll frustrate well-informed parents. They know what they heard.

Democrats were the people who told those parents they were imagining things. Glenn Youngkin stepped forward as the "parents' candidate." He listened to them. Now he's keeping his promises to them.

Nothing says disconnected from reality than the DNC chairman on MSNBC:

The video is titled Democrats have delivered and we'll continue to deliver. That's what I'd call a major disconnect. To modify Salena's words a little, making everything about climate change and racialization isn't a winning formula. Attempting to pass voting rights legislation while inflation is kicking the suburbs' behind is a disconnect. Accusing police officers of being systemically racist while violent crime is rising isn't the way to win over voters.

Democrats are firing up African-American voters in urban districts. Those are districts Democrats will win handily. Democrats, at this point, are losing the suburbs because of inflation and crime. Suburbia is blaming Democrats for crime and inflation. If Democrats don't fix that immediately, they'll lose swing districts by the dozens.

Democrats have delivered -- for the teachers unions and the climate change crowd. After that, they've failed. PS- Democrats are failing on the border, too. Where were Maggie Hassan, Catherine Cortez-Masto, Mark Kelly and Raphael Warnock last year when almost 2,000,000 illegal immigrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border? Now that it's an election year, suddenly they're border hawks? I don't buy that.

Republicans have a plan to fix the border, calm inflation and restore energy independence. That's how you win elections.