Why Democrats Are Losing the “Vibes War”

and how they can win.

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It seems like everyone is talking about vibes these days. Vibes have become a way to describe a nebulous feeling about something, an impression evoked by one’s environment, or the collection of observed elements meant to represent that environment — a “sympathetic resonance.” Relying on vibes absolves us from needing to understand the whys and hows of…