Narrative, feelings and identity politics are tough to combat with principles

That must be why Hillary, despite the email scandal, the foreign donors to the Clinton Global Initiative, last summer's abysmal book tour, the "we were broke" gaffe, Benghazi, the reset button, and the ghost of 1990s misadventures, is still polling well at the moment.

Miss CJ at Chicks on the Right thinks so, taking an unflinchingly dim view of the typical post-American:

We can sit here and talk about issues and statistics and corruption until we're blue in the face - but the truth is that REGULAR PEOPLE DO NOT GIVE A FLYING DONKEY FART ABOUT ANY OF IT! They like Obama and they like Hillary because the media and Hollywood like them. They like the Democrats because the Democrats are seen to care about the poor and the downtrodden (even though every shred of history and evidence points to the Democrats being racist elitist pigs). And they hate Republicans and conservatives because we're supposed to be a bunch of rich white guys who hate the poor and the victimized and eat babies and kick puppies and deny access to birth control.

So, do we cook up narratives ourselves, play their game?

Let's not. Let's be what we're defending.  If we have to tailor appeals to Miss CJ's "regular people," let's paint the scenarios of what the logical conclusion of Freedom-Hater policy looks like.

Then again, that hinges on the "regular person" still harboring a cherishing of his or her freedom, and my certainty that he or she does waxes and wanes at this late date.

Still, there is no alternative to pushing the boulder to the mountaintop.