Democrats Still in Denial Voters are done with the Hate America First crowd. by Mark Tapson
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Like the Japanese soldiers found hiding in the jungle after World War II, unaware that their Emperor had surrendered, the Democrats don’t seem to grasp that their side was nuked and decisively defeated last November.
Witness the recent pathetic spectacle of the Democratic National Committee’s annual winter meeting last week, carried live on MSNBC and held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley told Fox News Digital, “It’s an important opportunity for us to not only refocus the party and what we present to voters, but also an opportunity for us to look at how we internally govern ourselves.”
But even The New York Times admitted about the DNC meeting that the “Democrats appear leaderless, rudderless and divided” and “have no shared understanding of why they lost the election, never mind how they can win in the future.” “We have no coherent message,” complained Rep. Jasmine Crockett to The Times.
And that’s at the heart of the Democrats’ problem: they believe that ineffective messaging and not the substance of their vision is the reason they lost to Trump. A few Dem leaders, like Amy Klobuchar, at least suspect (correctly) that Biden administration economy-wrecking played a role in voter dissatisfaction, but for the most part, the Party is still in denial about, and clinging to, a vision that the American people roundly rejected last fall.
The forum focused, for example, heavily and unsurprisingly on race and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs – exactly the sort of divisive, social justice madness that Americans brought Trump in to dismantle.
The DNC meeting included a debate among eight candidates for a new DNC chair: former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, DNC Vice Chair Ken Martin, Wisconsin Democrat party Chair Ben Wikler, former Bernie Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir, failed candidate for Arkansas state Representative Quintessa Hathaway, former DHS official Nate Snyder, and Newton, Massachusetts Democratic City Committee executive member Jason Paul. As Fox News Digital put it,
With no clear leader in the party, the next DNC chair is in a position to become the de facto face of Democrats from coast to coast and will make major decisions on messaging, strategy, infrastructure and where to spend millions in political contributions.
In a defining moment on Thursday, when forum moderator Jonathan Capehart asked all eight candidates who among them “believes that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President [Kamala] Harris’s defeat” in the 2024 election, every candidate quickly raised his or her hand (see picture above). Every one. Hathaway, a black woman who believes America has been systemically racist since 1619, raised both her hands.
“That’s good, you all passed,” Capehart quipped.
Actually, it wasn’t good. It demonstrated that the entire slate of candidates for DNC chair was locked into the Party’s failed worldview of identity politics. Not one of them was willing to admit, at least publicly if not privately, that “woman of color” Kamala lost not because Americans are hateful bigots but because 1) she was epically incompetent and unpresidential, and 2) American voters were fed up with the Democrat Party’s insanely radical agenda. Not one of the candidates was willing to face that reality, and as social media users pointed out, the moment revealed that Democrats learned nothing from their November 2024 loss.
Ultimately, the DNC elected Ken Martin as its next national chair. In his victory speech he asserted that “the policies that we support and the message that we have is [sic] not wrong. It is a messaging problem and a brand problem. Those voters are not connecting our policies with their lives.” [Emphasis added]
On the contrary, it is precisely because the American voters did connect Democrat policies with their daily lives that they swept Trump and his MAGA movement into power all across the country. Americans had had enough of personal pronouns and gender ideology, of immigration chaos, of the breakdown of law and order, of skyrocketing inflation, of our diminution on the world stage, all of it. Everything the Democrats stand for.
But in his victory speech, Martin showed that the Dems are still Trump-obsessed: “The fight right now is against Donald Trump and the billionaires who bought this country.” Um, no, throwing all the Party’s energy into destroying the President would be futile and self-defeating. As Democrat Rep. Veronica Escobar told the NYT, “We cannot get caught up in every egregious thing he says, every insult he hurls, every ally he attacks and every executive order. There’s just too much.” The focus for the Democrats should be on their “fundamental transformation” into the American mainstream.
Of course, that’s not going to happen, because the Democrats don’t care about the will of the people and will never abandon their agenda.
As further evidence that the Democrats are simply going to double down on their failure, young gun control blowhard David Hogg was elected as one of the three DNC vice chairs over the weekend. The foul-mouthed Hogg, who exploited the 2018 Parkland school shooting to get into Left-wing Harvard and position himself as a voice for the angry activists of the next generation, is just another pro-crime, gun-grabbing, race-mongering radical. “Let’s go kick some ass,” he eloquently urged the DNC forum-goers, demonstrating that like the new chair Martin and the Party in general, he is laser-focused on battling Trump rather than understanding American voters and moderating the Leftist agenda.
If the Democrats could muster an iota of humility and introspection, they would take to heart the results of a Quinnipiac University survey conducted over the past week which revealed that only 31% of respondents had a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, with 57% viewing the party unfavorably – the highest percentage since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question, according to the survey’s release.
By contrast, 43% of those questioned had a favorable view of the GOP, with 45% holding an unfavorable opinion – the highest favorable opinion for the Republican Party ever in a Quinnipiac poll.
If Democrats could get past their rabid hatred of arch-enemy Donald Trump long enough to ask themselves why this is so, and why they were steamrolled in November despite their relentless hyperbolic messaging that Trump is a more serious threat to democracy than Hitler ever was, perhaps they could see that voters are done with the Hate America First crowd. They want a party that will make America great again.
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