Posted on 11/07/2024 6:14:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A depressed and demoralized Democratic Party is beginning the painful slog into a largely powerless future, as its leaders grapple with how deeply they underestimated Donald J. Trump’s resurgent hold on the nation.
The nationwide repudiation of the party stunned many Democrats who had expressed a “nauseous” confidence about their chances in the final weeks of the race. As they sifted through the wreckage of their defeats, they found no easy answers as to why voters so decisively rejected their candidates.
In more than two dozen interviews, lawmakers, strategists and officials offered a litany of explanations for Vice President Kamala Harris’s failure — and just about all of them fit neatly into their preconceived notions of how to win in politics.
The quiet criticism, on phone calls, in group chats and during morose team meetings, was a behind-the-scenes preview of the intraparty battle to come, with Democrats quickly falling into the ideological rifts that have defined their party for much of the Trump era.
What was indisputable was how badly Democrats did. They lost the White House, surrendered control of the Senate and appeared headed to defeat in the House. They performed worse than four years ago in cities and suburbs, rural towns and college towns. An early New York Times analysis of the results found the vast majority of the nation’s more than 3,100 counties swinging rightward since President Biden won in 2020.
The results showed that the Harris campaign, and Democrats more broadly, had failed to find an effective message against Mr. Trump and his down-ballot allies or to address voters’ unhappiness about the direction of the nation under Mr. Biden. The issues the party chose to emphasize — abortion rights and the protection of democracy — did not resonate as much...
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That just warms the cockles of my heart.
They need to keep calling voters Nazis, fascists, racists, deplorables and garbage.
Another decade of that and they will be gone into the dustbin of history.
Americans are sick and tired of being lectured to by these hypocritical obnoxious jerks.
Isn’t this kind of a repeat of 2016? The difference now is Trump is more popular in 2024 than he was in 2016. That is going to give the liberals nightmares for years. :D
As they sifted through the wreckage of their defeats, they found no easy answers as to why voters so decisively rejected their candidates.
This made me smile.
I really don’t see how they come back from this. They went to the farthest extremes they could and attacked everything that was Normal. America, Mom, Apple pie, Jesus — the Democrats hate all of it.
The young people will be benefiting from Trump. Minorities will benefit from Trump. Women will benefit from Trump.
America does have a lot of fringe people. And the Democrats can be a fringe party for fringe people. But I think the Democrats have a tough future ahead of them.
“The nationwide repudiation of the party”
Sweet music.
Huh? Really???
Don’t tell the Dems!
Inflation
Crime
Illegals
DEI
Trannies
Weaponization of Government
A depressed and demoralized Democratic Party is beginning the painful slog into a largely powerless future...
That just warms the cockles of my heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IIKE9p5SEw
Hee Haw - Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me
Every year the leftist mass media loses more and more audience.
Four years from now there may well be thousands of podcasts and video channels with more influence than any television or newspaper outlet.
Beginning with the new administration none of these podcasts or video channels will be able to be silenced.
If Big Tech tries they need to be trust-busted and broken into a million pieces.
They can take their “guardrails” and stuff them right up their....
Going to be fun when JD Vance debates Newsome in 2027/2028. Entertainment.
Has Bono driven his car off a cliff, yet? Rob Reiner can set himself on fire as they drive off Thelma and Louise style
There's a bigger difference as well.
In 2016, Trump promised to "Lock her up." in 2017, Trump walked back this promise and tried to be gracious and magnanimous, to bring the Democrats into the fold in an effort to heal hard feelings.
In return for Trump's grace and magnanimity, once in power the Democrats embarked on a merciless crusade to bankrupt, imprison, and destroy Trump.
Now Trump will return to the White House after a landslide popular vote victory and with a GOP Congress who will have his back.
He has also learned many lessons about just how Democrats reward grace and magnanimity.
And he has learned lessons about just who to put on his team --and who not to.
“As they sifted through the wreckage of their defeats, they found no easy answers as to why voters so decisively rejected their candidates.”
The reason there are no easy answers is because they do not look at reality. They make up their idea of reality and then deal with that.
For example: Abortion. They would say Trump’s Supreme Court took away Roe v. Wade and a women’s “right to choose”. So, we must vote for people, like Kamala, who will reinstate Roe v. Wade.
There are so many false premises. They first try to convince women that abortion is women’s health care and then they say it has been taken away. Not true. It’s simply been moved locally to the states. So they tell a young family they must vote for abortion, yet the family’s real, immediate issues are price of gas, groceries and housing and the husband’s job has been lost to illegal aliens.
So, clearly the parents say if all you got is abortion, which is not a problem or issue for us, then we’re voting for the guy who says he’s fixing the economy and the border.
The Democratic Party should be banned. It was complicit in the 2020 steal, engaged in lawfare against Trump and others, and deliberately left the border open for the invasion.
None of those things can be explained a mistake.
I think we should actively encourage the Alt Left hysterics to follow thur and leave the US now. Also the Feminist threat to not breed. We need the Alt Left to voluntarily reduce their own voter base even father.
100%. Another disgusting subtext was the notion that Trump supporters are uneducated idiots without degrees.
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