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How Democrats moved away from 'woke' themes in the midterm campaign
Le Monde ^ | October 31, 2026 | Nicolas Chapuis and Jessica Gourdon

Posted on 10/31/2026 5:08:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The scene spoke volumes about the Democratic Party's strategic shift since the 2024 US presidential election. On October 22, at a rally for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a leading figure on the party's left wing, in a former movie theater in Portland, Maine, a transgender student stood up to challenge her. "Trans people in America feel that we have been upended by the Democratic Party. That we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that?" Ocasio-Cortez nodded: "I want to just let you know how shameful and sorry I am that there are people out there that scare so easily after the election. And I think it's what people hate most about politics, which is politicians who will jump on this side or that side of the line at a moment's notice."

LGBTQ+ rights, tackling racial and gender inequalities and reproductive rights are social issues often grouped under the catch-all term "wokeness." They were at the heart of Kamala Harris's 2024 campaign, but Democrats have put them aside for the November 3 midterm elections. "The economy has overshadowed everything. They are focusing on what Bernie Sanders calls 'kitchen table issues,' like gas prices, the cost of food, the price of homes, because they are so glaring," said Benjamin VanDreew, a political analyst and author of a study on wokeness.

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1 posted on 10/31/2026 5:08:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
"They are focusing on what Bernie Sanders calls 'kitchen table issues,' like gas prices, the cost of food, the price of homes, because they are so glaring..."

It's absurd because Democrats are in the pocket of Big Climate which means sky-high energy prices and they oppose business at every turn which means high prices of everything. I can't think of a single thing they have done in decades to reduce the price of anything. Yet they demagogue " high prices" and have zero plans to reduce or stabilize prices.

Politicians make me sick. Especially D and Socialist pols.

2 posted on 10/31/2026 5:22:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: MinorityRepublican

In other words….they’re LYING.


3 posted on 10/31/2026 5:22:21 PM PDT by kaktuskid (And )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Their strategy is to lay low until they return to the White House because after that we will become an one party state.


4 posted on 10/31/2026 5:27:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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I would like to hear Dems come out for more drilling/ more refineries/ more nuclear power plants/ more pipe lines but thats never going to happen. They don’t care about energy costs
Plus a long as they support open borders/ replacement immigration they aren’t serious about the cost of living.


5 posted on 10/31/2026 5:31:05 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“...lay low until they return to the White House because after that we will become an one party state”

Exactly. If they EVER achieve their objectives of packing the Supreme Court, adding two new states and, eventually, abolishing the Senate we are done for. They open borders, pro-crime, pro-islamist, anti-life, anti-business, anti-entrepreneurialism, weak defense positions are bad enough.


6 posted on 10/31/2026 5:37:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: MinorityRepublican

They’re all doing the Abigail.


7 posted on 10/31/2026 5:46:19 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
In other words, it'll be like the Biden Administration but on steroids.

Trump came back in power in 2024.

They'll do it so no Republican will ever have a chance to win an election ever again.

So there will be a real urgency. They'll attempt to do everything the first 100 days if the votes are there.

8 posted on 10/31/2026 5:47:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

No. We’re not done for. Rather, we’re headed for civil war.


9 posted on 10/31/2026 5:47:22 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: escapefromboston

This is literaly not my father’s Party. That Party you could disagree with, but they weren’t evil.


10 posted on 10/31/2026 6:05:14 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
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To: escapefromboston

This is literaly not my father’s Party. That Party you could disagree with, but they weren’t evil.


11 posted on 10/31/2026 6:05:19 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The intended destination remains the same, but they have to be in power to get there.
Moderate just means patient.
12 posted on 10/31/2026 6:32:30 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was always part of the program.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

“No. We’re not done for. Rather, we’re headed for civil war.”

My sister and I were having this exact conversation this afternoon.


13 posted on 10/31/2026 6:58:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: kaktuskid

“In other words….they’re LYING.”

They’ve adopted moslem taqiyya, the practice of concealing one’s faith or religious identity to protect oneself from danger.

A related term is kitmān (lit. ‘action of covering’ or ‘dissimulation’), which has the more specific meaning of dissimulation by silence or omission.


14 posted on 10/31/2026 7:01:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Or a peaceful “national divorce” which seems less likely.


15 posted on 10/31/2026 10:08:48 PM PDT by kaktuskid (And )
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To: kaktuskid

It’s still peaceful and pleasant here in Idaho. The bastards got a proposition on the ballot to kill babies, though. That’s so disconcerting that they got enough people to sign up for that.


16 posted on 10/31/2026 10:13:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: MinorityRepublican
How? What a disingenuous intro. It's what they do.

Why? Because they are liars, with no intention of remaining centrist.

17 posted on 10/31/2026 10:40:04 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Look at Virginia where democraps gave lip service to affordability last year in the state election. They came in and fined, taxed, and made everything more expensive. Could not give a sheet about cost of living. Straight back to woke crap.


18 posted on 10/31/2026 10:49:43 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

There is no compromise or middle ground with these sick and DANGEROUS people. They will not let those who disagree live in peace. If we want to be left alone, it’s got to be war.

We are engaged with fanatics who will die before they surrender an inch.

They have made their choice. No quarter asked nor given.

To the death, it is.


19 posted on 11/01/2026 1:31:25 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: MinorityRepublican

Democratic party pimps TDS as their main agenda anything good is bad note what agenda they are promoting SOCIALISM.


20 posted on 11/01/2026 5:54:44 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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