Posted on 11/20/2024 1:54:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
There have been repeated clashes between the left and the center of the Democratic Party over the past 50-plus years, especially in the presidential nomination contests of 1968, 1972, 1984, 1992, 2016 and 2020. The post-election debate is now in full flower, with left-wing and centrist Democrats blaming each other for the loss.
The selection of Kamala Harris, a woman of Black and South Asian ancestry as the nominee, might have accentuated the perception of the Democratic Party as more progressive on race and gender and made some voters feel alienated or concerned about the direction of the party.
As my Times colleagues Erica L. Green and Maya King wrote on Nov. 7, in “For Black Women, America Has Revealed to Us Her True Self”:
The worst of what many Black women believed about their country: that it would rather choose a man who was convicted of 34 felonies, has spewed lies and falsehoods, disparaged women and people of color and pledged to use the powers of the federal government to punish his political opponents than send a woman of color to the White House.
The ascendance within the Democratic Party of well-educated white people holding very liberal views has, in fact, pushed the party to the left of the mainstream. This intraparty ideological shift raises another question for 2026 and 2028: Have the forces supporting unpopular progressive policies in the general electorate become strong enough to successfully push back against the calls coming from Democratic pragmatists for centrist retrenchment on such issues as immigration, policing and the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion?
In a Nov. 15 article, “Trump Broke the Democrats’ Thermostat,” John Burn-Murdoch of The Financial Times wrote:
The data shows Democrats taking a sharp turn leftward on social issues over the past decade. This has...
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The way they will try will be to lie about what they want to accomplish in the cultural marxism realm.
The trouble with that is that R’s in congress will probably force floor votes on several very focused bills that force a vote on transgender crap, pronouns, free speech etc.
D Congress critters will be forced to vote for the bills to maintain their lie (alienating the 50% of D’s who are bat shit crazy) or to vote No, thereby revealing their own craziness.
D governors who control their state legislatures and prevent a bill coming to their desk will be more protected as presidential candidate as they can hide their positions until after they are elected. Polis, Whitmer and Shapiro come to mind. Polis has a heavy D majority and Shapiro and Whitmer control one house of the state legislature. So they don’t have to worry about signing or vetoing cultural marxist issues. Newsome has already crossed that Rubicon so those commercials are already written if he runs in 2028.
All the Dems will do is attempt to lie better. They will run as ‘moderates’ but govern as radical socialists.
If the Democrats were smart they’d realize their loss is less about methodology and more about ideology.
But the Democrats aren’t smart... or they wouldn’t be Democrats.
The NYT. What a bunch of maroons!
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