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Democrats Deny Political Reality at Their Own Peril
New York Times ^ | November 4, 2021 | NYT Editorial Board

Posted on 11/04/2021 6:55:25 PM PDT by karpov

Tuesday’s election result trend lines were a political nightmare for the Democratic Party, and no Democrat who cares about winning elections in 2022 and the presidential race in 2024 should see them as anything less.

Familiar takeaways like “wake-up call” and “warning shot” don’t do justice here because the danger of ignoring those trends is too great. What would do justice, and what is badly needed, is an honest conversation in the Democratic Party about how to return to the moderate policies and values that fueled the blue-wave victories in 2018 and won Joe Biden the presidency in 2020.

Given the stakes for the country, from urgent climate and social spending needs to the future of democracy, Americans badly need a rolling conversation today and in the coming weeks and months about how moderate voters of all affiliations can coalesce behind and guide the only party right now that shows an interest in governing and preserving democratic norms.

The results in Virginia are a grave marker of political peril. Virginia is a blue state; it hasn’t been a battleground in years. Mr. Biden won there in 2020 by 10 points; a year later, the Democratic nominee for governor just lost by 2.5 percentage points, and Republicans flipped two other statewide offices — lieutenant governor and attorney general — that they have not won in 12 years.

Virginia is a cross-section of suburbs, education levels and racial diversity that is a mirror of what a winning, coalition-driven Democratic Party should be. Democrats lost there — even with a longtime moderate as their candidate for governor — because the party has become distracted from crucial issues like the economy, inflation, ending the coronavirus pandemic and restoring normalcy in schools and isn’t offering moderate, unifying solutions to them.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; derangedstooges; realitydeniers; stooges
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Hey Democrats -- when the NYT editorial board thinks you are too left wing, you probably are. For the NYT this was a pretty sensible piece.
1 posted on 11/04/2021 6:55:25 PM PDT by karpov
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SSSShush! Quiet all.......i don’t want the Dems to change ANYTHING about their ‘messages”.

Hoisted by their own petard.


2 posted on 11/04/2021 7:00:56 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL )
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To: karpov

No- its the Republicans fault!!! Its fear!!! It white supremacy!!! Its racism!!!

Please rats- make those your excuses for at least another year!!!


3 posted on 11/04/2021 7:01:33 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: karpov

Hopefully, the NYT staff will “revolt” and depose the remaining adults there (assuming there are any) at this departure from the Gospel of Wokeness.


4 posted on 11/04/2021 7:02:25 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

right! They should pay illegals ONE MILLION DOLLARS EACH!!

/S


5 posted on 11/04/2021 7:03:08 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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BrandonHarris:

Take away our jobs.

Force vaccinations on us and our kids.

Destroy our economy and hopes.

Humiliate our military and kill our troops with no remorse.

Send the FBI to torment our moms.

Invade our country with diseased illegal aliens.

The very kindest thing that can happen to you satanic baby killing totalitarian Marxist communists is - you get “voted” out.

You better hope for that outcome.


6 posted on 11/04/2021 7:03:22 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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“Urgent climate needs...” LOL, idiots. America is not buying this BS.


7 posted on 11/04/2021 7:03:32 PM PDT by Dick Whitman
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“Democratic Party about how to return to the moderate policies and values that fueled the blue-wave victories in 2018 “

“Moderate policies” gave us tlaib, aoc, ilhmar, pressley in 2018...


8 posted on 11/04/2021 7:03:36 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

The term I saw the Leftist media use was “dog-whistle”. People concerned about their kids are big duped by dog-whistle propaganda. LOL.


9 posted on 11/04/2021 7:03:39 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Naa, they’ll double down. They didn’t win because they didn’t go far enough to the Left. Yes, thats it!


10 posted on 11/04/2021 7:03:56 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: drSteve78

obey Napoleon’s maxim: Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself .


11 posted on 11/04/2021 7:04:08 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: karpov

“We overreached. We need to do the fake Clinton third-way crap again to snooker people again.”


12 posted on 11/04/2021 7:04:43 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: karpov

They’ll have to hide things better, that’s all. It’s all about utility. Ends justify the means. Satan’s work.


13 posted on 11/04/2021 7:04:51 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: karpov

Oh come on. We all know it’s a river in Egypt.


14 posted on 11/04/2021 7:07:05 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: FlyingEagle

And we still only win by 2% if we win at all. The mind boggles.


15 posted on 11/04/2021 7:07:22 PM PDT by KevinB (''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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FTA——The results in Virginia are a grave marker of political peril for Democrats. Virginia hasn’t been a battleground in years.

Biden won there in 2020 by 10 points; a year later, the Democratic nominee for governor just lost by 2.5 percentage points,.......and Republicans flipped two other statewide offices — lieutenant governor and attorney general — that they have not won in 12 years.


The Times “forgot” to mention the red wave that deluged Democrats elsewhere, and when we take over in 2022, Biden is toast.


16 posted on 11/04/2021 7:07:48 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side does n't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: FlyingEagle

Very good summary


17 posted on 11/04/2021 7:08:21 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.)
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To: karpov

wake up call... LOLOL!!! aren’t the WOKE ENOUGH???


18 posted on 11/04/2021 7:09:16 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: karpov

So, if we assume that the DNC will take the New York Times advice, where do the Democrat talking points go back to? According to Democrats, Republicans are white supremacists activated by dog whistles. How do they back off that rhetoric? Are Republicans now just motivated by handing out doggie treats and they tend to dislike minorities? How do Democrats soften their message in back out of this corner they have built for themselves?


19 posted on 11/04/2021 7:09:17 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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“...the moderate policies and values that...won Joe Biden the presidency in 2020.”

Hey, NYT, that wasn’t what got old poopy-pants into the White House.


20 posted on 11/04/2021 7:15:16 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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