People Are Tired of the Adults in the Room | Opinion

Newsweek ^ | March 3, 2025 | Joe Jacobson

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Despite President Donald Trump's claims, the 2024 election always felt less like a Trump victory and more like a Democratic collapse. Kamala Harris outspent Trump by nearly $700 million—only to get knocked out on the first night. No amount of ads, door-knocking, or "all-star" consultants could make people like Democrats. And now, as America white-knuckles through a fresh constitutional crisis every other day, Democrats still can't figure out why voters keep turning them away.

For years, Democrats have branded themselves as the adults in the room—the stable, rational choice. But in practice, that has meant coming off as stiff, preachy, and painfully out of touch. We have positioned ourselves as the political equivalent of the no-fun hall monitor scolding you, while Elon Musk and company drink beer and crack jokes in the parking lot. Democratic leadership seems stunned that this approach is turning voters away. But the numbers don't lie—our approval ratings are at historic lows, and it's time for the party to face the reality of the situation: we're not funny, we're uptight dorks.

We weren't always dorks. Democrats once had leaders like Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and the Kennedys—people you wanted to laugh and have a beer with. They weren't just competent; they were likable. They could connect, make people laugh, and win voters with policy AND personality......

So, what's the solution? Simple: Democrats need to get funny. Humor isn't just for entertainment; it's a weapon. It disarms opponents, builds connections, and makes people actually want to listen to you. John F. Kennedy had wit. Clinton was effortlessly cool. Obama had comedic timing so good he made roasting opponents look easy. If Democrats want to stop losing elections, they need to stop delivering lectures and start delivering punchlines.

We need to joke, laugh at ourselves,

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I remember laughing at Obama, never with him. IMHO he was never funny, just a laughingstock.

Now BJ Clinton, he was personable. Total scoundrel, but likeable.

I wanted to post the photo of Obama with the world leaders holding his hand up blocking someone's face, but couldn't find the pic.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

It’s called the Zelenskyy gambit.
That was his gig before he came to power.

[cdcdawg]

“the 2024 election always felt less like a Trump victory and more like a Democratic collapse”

It can be both, but I see how it could seem that way.

[Lurker]

Not one word about their policies.

Which suck.

L

[RoosterRedux]

Democrats have branded themselves as the adults in the room

The Democrats might brand themselves anyway they like but they are most certainly not the adults in the room.

They are developmentally-challenged adolescents at best. A bunch of homo-loving, child-mutilating, tranny-prancing, criminal-enabling, power-hungry femiNazis.

[rlmorel]

"...Despite President Donald Trump's claims, the 2024 election always felt less like a Trump victory and more like a Democratic collapse..."

Hahahaha...this ignorant Newsweak drone talks about those two things as if they are totally unrelated.

Good.

Let them continue down this road of "We didn't run the right candidate!"

They will continue to run people like Gavin Newsom, Tim Kaine, Michelle Wu, and on and on, all the time refusing to even re-examine the underlying premises their candidacies would be based on.

And that is a GOOD thing.

[rlmorel]

"...Not one word about their policies. Which suck.

Ex-ACTLY.

[bk1000]

Based on what we know, anyone who considers themselves a democrat today is the enemy.

[Hatteras]

Right, Joe? People don’t have an issue with corruption, the weaponization of the federal government against law-abiding citizens, illegal aliens streaming across the border, men in dresses reading bedtime stories to innocent children. We can fool them if we can just act cool!

[jmaroneps37]

The 2024 victory for America was because Trump offered solutions that made common sense which CAUSED the rodent collapse.
Any questions?

[A_perfect_lady]

For years, Democrats have branded themselves as the adults in the room—the stable, rational choice.

Sure... if opening the border, and letting boys in bras take over girls' sports, and funding animal sex changes is stable and rational.

[right way right]

The demon possessed lunatics in the room.
Democrats are.
Yoda says.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

this ignorant Newsweak drone

From the article: Joe Jacobson is founder and executive director of Progress Action Fund, a Democratic super PAC with a simple motto: "When Republicans go low, we go lower."

[skr]

The author is a moron. I don’t want to laugh or have a soda with any president. I just want him or her to do his/her job properly so that I can get on with my life.

[rlmorel]

Good point.

I often opine that Leftists (who themselves are perpetually stuck in adolescence, even when they rise to the level of having their hands on the levers of power) contrive to keep all the people they feed their BS to in an equally retarded state of intellectual and emotional development.

It is also why they continue, year after year, to float the idea of lowering the voting age to 16 or even 14.

I found it amusing that this Leftist "pundit" said: "... Democrats need to get funny. Humor isn't just for entertainment; it's a weapon. It disarms opponents, builds connections, and makes people actually want to listen to you..."

This is one of my favorite memes to post:

I post it because not only is it true, but because the truth and a foundation of logic, when coupled with biting humor and ridicule, is indeed a very powerful combination.

What this dimwit fails to realize is, if biting humor actually makes people listen to Leftists, it is true that many of them who might actually listen, if they have enough remaining presence of mind to see through the lies and deception of the Left, don't like what they hear.

[13Sisters76]

What a bunch of b*llsh*t.
Are the writers at Newsweek really that out of touch? Do they really think we are as stupid as THEY, and their voters, are?

No one with a working brain has EVER seen the democrats as the “adults in the room” and a great many are waking up to what the democrats ARE, thanks to the increase of information and alternatives to the wormy mess presented by corporate media.

Don’t worry about the democrats being “funny”. They are. But it’s a case of “you laugh, otherwise you cry”.
And it’s time they faced the truth- DJT won as big as he did because the American people are deploying THEIR “revolution”, and Donald Trump is IT.

[Robert DeLong]

If Democrats want to stop losing elections, they need to stop delivering lectures and start delivering punchlines.

Punchlines is all the Democrats ever had. They worked until people started realizing that was all they had. They had no real answers to begin with. Thus they are lost in the woods now and are unable to find their way out of the woods.

They were never the adults in the room, they were always the overaged adolescents that refused to grow up.

[rlmorel]

LOL, THERE’S a surprise for you!

[arthurus]

So how are Democrats going to make funny when their whole schtick is that no one other than white males can be allowed to hear anything that the Democrats think should offend them?

[subterfuge]

I remember how likeable Al Gore was...