Posted on 01/15/2026 9:08:39 AM PST by nickcarraway
A Washington Post opinion columnist is acknowledging that the Democratic Party pushed “woke” politics too far and paid the price at the ballot box.
The piece argued that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani may represent the kind of shift away from culture war politics Democrats need to win back voters.
Columnist Shadi Hamid argued that from 2014 through about 2023, peaking in 2020, Democrats embraced “woke” ideas that prioritized divisive cultural issues, including transgender rights and calls to defund the police.
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The Democrats pushed things too far, but the media was the wind behind their backs.
Their acts of treason should hurt Demonicrats a lot more!!!
The Democrat Party knows that absurd policies are a proven means of hiding the Party’s corruption.
A democrat from 25 years might sound like a right wing nut to todays party. Leftism and no common sense.
JFK would probably be too conservative for GOP today.
JFK would have ‘evolved’ over time.
Sure took long enough and enough woke to broke businesses and brands to woke up…I mean wake up.
It’s tactical. “Woke” and “DEI” will be back under other names.
He wouldn’t have made it out of 70’s.
The Democrats have not backed off on woke—not one inch.
Universities have not backed off on woke—not one inch.
If anything it has gotten more radical—and turned from thinly disguised anti-white hate into open anti-white hate.
George McGovern would be too right-wing for the Dems today.
The Left see themselves as players in the game. MAGA see themselves as spectators in the game. The Left has more players and wins. At the state an local level MAGA has few players and loses.
This is the beginning of the MSM touting socialism. Watch and learn. The talking points have been agreed on and distributed to the MSM.
Democrats have embraced everything on the DO NOT DO list in a sane world.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani may represent the kind of shift away from culture war politics“
Yeah a Muslim communist is a real shift toward the center. Brilliant.
Oh, OK.
Morning Joe and Serpent Head Carville have said as much.
Trump WON the popular majority on those Kamala trangender commercials.
The clowns running in the Republican wing of the uniparty down ticket were scared to run such commericials in their races.
There are a lot of folk you can interview on the street that might say that was not an important issue to them.
But Trump vote counts totals tell a different story.
And Trump won a popular majority while having a lot of votes stolen from him.
What Kamala transgender commercials?
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