Various polls show historical lows of public support for the Democratic Party, ranging from 31 to 41 percent approval.
Yet at the same time during a recent Democrat leadership conference, various panelists unanimously claimed that racism and sexism alone accounted for the defeat of Kamala Harris.
Do they think, then, that white male Joe Biden would have then defeated Donald Trump, or at least done far better than Harris? In fact, as Biden exited the nomination, he polled worse against Trump than did Harris—a black female polling higher than a white male.
The same irrational disconnect was evident during the recent, wild Senate confirmation hearings. Democratic senators, in raucous fashion, shouted down and interrupted nominees like Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and Kash Patel—in a way not true of the past Republican audits of Biden’s 2021 nominees.
Senators Schiff and Warren were the most egregious in their rudeness and came off the worst for it. There were some general themes to their outbursts.
All were completely unaware of their own unethical past and current shortcomings. The more Adam Schiff screamed at Patel, ordering him to turn around in his chair as if he were some sort of minion, the more Republicans remembered all the reasons why Schiff had been censured by his House colleagues: for chronically lying about the Russian collusion hoax and for lying that he had not any contact with the whistleblowers and his accomplices that fueled the first Trump impeachment.
The so-called Schiff memo accusing the Nunes majority report of the House Intelligence Committee was itself fraught with lies. And so as expected Schiff long ago was exposed as a mythologist by the inspector general’s report detailing his untruths. In any state other than California, his record of falsity would have ended his career; but in California, his controversial lies that Trump was a Russian puppet won him a Senate seat.
Elizabeth Warren screeched at Robert Kennedy for suing the pharmaceutical companies—until he pointed out that she, the supposed leftwing heroine, along with socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, were in fact the two largest recipients of Big Pharma money.
Many of the Trump nominees were accused of wanting to weaponize the government. Apparently, the senators were afraid that once in power, the Trump cabinet would do exactly what the Biden IRS, FBI, CIA, Pentagon, and DOJ had done: use the powers of their offices to wage lawfare and bureaucratic harassment of Trump and his supporters. In other words, the senators knew that if they were Trump and had suffered what they had dished out to him, and if now they were again in power, they know they would retaliate against themselves.
Otherwise, the Democrats were clueless that nominees like Hegseth, Bondi, and Patel were frequent guests on televised news and podcasts. They were thus experienced interviewees who had mastered modern media repartee and impromptu give and take. And all the nominees had prepped studiously for the confirmation hearings.
In contrast, the Democrats winged it, and most were inept auditors anyway. So, naturally, they came across as unprepared and arrogant. They remained clueless about how they grated and repelled in the televised hearings—like petulant adolescents assuming their heated screaming substituted for light and clarity.
What did the Democrats not ask or care about? None wanted to hear RFK, Jr.’s strategies to combat an epidemic of obesity and diabetes. Few if any wished to listen to Patel outline his plans to reform a weaponized FBI. Bondi was not asked about her views of the most critical challenges facing the Department of Justice.
In sum, after the pathetic performance of the Democratic “lions” of the Senate, the already rock-bottom public views of the Democrats will only go lower.
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