Victor Davis Hanson
In their limited self-reflection, the Left keeps looking for reasons why they have lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court—and both the Electoral College and popular vote.
In lieu of confronting the frightening truth that their message is largely antithetical to the values and wishes of the majority of American people, they search and search for quick fixes: just one more Trump-Hitler comparison, yet one louder, more gross outburst at Kash Patel, perhaps just a few more invectives like “racists!” and “sexists!” to explain their losses.
Yet deep down they know why the American people are tiring of them. And it is not just their obnoxious messengers like senators Adam Schiff, Elizabeth Warren, Mazie Hirono, and Tim Kaine whose rudeness, ignorance, and incompetence during the nominee hearings were reminders of the Democratic descent.
Nor was the problem trying to get away with another four years of foisting an enfeebled Joe Biden on the country, to serve a second term as a waxen veneer for the hard Left revolutionary agendas of the Obamas, the Warren-Sanders neo-socialists, and the woke squad—open borders, millions of illegal aliens, unlivable blue cities, massive deficits, green extremism, woke venom.
So, it is not the off-putting or comatose messengers or even the obnoxious methods of the current Democrat hierarchy that explains the party’s historic low polls and recent losses. Had a Warren, Sanders, or Kaine headed the ticket in 2024 they would have still lost. Even a so-called moderate Democrat Josh Shapiro could not have saved them.
You see, it was the message, not the messenger, that lost the Democrats the American people.
On not a single issue did Democrats enjoy 50 percent approval. A sane party would have recalled its 1996 Democratic National Convention agenda. It called for secure borders, legal-only immigration, support for law enforcement, strong national defense, and fiscal sobriety aiming at balanced budgets. And all that won Bill Clinton an easy victory over Republican candidate Bob Dole.
Instead, Democrats since the beginning of the Obama era have figured that by veering hard left on social issues like abortion on demand, glorifying illegal immigration, transexual chauvinism, and the unworkable and dangerous new green deal they would capture the youth vote for a generation.
Instead, they had no clue that their own disastrous record of high inflation, high interest rates, high insurance costs, high gas and food staple prices trumped cultural issues and led to splitting the youth vote almost evenly between Trump and Harris.
Democrats also felt that by normalizing illegal immigration and an open border, a new cohort of 12 million illegal aliens from south of the border would energize the Latino vote. The new influx would ensure the massively changing demography of America would continue to flip red states blue, as it has in the past with states like California, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico.
In fact, open borders had almost the opposite effect. The more the world’s impoverished swarmed border towns and Mexican-American communities—jamming health care services, flooding the schools, spiking crime, trafficking children, and empowering gangs—the more Hispanic Democrats would not vote like Democrats but instead punish them.
By parroting “abortion,” “abortion,” “abortion” nonstop, the more the Left figured they had locked up huge majorities of women voters. Clueless, they never understood that women know better than men what hyperinflation looks like at the grocery store and gas pump. They value safe streets and the freedom to be secure from random criminals.
As a result, Harris failed utterly to capture the margins in old Democratic constituencies needed to offset the party’s huge loss of male and white voters.
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