You know what became crystal clear on Tuesday night? The Democratic Party lost, and lost big, because it has become the party of politically correct pronouns, penises in women’s locker rooms and intrusive social engineering.
For sure, high inflation played a role in the party’s disastrous presidential loss. I spoke with a county government worker in Pennsylvania on the day after the election, and she told me she was angry over high grocery costs. As she said, she was fed up paying $8 for bananas. She voted for Donald Trump.
For sure, the soaring cost of housing in Nevada and other key electoral college swing states, helped boost Donald Trump to victory.
For sure, US presidential elections are always about the economy, (stupid).
But there are deeper reasons why Kamala Harris lost the electoral college and the popular vote. There are fundamental reasons why she didn’t win one swing state. Why the so-called blue wall of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin went red. Why she underperformed Joe Biden amongst African American men, amongst Hispanic men, amongst Jews. Why, as CNN reported, she shockingly underperformed Joe Biden in every one, every one, of the nation’s 3,143 counties.
It wasn’t only because she had to wait too long for the Democratic Party poobahs to defenestrate Joe Biden after his debate debacle.
It wasn’t only because the country isn’t ready to elect a woman of color as president.
It wasn’t only because she picked Tim Walz, a leftist, self-described knucklehead and the worst VP pick since John McCain chose Sarah Palin. Could Harris have won Pennsylvania if she had chosen that state’s centrist governor Josh Harris as her running mate? We’ll never know. She allegedly bent the knee to the anti-Israel forces within her party who called Shapiro, who is Jewish, Genocide Josh, for his support of Israel against Hamas.
Kamala Harris ultimately lost because her party has been overtaken by a powerful and vocal clique that is stupendously self-righteous and hell bent on shoving its social mores down the throats of the American people.
The majority of Americans believe in equality but don’t want men competing in women’s sports and changing in their locker rooms. Americans appreciate hard-working immigrants, but reject the social strains that have resulted from an unrestrained southern border. Americans see the hatred and destruction on our college campuses and wonder why it is tolerated, coddled and encouraged.
Americans want a fair and equitable nation, but not a nation that, under the guise of inclusion, exults in exclusion and champions cancellation.
Those are the deep down reasons why Tuesday’s election was such a disaster for the Democrats and enabled a twice-impeached, morally corrupt, election denying (except when he wins) candidate to regain the presidency.
If Bill Clinton felt your pain, Donald Trump articulated and co-opted your pain for his political gain. He was derided by the Democrats and their media mouthpieces. He was ridiculed and called a racist, but the tens of millions of Americans that voted for Trump saw him as their avenger against the elites.
The undecideds and the independents, the African Americans, the Hispanics, the Jews, the suburban housewives and the young voters, who four years ago voted for Joe Biden, on Tuesday abandoned his veep and their party and swung to Trump.
They’ve been scorned by the ideologues of the Democratic Party who seem to prefer celebrities to the common person. Richer than rich celebrities who preach their political dribble at the Academy Awards, and who smugly threaten to leave the country if their candidate is defeated.
Now, the Democrats themselves are on the verge of an internecine battle for the future of their party.
The socialists, the so-called progressives, are trying to use Tuesday’s debacle to claim the party didn’t go far enough to the left to cauterize Trump. Sen. Bernie Sanders said, “While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.” That sounds reasonable except Sanders has made a career out of getting behind leftist Democratic candidates who have pushed the party to the precipice of irrelevance.
Sander’s young protege, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was even more extreme in her post-election rhetoric. On a live-stream on Wednesday she said, “Our main project is to unite the working class in this country against a facist agenda. Period.”
Talk like that won’t help the Dems regain power. For the first time in two decades a Republican won the popular vote for president. The 73 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump aren’t facists, just like the 68 million people who voted for Kamala Harris aren’t socialists.
The party’s moderate members, for now, seem to be clear-eyed about their defeat.
Rep. Tom Suozzi who won a tight race on Long Island, told the New York Times that “the Democrats have to stop pandering to the far left.” And Rep. Ritchie Torres of the Bronx told Semafor, “We swung the pendulum too far to the left.”
Torres and Suozzi know what they’re talking about. Long Island’s Nassau County went red for the first time in a presidential election since 1992.
In the Bronx, a Democratic stronghold, Donald Trump got a 35% boost in the vote from four years ago.
When asked by the New York Post why that happened, here’s what 21-year old David Orellano, a lifelong Bronx resident, said. “Look at the economy, look at the border, look in Manhattan where you have hotels full of migrants with more rights than us.”
He’s not garbage. He’s living the reality of life in a leftist, Democrat run city.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy summed it up best. “I think if you’re a Democrat in America…if you’re not sober, looking in the mirror, being cold-blooded honest with yourself…you’re living in fantasy land.”
Murphy knows what he’s talking about. Trump came within five percentage points of beating Harris in New Jersey on Tuesday and painting the Garden State red.
The Democrats need to take a collective cold shower to wake up and to wash off the haughtiness that has led them to this point. They have to confront the causes for Tuesday’s disaster head on.
With apologies to William Shakespeare, something is rotten in the state of the Democratic Party and the fault, dear Dems, lies not in your stars (not Taylor, Oprah or Beyonce), but in yourselves.