Democrats Did This to Themselves

It was Democrats’ Race to Lose

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Let’s say the obvious: Trump kicked Kamala’s ass. Not even close. Not only the presidency but the Senate, the House, governorships, you name it.

What did you expect though? Harris did almost all exclusively (except one or two) softball Team Blue interviews where she didn’t actually answer important questions. She failed to in any way differentiate herself from Biden while simultaneously claiming to be an agent of change. She word-saladed so badly and so often it was like listening to a high school freshman trying to argue a tricky philosophical point, when all that was asked was, What is your actual plan? How are you different from Biden? What happened at the border?

When asked if she regretted not speaking up about Biden she doubled-down and said no. The lesson here is easy: You can’t ignore and gaslight the American People.

This is a clear repudiation of the direction the Democratic Party has gone since the rise of Trump in 2016.

I hate to say it but: This election reeks of 2016 all over again. Back then it was Clinton who, we were told, we had to vote for because she was a woman and because Orange Man Bad. She called Trump supporters “deplorables” and, foolishly, didn’t even campaign in many of the battleground states.

Big mistake.

Yet here we are again in 2024: After all the Woke activist madness in major media outlets like MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times and the Washington Post, the lies and obfuscation during Covid, the lies about Biden’s health, the absurd anti-democratic coronation of Kamala Harris, her terrible campaign, and the obsession with Jan 6, The Big Lie, racism, etc (all things most Americans don’t give a shit about).

We could have had a real primary when Biden stepped down and had someone like Dean Phillips. But no: The Democratic Machine, in all their infinite wisdom, decided it had to be Kamala (who had a worse approval rating than Biden, which was already dismally low), because, let’s be honest, she’s a Black woman. (This is, after all, literally why Biden picked her. He said this directly.)

You do realize how racist it is to pick a candidate who happens to have black skin because you think that’s going to clinch the Black vote for you because they happen to have a similar color skin? That’s the definition of racism.

Democrats need to wake the fuck up: Identity politics failed. Hard stop. It doesn’t work. How is it that of all people—all people!!!—Donald J. Trump is the man who makes historical gains with Black and Hispanic men??? How is that even possible? The man who is supposedly a terrible racist. The man who, in 2015, called Mexicans rapists. The man who met with Nick Fuentes.

So you gotta ask yourself: Why?

It’s not because of Trump’s brilliance: It’s because the Democrats gave it to him. Since 2016, the Left in media has been more and more gaslighting the American people. Look at the NYT electoral map: Excepting Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota and Illinois, the whole goddamn country is red! Democrats may call it “flyover country” but everyone else calls it the United States of America. Kamala lost all the battleground states. Trump won big in both the electoral college and the popular vote.

Americans aren’t as dumb as Democrats think they are. They know when they smell fraud. (Which is ironic because no one is a bigger fraud than Trump, but he’s open with his lies; Democrats are more subtle and therefore more nefarious.) Many in the swing states—who overwhelmingly voted for Obama twice—were voting against Democrats rather than for Trump. Dems didn’t offer up a real candidate! They gaslit us and forced her down our throats. She clearly wasn’t ready for Prime Time, intelligent as she may be in general. (And I do think she is smart, just not a good politician, and not ready.)

In the 1960s the two parties flipped: Republicans stepped across the line to help pass Civil Rights legislation. Then the racist southern Dixiecrats (Southern Democrats) were disgusted by their party which was asserting Black rights, and so they morphed into the Republican Party, thus creating the modern version we knew up until Trump remade it in his own image. Lincoln was a Republican. Parties transmogrify and change, morph, evolve and become something new. This has been true since the founding of America.

I think we’ve been seeing a new flip in our country. Democrats have shifted away from non-white and working-class voters and have become the party of rich young white elites on left and right coasts, the bourgeois political-journalist “chattering class.” Most Hispanic and Black Americans have always been on the conservative end of the Democratic Party. They don’t like radical Woke politics. But Democrats ignore this.

Trump has remade the modern Republican Party. I don’t like Trump. I didn’t vote for him. I think he’s a royal narcissistic jackass. But he only won because of the deep, systemic flaws within the Democratic Party. Democrats obsessing about race and gender. Democrats obsessing about issues the nation mostly doesn’t care about. Democrats thinking they can throw anyone out there because they’re Not Trump.

Thinking Kamala will win because she’s a Black woman. Thinking that everyone feels the same way as the progressive Woke media on the left and right coasts. Thinking they could gaslight Americans during Covid. Thinking they could gaslight Americans about topics important to them and who the candidate is. Thinking they could lie about Biden. Ridiculous bail reform; defunding police; pretending crime wasn’t getting worse; not prosecuting criminals. Thinking we’d fall for it. That we were (and are) stupid, foolish rubes, sheep.

Like I said before, this reeks of Hillary Clinton in 2016: The arrogance, the presumptuousness, the foolish pomposity, the failure to even pretend to try to care about or understand the other side. The idea that (this time) 71 million voters are all “stupid” or “love fascism.” Get your heads out of your asses and try to actually engage with REALITY! Why are Black, Hispanic, men and the working-class in general peeling off in droves for Trump? You need to ask yourselves these questions and think very deeply about them.

Thankfully—from my perspective and in my opinion—I don’t think Trump is going to be a “fascist.” (The most overused word currently in the English language on the left.) Yes, yes I know: He’s got the loyalists this time and so it’s going to be Armageddon; everything’s going to fall apart. Trump is the New Caesar, the New Hitler, etc. But he’s not. He’s just your run-of-the-mill narcissist entertainer who has gained big where Democrats have been tripping on their own clumsy feet. Nothing crazy actually happened in his first term.

Yes, I get it: Republicans will now have the executive, legislative and judicial branches of power. (Presidency, both chambers of Congress and the Supreme Court.) For the record I don’t like that. I believe in divided government. I’d much rather—despite my qualms—have seen Kamala Harris and Dems in power. But Dems have spent too long navel-gazing in their media echo-chamber bubbles.

Still, I believe in the robustness of our institutions. The Court has often sided with Trump…but definitely not always. I do not believe that Trump will dissolve Democracy, jail his opponents or end journalism as we know it. He’s not a dictator and doesn’t want to be one. (And you can’t quote him because all he does is Word Vomit. That’s his way. He talks a lot, but acts little.) My prediction is that, in the end, his second term will be as rote and boring as his first one. He’ll say a bunch of stupid things. He’ll piss a lot of people off. He’ll spend way too much money on tax cuts for rich people (and some for the middle class). He’ll deregulate stuff. Etc.

But in the end I predict not much will really happen or change.

Democrats need a real candidate. We need change. Americans don’t give a shit whether it’s a woman or a man, young or old, white, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, etc: Just give us someone who makes us sound rational, intelligent and powerful, someone like Bill Clinton or Obama.

If you do this, if you give us a real candidate and you ditch the identity obsession, you might, maybe—just maybe—have a fighting chance in 2028. The last three cycles Dems have given us: Clinton, Biden and Harris, all mediocre at best, terrible at worst. We deserve better from Democrats. We deserve a democratic process. We deserve someone who actually knows what they’re doing, has serious principles and values, and doesn’t waffle back and forth between radical left and centrist ideas without explaining those changes.

Get the cotton out of your ears, Democrats. Try to make this a teachable moment. Stop talking so much and, for the first time in a decade, start listening.

You might actually learn something.