Democrat voters feel this party no longer represents them. It’s lurching too far left, trying to placate the socialists, the Squad, and all the rest of them – leaving our voting base with nowhere else to go but to the Republican Party.
Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez (D-IL)
The Democrat Party has finally ruptured, because knowledge-economy “progressives” (the DEI and ESG vanguard) have made America unrecognizable to material-economy “liberals” (lower and middle class workers). In hindsight, Biden’s 2020 win was more of a dead cat bounce than a center-left mandate, despite his winning 54% of Independents and 64% of Moderates (source: exit polls).
Don’t scoff, because this week’s polling average shows the President with all-time low voter approval: 34% (source: Real Clear Politics). He can rail against “extreme mega-MAGA” Republicans, but old-school Democrats (James Carville and Bill Maher) know their party hasn’t had a centrist in the White House since Bill Clinton. This has cost Democrats working-and-middle-class voters of every race.
The latest New York Times/Siena poll shows Biden’s lead over Trump is just 17 points with the non-white working class, down from 48 points in 2020. With all working-class voters, his 4-point deficit in 2020 is now a 17-point deficit. Read the theories, but know the truth: working-class Democrats have been down-sized and sent to war because the “labor party” allowed China into the WTO and the “peace party” invited Islamic aggression.
By far, the biggest mistake Democrats made was to assume 232 million whites were OK with DEI, and 210 million Christians were OK with the Ivy League changing women’s sports and cheering for Hamas’s cruelty. Nope, especially after the Ivys’ diversity-hire presidents threw Jews under the bus in a Congressional hearing. Immediately after, a Harvard/Harris poll found voter support for Israel (84%) dwarfed that for Hamas (16%). Hint: Israel is code for first world.
If middling Americans didn’t know Democrats used the Queen of Hearts playbook in 2020 (“all ways here are my way”), that changed with Trump’s loss. They feel poorer because everything costs 30% more after Biden’s executive orders and Pelosi-Schumer’s “progressive” spending. They feel duped because of hordes of illegal aliens in their communities and smash-and-grab gangs in their local stores. No surprise there, right?
The surprising straw that broke the camel’s back is the treatment of former-president Trump, under whom many felt safer and more prosperous. The longer their party’s “defense of democracy” becomes make Trump unelectable and get out the woke college vote, the more estranged “normal” Democrats feel from what their party’s become.
The battle cry that began as the Darkest Day in Our Democracy and the Big Lie is now the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy and the Self-Evident Insurrection. Is it just me, or do others remember when 9-11 was the “darkest day” and “separate but equal” was the big lie? None of Biden’s assertions are quantifiable (more Americans died on 9-11) or proven in court, and I’ve observed his approval drop (from 57% to 37%) with each new boogie man proclamation.
Trump was divisive. But, after a second impeachment, the January 6 hearings, 91 felony counts, and the death penalty handed down by Colorado’s Supreme Court, he now looks picked upon – while middling Americans blame Democrats for high prices, open borders, and unsafe streets,
Think of Trump what you will, but there’s a reason he won 74 million votes and now leads Biden (and every Republican) in the polling averages. It’s the same reason Democrat pollster Ruy Teixeira has been telling his party to repair the growing schism between “progressive” and “liberal” voters. He offers three bits of advice:
- Don’t defund police departments (and do punish shoplifters)
- Don’t call border security “racist” (and do call the crossings “illegal”)
- Don’t blame “racism” for disparate test results (and do credit merit-based achievement)
His research is spot-on, but he is one of many old-school Democrats out in the cold. Meanwhile, millions of former Democrats fear a repeat of 2020, which is why over two-thirds of the electorate don’t want either Biden or Trump to run (source: CNBC). The problem for the DNC is that 70% of their members don’t want Biden to run (translation: re-elected).
Back to the opening quote, there are now millions of anti-Biden voters willing to take a second look at Trump (or first look at Haley or DeSantis). Further, millions will vote for the “next” Kennedy. How will these new “forgotten” Americans feel if Trump is adjudicated off the ballot by Biden’s lawfare? Because there are 60,000,000 blue-collar voters, and Gallup reports 46% of voters identify as either “working” or “lower” class.
The liberal-elite’s Achilles heel is the willful blindness that finds “fly over America” witty. They brush off Haley’s “they’re too old” and Kennedy’s “they are lying to you” and Trump’s “they’re coming after you next” as narrow conspiracy theories, despite a recent CNN poll finding dismal approval ratings for Biden (37%), Harris (33%), Jeffries (24%), and Schumer (28%).
If a silent majority could elect Nixon, and a moral majority could elect Reagan, what’s to stop a punch-clock majority from going for the Republican Party? Not much, because Hell hath no fury like a working man scorned!
