Democratic Party Elites Brought Us This Disaster
The story that is about to be pushed hard is that Kamala Harris lost because she was too far left. It will be pushed because this is the Democratic establishment’s go-to explanation for all its failures.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally on November 4, 2024, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)
The old saying is that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result. So what do you call it when you fail, get a better result by doing something different, then go back and repeat the thing that failed the first time anyway?
The Democratic Party had two real-world tests for what works in an election against Donald Trump. One campaign famously succeeded; the other infamously failed. Mystifyingly — going into an election it kept saying was “the most important election of our lifetime” — it decided to rerun the one that failed.
Living in Denial
The Democrats have now lost to Donald Trump in two out of three presidential elections, despite the fact that he has been deeply unpopular and polarizing each time he’s run, and that large majorities of voters just four months ago described him as “embarrassing” and “mean-spirited.” This time, Democrats didn’t just lose the Electoral College to him: Trump, for the first time in his career, appears to have won the popular vote, is on track to sweep all seven battleground states, and may well end up with unified party control of Congress.
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