Democrats Still Don’t Get Why They Lost

In order to grasp how little the Democrats learned from their recent defeat, all you need to do is watch Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) discuss their loss during Sunday morning’s interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press: “We did a lot of good things, but all too often Kristen, we talked about the mechanics of the legislation and the details of the legislation and we really didn’t show … average working families who didn’t realize how much we had done and how much we care for them.” Schumer, like most of his fellow Democrats, insists the problem was messaging. In reality, of course, they lost because of incredibly bad policies and even worse candidates.

Schumer’s refusal to admit this is rooted in the deep-seated contempt with which he and most Democrats regard the voters. He goes on to confirm this when Welker confronts him with the fact that he lied about President Biden’s mental acuity. He looks straight into the camera, denies doing so, and quickly changes the subject to tired Democrat talking points about Biden’s “amazing record.” In other words, two months after the voters soundly rejected these fictitious claims, Schumer still believes we are stupid enough to believe them. The only people with more contempt for voters than the Democrats are the leftists who have colonized the corporate media. Yet, even the New York Times is forced to confront some realities.

The Democratic Party’s estrangement from working-class voters first became clear with Mr. Trump’s upset of Hillary Clinton in 2016, powered by broad shifts in the preferences of white voters without college degrees, and it became even more unmistakable with his emphatic defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris in November. That result was a reckoning for a party that thought it had fixed its problems with blue-collar voters by heavily reinvesting in domestic manufacturing but instead discovered even more erosion, this time among Black and Latino workers.

This is true, as far as it goes, but it ignores certain inconvenient facts. It implies that the only source of Trump’s support comes from under-educated voters, and subtly suggests that the vast majority of college graduates voted for Harris. In reality, the diploma divide is nowhere near as wide as the Democrats and the corporate media claim. According to the AP VoteCast survey of the American electorate, 30 percent of Harris voters and 25 percent of Trump voters have college degrees. The Harris advantage among voters with graduate degrees was wider, but the number of such voters is far too small to offset Trump’s improved performance among all nonwhite voter blocs. As William Galston puts it in the Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Trump doubled his share of the black vote from 8% in 2020 to 16% this year, mainly because 24% of black men supported him. He increased his share of the Latino vote from 35% in 2020 to 42% this year. And according to CNN exit polls and Pew Research’s validated-voter analysis, he improved his showing among Asian voters from 28% in 2020 to 39% this year. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, got only 54% of the Asian vote, far short of Joe Biden’s 72% four years ago. By contrast, Ms. Harris came close to equaling Mr. Biden’s 43% showing among white voters.

The message in these numbers should be clear to Democrats: The voters are tired of being treated like idiots — regardless of race or level of education. They don’t want to hear people like Schumer talk about empathy and how much the Democrats care about them. They want real solutions to real problems. The Biden regime and congressional Democrats failed to provide anything but empty rhetoric on a large list of critical issues, including inflation, immigration, crime, education, healthcare, national security, and a wide range of less visible but equally important problems facing the country. Consequently, when Democrats continue to insist “we did a lot of good things,” no one believes a word they say.

But the gaslighting continues apace. Sunday morning, while Sen. Schumer was lying to Kristen Welker, our alleged President (or rather one of his handlers) took to X and insulted the intelligence of the voters: “One of the things I’m proudest of is passing the Inflation Reduction Act — the bill that allowed us to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs for the first time … and finally beat Big Pharma. Despite its Orwellian name, that legislative atrocity actually exacerbated inflation. Nor is anyone clueless enough to believe that it beat Big Pharma. When that absurd claim was posted, BS detectors lit up from sea to shining sea. All across the nation, Americans anxiously await Jan. 20 when the balderdash will finally end.

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