It’s being described by the media as an “post-mortem,” an examination by Democrats as to why they misplaced the final presidential election and a congressional majority. Based on The New York Instances, the post-mortem won’t embody Joe Biden’s resolution to hunt a second time period, or Kamala Harris’ poor efficiency in looking for the presidency when Biden dropped out.
Biden and Harris have been solely the faces of the obstacles Democrats face. Their actual issues go a lot deeper.
Let’s flip t o a definition of post-mortem: “a surgical process that consists of a radical examination of a corpse by dissection to find out the trigger, mode, and method of dying.”
By selecting such a phrase, the media and their fellow Democrats seem to imagine the social gathering – at the very least this social gathering as at present constituted – is lifeless. Because the secular left doesn’t imagine in a resurrection, what are they to do to win adequate credibility to re-take the presidency and a congressional majority?
To paraphrase an previous Elvis Presley track in a special context, Democrats are “Caught in a lure. They will’t stroll out.” The social gathering of upper taxes, unending entitlements, open borders, misspending, huge authorities, rules, organic males in girls’s sports activities, transgenderism, gender-affirming surgical procedure, same-sex marriage, abortion, opposing faculty selection, and a number of different secular-progressive insurance policies will solely repeat their current defeats ought to they proceed operating on and defending these insurance policies in coming elections.
Their solely hope is to ditch your complete social agenda and get again to the place the social gathering was once on the economic system, jobs and a rigorous overseas coverage that retains our enemies underneath management. See JFK.
That’s unlikely to occur, as a result of the way forward for the social gathering seems to have been seized by radicals like Zohran Mamdani, New York Metropolis’s Democrat candidate for mayor, and Minneapolis Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey who’s looking for re-election. A Wall Avenue Journal editorial describes Frey as “Mamdani II” and experiences he was “snubbed ultimately weekend’s Democratic conference, whose delegates as an alternative endorsed Omar Fateh, a 35-year-old socialist state senator.” That’s simply one other step within the left path, one thing like re-nominating Kamala Harris for president and anticipating a special outcome.
Summarizing Fateh’s platform, the Journal editorial says: “Fateh is proposing lease management and extra public housing, together with with funding from ‘a devoted levy’. (code for greater taxes) “He says Minneapolis shouldn’t be a ‘playground for builders.’ His stance on the homeless is to vow ‘a compassionate method to encampments,’ together with saying he’ll work to ‘be sure that residents have entry to life-saving infrastructure like hand-washing stations, moveable loos, operating water, secure needle disposal applications, and storage for private belongings.’” Oh, after which Fateh is trotting out the drained Democrat line that the rich aren’t paying their “justifiable share” in taxes. There will not be sufficient room in Florida for all of the individuals who need to be a part of New Yorkers leaving for climes that observe what was once referred to as frequent sense.
It doesn’t seem Democrats have realized something from voters. The one approach they’ll hope to make a comeback – in the event that they select to not drop their social agenda – is to attempt to cowl up previous and present positions which have turned off pink state voters. Given all of the video, audio and print that has recorded these positions and radical statements, a stealth method is unlikely to work.
After an post-mortem, the physique is normally buried. Some Republicans are pondering whether or not to create a 3rd social gathering. That gained’t be needed if Democrats proceed to advertise lifeless concepts.
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