The left is in a full panic because they don’t know why they lost. It seems like Kamala Harris’ team thinks it is Joe Biden’s fault. Joe Biden’s team thinks it is Kamala Harris’ fault. There is another pocket of Dems that think it is just market circumstances and the Biden policies that got us into this hole. There is another group that is saying this is a global trend, and a lot of incumbents are losing around the world due to COVID. Huh? Biden wasn’t actually the president who was in office when COVID broke out. He was just the one who ruined everything after it did.
‘The Normies‘
And then there is a very, very small pocket of Democrats that seems to be asking, ‘Is it possible that it is us? It might be us.’ On the flip side, there is the pocket of Democrats that is turning on that pocket like, ‘How dare you say it’s us. That is your racism, and your misogyny, and your transphobia speaking.’
That reaction is super fun for me because it shows they are not going to change. Instead, they are going to keep losing thanks to that pocket of the Democrat Party that just will not move on. Identity politics is a cancer from within that is going to make them lose elections from now until forevermore. Either the party will excise that pocket like the cancer that it is, or they will be brought down by said cancer as it metastasizes throughout the Democratic body.
Either way, our side – the side of the normal people – win. And I know this because I know who watches the show. I know I am speaking to Democrats who have left the party because of this nonsense, or who are still in the party but begrudgingly because they are pro-choice or what have you. I do describe us as the normal side. It is not just the right that I am talking to here. It is ‘the normies.’
Julie Roginsky has been out there making this point. She is a Democrat, but she is more of a centrist. I worked with her at Fox News, and she is one of the Dems who are in that penultimate group I talked about saying, ‘Maybe it’s us. Maybe we have gone too far’ and then, of course, getting backlash for it.
Here is what she said on CNN this week:
ROGINSKY: I’m going to speak some hard truths to my friends in the Democratic Party. This is not Joe Biden’s fault. It’s not Kamala Harris’s fault. It’s not Barack Obama’s fault. It is the fault of the Democratic Party and not knowing how to communicate effectively to voters. We are not the party of common sense, which is with a message that voters sent to us…
We address Latino voters as LatinX, for instance, because that’s the politically correct thing to do. It makes them think that we don’t even live in the same planet as they do… When we put pronouns after names and say she/her as opposed to saying, ‘You know what? If I call you by the wrong pronoun, call me out. I’m sorry. I won’t do it again.’ But stop with a virtue signaling and just speak to people like they’re normal…
But that’s not what Democrats do. We constantly try to parse out different ways of speaking different cohorts because our focus groups or our polling shows that so and so appeals to such and such. That’s not how normal people think. It’s not common sense.
No, it’s not. She is right, except for the last part about the pronouns. She is trying to speak sense to her side, and I appreciate that. But there is a very good reason to believe it is not going to happen. She can not convince the likes of Joy Reid, and Sunny Hostin, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They are too rabid.
This is great news for the normies though because those people cannot be convinced out of their sick ideology. They will lose every election from now until they get ostracized from the party altogether.
The Rx for Change
What the Democrat Party needs right now to save itself is moderate, normal Democrats like the ones who listen to this show and some of my friends are still Democrats. They don’t know what has happened to their party. They are not on board with all this sh-t. They may play along here and there, but they don’t want this nonsense. And they certainly don’t believe the Hitler and fascism lies about Donald Trump and the right.
They are normal Democrats who are usually pro-choice. They are worried about the environment. They think the Democrats – at least the Democrat Party of old – are better for them on tax policy. But that is all done. That is yesteryear. It is a new day, and it is why we have seen Bernie Sanders all over the news saying things like, ‘Is it any wonder that the Democrats lost the working class after years of not caring at all about it?’
Now the left is really hand-wringing over, ‘How are we going to win elections with only the smart people? It’s really hard. It’s a lot easier when we had the dumb ones.’ That is how they view the working class. We saw Sunny Hostin on The View calling them “uneducated.”
And yet there is a group on the left that is trying to convince themselves that the problem is not anything I listed, but rather a right-wing media system that has risen up to deliver misinformation in the deep, dark corners of the internet. Jen Psaki was saying it on MSNBC on Monday. Mehdi Hasan, meanwhile, suggested the left needs their own Joe Rogan.
I hate to break it to you, Mehdi, but you literally had Joe Rogan on your side up until recently. Joe Rogan was a Bernie Sanders supporter, but your nonsense idiocy on these woke issues in particular moved him over to the side of the normies. He was normal before, but you guys became so radical he said, ‘I want no part of you.’
The Left Moved Left
I can totally relate. I was open-minded. I was never a feminist, but I certainly was listening on where women were in America. And then your absolute insanity radicalized me the other way to stand up against you and to fight you with everything I have because you are destructive and you are deeply, deeply wrong.
My standing up for female empowerment – which I have done my entire life – does not require me to sh-t all over American men. The reason I never called myself a feminist to begin with is because I knew what you leftists think of feminism. You think it means abortion and crapping on men. And most of us women over on the side of the normies don’t want that. We love our husbands. We love our boys, our sons, our dads, our brothers, our male friends and colleagues. And we are not ready to consider this a zero-sum game where we must advance at their expense.
Until you get that through your thick head, you will keep losing and I look forward to watching your tears. It is infuriating, but it is somewhat encouraging too because, like I said, they are going to keep losing.
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