In The Toilet
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From The Washington Times:
“It’s not us; it’s you.”
That was the message from Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin to the 77.3 million Americans who elected President Trump again in November and helped him sweep all seven battleground states.
Appearing this week on ABC’s nearly unwatchable talk show, “The View,” Ms. Slotkin blasted the plurality that sent Mr. Trump back to the White House. She compared those voters to violent and suicidal juveniles.
“What do you do when you have a teenager who’s threatening themselves and others?” asked the freshman senator who represents Michigan, one of the swing states Mr. Trump won. “You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form.”
This is the same senator who won praise from much of the legacy media for her delivery of the response to Mr. Trump’s address to Congress last week. In that speech, she paid mere lip service to the concerns of voters the Democrats lost in the election.
Once away from the teleprompter, she felt comfortable enough on “The View” to express her unscripted thoughts: that the voters are dangerous idiots to be scorned.
So much for reconnecting with people who became Trump voters.
Not to be outdone, Democratic “strategist” Julie Roginsky appeared on MSNBC to criticize Mr. Trump’s support of Elon Musk’s Tesla electric vehicles. Because of her contempt for the president, she felt compelled to insult the tens of millions of people who voted for Mr. Trump as too poor to purchase one of the cars.
“I don’t know who he thinks is buying Teslas, but I can guarantee you that they’re out of reach, many of them, for the average Trump voter,” she said.
That’s a heck of a way to attract working people to their side. I don’t know what Democrats she advises as a “strategist,” but as a Republican, I hope her clients listen to her if that indicates the quality of her advice.
The ridiculousness doesn’t stop there.
Sure, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, occasionally diagnoses his party’s problems accurately, but it never translates into corrected behavior.
“So many parts of our coalition left us this last election cycle, right? We know that,” he said on MSNBC in February. “From Latino voters to working-class households to young voters to women. You can go down the list.”
Every single time Democrats have the chance to prove they learned something — anything — from their shellacking in November, they utterly and completely fail.
In politics, “80-20 issues” means that 80% of the people feel one way about something and only 20% feel the opposite. Democrats, time after time, choose the 20% side simply because Mr. Trump is on the other.
After an election in which voters resoundingly said the government had stopped listening to the concerns of working Americans, Democrats repeatedly held caterwauling press conferences to defend a federal agency that most people had never heard of: the U.S. Agency for International Development, which spends billions of dollars overseas.
Everyone knows the government wastes mountains of money, but Democrats stand in the way of cutting even a single dollar from the budget.
They oppose Mr. Trump’s plans to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits, overtime pay and tips for service industry workers.
They denigrate his obvious success in securing the southern border.
They also buck a huge majority of Americans who think biological men should not be allowed to play women’s sports.
These are all political layups, but Democrats rail against them just because they are Trump policies.
This is not a party that has learned anything at all.
We keep hearing that they don’t believe it was their substance that cost them the election but the messaging. That’s a wrong and stupid evaluation of their problems.
Let’s suppose for a moment that they’re correct. Why haven’t they done anything about it?
Their group behavior in the House of Representatives chamber on the night of Mr. Trump’s speech was abhorrent and political malpractice, and that’s on top of one of them getting kicked out. They sat silently for even the most popular of ideas and couldn’t muster any applause for inspiring guests in the audience, including a 13-year-old cancer survivor who had a dream fulfilled by becoming an honorary Secret Service agent on the spot.
Their brand is in the toilet, and it’s their own fault. They hate Mr. Trump so much that they are blind to basic common sense.
Despite what they think and what Ms. Slotkin believes, the people are delivering a message to Democrats.
They’re saying, “It’s not us. It’s you.”
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Yup, kind of dumb to say stuff like that. There was a reason that people voted for President Trump vs. VP Harris.
I believe it was more of a vote against a candidate/party rather than a vote for a candidate/party.
(And this is the same for those that voted for the Democrats. Yes, there is ~20-30% of people on each side who will vote Republic or Democrat no matter what. It is that middle X% which decides elections)
