The blame game and accusations by the Democrats started immediately after Trump’s victory Tuesday, and they were exactly what we expected. And they proved the Democrats learned nothing, and they won’t, because this is ideological to them, not reality and truth (more on that in a moment). Most people don’t give up their ideology when they lose. So, racism, sexism, homophobia, Nazism, etc. were faulted. That didn’t win the election for Democrats, and won’t be accepted by intelligent people as reasons they lost.
We could break up the Democrats’ loss into a plethora of rationales (racism, sexism, Nazism not being among them), but they are all really rolled into one major problem. I want to look at two things, but again, point one is actually part and parcel with point two. Let me explain.
1. “It was the economy, stupid.” By all intelligent reasoning, the economy under Biden and Harris was horrible. They fudged the numbers, but only the sycophantic were fooled by that. Anybody who went to the grocery store or gas station (or had to stay in Thailand) knew the economy was terrible. The pocketbook is, has always been, and will always be a strong incentive for people who vote. Harris lost decisively in 2024, and it is undeniable that the economy was a major, if not THE major, reason why.
The Democrats, of course, will never admit their economy was dismal; that would be admitting their economic ideology is wrong. And, as noted, they will never give up their ideology. But that leads to point two, which is the real cause of their defeat, summing up all else.
2. The Democratic elites, the tyrants who now control the party, have become radical, far-left ideologues, and they pushed the country too far towards left-wing extremism in their lust to destroy traditional America and have the power they crave. This applies to point one, economics. The Democratic Party leadership is now genuine Marxist, socialist, big government believers. They can’t get everything they want yet, but history is a process, not an event. The Deep State, using Biden as its puppet, expanded government exponentially to give themselves more power. This created the massive inflation of food, gas, housing, etc. prices that Americans eventually voted against. So, it was ideology that drove the Democrats to defeat, as they applied that ideology, socialism (which never works) to the American economy and created massive hardships for the people.
But it goes deeper than economics. I repeat—and this cannot be stated too often—the far, radical Left, the AOCs, the Pelosis, the Harris’s— now control the Democratic Party machine. The “common” people members of the Democratic Party have always been, at least since Franklin Roosevelt—“left of center.” Republicans are viewed as “right of center.” But, until Obama, and especially, Biden, both parties tried to stay reasonably close to the “center” because they knew the American people would not accept radicalism from either the Left or the Right. Ronald Reagan was probably the most “conservative” President America has had in the past 100 years, but he could not govern “radical right.” He did some “conservative” things, but had to stay reasonably close to the center. Bill Clinton was “left of center,” but again, stayed close to that center while governing “left-leaning.”
Today’s Democratic Party has thrown that thinking completely out the window. They no longer try to stay “moderate” and govern only a little “left of center.” They want to ram their hard-left ideology down the American people’s throats. Folks, there is a reason why Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz and not Josh Shapiro as her running mate. Shapiro (rightly or wrongly) is at least perceived as being more “moderate.” Harris, a hard-left, radical ideologue, didn’t want somebody like that, so she chose the clone Walz. That’s the way the Democratic Party elite thinks now.
So, for the past four years, Democrats pushed every radical, nauseating far-left ideological position they could—on the economy, transgenderism, homosexuality, child mutilation, abortion, illegal immigration—they went as extreme as they could, and they got a lot of what they wanted. The only problem for them is, many “normal” Democratic Party members, and certainly the rest of Americans, were repulsed by this.
America has been drifting left for several decades now. But the Biden/Harris administration pushed it to an extreme. The American people just weren’t ready for four more years of a horrible economy, a nation overrun by crime and illegal aliens, men in women’s sports and bathrooms, abortion up through puberty—the Democrats simply forced their radical agenda on a largely unwilling public. And Donald Trump was elected President. He’ll bring matters back much closer to the center. And the radical Democrats, in the media and elsewhere, can’t stand that because they are die-hard, godless, anti-Christian, anti-Ameica, anti-capitalistic ideologues. Again, they are the Democratic Party elite, and they have a lot of power. But, for the moment, they are too radical for most Americans.
3. I think it is also truthful to say that the Democrats lost because, as unpopular as Donald Trump is in many circles in America, he ran an excellent campaign and sounded eminently more reasonable and pro-America than Harris did. “Not Trump” was not a feasible campaign strategy and the people saw through it.
Lenin said that occasionally, after two steps forward, one must take one step back. Sometimes you shoot for the stars and hope you get the moon. The Democrats, under Biden, shot for the stars, and probably did conquer the moon. The country is further left now than it’s ever been. Mr. Trump will bring it back to the right somewhat, but he probably won’t be able to undo all the damage Democrats did. And the Democrats, ideological to the end, will regroup and try again. They’ll never give up. Power and control are all they live for. The fight is far from over.
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