There isn't much to be excited about if you're a Democrat. You have a president who is mentally deficient and could be impeached next year if more damning evidence about a bribery operation is revealed, a scheme where he is allegedly neck-deep in its involvement. This corruption, plus using the Department of Justice to interfere in investigations into his son, are impeachable offenses.
No one is happy about Joe Biden 2024. The re-election campaign infrastructure says it all, being a hallowed shell. Though, we're told that's by design. Obama was already spending serious money in 2012. Biden has not, though money isn't going to be an issue. One topic that some in the liberal media see as having the potential to energize the Democratic base is a throwback to 2016, but it was Republicans who took it to heart.
It's the Supreme Court. That cycle saw Mitch McConnell's gamble to hold the line on Merrick Garland's failed nomination pay off. While Trump had emerged from a brutal primary, where hurt feelings were pervasive, many Republicans saw a Trump win to preserve some key rights, especially on the Second Amendment. In an exit poll, 21 percent of the electorate said that the Court was their most important factor when casting their ballot, and these voters broke for Trump 57/40. That might have impacted Trump's ability to topple the Blue Wall that year.
Some on the Left think that the recent rulings upholding religious liberty, gutting affirmative action, and curbing Biden's rogue action on student loans could galvanize the Democrats in the same manner as it did with Republican voters next year (via CNN):
This week’s [July 1] monumental rulings – striking down affirmative action in college admissions and unraveling Biden’s student debt relief plan among them – amount to serious setbacks for a president who promised as a candidate to advance racial equity and erase student debt.
They are also an urgent reminder to Democrats of the enduring consequences of elections at a moment Biden’s advisers are searching for ways to inject enthusiasm into his bid for another term.
What impact that will have on the coming election remains unknown. But Biden and his team have already begun assigning blame on Republicans for dismantling programs that have benefited young, college-educated and minority voters – all critical components of the Democratic coalition Biden will need to mobilize if he hopes to win reelection.
That three justices within the court’s conservative majority were appointed by President Donald Trump – both Biden’s predecessor and, according to polls, his most likely opponent next year – creates even more of an impetus for Biden to use the rulings as a political cudgel as his campaign heats up.
“The excesses of the Supreme Court are going to backfire,” said Rep. Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat. “You know, the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe versus Wade reduced what was supposed to be a red wave in the 2022 election cycle to nothing more than a red trickle. So not only is the Supreme Court’s decision bad law, it’s also bad politics and it’s going to come back to haunt the Republican Party.”
And yet, what happened when this article was posted around three weeks ago? The Left was going haywire over affirmative action, with some nasty reactions. Whatever happened to the days of rage? It fizzled, mostly because the data the Left thought they had didn't support their narrative. It's hard to smear those who support the ruling as racist when a large number of Black Americans aren't hot about this policy either. The narrative imploded fast, though, for a few days, liberal America reached full froth, with insane commentaries about how we're on the precipice of a new Jim Crow era.
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Overall, 63 percent of Americans don't support affirmative action. The best reaction was the media trying to manufacture a fake narrative that Asian Americans support the policy when the numbers are non-existent. You can't sell that this community supports it, but 76 percent don't think race should be considered in the applications for higher education. You look like a clown trying to make cognitive dissonance sound rational.
Good to remember when you see Dems use this ruling as a reason to lash out at SCOTUS
— Jesse Hunt (@JJHunt10) June 29, 2023
Beyond legal merits, strong majority of the electorate agrees https://t.co/j0BMySUQPz
Second Amendment rights and ensuring the Court keeps an executive, which under Obama went over the line regarding immigration policy, in check will be more persuasive and resonating than ensuring rich college kids get money to pay off their worthless degrees. Second, if you want a new Trump era, push for a college loan bailout, where the working class would be forced to subsidize the elite college class, helping them pay off the crippling debt they've accrued in obtaining "woke" degrees that serve little use in the real world. If everyone went into academia, that would be different. These nonsensical ideas are what's to be expected in a college faculty lounge, but not everyone does that—and these kids got saddled with a crippling debt that's 100 percent their choice.
Everything about what CNN mentioned to galvanize the base via the Supreme Court is too niche. Also, again, affirmative action isn't popular. But Trump will energize the base, as will abortion, but that's a longer story.
