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Democrats Have Another Genius Idea for Winning Back Power

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  March 23, 2026 12:00 PM

We're not quite sure what the Democrats are thinking heading into 2028, but we're not going to stop them. Earlier, we learned their strategy for the primary is to lean into childhood trauma and family dysfunction to one-up each other on playing the victim card. Why? 

Apparently, Democrats think that this will make them more relatable to the average voter. Remember, they're literally running for office, promising to make things better by pretending they're broken and messed up. That's a heck of a strategy.

But it's one that the Democrats are apparently doubling down on, as they're adding looks into the mix.

So the Democratic Party platform is: "Yeah, we're messed up, but we're good looking, so elect us!"

Here's more of this drivel:

THE DEBATE AMONG DEMOCRATS over how to win back disaffected voters has touched on virtually every aspect of campaigns, policy, and politics. But what if the answer is so primal, so shallow, so inherently biological that to hear it out loud would make you uncomfortably chuckle?

What if the key to winning was to run more “hot” people?

Don’t laugh.

The idea that the Democratic party has a hotness deficit it needs to address has come up repeatedly in conversations I’ve had over the past few months as I’ve talked to strategists about what the party can do to improve how it’s perceived. Yes, they say, Democrats need to shed litmus tests, put aside purity politics, and drop the academic-sounding language. But they also would benefit from simply having more thirst-traps on the ticket, more candidates who could make voters swoon.

“It’s easier to elect hot people. America is a superficial nation, and we want our politicians—especially those that are representing us on an international stage, as the number-one world power—to be hot, to look good,” said Yemisi Egbewole, the former Biden White House press office chief of staff, adding that this had become a “foundational brunch time conversation” among the D.C. Democratic class.

So the issues Americans care about — the economy, crime, illegal immigration, taxes — aren't even registering with the Democrats. The best they can give us is childhood trauma and hotness.

This is actually funny for many reasons. Looks had nothing to do with 2024; it was illegal immigration and Bidenomics — two policies Kamala repeatedly refused to distance herself from throughout the campaign.

And for Rupar to complain about men being the banner after two women ran, and lost, the presidency to Donald Trump is just perfection.

They clearly have no shame.

But if the Left wants to make this argument, fine, this proves that voters don't necessarily go for hotness, either.

The reason, in part, that President Trump won is because Americans who felt unheard and unrespected felt he gave them a voice.

Bingo. Democrats are not for the American people, and no amount of good looks is going to gloss over this irrefutable fact.