As gratified as I, and probably you, were to see Trump defeat the Karamel-uh entity last year — if not for ideological reasons, then at least as comeuppance for the horror show that was the four-year reign of the Brandon entity — his victory was by no means a foregone conclusion.
The final tally, with all the swing states going for Trump, belied how competitive the race actually was, or could have been.
All the coconut lady had to do to win was:
- suppress her hyena-like laughter;
- halve her (alleged) Xanax dose and not mix it with dinner wine before going out in public;
- try to act like something approximating a human being with a soul;
- offer voters anything of substance aside from banal Social Justice™-y “Stronger Together”/girlboss/Brat Summer/Joy! talking points that Democrat candidates have tried and failed to use to get themselves elected for ten years now; and
- distance herself in even the most modest way from the disastrous Biden administration.
Or, in TL;DR form: Give her prospective voters something to vote for and sufficiently mask her contempt for them until the election was over.
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That simple recipe was too much to cook up, of course — largely because a.) she’s a sociopath who doesn’t have human feelings, b.) because Team Biden reportedly threatened her behind the scenes to allow no daylight between the two, and c.) most importantly for the context here, the donors who fully control the party would not allow her to promise the rabble anything of substance, and so she was forced to make do with Joy! and gender transitions for prison inmates.
So she predictably lost in epic fashion, which should have embarrassed her into retirement. But because she has no shame, she’s reportedly mulling another run in 2028.
Anyway, all of that to say that the Democrat party — assuming the goal is actually winning elections and not just blowing billions of dollars on the consultant-class grift every cycle — obviously has some soul-searching to do.
To that end, the party convened a gathering of the exact same people who cost it the election to steer it back onto course, the likes of Symone Sanders, Jen Psaki, some vehemently pro-tranny ACLU activist (that being apparently the only civil rights issue the organization is interested in these days), and The Bulwark hack Tim Miller.
Imagine assembling the French generals in the immediate aftermath of World War II, the ones responsible for the Maginot Line quagmire, to pick their brains on border fortification.
A mainstay of Democrat discourse that I have observed with some combination of fascination and revulsion for years, on full display in these clips, is their obsession with (in addition to censorship of their opponents) messaging — predominantly because these are all communications people.
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Their thesis, although they have slightly more tact and psychopathology than to frame it so honestly, is that the peasants are simply too stupid to digest their obviously brilliant policy platforms, and so their chief priority is repackaging their talking points by dumbing them down in a way that excites and motivates their idiot voters to hit the polls — as Hillary Clinton would say, to “Pokemon Go to the polls!”
All of which to say: the party — because of the dual infestation of the ideological lunacy that dictates its craziest culture war stances and the intransigent corruption that precludes any real populist economic policies — seems institutionally incapable of recalibrating itself.
