Whenever a party loses an election, the inevitable postmortems and introspection take place.
Usually, anyway.
For example, after the 2020 election, the Republican Party understood they had to ramp up their voter registration efforts and embrace early voting. They did, and we just took back the White House, the Senate, and it looks like we’re holding the House, too. Trump significantly outperformed his 2020 showing with various cohorts, and achieved a stunning victory that included sweeping all the battleground states and winning the national popular vote, something that no Republican candidate has been able to achieve since George W. Bush in 2004.
It was a great election for the GOP.
The question is, will Democrats take the necessary steps to figure out why their party was rejected?
I’m not counting on it, but at least one Democrats sees where his party has gone wrong.
“We should expunge from our vocabulary the words: we have a ‘messaging problem.’” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) said on X/Twitter. “When over 70% percent of Americans think we are on the wrong track or headed in the wrong direction, that is not a messaging problem. That is [a] reality problem. Inflation and immigration are not ‘messaging problems.’ These are realities that produced discontent widespread enough to hand Donald Trump the presidency.”
“We ignore the real-world messages that these realities send at our own peril,” he said.
Torres also called out the far left for Trump’s victory.
“Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘From the River to the Sea’ or ‘Latinx,’” he said in a statement on X/Twitter. “There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world. The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling.”
He also blasted the left’s scapegoating for their defeat.
“Popular explanations for the outcome of the election seem to include white supremacy, patriarchy, misogyny,” he noted. "I am going to state the obvious here: vilifying voters of color as white supremacists will not attract them back to the Democratic Party. It will drive them further into Trump’s camp.”
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Everything he’s said here is spot on. Just take a look at the cities under the control of far-left politicians—they’ve been completely wrecked by misguided, “woke” policies. In these urban areas, the radical left has imposed soft-on-crime approaches that let criminals walk free, destabilizing communities and leaving law-abiding citizens vulnerable. Add to that their embrace of extreme gender ideology and a range of other progressive experiments that alienate mainstream Americans, and the results speak for themselves. Far-left policies have widened the gap between leadership and the people they serve, prioritizing ideological agendas over public safety, traditional values, and the everyday concerns of working Americans.
This election has fueled plenty of discussion about a major political realignment in the U.S. landscape. The Republican Party is becoming increasingly diverse and rooted in the working class, while the Democratic Party has shifted toward a more “woke,” elitist stance. And the results speak for themselves. Trump’s gains across various demographics underscore this shift, as does the Democrats’ tone-deaf economic messaging, which failed to resonate with middle America. Even the Democrats’ aggressive focus on abortion rights fell flat, revealing a disconnect with many voters who prioritize economic stability, public safety, and practical solutions over ideological agendas.
The question is, will the Democrats realize they need to return to sanity?
I don't think they have it in them.
