Democrats were wrecked in the last election, even though many on the Left don't even recognize that fact yet. Then again, some have:
This version of the Democratic Party, which featured the progenitor of wokeism, Obama himself, as the leading presidential campaign trail surrogate for Harris, was thoroughly rejected in November by the American people. It turns out that voters didn't really know what they were signing up for when they embarked on an extended political journey of "hope" and "change." They weren't interested -- and aren't interested -- in legitimizing the juvenile genital mutilation and chemical castration that has been euphemistically sold as "gender-affirming care." They weren't interested -- and aren't interested -- in assenting to wide-scale importation and resettlement of foreigners whose cultures and customs are antithetical to our own.Some leading Democrats do finally seem to get the memo. Former Clinton strategist James Carville, for instance, has called for Democrats to distance themselves from the excesses of woke civilizational arson. But many others disagree. There is no indication at all, for instance, that the ladies of "The View" have done any introspection: Shortly after November's electoral shellacking, cohost Sunny Hostin attributed Harris' loss to Donald Trump to "racism" and "misogyny." Surveying the left-of-center punditocracy scene, it often seems that there are far more Hostin-like voices of escalation than there are Carville-like voices of sobriety.
The battle for the heart of the Democrat party is not going to be a minor skirmish. a lot of the radicalism is now embedded in the party:
In order to recover their standing and regain lasting relevance as an electorally feasible national political party, Democrats are going to have to repudiate the entirety of their post-2008/post-Obama cultural legacy. That is the simple truth. The American people want a stable pocketbook, a stable border and a stable world stage. They're not interested in the Obama-Biden-Harris Democratic Party's idiosyncratic conception of waging a culture war.
Are Democrats up to such a challenge? The intraparty civil war is on -- but I certainly have my doubts. Unless and until they do repudiate their cultural militance, however, Democrats will continue to flounder about in irrelevance. Perhaps they'll need to get their clocks cleaned at the ballot box a few more times. That wouldn't be the worst thing.
While the civil war on the left is good news for conservatives, it does come with it's own set of risks. For example, Gavin Newsom has moved from a woke governor to suddenly rejecting wokeism in favor of a more centrist approach. Here's the problem, those who supposedly want to move back to the center were fully on board with the insanity just a few months ago. They are either being disingenuous now, or they were being disingenuous them then. Either way they are merely opportunists and clearly not interested in, or respectful of, voters. These people are at this point, more dangerous than the woke far left, who have no clue how out of touch they have become. They have destined themselves to a rump afterthought for at least a long time to come.
