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Yes, he\u2019s a lifelong D\u5350M\u262dCRAT, but he nonetheless does seem to have at least some<\/em> sense\u2014against all odds, expectations, and precedent.<\/p>\n

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Voters Sent Democrats a Clear Message. They Don\u2019t Want to Hear It.<\/a><\/strong>
Many senior Democrats have decided to ignore the fact that the party is out of touch on a range of cultural issues like race, gender, and immigration.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the wake of the Democrats\u2019 drubbing at the hands of Donald Trump and the GOP, you\u2019d assume the party would be all-in on a fundamental rethink, starting with some serious soul-searching on how the party came to be so out of sync with the majority of America on key cultural questions.<\/p>\n

Questions like: Is America a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d society? Is it racist to question levels of immigration? Are citing one\u2019s personal pronouns necessary? Is anyone who questions the differences between trans women from biological women a bigot who should be expunged from polite society? For each of these questions, the answer for the overwhelming majority of Americans is an obvious no. But in elite Democratic circles, it\u2019s a different story. For a party pondering its unpopularity, you might think that this gap would be a good place to start.<\/p>\n

Well, if the six weeks since the election is anything to go by, you\u2019d be wrong. Instead, much of the party is maneuvering to change as little as possible on the cultural front. Why? Because many of today\u2019s Democrats are culture denialists<\/em>. That is, they do not consider cultural issues to be real<\/em> issues. Instead, they see them as fictions, distractions, or expressions of bigotry that are to be opposed, not indulged.<\/p>\n

Consider Greg Casar, the new chair of the powerful Congressional Progressive Caucus. In a recent interview with NBC News, Casar urged the Democrats to \u201cre-emphasize core economic issues every time some of these cultural war issues are brought up.\u201d He said that \u201cwhen we hear Republicans attacking queer Americans again, I think the progressive response needs to be that a trans person didn\u2019t deny your health insurance claim, a big corporation did\u2014with Republican help.\u201d Casar said that \u201cthe Republican Party obsession\u201d with culture war issues is \u201cdriven by Republicans\u2019 desire to distract voters and have them look away while Republicans pick their pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n

Massachusetts Democratic representative Jim McGovern echoed Casar\u2019s thoughts recently with this rhetoric about Republicans: \u201cThey want to blame trans people? Guess what? Trans people aren\u2019t the ones raising people\u2019s grocery prices. Big corporations are.\u201d Republicans, he added, \u201cwant to blame immigrants…Immigrants aren\u2019t the ones denying health insurance claims…it\u2019s the billion-dollar insurance companies that do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Get it? These aren\u2019t real<\/em> issues. They\u2019re just distractions ginned up by Republicans for nefarious political purposes. The logical conclusion of this argument is that Democrats don\u2019t need to actually change their position<\/em> on any \u201cculture war\u201d issue. Instead, they just need to change the subject<\/em> and talk about mustache-twirling corporate villains.<\/p>\n

If the Democrats\u2019 liability on a range of cultural issues is so clear, why do so many party members refuse to admit the obvious problem?<\/p>\n

Part of the answer is a fear of \u201cthe groups\u201d\u2014the advocacy nonprofits that push so many of these radical policies. (Harris stated her support for public funding for transgender surgeries for undocumented immigrants in an ACLU survey in 2019.) Point out the obvious, and you will face an onslaught of criticism from the groups and their allies across social and mainstream media, foundations, academia, think tanks, and within the Democratic Party infrastructure itself.<\/p>\n

But the issue goes deeper than fear. Far too many Democrats simply believe they are on the \u201cright side of history\u201d when it comes to policies around immigration, crime, race, and trans issues.<\/p>\n

This mistaken assumption has been a disaster for the party. Voters overwhelmingly believe illegal immigration is wrong and should be deterred\u2014not indulged. They believe crimes should be punished and public safety is sacrosanct. They believe, like Martin Luther King Jr., that people should \u201cnot be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,\u201d and therefore oppose discrimination on the basis of race no matter who benefits from that discrimination. They believe biological sex is real, that spaces limited to biological women in areas like sports and prisons should be preserved, and that medical treatments like drugs and surgery are serious interventions that should not be available simply on the basis of declared gender identity, especially for children.<\/p>\n

These issues reflect deeply held beliefs and values and are vitally important to ordinary voters, especially working-class voters. They are not distractions, or fake issues, or nonfactors in the election. So far, even the screamingly obvious implications of this last election have not been enough to shock the party out of its denialist torpor. Until they wake up, Democrats are doomed to repeat the mistakes of 2024.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Doomed they certainly should be. But even that doesn\u2019t go far enough. In the final analysis, the criminal organization masquerading as a political party known as the D\u5350M\u262dCRATs of right ought to be outlawed and demolished, until not one party-HQ brick is left standing upon another. Over many years, the feckless sewer-crawlers have willfully forsaken all contact with reason, rationality, and even reality itself. Call it end-stage Leftism if you will, because that’s precisely what it is.<\/p>\n

That being so, the D\u5350M\u262dCRAT \u201cParty” no longer has any rightful place amongst decent, upright, and somewhat-free people. No longer can they lay claim to being \u201cthe loyal opposition,\u201d except in jest; assuming that they ever were, it\u2019s plain that they are no such thing now. They are truly, literally, and indisputably The Enemy\u00a9\u2014deceitful, dangerous, depraved, and demented. Continued toleration of their existence as a national organization amounts to a serious blot on the American escutcheon.<\/p>\n

Their ultimate goal, openly and boastfully professed instead of the studiously-kept secret it was until recently, is nothing short of the utter destruction of absolutely anything and everything that Real Americans have historically believed, reverenced, and held dear:<\/p>\n