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This sounds a lot like election denial
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âWhen the woke police come at you,â Rahm Emanuel told me, âyou donât even get your Miranda rights read to you.âI can't and will not link to NYT so I will post the article.
By Maureen Dowd
Opinion Columnist, reporting from Washington
Some Democrats are finally waking up and realizing that woke is broke.
Donald Trump won a majority of white women and remarkable numbers of Black and Latino voters and young men.
Democratic insiders thought people would vote for Kamala Harris, even if they didnât like her, to get rid of Trump. But more people ended up voting for Trump, even though many didnât like him, because they liked the Democratic Party less.
I have often talked about how my dad stayed up all night on the night Harry Truman was elected because he was so excited. And my brother stayed up all night the first time Trump was elected because he was so excited. And I felt that Democrats would never recover that kind of excitement until they could figure out why they had turned off so many working-class voters over the decades, and why they had developed such disdain toward their once loyal base.
Democratic candidates have often been avatars of elitism â Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and second-term Barack Obama. The party embraced a worldview of hyper-political correctness, condescension and cancellation, and it supported diversity statements for job applicants and faculty lounge terminology like âLatinx,â and âBIPOCâ (Black, Indigenous, People of Color).
This alienated half the country, or more. And the chaos and antisemitism at many college campuses certainly didnât help.
âWhen the woke police come at you,â Rahm Emanuel told me, âyou donât even get your Miranda rights read to you.â
There were a lot of Democrats âbarking,â people who âdonât represent anybody,â he said, and âthe leadership of the party was intimidated.â
Donald Trump played to the irritation of many Americans disgusted at being regarded as insensitive for talking the way theyâd always talked. At rallies, he referred to women as âbeautifulâ and then pretended to admonish himself, saying heâd get in trouble for using that word. Heâd also call women âdarlingâ and joke that he had to be careful because his political career could be at risk.
One thing that makes Democrats great is that they unabashedly support groups that have suffered from inequality. But they have to begin avoiding extreme policies that alienate many Americans who would otherwise be drawn to the party.
Democrats learned the hard way in this election that mothers care both about abortion rights and having their daughters compete fairly and safely on the playing field.
A revealing chart that ran in The Financial Times showed that white progressives hold views far to the left of the minorities they champion. White progressives think at higher rates than Hispanic and Black Americans that âracism is built into our society.â Many more Black and Hispanic Americans surveyed, compared with white progressives, responded that âAmerica is the greatest country in the world.â
Gobsmacked Democrats have reacted to the wipeout in different ways. Some think Kamala did not court the left enough, touting trans rights and repudiating Israel.
Other Democrats feel the opposite, calling on the party to reimagine itself.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a vulnerable Democrat in a red congressional district in Washington, narrowly held her seat. The 36-year-old mother of a toddler and owner of an auto shop told The Timesâs Annie Karni that Democratic condescension has to go. âThereâs not one weird trick thatâs going to fix the Democratic Party,â she said. âIt is going to take parents of young kids, people in rural communities, people in the trades running for office and being taken seriously.â
Representative Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the party needs rebranding. âDemocrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone,â he said. âI have two little girls. I donât want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat Iâm supposed to be afraid to say that.â
On CNN, the Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky said that Democrats did not know how to talk to normal Americans.
Addressing Latinos as âLatinxâ to be politically correct âmakes them think that we donât even live on the same planet as they do,â she said. âWhen we are too afraid to say that âHey, college kids, if youâre trashing a campus of Columbia University because you arenât happy about some sort of policy and youâre taking over a university and youâre trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that that is unacceptable.â But weâre so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we donât know what to say.â
Kamala, a Democratic lawmaker told me, made the âcolossal mistakeâ of running a billion-dollar campaign with celebrities like BeyoncĂ© when many of the struggling working-class voters she wanted couldnât even afford a ticket to a BeyoncĂ© concert, much less a down payment on a home.
âI donât think the average person said, âKamala Harris gets what Iâm going through,ââ this Democrat said.
Kamala, who sprinted to the left in her 2020 Democratic primary campaign, tried to move toward the center for this election, making sure to say sheâd shoot an intruder with her Glock. But it sounded tinny.
The Trump campaignâs most successful ad showed Kamala favoring tax-funded gender surgery for prisoners. Bill Clinton warned in vain that she should rebut it.
James Carville gave Kamala credit for not leaning into her gender and ethnicity. But he said the party had become enamored of âidentitarianismâ â a word he uses because he wonât say âwokeâ â radiating the repellent idea that âidentity is more important than humanity.â
âWe could never wash off the stench of it,â he said, calling âdefund the policeâ âthe three stupidest words in the English language.â
âItâs like when you get smoke on your clothes and you have to wash them again and again. Now people are running away from it like the devil runs away from holy water.â
NV passed a resolution this year to require ID. So at least that should help in the future. I'm not sure what that means for mail in voting, but hopefully it ends that option. It passed with a 73% approval.Pennsylvania and Nevada don't require voter ID.
@madman71, here's the full text of the question that passed.NV passed a resolution this year to require ID. So at least that should help in the future. I'm not sure what that means for mail in voting, but hopefully it ends that option. It passed with a 73% approval.
Wait til income taxes go down, or get eliminated all together!This may be bad news for a lot of charter schools. Donât they receive federal grants?
Iâm all for it, just curious
This sounds a lot like election denial
Working with Rumsfeld concerns me.
Wait til income taxes go down, or get eliminated all together!
We'll have so much income have so much income we'll be able to fund private education like they did back in the 1950's!
Well if it isnât Mark Zaid
Emailed Moran this morning telling him he's already got 1 strike against him in verifying the 2020 election. Don't screw this up for the American people.Sent an email to Hawley to bully him telling him heâd better vote Maga for majority leader. Also tried to all his office. Was on hold for a long time. Couldnât leave a message either because his mailbox is full. Sounds like my fellow Missourians are lighting him up.
Got into the Basilica but the Dome was locked.That's awesome. Glad you had a good time. Did you get a chance to go inside the Dome or Basilica?
To me he sounds like a really solid person and he is a former Special Forces soldier. I am reading one of his books right now.Anyone know anything about this guy? Being in Florida we can get another MAGA house rep
Plus he was badass in helping those out in NC and Fl with Cory MillsTo me he sounds like a really solid person and he is a former Special Forces soldier. I am reading one of his books right now.
Thatâs my point, you canât tell anymore.99% chance that is parody. but 1% that is a truly delusional fucking commie....sad that you can't tell anymore.
Sent an email to Hawley to bully him telling him heâd better vote Maga for majority leader. Also tried to all his office. Was on hold for a long time. Couldnât leave a message either because his mailbox is full. Sounds like my fellow Missourians are lighting him up.