Democrat Post Election Thoughts

Shrinking the continuing resolution from 1,547 pages to 118 pages is a major victory for President Trump and shows that the election did matter and he is really the de facto President while President Biden was absent and passive. A good start to real change in Washington!" —Newt Gingrich

By Robin Itzler

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Some Democrats believe that the only way their party can win future national elections is by going even further to the left. Others reflect that the party lost its way by ignoring kitchen table issues while focusing on DEI, illegal aliens and transgenders. Here are some views from Democrats on their party’s historic November loss. 

• New York Democrat Representative Ritchie Torres; X "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.’ 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." 
• Tad Devine, Democratic strategist who has worked on numerous presidential campaigns; Wall Street Journal interview “There is no (Democrat) leadership now at the highest level. The midterms will help the Democratic Party start to figure out where it needs to go.” 
• Donna Brazile, former interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee; Wall Street Journal interview “If you ask 10 Democrats, you’re going to get 12 different opinions. I don’t think this is about countering Donald Trump and the Republicans; it’s about rebuilding a brand that is durable and reaches people.” 
• Ken Martin, a longtime chairman of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a front-runner for the DNC chairmanship; Wall Street Journal interview “While we resist, we also have to rebrand.” 
• Lindy Li, former top Democrat fundraiser “Leaving the Democratic Party or even questioning the Democratic Party is like leaving a cult. It’s terrifying. I don’t want to be a part of this craziness. …Democrats have a stench of loser hanging over them.” 
•  < Joe Manchin, outgoing West Virginia Senator (15 years); former Democrat, now Independent; CNN interview “The D-brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of, it’s just, it’s toxic.” 
• Max Burns, veteran Democratic strategist and founder of Third Degree Strategies — “Democrats Have Learned Nothing From Their Election Loss;” The Hill “The same Democrats who oversaw last month’s bruising electoral loss have not only returned to their leadership positions, they are more firmly embedded than ever. Just ask Sen. Chuck Schumer who was unanimously (!) reelected to his role as Democratic leader despite helping author a Senate campaign strategy that cost his party the majority. Or don’t ask him: Schumer has so far avoided answering any tough questions from the press about what went wrong, what he’s learned or what he plans to change going forward.” 
• Lis Smith, Democrat Communications Strategist; New York Times "The Democratic brand is in the toilet. Many of the Democrats who succeeded this cycle — our best over-performers in House races, for instance — are people who ran against the Democratic Party brand. Trump tore down the blue wall in the industrial Midwest, but he also expanded his vote the most in our bluest and most urban areas." 
• Democrat Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman; ABC News This Week Discussing how Kamala Harris and many Democrats tried labeling Donald Trump as a fascist. "Fascism, that's not a word that regular people, you know, use, you know? I think people are going to decide who is the candidate that's going to protect and project, you know, my version of the American way of life, and that's what happened."  "If you're rooting against the president (Trump), you are rooting against the nation. So, country first. I know that's become maybe like a cliche, but it happens to be true." 

 Just a thought, since no one reads these 1500 page bills, can't we slip in term limits?