Ex-Democrat: How My Get together Misplaced Me
“I’ve raised at the least $50 million for the left,” remembers Evan Barker at The Free Press, however “on Tuesday, I voted for Donald Trump.”
“What’s tragic is that there are so few within the Democratic Get together capable of talk with the working class and serve their pursuits successfully.”
And one who does, Sen. John Fetterman, “is now spurned by the elite left” as “an abomination and a traitor to their left very best — he helps Israel, in spite of everything, and goes on Joe Rogan’s podcast.”
However “the ultimate straw was Oprah Winfrey’s tone-deaf speech” on the Dem conference: “A bigger than life Hollywood billionaire” who “mentioned nothing that spoke to the Individuals who had as soon as constituted the Democratic base.”
Backside line: “The Democratic Get together turned its again on me and my household lengthy earlier than I turned my again on it.”
Liberal: Dems Should Return to Normalcy
This election, laments the Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira, confirmed that Democrats are “now not the celebration of the frequent man and girl.”
Kamala Harris did worse in opposition to Donald Trump than did Joe Biden in 2020 amongst ladies, males and non-whites.
Trump tripled his margin amongst non-college voters, whereas “Democrat help amongst voters beneath 30 collapsed.”
To recuperate, Dems’ stances should enchantment to “normie voters”: “Equality of alternative,” not consequence, is “basic.” Racism “just isn’t the reason for all disparities.” “Border safety is vastly essential.” “Areas restricted to organic ladies” must be “preserved.”
Uniting round such concepts would make the Democratic Get together “way more interesting” to the thousands and thousands now leaving it behind.
Analyst: Trump’s Inclusive GOP Coalition
Donald Trump is commonly accused of being “a racist, sexist, homophobic bigot,” notes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, but “now we’ve had an election, and it seems Trump assembled a broad and various group of supporters.”
“Examine the exit polls from Tuesday’s election” with these from Mitt Romney’s run in opposition to then- President Barack Obama: “In 2012, Romney gained 59% of white voters. In 2024, Trump gained 57% of white voters. In 2012, Romney gained 6% of black voters. In 2024, Trump gained 13% of them. In 2012, Romney gained 27% of Latino voters. In 2024, Trump gained 46% of them.”
Exit polls present Trump additionally made beneficial properties with youthful voters, and drew better range of revenue ranges.
“Now the query is how a lot of an enduring change Trump has made within the Republican Get together.”
Conservative: Watch Progs Blame the Voters
In reelecting Donald Trump, “Individuals have strongly rebuked Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden and their progressive concepts,” argues USA Right this moment’s Nicole Russell.
“Trump’s lopsided victory — and the lengthy record of wins by different Republicans throughout the nation — ought to ship a chilling message to the Democratic Get together.”
Gaslighting failed as little of what the Democrats “mentioned mirrored Individuals’ experiences on the economic system, immigration, the border and abortion.”
Now progressives insist, contemptuously, that “Individuals who voted for Trump have given up on the democratic course of that returned him to the White Home.”
No: As CNN analyst Scott Jennings put it, Trump’s victory was “the revenge of simply the common, ole working-class American, who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to.”
From the proper: Voters Trusted Don on the Points
“In 2024’s issues-versus-intangibles election, the problems gained out,” as “the voters was deeply dissatisfied with the established order,” explains Jeffrey H. Anderson at Metropolis Journal.
Some 75% ” of voters mentioned inflation has precipitated ‘hardship’ for his or her household,” and 68% “described the economic system as ‘not so good’ or ‘poor.’”
In the meantime, 11% “described immigration because the ‘most essential problem,’” and Trump gained 90% of them.
“Harris tried to attain the trick of working because the ‘change’ candidate,” but the 28% “of voters who mentioned that they largely wished somebody who might ‘carry wanted change’ went to Trump by a three-to-one margin,” and voters who “mentioned that the candidate high quality that mattered most was the ‘potential to steer,’” supported Trump “by a two-to-one margin.”
— Compiled by The Submit Editorial Board
