WHEN YOU’RE A LEFTIST WHO’S LOST MAUREEN DOWD…: Democrats and the Case of Mistaken Identity Politics.
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 Times’s Annie Karni that Democratic condescension has to go. “There’s not one weird trick that’s going to fix the Democratic Party,” she said. “It is going to take parents of young kids, people in rural communities, people in the trades running for office and being taken seriously.”
Representative Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the party needs rebranding. “Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone,” he said. “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”
On CNN, the Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky said that Democrats did not know how to talk to normal Americans.
Addressing Latinos as “Latinx” to be politically correct “makes them think that we don’t even live on the same planet as they do,” she said. “When we are too afraid to say that ‘Hey, college kids, if you’re trashing a campus of Columbia University because you aren’t happy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that that is unacceptable.’ But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we don’t know what to say.”
Kamala, a Democratic lawmaker told me, made the “colossal mistake” of running a billion-dollar campaign with celebrities like Beyoncé when many of the struggling working-class voters she wanted couldn’t even afford a ticket to a Beyoncé concert, much less a down payment on a home.
And Camp Kamala sympathizes; they allegedly couldn’t even afford Alanis Morrissette tickets!
Sources close to the campaign revealed to The Post that the funds spent on these concerts have drained the campaign’s coffers. The campaign’s financial woes were hinted at earlier when they canceled a planned performance by ’90s alt-rock icon Alanis Morissette, reportedly in a bid to save money.
C’mon, you know you want to say it:
Canadian Alanis Morissette had to cancel giving her support to Kamala Harris because the check would not clear.
Isn’t that ironic. pic.twitter.com/Fcvmrq9euy— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) November 10, 2024
But seriously, Dowd’s column is nice, although obviously it would have had far more impact prior to election Tuesday. But when will the Times’ newsroom stop being a permanent Maoist struggle session and start reflecting the worldview of most Americans?