To hear a lot of the post-election buzz from every direction, the Democratic Party has a terrible attitude problem. It’s full of arrogant elitists and self-important political consultants for whom much of America is terra incognita. Instead of recognizing why Trump voters love the man, Democrats continued to sneer at them and insult their intelligence by calling him a thug and a criminal and worse. Asked by the New York Times how her fellow Democrats had “disrespected” voters, centrist survivor congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington responded with apparent fury:
I was talking to a woman who runs one of the largest labor and delivery wards. She said 40 percent of the babies there have at least one parent addicted to fentanyl. What is empathetic — to tell them that’s their problem, or to take border security seriously? People are putting their groceries on their credit card. No one is listening to anything else you say if you try to talk them out of their lived experiences with data points from some economists.
Then she got angrier:
Sometimes I feel like people just can’t hear me, so I’m not going to bother saying it to some of these people. They’ve got to come to Jesus; I can’t make them do that. I’m very focused on here and loyal to here. What I really hope happens is we change the kinds of candidates we’re supporting. I hope that other normal people see me and decide they can run, too.
So according to this post-2024 role model, Democrats are abnormal people who blame fentanyl addicts for their problems and reject the “lived experience” of Americans.
From the opposite ideological direction, progressive icon Bernie Sanders was also spitting mad, as Time reported:
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” Sanders said in a statement released on Wednesday just before Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her concession speech. “While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
Such bad, bad people, these Democrats are! As the headline in........