The party weighs why its message produced a 2024 election wipeout.

Much ink has been spilled trying to make sense of President Trump’s landslide victory. Explanations ranging from misogyny and racism to Joe Biden’s belated exit are both overly simplistic and lacking introspection, but perfectly encapsulate the increasingly small echo chamber dominated by Beltway insiders. Early on, Trump labeled Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party as failed, weak, and dangerously liberal. The question Democrats must now honestly grapple with is: was he right?

Elections are a referendum on the party in power and nearly every poll told us that (COVID aside), Americans feel worse off than four years ago. Telling those same Americans not to believe their lying eyes was arrogant and condescending, indicative of a Democratic Party that has become dominated by elitists and divorced from the realities of the people they purport to represent. When you are bleeding Hispanics, the youth, Jewish, urban and union vote, and even those in AOC’s district it’s you: You’re the problem.

The number one issue was – as it almost always is – the economy. But Harris’ campaign instead focused almost singularly on abortion. And while Biden’s American Rescue Plan inarguably propelled our rapid post-COVID recovery, it also resulted in the largest jump in consumer prices in decades. Housing stock in short supply caused rent to soar, gas prices remained at record highs, and heightened interest rates made homeownership unattainable. Democrats touted jobs numbers while ignoring that real wages stagnated (and briefly declined) and trumpeted record-breaking numbers on wall street, ignoring that to most the Dow Jones has virtually no impact on day-to-day spending power.

Taken together, the 2024 election revealed........

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