Did you hear the one about the “common sense, pragmatic” Democrats who stood up to the far-left cabal within their own party?

No? Neither did I.

And neither, apparently, has Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), who posted on X right after the election: “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.”

Torres, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is correct in his assessment. But his needed criticism of the far-left wing of his party, and the mistakes the leadership of his party continually make by giving that “woke” splinter-group such an outsized and continual voice, misses a much larger problem. A growing number of voters from within the communities the Democrats have counted on for victory are now buying into the “Trump Doctrine.”

It can certainly be argued that many of those voters from those traditional Democratic blocs — minorities, the blue-collar working class, rank-and-file union members, young moms, Gen Z and the poor and........

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