How to Alienate Voters and Lose Elections American Spectator, Jul 22, 2019, David Catron
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The lesson the Democrats seem to have learned from 2016 isn’t that they failed to earn the people’s votes, but rather that the electorate didn’t deserve the benign leadership offered by their standard-bearer, Hillary Clinton. Or, as she herself put it, “I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, ‘Make America Great Again,’ was looking backwards.†One would think that, after two years of such self-flattering rationalization, the Democrats would wake up to reality and stop denigrating the people whose votes they must have to win elections.
Instead, they have managed to convince themselves that they lost in 2016 because President Trump
and his supporters are bigots. They stand on the floor of the House and refer to the president’s supporters as “just plain dumb.†Democratic representatives appear on talking-head shows and call Trump himself a racist. Democratic presidential candidates accuse him of “using race like a weapon to divide our country against itself.†They even stand in the pulpits of churches and denounce Trump and his supporters. Here is part of a January sermon delivered by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.): [...]
The Democrats would rather stick to the “deplorables†theme, to which they have now added the “America is an oppressor†talking point. Disparaging the nation as a whole is a favorite theme of the Democratic presidential candidates who want to evict Donald Trump from the White House. Pete Buttigieg, for example, recently unveiled the “bash America†theme at a South Carolina campaign rally. Referring to Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,†he handed down the following verdict: “That past that he is promising to return us to was never as great as advertised.â€
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