Recent Defeats Have Taught Democrats Nothing
They’re about to repeat the blunder of running on “Trumpism” rather than real issues.
by David Catron
July 31, 2022, 11:24 PM
In Virginia’s 2021 gubernatorial contest Democrat Terry McAuliffe based his campaign on the fiction that Republican Glenn Youngkin was a “Trump wannabe.” McAuliffe lost in a state Biden had carried by 10 points. Six months later, in the special election held to fill Texas’ 34th Congressional District, Democrat Dan Sanchez pursued the same strategy against “Trump loyalist” Mayra Flores. Sanchez became the first Democrat in well over a century to lose in the Rio Grande Valley. These two races were just the most visible of several contests that reveal a reality the Democrats need to face.
If they wish to avoid being drowned by a red wave in November, it simply isn’t enough for Democratic candidates to call their GOP opponents “Trumpists” or “MAGA Republicans.” Americans just aren’t as obsessed with Donald Trump as the political class seems to be. Despite the best efforts of the Democrats and the corporate media to convince Americans that the former President constitutes a clear and present danger to democracy, they aren’t really changing many minds. Even the Jan. 6 show trials have failed to move the needle very much. A CNN poll conducted from July 22 to July 24 found the following:
After the eight public hearings held by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the American public’s views on the state of democracy and the threat posed to it by that event have changed little, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.… Roughly 4 in 10 overall have been closely following news about the select committee’s hearings (41%), with attention concentrated among Democrats.more
https://spectator.org/recent-defeats-have-taught-democrats-nothing/
