How Did Democrats Become So Out of Touch With the American People? by Josh Hammer

[mystery-ak]

 How Did Democrats Become So Out of Touch With the American People?
Either they have no clue how bad their policies are or they just don’t care.
by Josh Hammer
July 21, 2022, 11:38 PM

The president of the United States, equal parts senescent and feckless, garners record-shattering low approval ratings seemingly each week. This week, a new Quinnipiac University survey found that a paltry 31 percent of Americans approve of the way Joe Biden is handling his job. Among political independents, that number is, somehow, considerably lower: 23 percent approval, compared with 67 percent disapproval. Overall, nearly three-quarters of Americans hope that Biden does not seek a second term in office.

It is not difficult to figure out why. The republic is not in good shape. Unforced foreign policy blunders, such as the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, embarrass America on the world stage. Our homeland territorial integrity has never been more undermined, as a wide-open southern border permits an unprecedented flow of smugglers, traffickers, and other miscreants. Homicide and other violent crime, which skyrocketed in the 2020 “summer of love” riots, continue to spike; the New York City subway is unsafe, and Chicago is a veritable war zone. Mobocracy runs amok; a sitting Supreme Court justice just faced a near-assassination attempt. Inflation, now over 9 percent and smacking those lower on the economic ladder, is at a four-decade high; the national average for gasoline is well over $4 per gallon.

Yet, amidst these remarkable challenges confronting the American people, the Biden administration and Democratic Party elites would rather focus on the overarching imperatives of climate change hysteria, abortion up until birth, and a faraway war in Eastern Europe that has become utterly disconnected from the American national interest. This raises the obvious, but nonetheless crucial, question: How, exactly, did modern Democrats become this out of touch with the American people?

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[Smokin Joe]

In 25 words or less? They started believing their own bullshit.
Then they got greedy.

[andy58-in-nh]

The author asks the question, and never really answers it, although he does so indirectly at the very end of the article by reference to  "certain Upper West Side and West Hollywood voting precincts".

The answer is that the party has become captive to an incredibly narrow, but highly influential segment of the American population.

America's wealthy and largely coastal elites are today a clearly identifiable class.

They overwhelmingly dominate the administrative bureaucracy, academia, the news media, and virtually all of our social, cultural and entertainment institutions.

They live in the same urban or suburban centers, go to the same schools, and marry each other.

Increasingly, they know personally not a soul outside of their class, and rarely engage with outsiders, except to denigrate or mock them.

And huge numbers of this class are members of the Democrat party.

[Fishrrman]

Andy observed:
"America's wealthy and largely coastal elites are today a clearly identifiable class.
They overwhelmingly dominate the administrative bureaucracy, academia, the news media, and virtually all of our social, cultural and entertainment institutions.
They live in the same urban or suburban centers, go to the same schools, and marry each other."

Have you been eatin' lunch with Charles Murray...?

See his book "Coming Apart" (published back around 2011 or so).
It proffers exactly your argument above...

[sneakypete]

@mystery-ak


"Become" out of touch with the people?

They were NEVER in touch with the people.

They are all communist dictators at heart,and they will tell any lie they have to tell in order to gain the ultimate power they seek.