“Hate Over Humanity” Democrats Suffered A Blow But the GOP Is Irrevocably Lost

Why is Higgins surprised? The GOP did the same thing back in 2010 when the “establishment” GOP rolled over and let the proto-MAGAts (aka the Teabaggers) take over, all because the “establishment” GOP was afraid the Teabaggers would actually form their own party and ruin the GOP’s chances in the November elections.
EVERY “mainstream” GOPer was pretty much faced with some extremist Teabagger opponent in their primary election and forced to prove they were even more conservative than the Teabagging upstart in order to win their primaries (because, of course, it’s always the most “dedicated” members of the party–read “extremist”–who vote in the primaries while the “average” party supporter is willing to just vote for whoever wins the primary rather than helping to pick said winner; and it generally happens on the Democratic side as well). And, from there, it was just the proverbial slippery slope: Each election cycle just emboldened the far-right into pushing the right-wing even further right to the point where we’re basically dealing with a party that endorses a “take-no-prisoners” model of campaigning in which the only result is authoritarian rule.

The Leopard Eating Faces Party is going to be eating so many of ‘the wrong faces’ it will make the party unpopular. Which is so funny.

Maybe people will realize that spite is a poor reason for voting for someone?

Though with this crowd I doubt it.

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This morning I read two op-ed pieces from Sunday’s paper that I set aside to watch the Gianrs and Jets complete their collective decline and fall.

The first dealt with “The Dems’ College Problem”; written. by Joan C.Williams, director of the Equality Action Center at UC Law San Francisco. She opened by describing the reaction of a Spanish friend to her lament over Trump’s popularity as Election Day came closer: “el sa ngre no ha llegado al rio” (The blood hasn’t yet reached the river). She wrote, “Other countries have been here before, and people live and love even after far right victories”, and opined that we will survive Trump’s second term and vote them out just as Poland did in 2023. She detailed how the rise of populist support is international in scope, as workers In routine jobs watch “the hollowing out of the middle class”, declared that Trump “channels the rage of voters in routine jobs who feel left behind”, particularly in the South and Industrial Midwest.

Other points:

1) In dealing with post-COVID inflation, the focus was on its cause rather than the costs consumers faced, and while the administration focused on stimulus checks and expanded unemployment benefits, European countries focused on keeping people on the payroll. As a result, “Americans lost significantly more jobs during COVID than Europeans”.

2) A 2023 research paper estimated that nearly half the Democrats’ loss of non-college voters can be attributed to the focus on redistribution instead of good jobs, the Biden administrations job creation efforts notwithstanding.

3) Elitism backlash is a real issue. Prof. Williams quotes a modern philosopher: “Disdain for the less educated is the last acceptable prejudice”, citing a study that found U. S. grads had more bias and dislike against people who didn’t graduate college than any other stigmatized group.

The conclusion is that more than a change in messaging is needed: changed relationship between noncollege voters and liberal college grads. It won’t be easy, but the party needs to do it if it wants to win elections.

Remember, each of their votes counts the same as yours.