The timing of this is serendipitous. I’ve been writing a lot about how the purple-haired nose-ring crowd and their low-T beta male servants (wearing a dress elevates them out of that role, I think) control the party and the narrative. These are the Democrat voters gluing themselves to stuff, obstructing ICE, and showing up to vote in primaries.
The Mamdani/Sandy Cortez wing, with men in skirts, kids without genitals, and angry white female urban liberals. If they go to church, it’s a rainbow meeting of organizers led by a lesbian pastor. Not much Jesus and a whole lot of that mysterious thing they call social justice.
Democratic Moderates, the headline reads. It’s AP, so they can’t help themselves. There’s nothing democratic about Democrats or their party, and moderate is a moving target, especially on the left.
But for the sake of argument, let’s pretend that there are some who haven’t left for the right.
Leaders at Third Way’s conference talked over and over about how Democrats can’t swing too far left in the midterms, or when picking their next presidential nominee, if they have any hope of winning back the White House.
The title of the two-day, invite-only conference: “Winning the Middle.” And there was plenty of advice on how to do that.
Be plainspoken, not lofty or academic. Don’t live online, but be authentic on social media. Loosen up, and be patriotic without fear that something like the American flag or Pledge of Allegiance has been co-opted by conservatives. …
“Democrats come across as like professors, academics, elites — I mean, my God, rip off your freaking sport coat and talk to me,” said Joe Walsh, who was a tea party Republican when he represented Illinois in the U.S. House but became a Democrat last year. “Voters in general are just crying out for authenticity.”
Egg-head academicism suggests the days of Wilson and FDR, not Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. Suits, maybe, but smarts? And contrast that to the image portrayed by Democrats in the street, black-blocked Antifa thugs, or arrest videos of proglodytes handcuffed in front of federal agents. They aren’t dressed like Tom Sowell, an actual academic. And they aren’t projecting much more than resentment over things they don’t understand and can’t articulate past spittle and outrage.
Elitism, on the other hand, isn’t that baked in? How do you elevate beyond the foundation of your own party? The government, bureaucrats, and politicians know better and are committed to using force to take your money and spend it on their priorities. It’s mob family mentality. Taxes are protection money absent the protection, and there is no limit to what they will demand to fund an array of things Democrats have defended as Mr. Trump has worked to un-fund them.
Do moderate Dems defend open borders, unvetted refugees signed up for government handouts, programs meant for actual citizens? The fraud, waste, and abuse. Defundingfederal and local law enforcement. Stripping penalties for property crime that hurt minority business owners and minority communities. Drugging children against parental objections and grooming them toward sanctioned neutering and mutilation?
I get that you think Trump is your ticket. Y’all hate him so much you can win by saying his name. “In 2026, we’re going to win, because we have one great nominee, and his name is Donald Trump,” he said, meaning Trump’s unpopularity sets the stage for Democratic wins in his view.” But the Middle doesn’t hate Trump. But they are ripe for the picking in any election. And if you can find a reason to get them to show up in the midterms and vote for Democrats, you’ll win. But taking off your sports coat and pretending to be authentic will require you to be dishonest.
That’s what Mamdani did. That’s what Spanberger and Virginia Dems did. But then they dashed left, and that’s going to play heavily into every mid-term contest.
Sure, we see you pretending again. Look what that got VA and NYC? And then there’s Antifa and the AWFULS. Good luck with that? Oh, and I’m not saying you still can’t win. Republicans in Congress are doing everything they can, by which I mean nothing, to help you.
The gas spike from the Iran war might help, but I feel like Team Trump was ready for that. I’m just not sure how. And if the economy does improve over the summer and things settle down in the Middle East, you can’t run on not being Trump. You can’t run on being authentic. You can’t lean into your progressive primary voters who will choose the least moderate-looking candidate on the ballot.
You’ve got problems that only lazy Republicans can solve.
