Voters under 30, especially young men, broke blue because they did not sense that Republicans were addressing the cost of living. Their mistake was twofold. First, they did, but it takes time; second, they were tricked into thinking Democrats could help them.
The war in Iran is also a big deal that Dems capitalized on, but voters want it to end because they think it will make gas cheaper. Hormuz no longer has much to do with the cost of oil and gasoline, thanks to Mr. Trump, but like the affordability argument, most of them either don’t know that or simply can’t be expected to sit through a discussion explaining those real-world facts.
In other words, democrats lied, paid influencers, created a massive rapid-fire grassroots effort on failed affordability, and it worked. They won big all over, but what happens when they don’t deliver because they can’t?
Americans will suffer, and depending on the state, for years to come, and that may not be as bad for the rest of us because now that artificial pressure is off (Democrats won!), the economy will continue to naturally get better. Democrats will take some credit, and some will succeed, but they aren’t going to do or propose anything to improve affordability, and where they have unfettered power, they will make it worse.
Because that’s all they know how to do.
They are also obsessed with punishing Trump and anyone who said his name without a sneer, and polling tells us they couldn’t care less about that.
CNN on Wednesday tried to send a message to Democrats in a story titled “The danger for Democrats in investigating Trump,” stating that Democrats “confront some risk in looking like they are overly consumed with investigating President Donald Trump and his administration.”
Citing a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted shortly after the election, a series of options were presented to voters about the first 100 day priorities of Democrats’ new majorities.
First, it’s CNN. If they are concerned enough to share the message, it’s a problem for the pro-Golems.
Second, investigating Trump is tied for last on the list of things voters wanted from Democrats now that they control Congress.
“Out of eight options, investigating the Trump administration was about tied for the lowest priority. It ranked far behind things like lowering prices, ending the Iran war and regulating artificial intelligence. It even ranked behind immigration reform,” the article stated.
Both polls show an overwhelming consensus believe that lowering costs, bringing the Iran conflict to an end, and even finding common ground between the two parties are higher priorities than investigating the Trump administration.
Team Blue isn’t having it. This is a fantasy come to life (again). The only thing Democrats love more than power is revenge. If you can use the government to get it, there’s nothing better. So, here we are. Americans turned out to vote for affordability, but it’s not something Democrats know how to do.
The closest they can get is to steal money from the job creators and investors as a band-aid to hide price increases. That has a limited area of effect for a short duration, while the theft has a much larger blast radius and does long-term damage. The only card in their hand ultimately makes everything worse for more people.
They can investigate the Epstein investigation, but any new dumps will have to be filtered to protect their own, and the Trump Admin can counter that by declassifying documents the left didn’t release.
Democrats can probably pass resolutions on Iran, and I’d love to see Congress rein in decades of war without a declaration, but I think Trump’s people have a plan for that.
Corruption? Political targeting as cover for corruption investigations is as likely to expose more of theirs, and they have a lot more of it if the fraud investigations are any indication – and they can’t stop those. They are almost exclusively in blue states, and it’s a bad look.
Which leaves them with using up all their bandwidth and political capital investigating Trump and whoever they can, in their zeal, drag before Congress.
And according to this polling, that’s at the bottom of the list of priorities.
