Let’s connect some dots. I think you’ll be surprised at what might really be behind the Democrats’ political woes. Consider all the recent bad-news headlines like this one, published
in Politico on Friday:
This morning’s post began with the Bernie Sanders stopgap, which obscures the Democrats’ historic implosion. Last week, we saw Democrats’ overall approval rating crater to 29%— and with it their hopes of permanent majority or really, any kind of majority.
How did Democrats lose so much support so quickly? I would like to offer a radical proposal: what if a lot of people agree with the Republicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court? The media is desperately trying to paint progressive voter angst as anger at their own leaders for
not fighting Trump hard enough. And it’s easy to find that kind of evidence in the progressive fever swamps of BlueSky where Trump Derangement Syndrome infection is endemic.
But what if the anger is due, at least in part, with the many betrayals of progressive ideals during the pandemic. Supposedly the party of the “working class,” the Democrats threw workers under the bus with “vaccinate or terminate” mandates. Supposedly the anti-Big Pharma party of “my body, my choice,” the Democrats forced people to take hastily approved injections they didn’t want, which is especially infuriating in the harsh hindsight that the stupid shots never worked and were basically
all risk.
How, pray tell, do you hold a party together after those Shakespearean levels of betrayal?
Worse, as President Trump pushes the limits on civil liberties, as with his perfunctory deportations of violent gang members and adjacent illegals, how can Democrats possibly reclaim the mantle of populist champions? Their hypocrisy is too profound and too recent for anyone to really take them seriously.
The pop-up popularity of Bernie Sanders and hyphenated Representative Ocasio-Cortez demonstrate a new willingness among
partisans clinging to the “Democrat” brand to bring a wrecking ball to established party orthodoxy. What dragged them to this remarkable point of
furious enthusiasm for discarding leaders like Chuck Schumer (D-NY) like soiled tissue?
Both Bernie and AOC were good little doggies who towed the party line during covid, enthusiastically endorsing mandates of all and any description. And maybe that’s why their messages aren’t resonating outside progressive partisan echo chambers.
Never let them forget.
The media prefers,
for obvious reasons, to chalk up Democrat discontent to
not opposing the President. But maybe —whether voters consciously realize it or not— it has more to do with lockdowns, passports, masks, and experimental jabs. Instead of Democrat officials’ terminating unvaccinated workers, vaccinated Democrats are terminating
them.
I believe the Democrats are reaping the bloody harvest of their pandemic excess. That is what I think is happening to them. I think the Democrats have
post-vaccine syndrome. It’s a political autoimmune disorder causing Democrats to attack their own party. And I think it will ultimately be fatal.
Bernie’s back to plug the party leak; Dems pivot messaging as panic spreads; GOP targets rogue judges; vax fallout claims a GOP star; NC court drops a jab bombshell; and much more.
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