Timothy Birdnow

A Democratic strategist admits the Donkey Party has lost men and won't be getting them back any time soon.

As he points out the Democrats are clueless about their once traditional power base and are studying them as if they were some exotic species. As he points out the simple solution is to go and hang out with them. But the elitist snobs in the part would never so sully themselves as to do THAT.

In point of fact the Democrats were never the party of the working class, much less middle class. They were good at talking the talk, and they doled out tax money paid by those workers back to them to buy their votes. Oh, and they owned the labor unions, and so many blue collar workers took what the unions said as gospel.

Eventually their duplicity caught up with the Democrats. Blue collar workers were destroyed by so many policies of the Demo-left. Unrestrained immigration, for one, obviously took American jobs and yet the champions of the working man kept pushing for it. Inflation particularly hurt the working class. DEI and "gender" promotions disgusted the working class, who are nothing if not normals (generally you have to be when you work for a living; there isn't time to play these little games.) They didn't want weak national security. They didn't want to become second class citizens in their own country. They didn't want to not be able to, say, start their own business if they chose because of overregulation. They did not want to have their neighborhoods overrun with thugs and criminals as the Biden Administration sought to integrate all neighborhoods, moving thugs into public housing next door to good working folks. They didn't want rampant crime.

It goes on and on. But the Democrats can no longer stop the runaway train of offenses because their coalition was never that strong and there were different groups tugging this way and that. It held together far longer than it ever should because the media helped tampe down anger and were able to gin up fear of the Republicans. But it was the Boy Who Cried Wolf and the working class has now seen that voting Republican didn't lead to the monopoly man lighting his cigars with $100 bills while they lived in tarpapre shacks. The GOP turned out to not be the ogres they always beleived them to be.

All the Democrats can do now is another round of "how do we fool 'em today?" when the trust is irrevocably broken.

I'm sure they may make some headway at some point but I suspect they've lost the male vote for good - and the working class vote. And the Middle Class vote.

This mirrors what happened in the '30's when so man y groups became vassals of the Democratic Party. Blacks had always voted Republican until Roosevelt, for instance; after all it was the GOP that freed blacks. But the GOP took those voters for granted and became obsessed with the monied class. The black people heard Roosevelt and liked what he said. He was going to give people money and when you are poor that's hard to resist. The black community flipped to the Democratic Party and stayed there to the present day. Only now they are starting to wake up to the fact the Democrats don't care about them either.

So big flips DO happen and Roosevelt flipped much of the country. The Roosevelt coalition is finally coming to an end thanks to the radicalization of his party. Roosevelt may have had socialistic tendencies but he never openly advocated for it. The current crop of Democrats have eschewed any pretense they are American. They are international socialists and want to PUNISH Americans. Americans don't like that.

So let us be careful not to alienate this block of voters. I doubt the Dems will get them back, but they will if the GOP returns to it's vomit like a dog and starts promoting the things that the Democrats promote as well.

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