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| 2024-07-23 | |
However, those historical parallels aren't confined to 1968 alone. The crossroads that democrats find themselves at now echoes the position the republican party found itself in during the wake of the Obama administration in which it founds itself needing to cultivate a new identity to shed itself of the stigma its previous leadership had mired it in. While the bombastic leadership of Donald Trump ushered in that sea change in 2016 by reshaping the neoconservative political platform republicans were rooted in into the direction of a populist one, the radical platform the democratic party has embedded itself in up to 2024 makes its chances of re-branding itself into something more palatable for the American electorate even more unlikely than even the unforeseen outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Despite the proven track record of success the modus operandi moderate Democratic leadership has given its party for the better part of the last 3 decades, the direction it has gone in since 2020 makes returning to that strategy untenable. For the modern democratic voter, allegiance to policy making promoting transgenderism, DEI, and an open border has become so ingrained in their political consciousness that the party nominating a moderate candidate like Manchin would likely result in abysmal voter turnout. That reaction from Democratic voters would offset any gains it would stand to make by garnering votes from RINO voters who share liberal's obsession with doing whatever it possible to upend Donald Trump, regardless of the cost. The toll that has taken appears to finally have come due as the Democratic Party's apparent decision to double-down on the radical political platform that has been the cornerstone of a presidential administration with some of the lowest approval ratings in history by investing itself in Kamala Harris as the future of the party. That decision has snuffed out any rekindled optimism of their chances to name a candidate like Manchin who could serve as a competent adversary to Donald Trump in the wake of Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 race. Harris becoming the presumptive nominee doesn't just represent a capitulation for democrats in 2024 and the near future. It also represents the urgent need for the party to self-reflect and grow into something other than what it has become if it hopes to have any future at all. The challenge that exists there is that the electorate it has cultivated is so hyper-radicalized that the voting base the Democratic Party hinges on is one that is innately obstinate, refusing to even concede the most radically polarizing positions of its ideology. By fostering that impetuous political consciousness, building a more moderate Democratic Party that can act in the interest of the American public instead of its radical ideologues seems as hopeless as the party's chances heading into election day. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |