It looks like the NeverTrump grifters are going to have to find a new line of work.
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was a guest on MSNBC this morning, where they are conducting postmortems on Kamala’s epic failure Tuesday so fast that it could be mistaken for an episode of Dexter. Psaki made many content points, the most central of which was the degree to which the Democrats misread the electorate and substituted what amounts to X, formerly Twitter, trolling for politics.
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Jen Psaki: Harris Team Embraced The Republicans Who Left Trump Instead Of People Leaving The Democratic Party
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“There was an over-listening to and an over-lifting up of people who left Trump, not people who left the Democratic Party. The people who… pic.twitter.com/RsuU9lnKNR
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JEN PSAKI: I’ve also been reflecting on all of the things that the party got wrong. It’s an important moment to reflect and be humble about that and also be curious as to why.
We completely misread abortion politics in this country. What I mean by that is not that it isn’t an issue people deeply care about — they clearly do. Those seven referendums are an example of that. But millions of people in this country voted for Donald Trump, a person who put in place the people on the Supreme Court who overturned abortion rights, and also voted to protect abortion rights. That was a huge misread.
The other thing I think Democrats and people who voted for Harris, and are scared about Trump, should be sober and curious about is why people moved toward Trump and why Democrats did not turn out for Kamala Harris and the Democrats. There were many headwinds here. There’s sexism, there’s racism. All of that is true.
But I hope there’s a real question about who people are listening to. In my view, there was an over-listening to and an over-lifting up of people who left Trump, not to people who left the Democratic Party. The people who left the Democratic Party are the ones who are going to win in the future. The Never Trumpers have important voices, but that’s not the winning coalition.
The last thing I’ll say, because I’ve been thinking about this a lot, part of that piece — the who you’re listening to — is also this argument, and you just touched on this, Mika, about fascism. Fascism and the threat to democracy is a huge issue in this country. Journalists should talk about it. It is not a good closing message to reach the masses of the country. People don’t relate to it. It’s not something they understand.
Okay, I said that was the last thing, but the last thing is this: there are moments — I know Joe was talking about this earlier. I worked for John Kerry when he lost to President Bush. That was a real “how did that happen” moment. I worked when the Democrats won back the House. That was two years later. Then I worked for Barack Obama, who no one would have bet was going to be the next nominee or president. As lost as people feel, a vacuum is an opportunity to rethink, to be curious, to be humble. I think people are feeling hopeful. Ten people will emerge. That’s what we will also see in the months ahead.
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The cartoon lightbulb finally came on, “The people who left the Democratic Party are the ones who are going to win in the future. The Never Trumpers have important voices, but that’s not the winning coalition.”
As the exit polls showed, the Democrats are bleeding support among Hispanics, Black men, young voters, and even, as hard as it is to believe, the “soccer mom” demographic. NeverTrump, like Repubicans for Harris or White Dudes for Harris, was only ever an online troll of the GOP. They had no ideas, their sole organizing principle other than a professed monomaniacal disdain for Trump and his supporters, was drifting money off deep-pocket progressive donors…along with the occasional bouts of pedophilia and adultery. Of course, they never had any place outside of a downscale carnival sideshow.
Psaki is right, pushing that clown car to the front while ignoring the grievances that caused a Democrat +60 county with 97% Hispanic population into a R+16 county; see Trump’s Victory May Herald a Fundamental Reordering of American Politics.
