THE HILL
"To correct course, Democrats need to listen and change the way they talk to voters."
The Democrats Committed Suicide This Year
Nov 13, 2024 JAMES K. GALBRAITH
"Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump because she received around ten million fewer votes than Joe Biden did in 2020. The Democratic Party leadership was, at best, indifferent to the erosion of voting access, negligent in retaining newer voters, and proactive in marginalizing what remained of its left wing."
The Trump Shock Is the Democrats’ Fault
Nov 12, 2024 DARON ACEMOGLU
"While the Democrats have won some recent elections with support from Silicon Valley, minorities, trade unions, and professionals in large cities, this coalition was never sustainable. The party has become culturally disconnected from, and disdainful of, precisely the voters it needs to win."
Time Magazine
"Mere hours after it became clear that Donald Trump was going to beat Kamala Harris for the presidency, the blame game began. And there is certainly a lot of blame to go around: On Joe Biden for not stepping back sooner; on Democrats for so thoroughly losing touch with working-class voters; on progressives for many years of overemphasizing identity politics and the language of social-justice academia over the material needs of average Americans. Voters were obviously frustrated with the economy, immigration, and a general sense of disorder. There is no singular explanation for why Trump won – except, of course, he got more than 270 electoral votes, and in this case, most of the total votes as well."
The Atlantic
The Democrats Are Committing Partycide
As California goes, so goes the nation, but what happens when a lot of Californians move to Texas? After the 2030 census, the home of Hollywood and Silicon Valley will likely be forced to reckon with its stagnating population and receding influence. When congressional seats are reallocated to adjust for population changes, California is almost certain to be the biggest loser—and to be seen as the embodiment of the Democratic Party’s failures in state and local governance.
The liberal Brennan Center is projecting a loss of four seats, and the conservative American Redistricting Project, a loss of five. Either scenario could affect future presidential races, because a state’s Electoral College votes are determined by how many senators and representatives it has. In 2016, after her loss to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton argued that she’d “won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward”—an outlook that she contrasted with Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. But now Democrats’ self-conception as a party that represents the future is running headlong into the reality that the fastest-growing states are Republican-led.
Trump’s attempts to block aid to Ukraine led to his impeachment during his first term. -
Washington Post.
One of his campaign platforms was to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours.
