A message to Democrats

 Charles C.W. Cooke:

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... Why on earth would Senators Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Maggie Hassan, and Catherine Cortez Masto continue to acquiesce with their party’s extraordinarily foolish attempt to shove a set of FDR-sized spending programs through a 50–50 Senate? Such as: Why on earth would a swathe of moderate House Democrats agree to go along with it, when, by all appearances, they are already going to have their work cut out for them next year? Such as: What, exactly, does the Democratic Party think it is playing at?

As is appropriate, the Virginia gubernatorial election was primarily about local issues — in particular, education. But this did not happen in a vacuum. According to the exit polls, President Biden’s job approval in the state is 45–54; 52 percent of Virginia voters consider the Democratic Party to be “too liberal,” as opposed to 13 percent who consider it “not liberal enough”; and 77 percent described themselves as either “conservative” (37 percent) or moderate (40 percent), compared with 23 percent who described themselves as “liberal.” This, evidently, is not an electorate that spends its days retweeting Bernie Sanders.

And if Virginia’s electorate isn’t, then Arizona’s, West Virginia’s, Nevada’s, and New Hampshire’s sure as hell aren’t. As ABC reported over the weekend, Americans just aren’t that into the idea of spending trillions upon trillions of dollars in order to satisfy Representative Jayapal. Overall, only 25 percent of Americans think the gargantuan packages would help them, with only 47 percent of Democrats agreeing. Asked whether the bill would help the economy, just 29 percent of independents said that it would. In a separate poll, Gallup picked up this trend, noting that, 52 to 43 percent, Americans believe that “the government is doing too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses.”
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And if, for some reason it does not, it should inspire the mother of all revolts in the House. It is comprehensible that Nancy Pelosi would wish to end her career by shoveling as much money out of the door as is possible. But it is not at all clear why scores of House Democrats — many of whom prevailed in 2020 in precisely the sort of districts that Glenn Youngkin won today — would elect to follow her off the cliff. It cannot be repeated enough that there is no good reason for the United States, which remains intractably mired in debt, to follow up an unexpected $6 trillion, COVID-19-inspired spending spree with another unsolicited feast that, per White House chief of staff Ron Klain, is “twice as big, in real dollars, as the New Deal was.”
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The Democrat leadership's delusion that they need to pass these monstrous bills to please the voters is revealed by the polling.  They have now put themselves in a box of having to pass unpopular spending programs or look as incompetent as they really are. 

I suspect there are many voters like myself who can't wait to vote against every Democrat on the ballot at this point.