Democrats delusion belief that a majority support them

 Ed Morrissey:

James Carville couldn’t convince them. Neither could Stanley Greenberg, although his warning comes a bit more recently, but Barack Obama pollster Bendixen and Amandi International sent up the same warning flares on Democratic cluelessness two months ago. Now the Washington Post reports that another Democratic strategist group has sent up red flares not over the 2022 midterms but the 2024 election as well, warning that the party has deluded itself into believing its own spin about an “emerging progressive majority” that simply doesn’t exist. At all:

“A Democratic loss in the 2024 presidential election may well have catastrophic consequences for the country,” they write, arguing that the Trump-led Republican Party presents the most serious threat to American democracy in modern times. The Democrats’ first duty, they argue, should be to protect democracy by winning in 2024; everything else should be subordinated to that objective.

But they argue that the Democrats are not positioned to achieve that objective, that, instead, the party is “in the grip of myths that block progress toward victory” and that too many Democrats are engaged in a “new politics of evasion, the refusal to confront the unyielding arithmetic of electoral success.”

“Too many Democrats have evaded this truth and its implications for the party’s agenda and strategy,” the authors add. “They have been led astray by three persistent myths: that ‘people of color’ think and act in the same way; that economics always trumps culture; and that a progressive majority is emerging.”

We’ll get back to the existential-threat argument about Trump in a moment. First, let’s take a look at the authors of this new analysis about the obvious. William Galston and Elaine Kamarck hold positions at Brookings Institute, and both served in the Bill Clinton administration. More importantly, the pair teamed up after landslide victories by Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush to offer exactly the same warning as they are launching now. Democrats pushed too far to the Left in the 1980s too, resulting in the humiliating loss by Michael Dukakis in 1988. Their data-driven work reoriented the party back to the center, promoted the moderate Democratic Leadership Council as a pushback to the New Left, and succeeded in winning the presidency.

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I am among a majority of voters who can't wait to vote against every Democrat on the ballot.  They have been wrong about most things since at least 1968 and they only get elected when they pretend to be moderate or get the help of third-party candidates as Bill Clinton did.  

The argument that Trump is a threat to democracy is false on its face.  In fact, Democrats are actively trying to thwart democracy by trying to keep Trump off the ballot because they know he can win.