Democrats and liberal media out of touch with US voters

 Charles C.W. Cooke:

The Democrats are in political trouble, and the media bear much of the blame.

This is not because the media have ceased to be horribly biased in the Democrats’ favor. They remain that, and hopelessly so. Rather, it’s because the media have become more crazy, more self-confident, and less respected than ever, and because this shift has rendered their bias less useful than it once was.

For reasons that remain alien to me, almost the entirety of the American press — as well as much of academia and the entertainment industry — has spent the last five years assiduously adopting an exceptionally weird race- and gender-essentialist ideology that pretty much everyone outside of those institutions absolutely loathes. And, in its infinite wisdom, the Democratic Party has followed suit. The result has been the creation of a narrow, extremely peculiar feedback loop, within which the institutional Democratic Party and its friends in the press have concocted — and then adopted — a set of bizarro-world ideas that are met with confusion and horror once they are released into the general population. Bit by bit, piece by piece, tweet by tweet, the wagon to which the Democrats have hitched themselves is becoming a suicide machine.

It is this process of mutual reinforcement that has brought us widely mocked and politically toxic neologisms such as “birthing people,” “Latinx,” “BIPOC,” “cisgendered,” and “chestfeeding.” It is this process that has yielded the smashing successes that were the Defund the Police movement, the introduction of critical race theory in schools, and an obsessive focus on the riots of January 6. It is this process that has led figures such Jen Psaki (who has not only lived in both camps, but who still has a foot in each one) to believe that she can make criticisms vanish simply by pretending that they are “right wing.” It is this process that has led to men trouncing women in women’s sports in the name of an ersatz “justice” in which about seven actual people believe. And it is this process that has convinced the Democratic Party in Florida and beyond that if they insist loudly enough that kindergartners ought to be taught about gender fluidity, the general public will magically come to agree.
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It is probably going to take the coming shellacking at the polls to convince "the adults in the room" contingent that they have made a terrible blunder. From academia to the teachers' unions they are out of touch with reality.  And, the media goes along with this charade and pretends that it is normal thereby not bringing the libs back to reality.