Democrats out of touch with their base

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It seems almost like POLITICO is describing the concerns of conservatives — but these were Democrats who always vote for Democrat candidates. Yet the surveyed voters are as fed up with rising prices and spiking crime as the rest of us. Notably, it shows that the White House's spin to blame inflation on Putin's invasion and greedy CEOs isn't playing well among Biden's base. It also shows why Biden has quickly scrambled to show action related to funding police departments and Democrats have tried to remove COVID restrictions, albeit not for all Americans and not in a way that makes logical sense.

Then there's the fact that Democrat voters don't see the Biden administration and the work of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as some wholesome episode of The West Wing but for the chaos it is. Their frustration with a lack of results from Biden and his congressional allies is to be expected: Biden campaigned as the man with the plan to "shut down" COVID, build the economy back better than it was before the pandemic, and bring stable leadership to the White House. Instead of that, Democrats watched Biden get rolled by the Omicron variant before declaring there isn't a federal solution for COVID, fail to break-even with the number of jobs that existed before the pandemic, abandon Americans in Afghanistan, and falter on the world stage. If I'd voted for that, I'd be frustrated and cynical too.

Despite Biden's first State of the Union Address' focus on Ukraine and the White House's obsession with Russia, it also turns out Democrat voters aren't all that interested in what's going on. Sure, they feel bad for the people of Ukraine — what's happening to them and their country is a tragedy — but they don't see any payoff for the United States' involvement so far and think Biden is wasting time and money on the issue while crises go unmitigated at home.

And lastly, they don't see the work of Nancy Pelosi's select committee investigating the events of January 6th as critical to Democrats' midterm plans. The average Democrat voter, presumably, would rather Democrats in Congress focus on delivering on Biden's campaign promises or address issues that have an effect on their daily lives. Because most Democrat voters are not Nicolle Wallace, they don't see the events of one day more than a year ago as impacting their everyday struggle to pay bills or buy groceries.

As POLITICO concludes, there is "a yawning gap between what Democrats here in D.C. are saying and what their most loyal voters are experiencing outside the Beltway." Another point for Real America(TM) and against the Twitter / Cable News / Acela corridor-obsessed Democrats in D.C.
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The Democrats who thought the destructive BLM riots were no big deal are having trouble convincing their own voters that the Jan. 6 events were a big deal. The Democrat Congress also made the mistake of overpromising what could be accomplished with a skinny majority.