Editorial: Democrats should learn from losing elections

Former President Donald Trump’s election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris is a teachable moment for Democrats.

The question is, will they learn from it?

They didn’t in 2016, when Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton reduced Trump supporters to a “basket of deplorables.” In 2020, they missed the point by rejecting the votes of some 75 million Trump voters and presenting them all as de facto Capitol rioters.

The hyperbole and falsehood that progressives engage in has come to the fore in this election as Trump supporters have been denounced as fascists and Nazis.

It wasn’t subtle. The mainstream media, obliterating all doubt that this was the hand of the Democratic Party, covered it up. MSNBC even spliced ​​footage of a 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden with footage of a Trump rally at the same location, in case anyone has trouble connecting the dots.

President Joe Biden couldn’t resist his own diss.

As The Hill reported, during a video conference call with Latino supporters, Biden said, “Just the other day, a speaker at (Trump’s Madison Square Garden) rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ … The only trash I see there are his supporters.”

Election night must have been a shock to the left, as Trump’s numbers soared in both the Electoral College and the popular vote.

Documentarian and Trump critic Michael Moore told MSNBC host Ayman Moyeldin on Sunday, “I feel the same way I did a few weeks ago — that Trump is toast.”

Carry on with your daily work Mr. Moore.

Who are the 71,975,584 voters who checked Trump this year? These are people in red states, concentrated mostly in the south, center and midwest of the country. “Migratory states”, as the elites call them. You’ll find a lot of working-class people there, those living paycheck to paycheck after Bidenflation has strangled their budgets. They watched as their communities struggled to finance the costs of sheltering and caring for newly arrived migrants. Buying an EV isn’t a big deal when you’re cutting back on groceries and taking on another job to make ends meet.

Not surprisingly, the red states of Texas, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina lead the way in recruits. They ask what they can do for their country, not what loans the country can cancel for them.

But Democrats have consistently missed that message. Poll after poll found that most Americans believed the country was headed in the wrong direction heading into the election, but correcting course was not on the “to do” list.

It all came to a head on Tuesday night, and the post-election scene in the land of learned Democrats is one of weeping and wailing.

An article in The Hill summed up this sentiment under the headline: “America Will Regret Its Decision to Re-Elect Donald Trump.”

Going forward, it is vital that the Democratic Party move away from the “the country is doomed if we don’t win” mentality and listen to the voices of the people who don’t vote for them. It’s easy to demonize the other side, it takes away from critical thinking. But as long as Democrats don’t talk about unity, they’re in for more bleak election nights.