Democrats off a cliff

Democrats are pushing each other leftward. 


They are locking in the progressive woke college town activists, but risk losing the country.

McGovern 2020.

Democratic candidates are jostling to prove they are the most progressive, the most compassionate, the most woke, the most indignant over the slow rate of progress in America.

Reminder to Democrats: the House majority was not won by winning back college towns and bright blue urban districts they had somehow lost. It was won because swing districts switched from red to blue. At the presidential level, Democrats lost because they lost swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, and North Carolina. Those states are up for grabs again.

Democrats are moving out of touch with the sensibilities of most Americans on some issues, as their positions get stretched to their limits: 

Democrats are now open to voting by people in prison. (Unpopular.)

Democrats are now open to paying financial reparations to black Americans. (Unpopular.)

Democrats are open to taking away private health insurance in order to establish Medicare For All, even if a person likes the insurance situation he or she has. (Unpopular.)

Democrats are now open to providing free health care to people here illegally. (Unpopular.)

Democrats say that even very late term abortions should be available to any woman, based on her sole decision. (Unpopular.)

Democrats say that these abortions must be payable by your tax dollars. (Unpopular.)

Democrats now say that there is essentially no limit on entry, continued residence, and then citizenship in America, because once a person has arrived here, if they are not found guilty of serious crime, they can stay. (Unpopular.)

Click: New York Times

Democrats are telling people who played by the rules to immigrate and become citizens that  people who jumped the lines by coming here illegally get the same benefit they waited and struggled to get. (Unpopular.)

Democrats are open to cancelling college debt, payable with the tax money of people who sacrificed to pay off their debt, or who did not attend college in order to avoid that debt. (Unpopular.)

Democrats are saying they want a rich array of public benefits (free college, free K-12 education, free child care, free health care) provided to everyone, including people here illegally. (Unpopular.)

Democrats are open to 70% marginal tax rates to pay for all those free benefits. (Unpopular.)

Democrats are saying that they distrust men in matters of harassment allegations, with a presumption of guilt against the man. (Unpopular.)


Trump is unpopular, and he is vulnerable, but these Democratic positions will tend to solidify the Trump GOP coalition of men, married women, whites, social conservatives, religious people, blue collar workers, people distrustful of government, and people resentful of economic and social elites. It will heighten resentment against woke, coastal urbanites. 

That is a big coalition and a resounding electoral majority.

There are Democrats who in fact could project a different point of view on these issues--Hickenlooper, Delaney, Bennet, Bullock, Moulton, Ryan--but there are too many of them and they are invisible under the shadow of Biden, and Biden's deep message is restoration, not forceful, proud, incremental progress. More importantly, none of Biden's moderate rivals demonstrate the presentation skills and charisma to seize the message from Biden and take it to fellow Democrats and the American people.

So there is a singular Democratic message being projected, a message of the woke, populist, progressive point of the spear. It is an exciting message with an enthusiastic base of support: the McGovern coalition.

It may not be enough. 

Trump is thrilled.