I Spoke too Soon. The Democrats Still Don't Get it.

May 2, 2025

by Rod Williams, May 3, 2025- Back in March, I posted Could it be that the Democratic Party is Becoming Normal Again. I observed that the Davidson County Democrat Party had stopped tagging the signature line of letters with the writers preferred pronoun. This made me think that maybe there were scaling back the identity politics and culture war stuff and going to be more normal. 

I spoke too soon. I received a communication from the DCDP yesterday and the chair of the Party again tagged himself as a "he, him, his." This is too bad. With Trumpism a threat to our Democracy, one would think the Democrat Party would want to be a serious responsible center-left party. No, they would prefer to be the silly party.

There are a lot of reasons Trump won the election, but I contend that a major reason is because the Democrats cannot be taken seriously. With a demagogue like Trump, who had already once attempted a coup, heading the ticket it seems like a Democrat victory should have been a slam dunk.  However, people don't like Democrats. They engage in too much virtue signaling and look down their elitist noses at normal people. They are not relatable. While we did not have to view a lot of campaign commercials here in Tennessee, in the battleground states one of the commercials considered the most influential was a Republican commercial that said, "She is for 'they-them'; he is for you."

Many Democrats just don't get it. They think they lost the recent election because America is a misogynist racist county, and they don't need to make any changes. They think identity politics and self-righteous virtue signaling is still a winning formula. Fortunately, Democrats are doing a lot of soul searching and there are a lot of sane voices within the Party and liberal-leaning pundits who are recognizing that the Party has been captured by the cultural left-wing fringe and that Dems have a problem. I have seen people like Fareed Zacaria and James Carvel and a bunch of others say the party should step back from fringe identity politics and make a more centrist appeal. 

It could go either way. I think we need a center-right party in America and a center-left party. What we have are two parties captured by the irrational and most extreme elements of the fringe. 

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