You know the old joke about trying to teach a pig how to sing? We need to take the same approach with the shrieking hordes of Democrats who still haven’t come to grips with Nov 5, 2024.

We can begin with Leftwing megaphone of Politico giving it the good old college try in flapping red flags in front of the annoyed and befuddled pigs donkeys.

The focus group research, shared first with POLITICO, represents the latest troubling pulse check for a party still sorting through the wreckage of its November losses and looking for a path to rebuild. Without a clear party leader and with losses across nearly every demographic in November, Democrats are walking into a second Trump presidency without a unified strategy to improve their electoral prospects. And while some Democrats blame Biden, others blame inflation and still others blame “losing hold of culture,” the feedback from the focus groups found Democrats’ problems are even more widespread and potentially long-lasting than a single election cycle.

The focus groups offer “a pretty scathing rebuke” of the Democratic Party brand, said Rachael Russell, director of polling and analytics at Navigator Research a project within the Hub Project, which is a Democratic nonprofit group

Brand? BRAND? Heh, if one feelz they just didn’t package Biden/Harris warmed-over Obamaisms correctly for the masses who rejected them … Well, as Rachael Russell puts it …

The national poll, which surveyed 1,000 people, found 47 percent viewed Trump favorably, while 50 percent disapproved of him — the highest marks he’s received since he left office.

Russell argued that Trump’s high marks reflect a “honeymoon” period, which she predicted will fade once he takes office: “Once things start happening, it’s going to take a turn, and so it’s going to rely really heavily on the actions in the first 100 days to see how we go from here.”

She also noted that the polling suggests openings for Democrats on issues like abortion, health care and taxing the rich, as well as a fear that Trump may go too far on tariffs.

Taxing the rich? Certainly, Democrats have never tried that approach before. And we certainly didn’t hear enough about laissez-faire abortion during Kamala’s stage-managed romp through $1 billion of a failed campaign.

Then of course, we have these kind of Democrats who firmly believe that 77 million voters were either too stupid or too bamboozled to vote for correct party.

because the media reports reality and most Republicans have disconnected themselves from reality https://t.co/8JsHUxe4s5

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) December 24, 2024

Community note for the win that even trying to spin mistrust in a legacy media into a graph against Republicans, the source poll had to be manipulated to get what these TrueBlueAsses wanted. Legacy media has been little more than the Public Relations arm of the DNC. Their only reliability is the ability to get stuff wrong. And lie about the wrong, too.

Reality like Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation? That Joe Biden's mental acuity is fine? That the COVID-vaccine prevents COVID? That surgical masks stop its spread? That Trump called Nazi's very fine people?

— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) December 24, 2024

Yes, dear Democrats, ignore your policies, behavior and elitist attitudes towards people you find too stupid if they live more than 30 miles from the coast. Just keep worrying about The Brand.

Theoretically, Democratic fusionism that would bring in more voters and enable the party to win more elections across the country would need to blend pro-growth and populist economics together with traditionally liberal but pluralistic and more moderate cultural values. This would mean developing a Democratic Party that is committed to building and making more stuff in America and cracking down on concentrated economic power that harms consumers. Expanding universal social benefits for the middle class and increasing the bargaining power of workers. Standing for equal protection under the law and pursuing a “live and let live” cultural approach that isn’t preachy or harmful to working-class voters.

IOW … don’t have a come-to-Jesus moment about how voters outright rejected the Democrat Brand and every CRT/DEI/Pro-Criminal/Pronoun Police/Woman-erasing diktat … just rewrap those bits in cozy, plaid flannel and carry on. The rubes will buy it. :::snort:::

Democrats like Mad-Mandy will not be placated by any calls for self-reflection. The “blame everyone else” wing of the party is still seething.

Rogan’s endorsement likely pushed Trump over the top in a shockingly close election. Rogan’s audience perfectly illustrates the way the firehose of disinformation online — his conspiracy theory-hyping podcast has over 16 million followers — has pickled the brains of so many otherwise normal people. Most of the people Longwell interviewed couldn’t go two minutes without coughing up a conspiracy theory. Everything is a shadowy plot, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the guy who shot Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. (snip)

One of the best predictors, if not the best predictor, of a Trump vote is how poor a person’s information ecosystem is. People who read or watch real news outlets voted overwhelmingly for Harris.

“Real news”? Oh dear. Poor Unhappy-in-bed Mandy, wrong again on so many levels, from touting Legacy Media as real news to dry humping the idea that 77 million voters are QAnon.

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And here we are. The Inner Party of Democrats want to win elections and the Outer Party are their TrueBeliever cannon fodder. In the almost two months since the election, there has be no realistic self-reflection. Not just a failure to examine why so many voters rejected them, but a conscious effort in rejecting the voters’ reasons as stupid and wrong.

It’s the doubling down of that great push to persuade voters to the Blue side by calling them Fascists, Nazis and racists.

My advice for a New Year’s resolution, is to let go of your frustration at trying to explain anything round when they only consider “square” acceptable. Indeed, let wrong be the Democrats’ brand and may they wander in a desert of despair for 40 years or more.

It will give us rational adults time to right this American ship and make the necessary repairs and fortifications our Founders would approve of.

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