Mainstream liberal media are now predicting what this magazine has been predicting for months: Democrats are likely heading for a major beating in the 2022 midterm elections. And while that predicted defeat is due to a vast majority of voters rejecting Democrat policies, liberal media talking heads are describing it using phrases such as “the end of the country.”
A recent New York Times editorial by left-leaning Thomas B. Edsall addresses the dire future of Democrats in the midterms, but attempts to blame everyone except Democrats. He begins by quoting Ruy Teixeira, a co-editor of The Liberal Patriot, who wrote that “The current Democratic brand suffers from multiple deficiencies that make it somewhere between uncompelling and toxic to wide swaths of American voters who might potentially be their allies,” but then goes on to blame American voters’ distaste of Democrats and their policies on what he calls the “Fox News fallacy.”
From that article:
“This is the idea,” Teixeira said. “If Fox News criticizes the Democrats for X, then there must be absolutely nothing to X, and the job of Democrats is to assert that loudly and often.” He wrote, “Take the issue of crime. Initially dismissed as simply an artifact of the Covid shutdown that was being vastly exaggerated by Fox News and the like for their nefarious purposes, it is now apparent that the spike in violent crime is quite real and that voters are very, very concerned about it.”
And — refusing to even entertain the thought that Americans just don’t like Democrat tyranny and forced poverty — Edsall goes on to describe the plight of Democrats come November as “the complexity of the current Democratic predicament” and quotes Sarah Anzia, a professor of public policy and political science at Berkeley, as saying, “Democrats have a challenge rooted in political geography and the institution of single-member, first-past-the-post elections.” In case that political gobbledygook made no sense to the reader, please take solace in the fact that you are not alone. It makes about as much sense as the average word salad that comes out of Joe Biden’s mouth. But, Anzia appears to know that, so she explains “that the density of Democratic voters in cities has both geographically isolated the party and empowered its most progressive activist wing.”
Admittedly, that explanation doesn’t make the gibberish any more intelligible, so she tries again. Citing Jonathan Rodden’s 2019 book Why Cities Lose, Anzia says:
[Democrats] need to find ways to compete in more moderate or even conservative districts if they hope to have majorities of seats in the U.S. Congress or state legislatures. But large numbers of their voters are concentrated in cities, quite progressive and want the party to move further left in its policy positions — and not just on social-cultural issues.
That is the closest thing in the article to an admission that Democrats are simply out of touch with American voters. And even that seems to pin the blame on Democrat voters and not on Democrat policymakers. Close, but still a miss.
And it is not just the Times predicting a major pounding for Democrats in November’s midterms. Other mainstream liberal media voiced their lamentations, as well. Fox News reports that a whole slew of liberal media folks are rending their garments and grasping at straws as they look ahead to the midterms.
On MSNBC’s Meet the Press aired March 30, host Chuck Todd placed Democrats’ chance of victory on the “Midterm Meter” at the “shellacking” level — which is below bad.
Also in March, ABC News host George Stephanopoulos took a moment with Vice President Kamala Harris to ask if Biden can reverse the abysmal polling numbers that he and other Democrats are seeing, asking, “Can the president provide the kind of relief that is necessary to prevent a Democratic rout in November?”
And — stooping to new lows even for mainstream liberal media — MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell asked a guest whether the war in Ukraine was “at least helping the Democrats” in their hopes of victory in November.
As Fox News reported in the above-linked article:
Some media figures went a step further, worrying that a Republican win could be the end of America and voting rights, while also in one instance, preemptively accusing them of cheating.
CNN global affairs analyst Bianna Golodryga discussed a poll conducted by the network in which only 43% of Democrats had “extremely or very high enthusiasm” about voting in the midterms versus 51% of Republicans. Golodryga questioned why voters weren’t more concerned with voting rights and the “threat to democratic values.”
“Given this ongoing threat to democratic values, right, shouldn’t voters be more determined to go to the polls and why do you think you’re seeing that reluctance and the lack of enthusiasm?,” she asked a panel of guests.
Apparently, global affairs analyst Bianna Golodryga can’t even analyze the sorry performance of her own party. “Lack of enthusiasm”? Seriously? Rather than a “lack of enthusiasm,” it appears to be a distaste, distrust, and general dislike of what Biden, et al. have spent the past year doing to this country. But Golodryga seems to have her head so deep in the Democrat dream of a great Utopia that she can’t read the room.
And as disconnected as all of the above commentators seems to be, the prize may just go to Joy Behar, who co-hosts ABC’s The View. She opined way back in January that she is “very worried” about the ensuing throttling of Democrats in November, saying, “That would be the end of the country — the beginning of the end for this country.”
It seems that these folks have bought so deeply into their own narrative that they just can’t imagine that America doesn’t need them or want their policies. This may be the best practical example of narcissism the modern world has witnessed.
As Democrats continue their dive in poll after poll and brace themselves for a beating for which they are already blaming on anyone and anything but themselves, it seems they have lost touch even more than ever before. And that is likely very good news for America, because the voter pushback against Democrats appears to be a direct reaction to Biden and his dream for America.
By pushing too far, too fast, Biden and his ilk have awakened the American spirit. And that spirit seems to have woken up angry and ready to make things right.
