Everybody makes mistakes. Not everyone makes the same mistakes over and over again.
Last week, the geniuses in charge of maintaining the Democratic Party’s social media picked at a fresh wound — and showed, again, exactly why it lost the 2024 election.
The blue team’s official X account shared a line chart showing the change in the price of various groceries — meat, dairy, produce, etc. — over time, and asserting that “prices are higher today than they were on [sic] July 2024.”
“Trump’s America,” read the caption.
The problem? The last part of the line barely went up.
And what it actually showed was a massive increase in prices between 2021 and 2024.
In other words: over the course of former President Joe Biden’s White House tenure.
“I would just advise Democrats not to post about inflation given their track record,” suggested conservative influencer A.G. Hamilton. “Might save them the embarrassment of having to delete their posts after getting dunked on” — which is exactly what they did.
“This is the gang that couldn’t shoot straight!” marveled Fox Business host Stuart Varney.
And of course Team Trump got in on the action.
What’s notable about the braindead blunder, though, is not the blunder itself.
It was that it represented yet another admission, eight and a half months after they surrendered the presidency to Donald Trump for the second time in three election cycles, that the Democrats still haven’t made a sincere effort at diagnosing the reasons for their unpopularity — much less addressing them.
A new Wall Street Journal poll found that their party continues to suffer as a result — to the point that just 33% of Americans hold a favorable view of it, and 63% view it unfavorably.
Both Donald Trump (-7) and the GOP (-11) are also underwater, but may as well be polling as well as ice cream compared to the Democrats.
The same holds true of the public’s view of various issues; voters still trust the GOP more than the alternative when it comes to the economy, inflation, immigration and foreign policy.
If that doesn’t wake Democrats up to the provenance of all their political pain, nothing will.
The Left has long relied on comforting fallacies to numb the discomfort that accompanies defeat.
After 2016, elected Democrats and their media allies insisted that Trump’s shocking victory was only possible thanks to Russian meddling.
And now, they’re laboring under the misimpression that return to power can be attributed to Republicans’ superior, but decepting messaging — an almost supernatural ability to compel Americans to believe that which isn’t so.
If only they could convince the public of the truth, they’d surely prevail.
But the cold, hard truth is that it’s always been about the substance, stupid — as the unflattering data they so proudly shared last week demonstrates.
Kamala Harris was deposited into the dustbin of history because she was the top lieutenant in an administration that had proven a miserable failure long before her boss’s implosion last summer.
Americans spent the entirety of the Biden years telling pollsters that their lives were demonstrably, palpably worse as a result of historic price hikes.
Biden & Co. responded to these pleas for relief by denying the existence of inflation until they couldn’t any longer.
Then, when they finally did implicitly admit to the effects of the nearly $2 trillion boondoggle they passed in 2021, they slapped the name “Inflation Reduction Act” on yet another profligate spending bill that every layman in America knew would only compound the problem.
There are similar stories to be told about Americans’ dissatisfaction with Biden’s approach to foreign policy, his abdication of his duty to secure the border, and his championing of a radical social agenda that maintains up is down, left is right, and black is white.
Their stubborn refusal to grapple with this incontrovertible truth is also reportedly set to be reflected in an upcoming 2024 autopsy conducted by the DNC.
The New York Times reports that it will “steer clear of the decisions made by the Biden-turned-Harris campaign,” and instead “focus more on outside groups and super PACs that spent hundreds of millions of dollars aiding the Biden and Harris campaigns through advertising, voter registration drives and turnout efforts.”
It’s like watching a restaurant serving inedible food invest in new plateware.
The gripe has never been with the Democrats’ presentation or voters’ tastes.
It’s with the product itself.
