ELECTION 2020
Democrats and Never- Trump Republicans won’t accept any blame for losing the public. Instead, they blame the public.
America’s economy and made us safer. It’s that Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans have done nothing to reflect on why they lost to this guy. They’d rather make fun of the voters – it is easier and makes for great sport on Twitter – than admit their contribution to this flee from normalcy. Successful people, when trying to recover from a setback, ask themselves, “Well, what did I do wrong to get my job/my life in this predicament?” Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans won’t accept any blame for losing the public. Instead, they blame the public. They never exclaim, “Dear God! They picked him over us? Jeez, we’ve got some self-reflection to do.” Which leads us back to what we’ve seen on the debate stage the past few months from the Democratic presidential candidates. They – with the exception of Amy Klobuchar and sometimes Pete Buttigieg – clearly haven’t learned why Clinton lost. Elizabeth Warren certainly hasn’t. The national press see her as a safe front-runner, largely because they find her a familiar character. They know someone in their Salena Zito is a CNN political analyst and a staff reporter and columnist for the Washington Examiner . She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through shoe-leather journalism, traveling from Main Street to the beltway and all places in between.
personal or professional lives who is just like her: She’s their neighbor, their relative, or like someone they were taught by in college. Warren’s viewpoints are also familiar in the
newsroom, to put it gently. It’s not the same out here.
Democrats have lost the rural areas and are unchallenged in the urban areas, said Paul Sracic, political science professor at Youngstown State University. “Klobuchar and Buttigieg seem to understand that raising middle-class taxes to pay for health care will be a big issue for these voters,” he said of the suburban middle-class voters who could be available to a Democratic presidential nominee. There’s a healthy amount of middle-class suburban voters who are looking for an alternative to their current options. It appears only two on that stage understood the lessons of 2016 and 2018: the senator from a Midwest state and the mayor of a Midwest city. The rest seem to be repeating the mistakes of the former senator from New York. © Creators Syndicate, Inc.
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