“A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll reveals a significant wave of discontent among Democratic voters,” explains Billy Adams at MSN, “with a strong majority expressing a desire for new leadership and a shift in party priorities.”
The spectacular failure of party leadership in the debacle that was the transition from the Biden re-election campaign, last year, to the Harris presidential election campaign, is just the tip of the proverbial calved glacier.
“The survey indicates that many Democrats feel their party is over-emphasizing issues such as transgender rights and electric vehicles, while not paying enough attention to pressing economic concerns,” the article points out. “Voters are eager for their leaders to address ‘kitchen-table issues’ like the cost of living and affordability, and to work towards reducing corporate influence.”
Are we seeing an end to identity politics as the focus of the left? Or perhaps the end of the left’s influence on the party? “Some prominent Democrats have openly criticized the party for being too ‘weak and woke,’” and the general trend of complaints about the pathetic response of Democrats, in 2024, to a resurgence of Trump support showed, apparently, a need to reconnect “with its base on core economic issues.…”
But can the party retreat from cringe woke nonsense to return to its core strengths of cringe statist/socialist nonsense? Rep. Marc Pocan (D‑Mich.) has expressed how difficult this is proving to be: “I would love to have a day go by that @DNC doesn’t do something embarrassing & off message.”