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Alienating Progressives Isn’t the Flex Democrats Think It Is
After alienating progressives and losing, Democrats think this is how they’ll win in the future. Are they high?
In 2020, progressives propelled Joe Biden to the White House. Black Lives Matter, reigning in overblown police budgets, protecting the right to claim asylum, and protecting LGBTQ rights all helped the current president beat Donald Trump. Abandoning those issues and validating the far-right who argued that these were all negative issues is what cost Democrats the election.
Add in the broad support of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and it’s not hard to see why Democrats lost across the board. Let’s be clear, Zionism has nothing to do with being Jewish, and therefore, calling out the white supremacist nature of it does not make it antisemitism. If anything was an issue for Democrats, it was backing the redefining of what antisemitism is and what it means. Biden saying he’s a proud Zionist does not make him a semite.
He’s Catholic for Christ’s sake (pun intended).
However, like the tone-deafness about what antisemitism and Zionism are, the same could be said about the party’s shift to the right on everything else. To claim that “leftists” cost the Democrats the election is a farce…
