Desperate to run away from President Joe Biden’s inflation and immigration disasters and dwelling inside a liberal media bubble, Democrats thought they could win the 2024 elections by focusing hard on abortion. At the same time, the party made no effort to shed its side’s recent excesses on gender ideology and other radical stances.

This hard-left campaign on social issues may have cost them the election by alienating socially conservative Hispanics and Muslims and turning off socially moderate buttoned-up suburban parents.