Having learned nothing from the elections, Democrats turn left again

Published December 19, 2024 2:00pm ET



After it was shocked by its losses and the GOP’s gains in the 2024 elections, you would think the Democratic Party might pull back from crazy left-wing proposals that were clearly rejected by voters. But a month after Election Day, it is evident the party has not learned its lesson.

The rapid left-wing shift of the Democratic Party culminated in the rejection of President Joe Biden’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’s unpopular policies and candidacies by voters across the country and across demographics that previously supplied votes reliably for Democrats. Republicans won the White House and the Senate and held control of the House of Representatives. Trump won 46% of Hispanic people and made gains among black voters and women despite running against a black woman, which was Harris’s main selling point in her abysmal, identity-driven campaign.

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