NYT Wonders: Where Do Democrats Go After a ‘Cultural Rejection’?

I dunno. Maybe stop trying to impose radical cultural notions on voters who keep insisting on rejecting them? 

Maybe start with Latinx and move outward?

Just a thought!

Anyway, first one has to accept the obvious, and neither Democrats nor the New York Times have gotten to that stage on the Kübler-Ross process. In fact, both — as well as most of the Protection Racket Media — seem stuck on “anger” and “denial,” and aren’t even approaching “bargaining” yet. The NYT only concedes that the election “felt like a cultural rejection,” and wonders what comes next:

Six months after President Trump swept the battleground states, the Democratic Party is still sifting through the wreckage. Its standing has plunged to startling new lows — 27 percent approval in a recent NBC News poll, the weakest in surveys dating to 1990 — after a defeat that felt like both a political and cultural rejection.

Communities that Democrats had come to count on for a generation or more — young people, Black voters, Latinos — all veered toward the right in 2024, some of them sharply. And unlike Mr. Trump’s win in 2016, his victory last year could not be waved away as an outlier after he won the popular vote for the first time.

The stark reality is that the downward trend for Democrats stretches back further than a single election. Republicans have been gaining ground in voter registration for years. Working-class voters of every race have been steadily drifting toward the G.O.P. And Democrats are increasingly perceived as the party of college-educated elites, the defenders of a political and economic system that most Americans feel is failing them.

Amazingly — or maybe not — this lengthy autopsy never even mentions the attempts to foist a senile old man as a competent candidate for a second term in office. That’s less of a cultural rejection story, but the same piece that only mentions Biden in a quote from a source is asking why the party lost its connection to voters. Did it occur to the NYT that the reason just might be less of a cultural rejection and more of a trust problem after having covered up for an incompetent president for the last four years with “Sharp As a Tack®” messaging?

Perhaps the NYT didn’t bring that up due to professional courtesy. It’s considered ill-mannered among the elite to mention conspiracies to defraud the public when you’re one of the co-conspirators. Emily Post would disapprove, you know. 

However, it’s not just “Joe Biden” and the cover-up that doesn’t come up for discussion. The word “woke” doesn’t get a single mention, nor does the term “DEI.” In fact, neither the word “diversity” nor “equity” get mentioned separately either. The NYT also avoids the word “Latinx” while using the term “Latinos” once — in the excerpt above. The analysis on a maybe cultural rejection only mentions immigration once, and only mentions transgenders once too, even those are clearly large parts of said “cultural rejection” as well as political rejection.

In case one wonders how the American public feels on the two topics the NYT does bother to mention … in one paragraph:

In case the print is too small in this slide from the Harvard-Harris CAPS poll, let’s recap:

• 78% want criminal illegal immigrants deported, not protected and cheered by Democrat politicians
• 63% say that humanity has two genders and two only, and want government policy aligned to biology
• 62% want all race-based preferences eliminated from government contracting
• 70% want the border closed and policies in place that discourage illegal crossings 
• 60% want a freeze on foreign aid and all such programs re-evaluated

So here’s the question: How many Democrat politicians and candidates find themselves among the 78% on the immigration question? How many Democrats will support the 63% position on “transgender” policy? How many Democrats will advocate for and deliver on the 62% position on race-based preferences in government contracting?

Oh, let’s not always see the same hands …

The answer is as close to absolute zero as possible on all of these questions. Voters have discovered that Democrats represent the political fringe, which is why voters are consigning them to that position. It’s not just that Democrats are on the wrong side of the electorate on one key issue — they’re on the fringe in every issue that matter most to voters. Why would they expect to see any other result than rejection?

And here’s a bonus question for the New York Times. How many columns would readers expect to see over the next month or so that argue for the vast-majority position on immigration, transgender policies, and race-based preferences? Hint: It’s the same answer as above … which is why the New York Times and the rest of the Protection Racket Media will experience the same “cultural rejection” as Democrats, and remain just as clueless about it, too.