How my party lost me, Dems must return to normalcy and other commentary

“I’ve raised at least $50 million for the left,” recalls Evan Barker at The Free Press, but “on Tuesday, I voted for Donald Trump.”“What’s tragic is that there are so few in the Democratic Party able to communicate with the working class and serve their interests effectively.”And one who does, Sen.John Fetterman, “is now spurned by the elite left” as “an abomination and a traitor to their left ideal — he supports Israel, after all, and goes on Joe Rogan’s podcast.”But “the final straw was Oprah Winfrey’s tone-deaf speech” at the Dem convention: “A larger than life Hollywood billionaire” who “said nothing that spoke to the Americans who had once constituted the Democratic base.”Bottom line: “The Democratic Party turned its back on me and my family long before I turned my back on it.”This election, laments the Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira, showed that Democrats are “no longer the party of the common man and woman.”Kamala Harris did worse against Donald Trump than did Joe Biden in 2020 among women, men and non-whites.Trump tripled his margin among non-college voters, while “Democrat support among voters under 30 collapsed.”To recover, Dems’ stances must appeal to “normie voters”: “Equality of opportunity,” not outcome, is “fundamental.” Racism “is not the cause of all disparities.” “Border security is hugely important.” “Spaces limited to biological women” should be “preserved.”Uniting around such ideas would make the Democratic Party “far more appealing” to the millions now leaving it behind.   Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.

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