Donald Trump “won because the electorate rejected the Biden-Harris administration,” argues New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait. NY Post Editorial Page Editor Mark Cunningham shares this story.
The party went wrong when it “responded to Trump’s 2016 victory not by moving toward the center,” but “by moving away from it.”
Thus Harris joined the pack running left in the 2020 cycle — which “Joe Biden won because he abstained from that rush,” only to as prez adopt “positions (and eventually staff) aligned with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.”
That yielded inflation and the migrant crisis. Harris tacked centerwards in 2024, but could neither explain “why she had changed her mind from 2019” nor “detach herself from Biden.”
Dems went wrong after Trump’s first win; now their “future will be determined by whether they can respond more shrewdly this time.”
Read more at https://nypost.com/2024/11/06/opinion/democrats-huge-mistake-revolt-of-the-working-class-and-other-commentary/
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