The Party of Men Who Think They’re Women Decides to Stay the Course

What could possibly go wrong for the party of blue-haired, angry Marxists? They know they’re right. They know they’re righteous. They know their opponents are evil, racist fascists. So what if they’ve lost an election or two? They’re on the side of history, you benighted fools! To change course now would be to jump to the wrong side of history, and history hates when you do that! And so the Democrats have decided, after the American electorate decisively rejected the noxious stew they’re selling, to serve up more of the same.

Politico reported Friday that the Democratic National Committee held a major meeting not long after the Convicted Felon, the Emmanuel Goldstein of 2015-2025 (and counting), the focus of evil in the modern world, Orange Man Bad himself, took office again. The ostensible reason for the meeting was to vet candidates for the DNC leadership position, but it was really an opportunity for Democrat top dogs to do some soul-searching and decide which way their party would turn next.

The Democrat Party, whatever else it was, used to be adaptable to circumstances. In 1968, it went down to defeat with presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, who supported the war in Vietnam. As the war grew increasingly unpopular, the Democrats moved farther to the left (which is always easy for them) and nominated the antiwar Sen. George McGovern in 1972. When McGovern’s far-left candidacy went down in flames, the party moved back toward the center by going with southern Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976.

All that, however, was a long, long time ago. Now the party of Andrew Jackson and FDR is in the grip of hardline leftist ideologues who seem to care more about adherence to the far-left line than about electoral viability. All the party’s old ability to adapt has been lost; to change course now would apparently make one a class traitor, or a racist, or a fascist, or whatever the left’s favorite term for those it fears and hates is these days.

Even Politico’s Holly Otterbein was disgusted, stating with startling frankness that the Democrats have become a parody of themselves, likening a moment early in the meeting when one DNC leadership candidate broke into song to “a scene from ‘Portlandia,’ a comedy satirizing ultra-liberals — and it was a punchline that was clipped and replayed across social media in the days ahead. Things only got more surreal, and viral, from there.”

The aspiring DNC leaders, Otterbein wrote, “inadvertently showcased the party’s self-absorbed tendencies that strategists argue have driven away swing voters, by turns fixating on identity politics, displaying scorn for large swaths of the electorate and failing to focus on the pocketbook concerns of ordinary Americans.” They never dared approach the topic of whether Kamala Harris had not run a perfect campaign. They likewise ignored the open border, skyrocketing inflation, and all the other issues that made voters want to throw the Dems out in the first place.

As is generally true at Marxist and neo-Marxist gatherings, ideological purity was strictly enforced. MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart asked the leadership candidates: “How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’ defeat?” Each candidate raised his or her or xis hand, whereupon Capehart passed up an opportunity to call them all crazy and tell them that they needed to remove their ideological blinkers. Instead, he stated magisterially: “That’s good. You all pass.” Whew!

A DNC member asked the candidates: “Will you pledge to appoint more than one transgender person to an at-large seat?” Seven of the eight candidates readily affirmed that they would do so, and the eighth was condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake. Okay, I’m exaggerating about that last part. But only a little.

The aspiring Democrat leaders also described Trump as a “fascist who espoused white supremacist conspiracies.” Telling half the country’s population that they’re evil people is hardly a winning strategy, and Politico climbed up onto a ledge of its own, despondently surveying the DNC leadership candidates and alleging that “the spectacle appalled many dyed-in-the-wool Democrats — and deepened the sense that party leaders were not up for the moment.”

Politico even quoted an anonymous “Democratic strategist” saying: “I don’t know if Dems realize how f**ked they are right now as a brand. It was a bunch of people politely discussing how many deck chairs on the Titanic should be reserved for transgender people.” For the sake of the continuing health of America as a free society, all free people must hope that this particular Titanic will continue to sink.