Dems can’t move on until there is recognition of failing the American people

As we reach the end of the clusterf*ck that is the first month of Mad King Don’s rule.

The hard right believe the 2 years of preparation by the Heritage Foundation on their ‘Mandate for Leadership’ (Project 2025) has paid off. They arrived in office ready to burn government to the ground and the Democrat’s answer? Chuck Schumer dad dancing and chanting ‘We will win’. No chuck YOU F*CKING LOST BIGLY. You lost the White House, the House and the Senate and more significantly the popular vote.

This is no longer about Republicans and Democrats, this is about the Trump Party and Democrats. In this new political world, traditional Dem political thinking is completely irrelevant. However, Dems persist with the same old same old, which is shocking to me. It’s as if they think ‘We can deal with it at the next election’. Wake the f*ck up! NOTHING and I mean NOTHING will ever be the same again nobody is coming to save you.

Democrats can blame their election loss on ‘stupid ignorant voters’ all day every day. They can say, ‘It’s their fault, we tried to warn them and they took no notice’. I’ve forgotten how many times I’ve read this on social media. It is both arrogant and utterly delusional. Democrats FAILED the American people. It really is as simple as that. I was part of that failure and I’m happy to own it, however uncomfortable that might feel. Dems have to understand what went wrong and learn from the mistakes made.

Finding anyone in Democratic leadership to admit fault, is like trying to find rocking horse shit. They were still having a mocha flat white made with Peruvian goat’s milk, while Elon was skinning and gutting the government, terminating tens of thousands of federal jobs and cutting hundreds of vital services that their base can’t survive without. There should have been a Dem war room stood up immediately after the election loss, to prepare for what they surely knew what was to come.

Let’s be Crystal clear. Dems spent over a billion dollars on a campaign in which they got their ass handed them on a plate by a convicted criminal and adjudicated rapist. Take a moment to think about that, then tell me it’s the voter’s fault, because that’s what they’re saying. It’s lamentable when your message is ‘The other guy is a fascist, vote for me’, oh and ‘we’re for abortion’.

Trump didn’t win this election, Dems handed it to him gift wrapped with a big red bow. This was born of a failure to use the midterms to transition from a man who had been a transformative president, to the next generation of Dem leaders. It’s almost embarrassing the depth of political talent in the Democrat party right now. Yet hubris got in the way and handed America to Trump. They didn’t learn a thing from 2016. Everybody loves an underdog, especially a reality TV underdog.

In 2020, given Trump’s catastrophic handling of the COVID pandemic, Dems should have won in a landslide. There should have been no opportunity for Trump to question the election, because the win should have been too big to even entertain challenging the result. There was absolutely no recognition of that by Dem leadership. They were just happy they won. Big mistake.

In 2022 the backlash from the overturning of Roe v Wade halted Republicans to the point where the red wave never materialised. From this point on, abortion rights became the flagship of the Dem platform, to the exclusion of EVERYTHING including immigration which was unbelievably stupid. They failed to articulate the phenomenal economy Biden had rebuilt, preferring to focus instead on ‘the other guy is a fascist’ argument. More important, the focus was on the middle class not the working class.

After just one month of Mad King Don, it will take a generation to recover from the catastrophic damage he has caused.

Without leadership, the American people are adrift in an ocean of lies and despair, excluding MAGAs of course who are cheering themselves into economic slavery while smashing themselves in the face daily.