The American people served up a world class butt-whoopin’ on Tuesday night to the Democrat Party. In a landslide win for President-elect Donald Trump, voters let Democrats know that they were tired of not being listened to, that they were tired of being gaslit, told that they were not really smart enough to realize they were not living through what they are. Now, among Democrats, the blame game and finger-pointing is in full force. But will they manage to get beyond who did what and do some real evaluation? One of their own says that is exactly what they need to do.
On Thursday, Democrat strategist Julie Roginsky made a post-election appearance on CNN. She had nothing but a healthy dose of toughlove for her fellow Democrats. She called out Democrats for their apparent inability to speak to normal people.
“We are not the party of common sense, which is what the message that voters sent to us for a number of reasons. For a number of reasons, we don’t know how to speak to voters. When we address Latina and language — listen — language has meaning.”
Roginsky brought up Democrats’ use of politically correct terms like “Latinx,” a term that three-quarters of Hispanics do not like, and is alienating to Hispanic voters. She also brought up the incidence of students taking over college campuses in protest and Democrats being seemingly okay with it because they are too afraid of offending a group if they speak up, thus not acknowledging the fact that average Americans are not okay with it.
“We are too afraid to say that, ‘Hey, college kids, if you’re trashing a campus of Columbia University because you aren’t happy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning that that is unacceptable.’”
Roginsky wasn’t done. In a possible veiled reference to Democrat politicians like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Kamala Harris changing their voice cadence (accent) depending on what audience they are speaking to, Roginsky said this:
“We constantly try to parse out different ways of speaking to different cohorts because our focus groups or our polling shows that so-and-so appeals to such and such. That’s not how normal people think. It’s not common sense. And we need to start being the party of common sense again.”
Roginsky says she has been “banging the drum on this for I don’t know how, probably ten years, if not longer, on this.” She added:
“We need to get back to being the party of common sense that people look at us and say, we understand you, we appreciate what you say because you speak our language. And until we do that, we should stop blaming other people for our own mistakes.”
Perhaps Democrats should have been listening to Roginsky long before Tuesday night as they try to place blame on Joe Biden or Kamala Harris and just about anyone else in their inner circles. But does anyone think they will listen to her now? The answer to that is no. The reason, even though the 2024 election was a resounding pushback on every left-wing policy Democrats tried to foist on the American people, Democrats, whether they are still in their post-election fog or not, will cling to the notion that this election was an outlier. They will continue to insist that Americans are just racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobes who would not elect a black woman for president. All one has to do is watch Sunny Hostin insist that a district in Texas that sits along the border, and is 97 percent Hispanic, voted overwhelmingly for Trump, not because of immigration, but because…they are misogynists. Denial this deep is going to take a few more election cycles and a few more butt-whoopins before it finally sinks in that maybe a change is needed.
The best thing Democrats could do to begin to repair their party, is to listen to people like Julie Roginsky. But lucky for us, they probably won’t.
