Democrats’ huge mistake, revolt of the working class and other commentary

From nan left: Democrats’ Huge Mistake

Donald Trump “won because nan electorate rejected nan Biden-Harris administration,” argues New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait.

The statement went incorrect erstwhile it “responded to Trump’s 2016 triumph not by moving toward nan center,” but “by moving distant from it.”

Thus Harris joined nan battalion moving near successful nan 2020 rhythm — which “Joe Biden won because he abstained from that rush,” only to arsenic prez adopt “positions (and yet staff) aligned pinch Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.”

That yielded ostentation and nan migrant crisis. Harris tacked centerwards successful 2024, but could neither explicate “why she had changed her mind from 2019” nor “detach herself from Biden.”

Dems went incorrect aft Trump’s first win; now their “future will beryllium wished by whether they tin respond much shrewdly this time.” 

Democrat: Revolt of nan Working Class

Trump’s triumph “sent a clear connection to nan coastal elites that it’s nan moving people and mediate America that runs this country,” roars Mark Penn astatine Fox News.

He’s “likely nan only Republican who could person won this title because only he was capable to speak to nan moving people voters who consciousness near retired of a Democratic schedule that offered handouts alternatively than opportunities and cared much astir ambiance alteration alternatively than little power prices.”

The Democratic Party “will person to look astatine really acold to nan near it has drifted and reset itself for 2028.”

“Trump’s triumph is simply a triumph for nan Americans who consciousness abandoned by nan elites and a Democratic Party that moved excessively acold from mainstream America.”

Libertarian: Kam Failed To Throw Joe Under Bus

Donald Trump “made awesome inroads pinch number communities, vastly improved his totals successful various states, and is presently projected to triumph nan celebrated vote,” observes Reason’s Robby Soave.

Yet “the azygous astir important contributing factor” to his triumph was Harris, “a disastrous candidate.”

Democrats’ presumption “that a elemental campaigner switch would beryllium sufficient” was a immense mistake.

“She had each opportunity to propulsion Biden nether nan autobus and portion ways pinch his policies,” but alternatively said she wouldn’t alteration “one thing” — moreover arsenic polls showed that voters preferred Trump to Biden connected “the economy, inflation, and immigration.”

On policy, “Harris was much of nan nonstop same.” 

Conservative: Triumph of nan Misfits

“Trump led an insurgency of oddball outsiders against an insular set of out-of-touch elites” to triumph nan election, explains Eli Lake astatine The Free Press. “Kamala Harris had Beyoncé.”

But Trump had “a misfit coalition” that “was a tribune” for elector rage aft President Biden “misinterpreted a constrictive triumph successful 2020 arsenic a instruction to make sweeping argumentation changes to everything from nan border . . . to nan nationalist debt.”

That happened arsenic “his Democratic Party precocious outlandish and extremist societal policies.”

Add fury arsenic “a firm media that carried h2o for nan Democrats became nan party’s property secretaries successful nan location agelong of nan election.”

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris “kept making gaffes erstwhile she needed to show basal competence.”

She “couldn’t adjacent nan woody moreover arsenic nan media graded her connected a curve.”

Liberal: Dems Must Face Reality

Democrats “must ruefully acknowledge” that “the Trump movement” is “a powerful look of democracy,” warns Politico’s John F. Harris.

They thought “the Trump Era was thing to beryllium scraped disconnected nan nationalist shoe. Instead, location will beryllium different helping placed connected nan nationalist plate. His adversaries don’t person to dress it tastes good. But, for now, they request to eat it.”

Admit he’s “not simply a personage candidate” aliases a “comet that streaks crossed nan entity and past is gone, but nan leader of a governmental movement” who resonates pinch “deeper dimensions” of nan American character.

“We are successful for a caller section of Trump’s career, and a caller section successful nan American presidency.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board