[Baltimore Sun] Democratic Party needs recalibration | READER COMMENTARY
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The Democratic Party has become a party ruled by a consultant class. Affluent people with opinions and degrees, few hardships to their name, and who have an almost religious faith in institutions that most Americans feel abandoned by.
This election result was of little surprise to most outside the liberal bubble. Predictably, I see think piece after think piece blaming the “radical left.” Were we watching the same election? Harris tacked to the center and lost. Americans were promised a neoliberal interventionism for the middle class, and responded with a resounding “NO.”
The unavoidable truth is this: Americans are suffering and only one candidate promised radical change.
Bernie Sanders is the nation’s most popular senator by a considerable margin. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez out-performed Harris drastically. Yet in a complete inversion of reality, a huge cohort of pundits and politicians insist that left-wing populism is somehow unpopular.
Harris could’ve pushed back against the anti-immigrant framing, instead she played into it. The majority of Americans support an embargo of weapons for Israel, instead she pledged unwavering support for an ongoing genocide. She was given chances to separate herself from the historically unpopular administration, instead she pledged more of the same.
We must push back against the narratives shoved down our throats by out-of-touch Democratic politicians and pundits. Americans have rejected their ideology. For the sake of the country and our collective future, those holding institutional power must step aside for fresh voices that are better in touch with the world of today.
— Jester Fox, Glen Burnie
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