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Democrats and Media (But I Repeat Myself) Begin Midterm Pre-Mortems

Posted on | November 2, 2022 | 5 Comments

After a few weeks of false hope — a late-summer poll bump that peaked in September and has now collapsed — Democrats and their media allies are beginning to come to grips with the fact that their congressional majority is going to get wiped out in next week’s midterm election.

The bottom is dropping out
of the 2022 election for Democrats

That’s the headline on a CNN column by Chris Cillizza, in which he cites the latest Cook Report and Gallup numbers to conclude, “it appears as though Republicans are on the verge of a major national victory.”

When even CNN is forced to admit things look bad for Democrats, you know that things look very bad for Democrats. Yet nobody at CNN will admit that they are part of the problem. For most of the past year, CNN has led every hour, 24 hours a day, with breathless updates from Nancy Pelosi’s J6 witchhunt committee’s “investigation” of the January 2021 Capitol riot — “a threat to our democracy!” — as if nothing else in the world was nearly as newsworthy. Hyping up this “get Trump” narrative was part of a political propaganda operation intended to distract from the Biden administration’s multitudinous failures by making Donald Trump the Emmanuel Goldstein of the midterm campaign.

And guess what? Nobody fucking cares anymore.

Did any substantial number of people outside the DC media/political bubble ever really care about the J6 “investigation”? I don’t think so.

Gas prices are still at least 75% higher than when Biden was elected, prices for many other commodities are sky-high, there may be a shortage of home heating oil this winter, and the generally catastrophic effects of “Bidenflation” have completely overwhelmed every other issue that might have mattered. Given what an awful president Biden has been, a lot of voters are thinking the Capitol rioters had a point. If they had known he was going to be this bad, everybody else would have rioted, too.

Failure has consequences, and Democrats can’t escape the verdict that voters will deliver next Tuesday. So now the question is, who to blame?

Top Democrats Question Their Party’s
Strategy as Midterm Worries Grow

Leading lawmakers and strategists are openly doubting
the party’s kitchen-sink approach, saying Democrats
have failed to unite around one central message.

That’s the headline on a 1,500-word New York Times story which is the latest reiteration of the familiar excuse whenever Democrats lose:

“WE DIDN’T GET OUR MESSAGE OUT!”

My old buddy Pete Parisi used to laugh at this habit of Democrats, who never see a problem with their own policies, but despite the fact that 95% of the media are completely in the tank for them, choose to believe that their inability to deliver a “message” is their real problem.

Here’s a sweet taste of delusion from the NYT story:

“The truth is, Democrats have done a poor job of communicating our approach to the economy,” said Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan who is in one of this year’s most competitive races. “I have no idea if I’m going to win my election — it’s going to be a nail biter. But if you can’t speak directly to people’s pocketbook and talk about our vision for the economy, you’re just having half a conversation.”

Keep in mind that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has spent nearly $5 million trying to save Slotkin’s seat. She is the New York-born heiress to a meatpacking fortune, who attended a posh private school, got a sociology degree from Cornell and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia before going to work for the CIA.

Slotkin’s idea that she’s on the verge of losing her congressional seat because Democrats failed to “talk about our vision for the economy” — well, as Orwell said, “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”

Because they’re so wrapped up in their bubble of delusions, Democrats don’t seem to notice that anything has gone wrong on Biden’s watch, never mind trying to understand why it’s gone wrong. So tonight, in one final Hail Mary pass with the clock running out, Biden is speaking at Union Station about how voting for Republicans is a “threat to democracy” or whatever. And it’s on live TV, because having the media give one more free TV spot to Joe Biden will save Democrats.

Never has a party deserved to lose as much as they do.

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