Sunday, November 10, 2024

Democrats and the Case of Mistaken Identity Politics

The New York Times reports:
Some Democrats are finally waking up and realizing that woke is broke.
Donald Trump won a majority of white women and remarkable numbers of Black and Latino voters and young men.
Democratic insiders thought people would vote for Kamala Harris, even if they didn’t like her, to get rid of Trump. But more people ended up voting for Trump, even though many didn’t like him, because they liked the Democratic Party less.
NYT columnist Maureen Dowd has this quote from Rahm Emanuel:
“When the woke police come at you,” Rahm Emanuel told me, “you don’t even get your Miranda rights read to you.”