As Democrats descend into infighting, will the party wake up to the fact that its leftward lurch is toxic?
Like a combination of relay race and kindergarten circle time, the best way to picture the blame game underway in the Democratic Party is a loop. Kamala’s people blame Biden for arrogantly delaying his exit; Bidenworld is briefing against Obama for pushing the aging president out; and Obama insiders are heaping off-the-record scorn on Harris for the party’s humiliation.
The knives are out among Democrats — along with forks, spoons, and any other implement with which they can get at each other as the left melts down. Expect lots of performative outrage like Harvard’s tragicomic lecture cancellations for students left “feeling blue” by Trump’s victory. There will be many voices blaming the irreparable racism of more than that half the electorate. The machinery of the Democratic media-political industrial complex will gear up to “resist fascism” and manufacture a sense of perma-crisis in the Trump White House — a playbook that worked last time around.
But away from the tantrums, a serious debate is beginning to emerge to answer the question worth more than the billion dollars that donors poured into Kamala Harris’s campaign.
How, oh how — Democrats are asking — did a majority of voters reject the party of progress in favor of the dastardly Trump?
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