The Democrats’ Future Swirls The Toilet

Democrats still seem quite troubled about what went wrong in the 2024 election. They keep offering various reasons for the loss. Their reasons range from the failure of the meritocracy, according to David Brooks, to the utter disconnect of the American people involving racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia — all of it.

Well, the latest explanation comes courtesy of Kamala Harris’ advisers. According to The Washington Post:

Senior officials with Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign say her defeat stemmed primarily from dissatisfaction among voters about the overall direction of the country and discontent over inflation and the economy, arguing that those headwinds proved too strong for Harris to overcome in her sprint to Election Day.

This is a very convenient explanation for Democrats, because it means they don’t have to change anything. All of this feels like whistling past the political graveyard. It is a refusal to deal with the underlying factors that led to the Democrats getting shellacked across the country.

Well, now we’re getting this same sort of sense from the so-called “resistance.” There’s a lengthy article in The New York Times discussing Trump’s resistance encountering fatigue. It turns out that all of the ladies who protested during the first Trump administration are a little frustrated because they’re not quite sure what to do.

According to The New York Times:

The first Trump presidency spawned the largest protests the country had seen in half a century.

But not everyone wants to participate in another four years of mass movement work. When Women’s March shared information about an upcoming rally on Instagram, one person responded, “No im tired, yall have fun though.” (Women’s March later hid some of the pushback and limited who could respond to a handful of posts.)

On TikTok, plans for the march were met with memes of women saying, “Get somebody else to do it.” “This is an opportunity for a national brunch day for the 93 percent,” said one user, referring to the 93 percent of Black women who exit polls suggested had voted for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Others questioned whether the previous protests had resulted in substantial concessions.

So they’re realizing that their protest movements have accomplished nothing. But what they refuse to recognize is the reason why those protest movements are accomplishing nothing.

Maybe it’s because there was at least the patina of legitimacy to many of the causes people were protesting back in the 1960s and 1980s.

And now, as it turns out, the causes they’re backing are just bad.

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And this brings us to the controversy of the day.

Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) has now sponsored a resolution on the floor of the House that is going to be implemented. It suggests that women should be able to use their bathrooms without men with penises in those same bathrooms.

This seems perfectly legitimate. In fact, this is relatively non-controversial in the regular world. And these transgender bathroom rules are perfectly obvious. There’s nothing particularly shocking about them. A man should use the men’s bathroom and a woman should use the women’s bathroom. Apparently, according to the Left, this is very bad. How dare Nancy Mace. How dare she?

Mace appeared on Scripps News and during the interview the anchor kept insisting to Mace that she was barring a woman from using the bathrooms, to which Mace responded, “No.” Sarah McBride is a dude whose name was Tim McBride and still has all of the male appendages. In her interview with Scripps News Mace says a true thing, but an offensively true thing:

Scripps: I just want to add that the congresswoman-elect does identify as a woman. I will be…

Mace: She’s not a woman. It’s a man. She was born a man. She’s a man. She is biologically a male. That is science. You guys on the Left in the mainstream media want to say, “follow the science.” Let’s follow the science. Okay. He is a man. He can wear a dress. He can call himself, his pronouns can be she or her. But he doesn’t belong in a women’s restroom, period.

Again, according to the polling data, most Americans agree with this. This is not a controversial proposition, but the Left can’t let go of it.

For example, Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has suggested the real problem is Mace and company, of course:

This is what we’re doing. This is the lesson that you’ve drawn from the election in November. This is your priority. If you want to bully a member of Congress as opposed to welcoming her to join this body so that all of us can work together.

The priorities are truth and protection of women. One of the most annoying things about Democratic policy on this particular proposition is that they do something totally abnormal and out of the boundaries of decent human behavior — then, they question when people bring it up.

For his part, Speaker Johnson has put out a statement saying,

All single sex facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings such as restrooms, changing rooms and locker rooms are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.

It’s also important to note each member’s office has its own private restroom. Unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol. Women deserve women’s only spaces. Again, perfectly reasonable. There are alternative solutions. 

Despite many of his heterodox positions with his party, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is still a progressive. He tweeted out, 

There’s no job I’m afraid to lose if it requires me to degrade anyone. If that’s a defining issue for a voter, there will be a different candidate. We have a bathroom in my office that anybody is welcome to use, including Representative-elect Sarah McBride.

I’m glad that you want Sarah McBride to use your bathroom. That’s your choice, senator. Also, you don’t get to decide whether women ought to have men in their bathroom.

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Why does all this matter? Because the reason Democrats lost is the cultural disconnect that the people on the coasts and the Democratic elite have with the rest of America. These are noncontroversial propositions that are made controversial by the Democratic Party.

That is what is happening. And these are belief systems that are held so deeply that even the most elite people in the Democratic Party — people who face no discrimination in America — are now treating the election of Donald Trump and the restoration of some form of normality as a grave threat to them.