It might finally be happening, folks. Democrats might finally be realizing that their far-left agenda isn't what normal, everyday Democratic voters want.
That is, if they'll take this report from a left-center group called "Welcome" seriously:
Welcome is associated with "The Welcome Party," which exists to make the Democratic Party a "big tent" again. Welcome evolved out of a PAC in 2022.
Not that their report matters -- Democrats are likely to ignore it and keep doing all their woke socialist stuff -- but there are some good points that Welcome makes.
Let's start with the perfect headline from Semafor:
I can't hold back the laughter after reading this next part 👇
Democrats have badly weakened their party with left-leaning ideas and rhetoric, growing only with self-described 'white liberals' while losing ground with other voters, according to a new center-left group's report shared first with Semafor.
Hundreds of thousands of voters were consulted by this Welcome group, and the results were astonishing (well, not if you're a normal person).
70% of voters think the Democratic Party is 'out of touch.' Most voters, the group found, believe the party over-prioritizes issues like 'protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,' and 'fighting climate change' while not caring about 'securing the border' or 'lowering the rate of crime.'
Whoa, you mean to tell me that normal people think the Democratic Party is "out of touch"???
[T]he 70-page 'Deciding to Win' document argues that Democrats must be 'willing to break with unpopular party orthodoxies.' Its prescription for getting the party out of its current wilderness isn't simple: avoidance of 'both a pivot to corporate centrism and the pursuit of progressive ideology purity.'
Essentially, Be normal.
Which is going to be very difficult for the Democratic Party, which usually lets the inmates (the far-lefties) run the asylum.
The report essentially asks Dems to stop using woke language and doing woke things.
Over those 11 years [2013-2024], the share of congressional Democratic co-sponsors of a bill to study reparations for the descendents [sic] of slaves rose from 1% to 57%. Support for assault weapons ban legislation grew from 41% to 88%; support for giving federal prisoners full voting rights grew from 4% to 41%; and support for legislation that would wipe out state abortion limits went from two-thirds of the Democratic caucus to 98%.
During the same time period, the perception of the party as 'too liberal' rose from around 47% to 55%, in an average of public polls conducted by the group. Perception of the GOP as 'too conservative' fell from 47% to 44%, though the authors note that that number has moved back up in Trump's second term.
If you frequent this website, you know exactly what this report is getting at.
The report's study of national Democratic Party platforms from 2012 to 2024 found a surge in language about specific racial groups (up 828%), about 'environmental justice' (up 333%), and about LGBTQ rights (up 1044%). Mentions of 'men' fell by 63%, of 'fathers' by 100%, and 'responsibility' by 83%.
In 2020 and 2024, the party platform began with land acknowledgments for the Native American tribes that had previously inhabited their convention sites.
Those shifts didn't win votes.
Here's the real juice in the report, especially at a time when Democrats consider themselves the party of diversity.
The report's analysis of voter data from Catalist, a Democratic data firm, showed Democrats losing some ground with non-college-educated white voters since 2012, but far more with non-white voters, no matter their education level.
Progressive language and policies meant to win those non-white voters simply didn't work.
This report will soon be sent out to elected Democrats, and I can only guess that it will end up in many, many D.C. trash cans.
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