The Main Person Behind the Left’s Crushing Defeat Remains Immune to Criticism from Democrats
President-elect Trump has wiped out the left and decimated the Democratic Party. Now that the Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives, the conservatives will now control Congress and the White House. With Trump winning a decisive victory both in the electoral college and also prevailing with the popular vote, the left is predictably turning on each other, with individuals trying to figure out who is to blame for the Democrat’s massive loss.
The first person that many party leaders predictably blamed was Biden. The current President obviously made mistakes, he was both incompetent and corrupt, but a more detailed analysis of recent elections show the Democrats problems are much bigger than the failures of the current Administration.
Harris got more votes than Obama did in 2012 or Hillary Clinton did in 2016, but she failed to get as many votes as Trump did in 2020 or 2024. The current President elect got nearly 74.2 million votes in 2020 and he got nearly 75 million votes in 2024. Trump got significantly more votes than the Democratic party has gotten in 3 of the last 4 elections, the current MAGA coalition is simply larger than the left’s overall voting blocs. The Democratic party’s vote total in 2020 was clearly an outlier.
The reality is that the new Democratic party is one of elites that was built by Barack Obama, and the left’s agenda has no appeal to most working-class people. Most of the Reagan Democrats are now Republicans. While Biden has been incompetent and Harris was a weak candidate, the reality is that the Democratic Party’s agenda which is focused on climate change, tax increases, and gun control, is not appealing to most middle-class families. Bill Clinton was a moderate Democrat who knew how to talk to working-class voters, Obama was the first major leader of the left to reposition the party. The divisive former President is the one who refocused the Democratic agenda on issues such as climate change and made the party one of coastal elites. While Harris and Biden are incompetent, Barack Obama is the architect of a modern Democratic party that simply does not have adequate or significant appeal to most middle and working class voters.
The criticisms of Biden do not explain the fact that as even Bernie Sanders recently admitted, the Democrats have lost the working-class over the last 10 years.
President Obama never takes responsibility for any issue, and Pelosi similarly likes to blame others as well, but both of these failed leaders’ actions are major reason for why the Democratic party today is so poorly positioned today. The party is also afraid to hold Pelosi or Obama accountable for the fact that the current Democratic agenda has been shaped much more by Obama and Pelosi than by Biden and Harris. Still, the reality is that the MAGA agenda simply has broader appeal to a larger cross-section of voters than the Democratic party’s current platform. The left is lost and Pelosi and Obama have to own that fact and take responsibility.
