Two recent articles have a couple quotes from prominent Democrat strategists that inadvertently capture the filthy rut the party continues to roll around in. They even use the same word.
In The Hill on Monday, campaign strategists Doug Schoen and Carly Cooperman declared that “the heart of Democrats’ dilemma is an inability to articulate their own path forward” and a failure at “communicating their own credible and attractive alternative” to President Trump’s agenda. Over in The New York Times one day before, pollster Celinda Lake almost identically said, “The biggest thing the Democrats need to do is not the negative but the positive. We have to offer an alternative.”
Sounds like a plan! So what’s the “alternative” to securing the southern border, cracking down on inner-city crime, and promoting affordable energy production? What’s the alternative to using real U.S. muscle to force a peace deal in the Middle East? What’s the alternative to insisting foreign leaders open their markets to American-made products, lest they pay penalties? (And in the meantime, they certainly are paying.) What’s the alternative to a military that prioritizes fighting capability over “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion”?
We’ve seen what the alternative to all of that looks like. It was called the Biden years. Or, if you made less than $250,000 per year, you might have more commonly known it as “Is this hell?”
Here’s an idea for Democrats though: Not everything needs an alternative. A lot of problems, maybe most of them, have one practical solution. To pretend otherwise is to play with real people’s money, their safety, and that of their families. It turns out it’s not very popular to do that.
It’s also not popular to pretend that problems aren’t problems. Recall all of 2024 when Democrat leaders, plus their very helpful friends in the dying media, swore that crime, prices, and illegal border crossings were “down.” That was a lie or, if we feel like being generous, it was misleading. Whatever you want to call it, it didn’t work for Democrats. They lost, and the party remains historically unpopular. Yes, even after calling every attempt by the president to fix those very problems “fascist.”
Democrats can keep spinning their wheels, trying to concoct an “alternative” solution to a problem that only has one. Or they could not and just be pro-American for a change.
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