Democrats Losing Working Class Voters

For John, BLUF:  The photo accompanying this article is of Democratic Party nominee for Mayor of New York City, Mr Eric Adams.  Mr Adams ran on a law and justice platform.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Dems are losing the multiracial working class on basic lifestyle issues

From The New York Post, by Glenn H. Reynolds, July 8, 2021, 8:17pm.

Here is the lede plus three:

The Democrats have a problem:  They have run away from their core voters.  And they are beginning to notice and worry.

Lefty blogger Kevin Drum noted this recently.  He observes that Republicans have moved slightly to the right, but Democrats have moved way, way to the left on social issues.

Drum says he is “personally happy” about the Democrats’ move left.  But he is worried, because while the Democratic Party has moved hard left, the voters it relies on to attain power haven’t.

Thus, in the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump — despite being called a white supremacist and a Hispanic-hater by all the mainstream media — picked up black and Hispanic votes.

I think that Mr Kevin Drum is not the only one to notice.  Just this week White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki tried to pass off "Defend the Police" as a Republican thing.  And Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams recently said, no, we aren't against ID to vote.

The Author, Law Professor Reynolds, goes on to say:

One reason for this is that racial polarization went down, but “education polarization” went up.  The Democrats are increasingly the party of the college- and graduate-school-educated white gentry class.  The Republicans are increasingly the party of the working class, which includes a lot of . . . blacks and Hispanics.

I think the Democrats see their error and are trying to reorient.  I see efforts to portray Republicans as the "authoritarian" party.  This is while the Biden Administration is abandoning all actions supporting subsidiarity and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is saying "it is absolutely the government's business, it is taxpayers' business, if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping re-open the economy."  In the mean time there is talk of Federal Health Stasi [Not Original With Me] going door to door, checking everyone's vaccination status.

I think the 2022 Elections could be interesting, even without Mr Trump.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff