It’s been roughly two weeks since Election Day and Democrats are still trying to figure out what went so wrong.
Many are so disconnected from the reality working class Americans experience every day they’ll likely never be able to come to terms with the lessons of this past election cycle.
But Jen Psaki gave Democrats a hefty dose of reality with this confession about Kamala Harris.
Democrats keep pointing fingers
Vice President Kamala Harris’ entire Presidential campaign was built on “vibes,” as she and her staff avoided talking about policy and real world issues in order to push narratives about “joy,” “change,” and the like.
They laser focused on painting President-elect Donald Trump as a so-called “fascist” and “threat to democracy,” while attempting to pull Republican voters away from his campaign.
As a result, the Kamala campaign went all-in on highlighting the support she received from establishment, neocon RINOs, like disgrace former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, even though she was so unpopular with Republican voters, she lost her 2022 Republican Congressional Primary by nearly 40-points.
The Kamala campaign specifically chose to have Kamala and Cheney campaign together in crucial midwestern battleground states like Michigan and Wisconsin.
But in both Wisconsin and Michigan, Trump’s vote totals ballooned by around 87,000 and 130,000 votes respectively, helping demolish Democrats’ so-called “blue wall” on his way to victory.
And now, former Biden Press Secretary turned MSNBC talking head Jen Psaki is calling out the Kamala campaign’s embrace of neocon RINOs like Cheney as a massive miscalculation.
“But I hope there’s a real question about who people are listening to. In my view, there was an over-listening to and an over-lifting up of people who left Trump, not to people who left the Democratic Party,” Psaki explained. “The people who left the Democratic Party are the ones who are going to win in the future. The Never-Trumpers have important voices, but that’s not the winning coalition.”
While Trump was busy working to expand his voting base, Kamala’s embrace of Cheney and her ilk did nothing to grow the Democrat’s base as such neocon RINOs are dismissed as failed, warmongering elites by everyone who wasn’t already all-in on Kamala.
As a result, Trump saw his support from black voters, Hispanic voters, young voters, and women all increase across the board compared to his 2020 vote totals, while Kamala significantly underperformed President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign.
Psaki also went on to note that while putting Cheney and other Never-Trump RINOs front and center was supposed to highlight Democrats’ false claims that Trump is somehow a “fascist,” it proved to be a terrible closing campaign message largely because most Americans don’t buy into such nonsense, and were far more interested in real issues like the economy and immigration.
“The last thing I’ll say, because I’ve been thinking about this a lot, part of that piece — the who you’re listening to — is also this argument, and you just touched on this, Mika, about fascism,” Psaki said. “Fascism and the threat to democracy is a huge issue in this country. Journalists should talk about it. It is not a good closing message to reach the masses of the country. People don’t relate to it. It’s not something they understand.”
No matter how you slice it, Kamala Harris’ campaign failed miserably because Democrats are completely out of touch with normal Americans in the real world.