Dems Hope To Hide Policies Behind ‘Straight, White, Christian Man’
A Federalist column by Eddie Scarry discusses an Axios report that some Democrats are privately weighing nominating a “straight, white, Christian man” to win back the presidency in 2028, rather than shifting their policy platform. The piece argues that Democrats were crushed in 2024 partly because they refused to acknowledge that voters care more about policy results than identity, citing Kamala Harris as an example of how the party’s approach backfired. It contends that the Democrats are not pursuing a real policy shift but instead hoping a nominee who fits a certain identity profile could appeal to voters. A quoted democrat strategist is cited as fearing that a woman on the ticket has lost twice, reinforcing the article’s claim that gender alone isn’t the issue. The author counters that the real problem is unpopular policies, not the candidate’s identity, and asserts that simply masking those policies with a “straight, white, Christian man” image won’t change voters’ views.The piece frames this as part of a broader critique of Democratic strategy and policy direction.
A hilarious article in Axios over the weekend re-upped one of my favorite self-perpetuating problems in the Democrat Party — the party’s refusal to do anything but change its destructive, unpopular policy positions.
“Some top Democrats,” read the piece by Holly Otterbein and Alex Thompson, “are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party’s best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, white, Christian man.”
Democrats had their rears smacked and handed to them red hot in 2024, in large part because they wouldn’t accept that voters aren’t as preoccupied with race and sex as they are. It’s how they permanently screwed themselves with Kamala Harris, first as vice president and then inevitably as the party’s replacement nominee.
To her credit, at least Kamala, with a herculean assist from the dying news media, pretended not to support all the things she and the rest of the party in fact did support up until the last second. Namely, importing every destitute foreigner who made it to the southern border, allowing crime to run rampant (so long as the perpetrators were of a particular demographic), and crushing the middle class by hooking as many people as possible on welfare.
If Kamala hadn’t had a record as, you know, vice president for the previous three-plus years, she might have had a shot. But a policy reversal isn’t the lesson Democrats appear to have taken from that loss. Instead, they have settled on a new strategy that involves going on podcasts, publicly cursing a lot, and — wait for it — hunting down a nominee who might fit the profile of the very type of person the party has tried to destroy. The white, straight, Christian male.
They’re no longer considering a policy shift, it seems.
“[F]alling short twice to President Trump — both times with women on the ticket — has left some Democratic leaders, donors and strategists deeply pessimistic about what voters will accept now,” the Axios story said. It quoted one unnamed Democrat “strategist” who said, “There is a fear — and I actually don’t think this is just a grass-tops fear, I think you’d hear it from voters, too — that a woman has now lost twice.”
True, a woman has now lost twice. But to the extent that polls can be trusted (they usually can’t), it’s not that Democrats were running women. It’s that they were running women with abhorrent policy preferences, which, it turns out, are the same policy preferences that the party’s men have too. Even the allegedly straight, white, Christian ones!
Their policies don’t work. Americans don’t want them. Dressing them up under a ‘straight, white, Christian man’ skin suit isn’t going to change anything.
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