{"id":1457659,"date":"2022-04-29T08:15:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457659"},"modified":"2022-04-29T08:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:15:50","slug":"go-ahead-democrats-follow-that-viral-michigan-state-senator-into-your-electoral-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/go-ahead-democrats-follow-that-viral-michigan-state-senator-into-your-electoral-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Ahead, Democrats: Follow That Viral Michigan State Senator Into Your Electoral Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgo-ahead-democrats-follow-that-viral-michigan-state-senator-into-your-electoral-grave%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457659&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democrats have a new rock star who some think has charted a path to victory for them. If they listen to her, they\u2019ll double down on extremist policies on race and transgender indoctrination. Republicans can only hope that\u2019s exactly what they\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight Democratic state Sen. Mallory McMorrow is the toast of leftist Twitter as well as the subject of laudatory segments on late-night comedy shows and the recipient of a congratulatory phone call from President Joe Biden. She\u2019s also been featured in a host of flattering articles in corporate media outlets like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/25\/us\/politics\/mallory-mcmorrow-michigan.html\">The New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason for her newfound celebrity was a speech she gave on the floor of the Michigan State Senate in which she tore into a Republican colleague \u2014 state Sen. Lana Heis \u2014 for sending a fundraising email in which she referred to Democrats who backed teaching critical race theory (CRT) and transgender ideology in schools as \u201cgroomers.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iLWo8B1R0MY\">The video<\/a> of her remarks went viral.<\/p>\n<p>McMorrow didn\u2019t so much refute the charge as she sought to flip the narrative: \u201cI want every child in this state to feel seen, heard and supported, not marginalized and targeted because they are not straight, white, and Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five-minute speech is, for left-wingers, a bracing example of a Democrat fully embracing wokeness rather than downplaying or denying it. Instead of dodging charges of being tied to extreme education policies such as CRT and transgender ideology in elementary schools, McMorrow chose to tie her party to them.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, although the cultural establishment has been demonizing conservatives and Republicans as racists and bigots non-stop for many years, with the practice becoming standard political operating procedure in the Trump era, many on the left are under the delusion that their side plays nice while the right fights dirty. So in their eyes McMorrow is a rare heroine prepared to stand up to the onslaught from the right.<\/p>\n<h2>Doubling Down on Wokeness<\/h2>\n<p>Not surprisingly, this inspired some of the chattering class to proclaim McMorrow as an example to be followed. The Washington Post\u2019s Greg Sargent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/04\/20\/mallory-mcmorrow-james-carville-wokeness-democrats\/\">thinks<\/a> her speech provides proof that Democrats ought to reject the advice of more moderate members of their party. <\/p>\n<p>Sargent singled out former Clinton advisor James Carville, who has said \u201cwokeness is a problem\u201d for Democrats, \u201cwe all know that.\u201d Instead of distancing themselves from their party\u2019s radicals and their race and sexual obsessions, Sargent says McMorrow shows her \u201ctakedown requires a \u2018wokeness\u2019 rethink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow WaPo leftist Jonathan Capehart also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/04\/26\/mallory-mcmorrow-speech-groomer-fight-bigotry-ally\/\">chimed in<\/a> to write that the state senator\u2019s stand means that white Democrats shouldn\u2019t let her \u201cfight bigotry alone,\u201d which is his (and the rest of the mainstream media\u2019s) way of characterizing her defense of radical practices that would normalize allowing children to identify as the opposite sex and even receive life-altering medical treatments without informing their parents.<\/p>\n<p>This all makes sense as a form of group therapy for Democrats dealing with feelings of sadness and depression as they face the prospect of a wipeout in the midterm elections because of the failures of the Biden administration at home and abroad. It\u2019s also exactly the kind of pep talk that the leftist base wants their failing politicians to hear. <\/p>\n<p>They want them to listen to members of the chattering classes who believe focusing on Jan. 6 and the so-called \u201cinsurrection\u201d is the path to victory, or former Republican congressman turned Democrat cheerleader Joe Scarborough, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/04\/27\/joe_scarborough_2022_will_not_be_a_referendum_on_joe_biden_but_on_the_republican_party.html\">said on his MSNBC show<\/a> that Democrats can win by calling rank-and-file Republicans \u201cfascists\u201d and \u201cracists.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Suicide Mission<\/h2>\n<p>But their problem is that Carville is right. The idea that Democrats can succeed by doubling down on unpopular and arguably insane policies and by labeling everyone who opposes them as a racist makes zero sense. The polls as well as the evidence of last fall\u2019s election in Virginia show that Democrats are going to pay a heavy price for letting Biden and the rest of their party be hijacked by the hard left and its toxic ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cgroomer\u201d epithet to which McMorrow took umbrage is a conservative riposte to leftist critiques of a Florida law passed by Republicans which banned the promulgation of CRT and transgender doctrines in grades K-3, a law the left mislabeled as a \u201cdon\u2019t say gay\u201d bill. But it\u2019s fair that those who support such indoctrination in schools, like McMorrow, be held responsible for the damage that these toxic theories are doing to children as well as the country.<\/p>\n<p>McMorrow is not so much giving heart to Democrats as sending them on a suicide mission. The Times compared her to Wendy Davis, the Texas legislator who got a similar dose of 15 minutes of fame for filibustering an anti-abortion bill. Davis hasn\u2019t won an election in a red state like Texas since her filibuster, but the Times thinks things might be different for McMorrow in a purple state like Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Yet if Democrats are to remain competitive in Michigan or anywhere other than a deep blue state, it will require them to learn the lesson of Virginia and throw off any associations with the woke. Standing up against parental rights and for idea of small children \u201ctransitioning\u201d or inculcating racist ideas about \u201cwhite privilege\u201d in the schools may win McMorrow plaudits from Jimmy Kimmel. But at a time when voters are sick of wokeness, cancel culture, and false accusations of racism and bigotry, it is exactly the formula for a Democratic midterm wipeout.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jonathan S. Tobin is a senior contributor to The Federalist, editor in chief of JNS.org, and a columnist for the New York Post. 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