The Democratic Party has been walking since the former vice -president Kamala Harris lost the 2024 elections against Donald Trump – and a new reflection group pushes things to make things up for the party.
The group and its founder, the former operator of the Democratic Party, Adam Jentleson, were profiled In the New York Times on Wednesday. He said the Searchlight Institute said that Democrats are trying to openly support human rights for LGBTQ + Americans and to join the Republicans to refuse the reality of the science of climate change.
“The people who are most to blame about Trump are those who have prompted Democrats to take indefensible positions,” said Jentleson. He also said that aclu, which defended human rights for decades and has rejected On the abuse of immigrants from the Republican, “did more to contribute to Trump’s victory than many conservative groups”.
The article noted that among the main donors who gave 10 million dollars to Searchlight to move the Democrats to the right, the real estate investor Eric Laufer and the healing fund manager Stephen Mandel, both billionaires who would likely benefit from the party moving away from the populist posts.
The posture of Jentleson according to which the Democrats lost by being too married to progressive positions does not correspond to reality.
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For example, while under the former president Joe Biden, the Democratic Party more accepting Transgender Americans, the party has always moved away from a full -fledged defense of trans existence. During the 2024 parties agreement, transgender rights were barely mentioned Even if these rights were in the reticle during most of Trump’s first mandate.
Likewise, democrats seemed more in line with the conservative positions on immigration during the 2024 campaign, with important arguments In favor of “border security” and a pivot away from the plea of the Obama administration on a path to citizenship.
Turning away from the basis of the party on these questions and others is much more likely to have injured the Democrats during the elections that progressive shame being adopted by the Searchlight Institute.
A March survey From Navigator, research has demonstrated the internal problem facing democrats. Only 31% of those questioned think that democrats focus on “helping people like me” while 54% said they focused on others. Democrats were also on the loser side to seek workers and enhance work.
It would not seem to have a moral or politically meaning to turn away from supporting the main parties of the parties among the LGBTQ + community or immigrants according to this poor performance.
In fact, since Trump returned to the Survey of the White House Party support improved when the leaders rejected abuse, including attacks against migrants.
The greatest controversy within the democratic caucus was March decision By the head of the Senate minorities, Chuck Schumer, to finance the activities of the Trump administration. Trump’s newly allowed agenda reflected that which the spotlights now recommend – and the Americans, especially the democratic voters that the party needs to survive, hates it.
In reality, the progressive problems that Jentleson and the spotlights claim that the Democrats have been raised to the point of caricature by external elements.
It was consumer media like the New York Times who performed A disinformation campaign on transgender rights. Times was joined by conservative propaganda points of sale like Fox News by spreading transgender peopleAnd instead of solving the front problem directly, the Democrats ignored it and hoped that everything would disappear. The Republicans took advantage of this cowardice and spent millions Promote an unanswered story that has paid electoral dividends.
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The projectors’ remedy is to abandon this particularly vulnerable group of Americans, as well as to ignore or minimize other vital issues such as climate change and immigration, ceding land with right -wing extremism in the Republican Party.
In an ideal world, the incalculable millions of dollars that Projectlight intend to use to attract democrats to the right would probably be better spent to invest in a progressive media infrastructure. This would help inform the public of the importance of these questions and highlight the Democrats who dares to get up and do the right thing.
Or the party could simply become a republican-book and lose more elections to the next iteration of Donald Trump and his fellow men.
