As elected Democrats dwell on the deeper meaning to their electoral beatdown, slivers of genuine insight occasionally pop to the surface of what remains a deep sea of denial. Authority imposed from on high was soundly defeated on November 5 by grassroots anger over issues of fundamental concern to average Americans. That’s not supposed to happen. What does this mean for a party that spent decades assiduously securing a stranglehold over the gatekeepers of a carefully constructed cultural dominion that now finds itself bereft of all resonance with the public at large?
“Campaigns, in many ways, are last-mile marketers that exist on terrain that is set by culture, and the institutions by which Democrats have historically had the ability to influence culture are losing relevance,” Kamala Harris’ deputy campaign manager, Rob Flaherty, acknowledged to Semafor on December 15 in a stunningly blunt admission. “You don’t get a national eight-point shift to the right without losing hold of culture.”
Flaherty even specifically pointed out the total uselessness of having the dominant press in the party’s back pocket.
“There’s just no value – with respect to my colleagues in the mainstream press – in a general election, to speaking to The New York Times or speaking to The Washington Post, because those are already with us,” he told the news site.
Epiphany for Democrats: ‘They Don’t Trust All This Stuff’
Here’s the worst part for the floundering party: It’s not only the media. An entire cozy credentialed elite orbiting the blue nexus has seen its “ability to influence culture,” as Flaherty puts it, completely collapse over the four-year course of a deeply unpopular Biden administration. […]
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