The Democrats DEI Themselves and Continue to Be the Party of Parody
The great Rush Limbaugh said it best: the best bits of comedy have a grain of truth to them. Right now, there is nowhere else that can be found more than in the Democrat Party. They are still reeling from the November Trump beatdown, and they have the look of a prizefighter who has just had his bell rung, and every time he tries to get up, he falls again. And while even the staunchest conservatives will concede that America benefits from a two-party system, those same conservatives would be lying if they said they were not having a ton of fun watching the Democrats continually and repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot.
They have only themselves to blame. They completely ignored the American people, who told them they wanted the economy, and the border fixed and crime reigned in. Instead, they blathered on about electric cars and pronouns. This past weekend, Democrats elected a new Party Chair, former Minnesota State Democrat Party Chair Ken Martin. But it’s not Martin’s ascension to the head of the National party that should give one pause to chuckle, it is the way the election went, in a word, par for the course for Democrats.
Democrats, always striving for that all-important diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), managed to DEI themselves into what could only be described as something just short of a Saturday Night Live skit. Outgoing Party Chairman Jaime Harrison stood at the podium and, at least, attempted to explain the rules of the election. The rules required that there be “gender balance” in the election process and the procedure should there be a non-binary candidate. The explanation continued, saying that in the event of a non-binary candidate, members must then select a man, a woman, and someone of either gender. Wait what? Harrison himself had to be confused as he rattled off the rules. It is what happens when you are so obsessed with gender ideology that you twist yourself into all manner of pretzel, trying to live it out. No word on if or how many rounds of votes it took to achieve “gender balance.”
But wait, it gets better. In addition to Ken Martin being elected as the new Democrat Party Chair, his new Vice Chair is…wait for it…David Hogg. Who? David Hogg. Hogg managed to reach beyond his 15 minutes of fame after he walked over the bodies of his dead classmates during a 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, to fashion a career as an anti-Second Amendment gun grabber and briefly thought he could out-pillow “My Pillow” founder Mike Lindell with his own progressive (or something) pillow company. That venture lasted all of a few minutes. Now, apparently, he’s found a new gig.
It doesn’t take long to figure out that Democrats have learned absolutely nothing from the 2024 election. The American people made their wishes known loud and clear, and Democrats promptly ignored them. Not one person who spoke at the Democrat Chair election said one word about the economy, the border, crime, energy, or anything else that Americans are concerned with. They continue to talk about transgender issues, green energy, and DEI. Their disconnect from the American people just keeps getting wider, and if they keep it up, it will take at least another election cycle, if not two, before they would have any chance of righting the ship.
In the meantime, we shouldn’t dismiss them, but we can have an awful lot of fun watching while they keep stepping on rakes.