Democrats are voting in a new party leader — but it’s not enough to right the ship

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Posted on 01/30/2025 6:42:02 PM PST by Libloather

Saturday’s election of a new Democratic National Committee chair is attracting a lot of media attention in the wake of the drubbing the party received in 2024.

A fresh start under a new leader could help turn the floundering Democrats’ fortunes around, insiders fervently hope.

But that’s not likely, whoever wins the battle — be it Wisconsin state chair Ben Wikler, Minnesota state chair Ken Martin or one of their long-shot rivals — because the party’s problems are ideological, not technical.

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But so far theirs are lonely voices of moderation in a large party that remains far to the left of the American electorate.

The party’s challenge is best depicted in the Senate’s recent vote on the Laken Riley Act, a no-brainer bill mandating the detention of illegal immigrant criminals.

Just 12 Senate Democrats broke party lines to join all Republicans in backing the measure.

It’s notable, though, who those 12 were: nine of the 10 Senate Democrats representing states that Trump carried; both senators from New Hampshire, which Trump lost by less than three percentage points; and Virginia’s Mark Warner, who may be facing a challenge from popular term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin in 2026.

Every other Senate Democrat voted no.

They represent the party’s base, the people who will select the next Democratic presidential nominee — and they know the base remains committed to the sort of open-borders policies that helped cause the party’s decline.

Whoever prevails this weekend can’t fix that. All that person can do is rearrange the deck chairs on the S.S. Democrat.

It will fall to the ship’s elected captains to determine if it comes home safely to port — or if it runs full-throttle into the iceberg of increasingly conservative public opinion.

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More sad news. I'm hoping for an illegal tranny, m'self.

1 posted on 01/30/2025 6:42:02 PM PST by Libloather

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