LOS ANGELES.–Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) exposed the internecine warfare inside the Democrat Party, where a White Bostonian expresses frustration over his party’s losses on Election Day. “American people voted for Trump because he articulated a vision, however twisted or unconscionable, for solving their problems and addressing their fears,” Moulton wrote in the Washington. Moulton walks a fine line criticizing his party because of today emphasis on civil, gender and women’s reproductive rights. Kamala spent most of her 107-day campaign slamming Trump with old, worn-out Democrat talking points, following the exact script given to her by chief strategist David Plouffe. Even Moulton can’t criticize Trump without calling his vision “twisted or unconscionable.” Trump seeks out control Mexican border, cleaning up crime, ending inflation and restoring U.S. foreign policy and national security?
Moulton adds his critique of Trump to satisfy editors at the Washington Post that like to say only negative things about Trump. But what’s twisted about providing law and order or funding the police? “Trump, for all his bluster and lies, sees and understands real fears. When Americans worried about crime, he promised to support cops [even though his White House budget didn’t deliver],” Moulton said, representing the Bay State’s 6th Congressional District. Moulton can’t say anything positive about Trump fearing backlash in his own party, especially with progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocaso Cortez (D-N.Y.) who’s rumored for a White House run in 2018. As a White, straight Democrat, Moulton, to be honest, is out-of-step with the Democrat Party, giving preferential treatment to minorities and the LGBTQ-plus community. Moulton can’t speak without disparaging Trump.
Moulton was trying to say, without saying it, that 60-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris had no overriding message to address the needs to ordinary citizens. Kamala said she was for all people but her rhetoric focused on civil, gender and women’s reproductive rights. “Some Democrats, meanwhile, called to ‘defund the police.’ When voters said they were tired of violence, shoplifting and growing sense of disorder in the their communities, some of us held up national and historical [i.e., irrelevant] data to prove their feelings were wrong,” Moulton said. Moulton was concerned that the party “lost big” and thought they “should be cleaned up.” But Moulton doesn’t realize that many of the problems that concern his constituents are not considered mainstream in the Democrat Party. LGBTQ-plus, especially transgender issues, were front-and-center in the Democrat Party, something Moulton opposes when it comes to transgender women competing in women’s sports.
Moulton, a moderate Democrat, finds himself out of the mainstream in the party, focused heavily on civil, gender and women’s reproductive rights. Kamala tried to harness the women’s vote by railing against Trump for appointing conservative justices that eventually overturned Roe v. Wade. When interviewed in Senate confirmation hearings, Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett all said Roe v. Wade was settled law, until it wasn’t June 30, 2022. Kamala ripped Trump for undermining women’s reproductive rights, vowing, if president, she would sign national legislation making Roe v. Wade the law of the land. Kamala knows with the narrow majority in Congress, she could not pass legislation legalizing abortion without ending the filibuster, winning the vote on a simple majority. Kamala thought she had American women turned against Trump.
Moulton finds himself in a losing battle to save the moderates in the Democrat Party. His party leans so far to the left, there’s no turning back for moderates looking to have a common sense approach to governing. “Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about challenges many Americans face,” Moulton told the New York Times. Moulton has two young girls and is most concerned that his daughters competing in any sports with biological males, not transgender women, converted with hormones to appear like girls. “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a made for formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that,” Moulton said, knowing that he’s crossed a line with his own party. Going against the LGBTQ-plus lobby makes Moulton a target for progressives whose agenda is not aligned with White moderate Democrats.
Democrats find themselves fighting about why Kamala lost the Nov. 5 election in a humiliating defeat. Moulton finds himself on shaky ground trying to excuse his opposition to trans-females competing in girls or women’s sports. “The question of whether to have reasonable restrictions on transgender women’s participation in women’s sports wasn’t their point—though most agree—just as it wasn’t mine,” Moulton wrote. “They were simply glad that a fellow Democrat would violate the moratorium on speaking our minds,” Moulton said, knowing how the current Democrat Party group-think rules out different opinions when it comes to LGBTQ-plus issues. Moulton, like other moderate Democrats, finds himself as the odd-man-out trying to present more rational, common sense approach to governing. AOC won’t accept any Democrat that doesn’t back DEI.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
