LOS ANGELES.–CNN’s Dana Bash, 53, got into a heated discussion with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) over an old worn-out issue regarding 78-year-old President-elect Donald Trump’s claims to voting fraud in the 2020 election. Bash wanted to make Jordan eat crow for only backing voting fraud claims when Trump loses election. Why Bash felt inclined to waste time beating a dead horse is anyone’s guess? Democrat-friendly talk show hosts are as frustrated as anyone with the outcome of the Nov. 5 presidential election. All the Democrat-friendly pundits predicted a resounding victory for Vice President Kamala Harris. When it didn’t happen, it left Democrat-friendly talk show hosts and their guests angry, thinking they were robbed. Jordan felt blindsided by Bash, patiently letting her rant then asking her a compelling question. Why was there 15 million more voters in 2020 than 2024?
Bash has no answer for the huge discrepancy in the 2020 pandemic-era vote and 2024. Universal mail-in ballots were going out like government checks but without any verification of signatures or anything else. Yet liberals like Bash like to point out that no court in the country found credible evidence of voter fraud. Well if state governments sent out ballots willy-nilly, what did they think would happen? Bash wants to humiliate Jordan, knowing he questioned the vote in 2020 but not in 2024. Well, 2024 vote roughly parallels the same numbers as 2016, attesting to the statistical aberration that occurred in 2020. Bash doesn’t care about facts only discrediting Trump and his MAGA movement, one that opposes the progressive woke movement. Progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y) are fit to be tied.
Sanders keeps lambasting the Democrat Party for not taking the working class seriously that helped Trump win the election. Bernie is a one-trick pony, saying everything in Marxist terms, it’s the proletariat that Kamala ignored and lost the election. No, the proletariat didn’t buy into Kamala’s woke agenda because they go to church, work hard at their jobs and pay a significant amount of the governments tax receipts. Bash questioned Bernie on whether or not 81-year-old President Joe Biden should have stayed in the race for so long. “I don’t want to get involved. We got to look forward and no in the back. Kamal did her very best. She came in, she won the debate with Trump. She worked as hard as she possibly could,” Sanders told Bash. “Let’s look to the future and not go backwards,” Sanders said. Bash wants to point fingers and blame certain Democrats for Kamala’s devastating loss,
Sanders thinks that the working class wants the government to tax billionaires more to pay for the many ambitious social welfare programs he wants for the future. Bernie wants Medicare for all including illegal aliens who violate U.S. border laws to enter the country. How does Bernie protect Medicare and Social Security when he wants to give illegal aliens Medicaid or aid to the poor? Bernie knows there’s not enough of a tax base to support the millions of illegal aliens streaming across the U.S. border. “Here is the reality, the working class of this country are angry, and they have reason to be angry,” Sanders said, not saying exactly what more can be done for the working class. Does Bernie want to give them free housing, health care and jobs? It that Bernie’s future plan to offer the working class more benefits than the government takes in from taxpayers?
Bernie can’t admit that yes, Kamala worked hard but no, she was not a good candidate because she had problems talking with the media, preferring to let her handlers fabricate her image with computer-generated animation. Kamala became the ultimate Manchurian candidate, someone no one knew, someone pretending to be something that they were not. Kamala knew wasn’t a president for all Americans but favored racial and ethnic minorities, continuing to fight for civil, gender and women’s reproductive rights, no something on the top of most voters’ lists. Sanders want to talk about everything in terms of workers’ rights but many ordinary workers worry about the economy and want no part of the progressive left’s woke agenda that pushes for social justice and gender equality. Voters wanted Kamala to relate to ordinary, non-minority citizens who struggle in today’s high inflation.
Kamala followed her strategist David Plouffe’s advice to focus on the democracy, claiming Trump threatened 250 years of freedom. Voters didn’t buy it, they wanted Kamala to do something about runaway inflation and the border problems, something Kamala ignored for good reason. Had Kamala focused on inflation and the border, she would have inflamed the electorate more than she already did. Voters wanted Kamala to address real pocketbook issues, not speculate about price gouging or blame corporations for today’s inflation. “We are living in an economy today where the people on the top are doing phenomenally well while 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck,” Bernie said. Kamala’s fixation on slamming Trump turned voters off because they couldn’t see any coherent plan. Senior Democrat strategist James Carville said Kamala had no campaign message.
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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.
