LOS ANGELES.–Blasting Democrats for losing the 2024 election to 78-year-old President-elect Donald Trump, 65-year-old former NBC News anchor Brian Williams said Democrats had “gone quinoa while the rest of America is eating at Cracker Barrel.” Williams echoed the views of 82-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) who said that Democrats lost the working class, a socialist analysis only Bernie can do, attributing the lost to Washington elites while leaving the common man behind. “It is tough love time for the Democratic Party,” Williams said, speaking to NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers. Democrat have been scratching their heads trying to figure out where they went wrong. Williams thinks the Democrat Party needs to be torn down to the studs, meaning completely overhauled. “I think it needs to be stripped down and rebuilt,” Williams said, avoiding the real issues in 2024.
Williams wants to put the onus on the Democrat Party, not tread too hard on the U.S. press that witnessed unprecedented partisan bias with all networks and cable stations, with the exception of Fox News, pushing hard for 60-year-old Kamala Harris. U.S. broadcast and print media abandoned all journalistic ethics to back Kamala in the 2024, but, more importantly, to actively campaign with their hosts-and-pundits against Trump. Williams wants to put Democrat failure on the party, meaning like Bernie says, the party deserted working class voters. But when you look at the poll data, it’s more insidious with the corrupt media playing a big role in pushing one candidate over another. According to a Media Research Center report, Trump had 95% negative reporting by all mainstream broadcast and print networks, turning off voters when they went to the polls.
When Williams talks about Cracker Barrel he’s referring to Democrat showing a kind of snob appeal, not paying attention to ordinary income earners. But Trump himself has very pedestrian eating habits, preferring McDonalds to a more gourmet menu. When it came to Kamala, she spent most of her campaign ripping Trump as a fascist, dictator, unhinged and unfit for office, turning off voters knowing he just had different ideas from Democrats how to run the country. Williams, who’s White, can’t talk about the influence in the Democrat Party of African American and LGBTQ plus factions, leaving ordinary White voters out of the loop. Williams can’t walk the fine line of discussing of how Kamala embraced “wokeness,” gender issues or women’s reproductive rights. If you listened to Kamala’s speeches, they were about civil, gender and women’s reproductive rights.
When it comes to “wokeness,” there’s no question that Trump’s lopsided victory in typically Democrat swing states, it’s clear that something happened to independents and cross over Democrats. Trump won or made inroads with every demographic group including Black males, Latinos and even while suburban soccer moms. Kamala didn’t reach out or attract suburban white women because she addressed her campaign to Black or Latino city dwellers, a appeal to renew commitments to civil rights, not seen since former President Barack Obama. Barack was given the benefit of the doubt by White voters in 2008 and 2012, making him the first U.S. Black president. But now that that ceiling had been broken, Kamala tried to run on another ceiling to become the first Black woman elected president. Kamala focused heavily on blaming Trump for the end of Roe v. Wade, end of federal abortion.
Williams can’t say the domination by Blacks and LGBTQ plus issues inside the Democrat Party upended Kamala’s chances of becoming president. Williams can only focus on superficial issues like ignoring the working class as Bernie points out. Kamala said very little of how she planned to fix the many problems faced by the country at the border, with inflation and certainly with foreign wars exploding in the Mideast and Ukraine. Kamala made clear speaking on ABC News “The View” that there’s nothing she would have done differently, letting voters know, beyond any doubt, that she would follow 82-year-old President Joe Biden’s policies, including continuing the war in Ukraine. Kamala said she would take on price gouging, showing she had no clue on the U.S. economy. Kamala kept telling voters that we “can’t go back,” but back to what?
Kamala offered no plan going forward other than more of the same with her and Joe, more inflation and foreign wars. Trump offered a more promising future with a strong border and vibrant economy all built off a strong energy economy. Kamala tried to sell voters on climate change that fell on deaf ears because of electric vehicle mandates, something not appealing to ordinary voters. Voter got fed up with Kamala talking about civil, gender and women’ right but not what she would do to fix the border or the economy. By the time she talked about the border, it sounded insincere, just another phony campaign promise. Trump offered a picture of a bright future for ordinary Americans where wages improved and prices came back down to earth. Trump appealed to American pride, while Kamala focused on improving civil, gender and women’s rights.
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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.
