The question isn’t how Democrats went off the rails in the 2024 election but why. Ignoring the two issues that undeniably concerned Americans far more than all others – immigration and inflation – was a deliberate choice by these politicians, not a flawed miscalculation. And that speaks to the heart of the existential crisis facing the party today.
The November 5 blowout is now more than a month old, and Democrats are acknowledging that their Marie Antoinette approach to the immigration crisis sealed their fate.
‘Political Malpractice’
“We destroyed ourselves on the immigration issue in ways that were entirely predictable and entirely manageable. We utterly mismanaged that issue, including our Democratic caucus here,” an anonymous senator told The Hill. “That’s political malpractice. That’s not someone else’s fault. That’s not…
