Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon highlights wishful thinking among Democratic Party elites.
Remember the reluctant MAGA converts who assured us Donald Trump would moderate his tone and pivot to pragmatism after the election(s)? Well, he didn’t do any of that. They failed to account for the fact that Trump will never change.
Whether they like it or not, Democrats are in the same boat. Rosy-eyed party elites have convinced themselves that their voters and candidates will readily discard the “woke” nonsense that normal Americans cringe at.
Bless their hearts, the poor things.
“They’re never going to change,” writes Patrick Ruffini, a veteran pollster whose firm, Echelon Insights, recently assessed the willingness of Democratic voters to relinquish their wokeness.
Needless to say, the bitter clingers are winning. Just 35 percent of Democrats said the party should distance itself from the “woke” politics of recent years, while 42 percent preferred to stand their ground. The rest were unsure.
Younger Democrats were particularly keen to see the party stay woke. Among voters under 50, half said Democrats should stay the course, compared to 32 percent who said otherwise. “Very liberal” Democrats, who are typically most likely to vote in primary elections, were the most emphatic. They favored wokeness by a whopping 62-20 margin.
There is plenty of real-world evidence to back up these findings. Woke left-wing candidates who voiced support for defunding the police and abolishing prisons have enjoyed remarkable success in Democratic primaries this cycle.
Darializa Avila Chevalier is all but assured a seat in Congress next year after knocking off an establishment-backed opponent in New York. She has achieved an elite-level wokeness that regards interracial romance as a form of colonialism. She once bragged about using the American flag as a napkin, and is still undecided as to whether convicted murderers should go to prison.
