Democrats Finally Notice That Normal People Hate Them

Every few years, Democrats rediscover something shocking: Americans don’t like them. Not just die-hard Republicans. Not just Fox News viewers. Normal, everyday people who work, pay taxes, believe that men can’t become women, and think “Latinx” is a typo.

The latest wake-up call comes from a new report by a left-wing group hilariously named “Welcome” – as in, “Welcome back to reality.” After consulting hundreds of thousands of voters, the group found that 70 percent of Americans think the Democrat Party is out of touch.

Apparently, it took Democrats six months and a 60-page report to learn what anyone outside of D.C. could have told them in five minutes: People care more about paying rent and feeling safe than about DEI and “environmental justice.” (This might be the biggest waste of time and money since Democrats spent $20 million earlier this year to figure out how to talk to men.)

According to Welcome’s study, most voters think Democrats obsess over things like protecting the “rights” of men who claim to be women to shower in female locker rooms while ignoring glaring crises like the murderous hordes of illegal alien gang members running wild in our cities. But one can hardly blame Democrats – it’s difficult to focus on homicide rates when you’re busy debating whether to call expectant mothers “gestational carriers” or “pregnant people.”

The report, written by Democrat operatives who seem to have finally left their Georgetown brunch tables, warns that the party’s addiction to progressive jargon and cultural crusades is killing them with working-class voters. They’re doing just fine with wealthy white liberals – a species found in the wild only at NPR pledge drives and Whole Foods parking lots – but hemorrhaging support with everyone else.

The authors of “Deciding to Win” – yes, that’s the report’s actual title – are begging Democrats to “break with unpopular party orthodoxies.” In plain English, that means stop talking like lunatics.

For example, in the last decade, mentions of “fathers” in Democrat Party platforms dropped by 100 percent. Language about specific racial groups increased by 828 percent. Mentions of LGBTQ rights went up 1,044 percent. At this rate, the 2028 platform will just be a TikTok dance and a land acknowledgment.

That’s one reason, the authors say, that the average Democrat these days sounds like a graduate student in Queer Theory, not someone who wants to represent plumbers, cops, and working families. So, it’s no surprise that union households and non-white voters – once the backbone of the left’s coalition – are now fleeing the Democrat Party.

The report admits that since 2012, Democrats have gotten dramatically more left-wing on everything. Support within the party for policies that are unpopular with the broader public has skyrocketed, including on issues like reparations (up from one percent support to 57 percent), voting rights for felons (four percent to 41 percent), abortion without limits (66 percent to 98 percent), and gun bans (41 percent to 88 percent).

Meanwhile, Democrats’ support among the very people they claim to fight for has cratered. Apparently, defund the police and open borders didn’t play well in the American heartland. Who could have possibly seen that coming?

Of course, the left’s response to this report has been peak delusion. One progressive strategist insists Democrats don’t need to change at all – they just need to “reframe the issues.” In other words, if voters think you’re crazy, it means they’re the dumb ones and you just need to talk slower and louder to get through their thick skulls.

But the real problem is that Democrats don’t run a political party anymore; they run a secular religion. Its sacraments are abortion, gender ideology, and climate hysteria. Its priests are tenured academics and unfunny late-night comedians. Its heretics are anyone who still believes in God, biology, and common sense.

Instead of offering working people hope, they offer lectures. Instead of fighting for cheaper, abundant energy, they promise “environmental equity.” Instead of protecting kids, they pump them full of puberty blockers.

That’s why a party that once claimed to represent the little guy now represents a small and shrinking circle of elite, over-educated, self-righteous scolds who think everyone else is a racist.

The authors plead for Democrats to stop alienating normal voters with sermons about white privilege and microaggressions. But good luck with that. These are the same geniuses who open every public event by apologizing for meeting on the “stolen” land of indigenous peoples.

Democrats are shocked that their “emerging majority” has turned into a much smaller “annoying minority.” Non-college white voters despise them. Non-white voters no longer trust them. Even union workers – the few whose jobs they haven’t shipped overseas with bad trade deals – are starting to realize the party now speaks the language of holier-than-thou scolding, not solidarity.

As Welcome politely puts it, Democrats are “over-prioritizing the interests of highly educated and affluent voters.” In other words, they’ve become the party of kale-eating atheists who have never changed a tire in their lives, and it shows.

If Democrats truly want to “decide to win,” they might start by deciding to stop sneering at regular Americans. Stop criminalizing normal behavior. Stop treating patriotism as a hate crime. And maybe, just maybe, start acting like they care about the people whose taxes pay for their endless experiments in social engineering.

Until then, no report – no matter how many focus groups or “centrist” Democrats it consults – will save them. Because the Democrat Party’s biggest problem isn’t messaging. It’s a belief system built on delusion and utter contempt for the American people.

Democrats aren’t losing support because voters misunderstand them. They’re losing support because voters finally understand them perfectly.

Mike Marlowe is the pen name of a writer based in Texas.