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We’re being inundated with articles on what caused Democrats to lose the presidential election so badly. The fingers are being pointed at Joe Biden, the border, inflation and even Liz Cheney. The moderates blame the woke left and the progressives blame the Republican-lite moderates. But there’s a common thread in these articles and it reminds me of a story my father told me about the U.

The 2024 electoral map is now complete with every state decided.

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is thinking about mounting another political comeback attempt – this time in the New York City Council, City & State New York reports. “Even by New York standards, Weiner’s career has seen a remarkable amount of scandal. He’s been out of office since 2011, when he resigned amid a sexting scandal that involved several women including a minor.

Ruy Teixeira: “The Democratic coalition today is not fit for purpose. It cannot beat Republicans consistently in enough areas of the country to achieve dominance and implement its agenda at scale. The Democratic Party may be the party of blue America, especially deep blue metro America, but its bid to be the party of the ordinary American, the common man and woman, is falling short.” “There is a simple—and painful—reason for this.

CNN: “Pick one word to describe Republicans and Donald Trump, the focus group moderator asked, and one word to describe Democrats and Kamala Harris. ‘Crazy,’ said the White woman in her 40s, who hadn’t gone to college. Then: ‘Preachy.’” “Asked to pick between the two words, the woman said she’d ‘probably go with ‘crazy,’’ anguish clearly in her voice.

“If you try to win elections by talking to the elites of this country, you’re going to get your ass kicked. Trump is not the disease. He is the symptom. The disease is political, cultural, and economic elites who keep telling the public what they should think, feel and believe — and guess what they told them on Tuesday: Go to hell.” — Chris Kofinis, former chief of staff to Sen.