Lee Fang: Will Democrats Ever Recover From 2024?
Independent journalist Lee Fang discusses why the Democrats lost so badly and whether or not the party has the ability to course correct anytime soon.
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Donald Trump won the presidential election decisively, taking every single battleground state, and as we discussed last week with Patrick Ruffini, winning over new voters across all sorts of racial, age, and gender demographics. He's, once again, remade the electoral map, with Republicans capturing the Senate and the House.
What should Democrats learn from this loss? Lee Fang is an independent journalist and political commentator who runs a Substack at leefang.com. One of his most recent posts comments on the complete lack of self-reflection coming from many of the highly paid Democratic consultants who seem to have whiffed so badly with the Harris campaign messaging.
Sources Referenced:
- 2024 Presidential General Election Results
- 2024 Senate General Election Results
- 2024 House General Election Results
- Lee Fang: Democratic Consultants Lash Out at Voters as Racist and Sexist
- OpenSecrets: 2024 Presidential Race Funding
- Financial Times: The Left Is Losing its Grip on Ethnic Minority Voters
- The New York Times: Early Results Show a Red Shift Across the U.S.
- Bernie Sanders' Open Letter to Democrats
- The New York Times: California Election Results 2024
- California State Ballot Measure Results
- San Francisco Election Results
Chapters:
- 00:00 Coming up…
- 00:27 Intro Theme
- 00:53 Subscribe to the new channel
- 02:41 What should Democrats learn from this loss?
- 03:18 Democratic consultants lash out at voters as racist and sexist
- 06:34 White progressives vs. pretty much everyone else?
- 10:06 Party insiders are burying their heads in the sand
- 12:28 Will a reckoning come?
- 19:36 What issues on the left are most ripe for rethinking?
- 21:16 Border security
- 25:40 Bernie Sanders' postelection criticism of the Democrats
- 30:00 Jared Polis Democrats?
- 33:28 Elon Musk's Republicanism
- 36:04 The MeToo Culture and rightwing young men
- 50:07 Even California is shifting red
- 01:06:41 Is there any Democrat out there who you're bullish on?
- 01:09:33 This could all backfire on the GOP
- 01:13:43 Is censorship behind us?
- 01:17:19 What's one question that you think more people should be asking?
- Producer: John Osterhoudt
