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Former President Barack Obama recently pointed out that Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot with their obsession with Donald Trump and the various legal issues surrounding him. They have deluded themselves, as a party, into believing that the rest of the world is as obsessed as they are with Trump, whatever legal battles he faces, and the January 6 committee. In reality, nobody cares about any of this stuff. At all.
Most people don't even know what's happening in that committee. And they certainly don't care about the lawsuits being filed in New York.
"We spend enormous amounts of time and energy and resources pointing out the latest crazy thing he said, or how rude or me and some of the Republican candidates behaved," Obama said on a recent podcast. "That's probably not something that, in the minds of most voters, overrides their basic interests: can I pay the rent? What a gas price is? How am I dealing with child care?"
Obama is completely right. If Democrats don't listen to him, they are going to be slaughtered in the coming midterms.
And fortunately, they will not listen.
Perhaps the most amazing illustration of this is the recent poll showing that New York Attorney General Letitia James could actually lose her re-election battle — mostly because of this exact problem. She is completely out of touch with New Yorkers and completely Trump-obsessed in her work. James has essentially neglected her job of prosecuting the criminals preying upon New Yorkers in order to obsess over Trump and build up her profile with blue-checkmark Twitter. The last poll of her race shows her losing against a no-name opponent.
That doesn't mean she will actually lose, but she is losing even though she should not be anywhere near to losing. And politicians who are as out of touch with the needs of their constituents as she is deserve to lose.
This is where the Democratic Party finds itself now. The party's activist base is obsessed with Trump to the point of insanity. They cannot give him up, two years after he left office. We hear all this talk of election denialism — it is almost as if they cannot accept that they won the 2020 election.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ti-trump-fixation-is-killing-them/ar-AA130Y6r
Most people don't even know what's happening in that committee. And they certainly don't care about the lawsuits being filed in New York.
"We spend enormous amounts of time and energy and resources pointing out the latest crazy thing he said, or how rude or me and some of the Republican candidates behaved," Obama said on a recent podcast. "That's probably not something that, in the minds of most voters, overrides their basic interests: can I pay the rent? What a gas price is? How am I dealing with child care?"
Obama is completely right. If Democrats don't listen to him, they are going to be slaughtered in the coming midterms.
And fortunately, they will not listen.
Perhaps the most amazing illustration of this is the recent poll showing that New York Attorney General Letitia James could actually lose her re-election battle — mostly because of this exact problem. She is completely out of touch with New Yorkers and completely Trump-obsessed in her work. James has essentially neglected her job of prosecuting the criminals preying upon New Yorkers in order to obsess over Trump and build up her profile with blue-checkmark Twitter. The last poll of her race shows her losing against a no-name opponent.
That doesn't mean she will actually lose, but she is losing even though she should not be anywhere near to losing. And politicians who are as out of touch with the needs of their constituents as she is deserve to lose.
This is where the Democratic Party finds itself now. The party's activist base is obsessed with Trump to the point of insanity. They cannot give him up, two years after he left office. We hear all this talk of election denialism — it is almost as if they cannot accept that they won the 2020 election.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ti-trump-fixation-is-killing-them/ar-AA130Y6r
