Democrats dismissed and gaslit voters about their real-world concerns with crime and the economy, telling them their perceptions were wrong or fueled by 'Fox News'.

• Ineffective Economic & Policy Messaging
• Ceding Ground on Crime & Immigration

• "the thing that surprised me least about the election was the sharp red shift in these big cities because if you just talk to anybody who lives in them they are Furious and this idea that like oh no the econom is actually good or crime is actually down this is all just Fox News like shut the up with that."

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• "if you just tell people voters specifically that it's not a problem and it was way worse in the 90s so you shouldn't be complaining there will be backlash There Will Be Blood okay and so here we are."

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Democrats and progressives denied the reality of rising crime and ignored clear warnings from voters, choosing to stick to their ideology rather than address facts on the ground.

• Ceding Ground on Crime & Immigration

• "when we would tell both the identitarian left and the corporate Democrats you guys are crazy Biden's way too old and crime is real and people are really pissed about it they're like no that doesn't suit our purposes since that's not in our ideology we reject it out of hand well if you keep rejecting facts well this is where you're going to wind up."

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• "just go to them and tell them everything's fine crime isn't as bad as it was in the 90s that's not politics okay that's not trying to win that's digging your heels in and insisting that you're right even as there's widespread concern over these issues."

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Specific Democratic-backed criminal justice reforms, like reducing felonies to misdemeanors, were so disastrous that they destroyed the public's trust in the left on crime issues, causing even progressive measures to fail.

• Process-Driven Governmental Failure
• Ceding Ground on Crime & Immigration

• "in reality what that proposition from 2014 did is it lessened all sorts of serious felonies into misdemeanors and now no one in the state trusts the left on these issues and so there was a a ballot measure this time around uh regarding forcing inmates to do labor right against their will and it had no opposition right like it was supposed to ban prisons from being able to do that to inmates no one opposed that ballot measure and that ballot measure failed."

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• "because the Democrats are now so deeply trusted that failed let alone the $18 minimum wage but last thing on the crime and then I got to go back to Ezra for a second because it's important."

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Progressive Democratic leaders have governed blue cities poorly, leading to a visible rise in disorder such as homeless encampments, trash, and subway crime, which angered residents.

• Hypocrisy & Corrupt Intent Allegations
• Ceding Ground on Crime & Immigration
• Process-Driven Governmental Failure

• "the sense of disorder Rising right not just crime but homeless encampments trash on the streets people jumping turn Styles in in subways crazy people on the streets you just talk to people and they're mad about it they feel it's different than it used to be I mean in San Francisco like the fury is overwhelming and you see that it's not just the presidential level London breed the SF mayor just lost re-election in Oakland they recalled the mayor a bunch of the progressive um Das across the country were recalled or beat in in re-election campaigns."

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Democrats and progressives consciously ignored warnings about major issues like crime and Biden's candidacy, choosing to 'barrel toward the iceberg' rather than adjust course to win.

• Flawed Strategy & Tactical Incompetence

• "it's like we are headed toward that Iceberg are you guys going to adjust are you guys going to turn the wheel or you just going to go barreling toward that iceberg and Democrats with the help of progressives on this issue were like nah we like the iceberg we're going to barrel for it I said don't hit the iceberg on Biden she said don't hit the iceberg on crime we were not listened to."

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Progressives promoted policies that actively worsened the lives of working-class people in liberal cities, destroying their own credibility and political power.

• Process-Driven Governmental Failure
• Ceding Ground on Crime & Immigration

• "progressives are powerless now okay they have no credibility they are completely powerless they refused to recalibrate they continued promoting policies that made the lives of workingclass people far worse in Liberal cities okay and now no one's going to listen to them when it comes to the bread and butter issues."

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Establishment Democrats deliberately allowed the 'progressive' brand to be ruined by associating it with unpopular pro-crime policies, which was a 'trick' to discredit the left.

• Ceding Ground on Crime & Immigration

• "it ironically ruins the progressive brand even though it was the establishment Democrats that actually passed it into law in California we we didn't do anything about it and it it ruins it when we have incredibly popular policies including Medicare for all that pulls a 70% all of the economically popular policies are progressive but now you can't say progressive because they they made Progressive into Pro crime and pro extreme policies and so that was a hell of a trick by The Establishment."

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Corporate Democrats embraced unpopular social and identity issues because it allowed them to posture as left-wing without implementing popular economic policies (like Medicare for All, higher wages) that would hurt their corporate donors.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "so they go okay what are the unpopular Progressive issues that don't affect our donors at all oh these things that are social issues identity issues great let's fight the culture wars so that way yeah I could pretend to be on the left MH and I could pretend to be a progressive and I could pretend to be all these things but I'm actually not costing my donors a single dollar."

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Democratic leaders like Gavin Newsom enacted reckless criminal justice policies, such as releasing tens of thousands of inmates without any transitional plan during a pandemic, creating chaos.

• Process-Driven Governmental Failure
• Ceding Ground on Crime & Immigration

• "he also didn't hesitate when it came to shutting down four state prisons releasing tens of thousands of inmates into the public with no plan for them whatsoever no transitional plan no real data indicating that anyone had been rehabilitated in any way shape or form yeah and we were just supposed to no this is great I mean the the carceral state is a problem and so we should just willy-nilly without a plan in place release tens of thousands of people into the most expensive state to live in during the Corona virus pandemic when all the businesses were shut down and there were no jobs available for people."

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The 'identitarian left' arrogantly and falsely claimed to represent the views of all Democrats on crime, when in reality, a supermajority of voters in a blue state rejected their positions when given a direct vote.

• Ceding Ground on Crime & Immigration

• "the ex the identitarian left pretended that they were the sole voice of all Democrats well we we all told you no they don't speak for the Democratic party they just I I kept saying who voted on this who voted on this who made you the king of the Democrats right and it turns out when we actually do have a vote in a very very Democratic State of California 70% voted for pop 36 which is anti-crime to bring some of those Miss meters back up to felonies."

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For many voters, the failures of local Democratic governance have a more direct and negative impact on their daily lives than national politics, causing them to lose support for the party.

• Process-Driven Governmental Failure
• Ceding Ground on Crime & Immigration

• "when I look at which party has made my life worse and it's because local politics has more of an impact on your day-to-day life it's the Democrats and they need to accept that and change and if they don't well they're going to keep losing support even in cities uh like Los Angeles and even in States like California."

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The Democratic party and the left are arrogant, refuse to recalibrate their strategies, and dismiss any internal criticism as coming from bad-faith actors or 'secret right-wingers'.

• Flawed Strategy & Tactical Incompetence
• Internal Party Dysfunction & Organizational Decay

• "I see the dysfunction and I see working class Americans getting their catalytic converters stolen okay getting their homes broken into getting assaulted on the subway or the train and I'm supposed to just shut my mouth about it and tell everybody everything's fine because it's not the 90s no … I'm going to talk about it well before the election so you know maybe Democrats maybe progressives can recalibrate but that's the thing about the left they don't believe in recalibrating okay they think they know it all they think they're the best they think that anyone who crosses them or tweaks them or critiques them is the bad guy."

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Democrats in northern cities were hypocritical on immigration, claiming to be welcoming until the consequences of border policies were shared with them, exposing their lack of a realistic plan.

• Ceding Ground on Crime & Immigration

• "I think that what Texas did makes sense uh and so I know that a lot of people on the left don't want to hear that but think about it guys so they had this immigration problem all along and it wasn't spread out to many different states it was just in Texas … and started shipping it to other places that were more leftwing and said they were more open to immigrants so you're open to immigrants here you go here's immigrants and now all of a sudden New York realizes okay well being open to immigrants has consequences."

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Democrats engaged in performative 'virtue signaling' on social issues, like adding pronouns to bios, which alienated people and was quickly abandoned after an electoral loss.

• Elitist Culture & 'Woke' Alienation

• "all of a sudden the pr pronouns are getting removed from their uh you know their description uh I think AOC did that today yeah a yeah okay all of a sudden there's no she her blah blah blah and if you guys remember I said why are we saying this if there's a confusion you say it you be proud I love it I'll back you up right but why am I saying he him his for me just fairly obvious like it was it was virtue signaling yes and that we called it out."

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