CNN host Fareed Zakaria issued a scathing rebuke of Democrats in an prolonged monologue over the weekend, blaming the celebration for misreading public opinion on every thing from immigration and expenses towards President-elect Donald Trump to DEI efforts and woke identification politics.
Addressing Trump’s victory for the primary time on his present “GPS” Sunday, Zakaria mentioned the Democrats’ collosal losses could not be attributed to 1 error or a singular oversight, blaming as an alternative a wider ignorance by the left on key points that put them at odds and out of contact with American voters.
“At first look, it could appear straightforward to elucidate final Tuesday‘s election as a part of a 2024 international wave towards incumbents beset by post-Covid turmoil and inflation…so, it may need been preordained that Kamala Harris representing the incumbent administration misplaced decisively as effectively. However Harris might have bucked the pattern,” he started.
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CNN host Fareed Zakaria issued a scathing rebuke of Democrats after Trump secured a second White Home time period final week. (CNN)
“Employment is powerful. Wages are up. Inflation is down. Exercise is hovering. Extra importantly, Donald Trump has many strengths as a political determine, however he additionally has many weaknesses,” the host continued.Â
Zakaria mentioned Democrats had a possibility to reclaim political energy from Trump after the January 6 Capitol riots when his approval rankings took successful, “However they blew it.”
“The New York Occasions estimates that Harris will lose the nationwide in style vote by a couple of level and a half, a primary for Democrats since 2004,” he instructed viewers.
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The CNN host proceeded to spell out three areas the place he believes Democrats acquired it mistaken, thereby costing Harris the election.
“The primary huge error was the Biden administration’s blindness to the collapse of the immigration system and the chaos on the border” Zakaria mentioned. “An asylum system that was meant for a small variety of persecuted people was being utilized by thousands and thousands to achieve authorized entry. As a substitute of shutting it down, liberals branded anybody protesting as heartless and racist. They missed a large shift in American public opinion in only a few years.”
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech after the 2024 presidential election, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, on the campus of Howard College in Washington, D.C. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
“In 2020, the share of People who needed to lower immigration was simply 28%. By this yr, it was 55%.”
If Democrats have been in contact with this actuality, Harris would have taken a special place when requested in an look on “The View” how she would have strayed from President Biden on issues of border safety, he mentioned.
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“As a substitute of principally saying nothing totally different, she ought to have mentioned, ‘I might have shut down the border early and laborious,’” the CNN host went on.
The Democrats’ second error, in line with Zakaria, was their “overzealous misuse of legislation to punish Trump.
“Essentially the most egregious of the circumstances pursued was Alvin Bragg’s one in New York, one which even he was as soon as skeptical of, however was reportedly pressured by some on the left into pursuing,” he mentioned.
The CNN host argued that whereas a few of the expenses introduced towards Trump have been “reliable,” the host of them piled on in fast succession, seemed that the authorized system was being weaponized to get Trump. It confirmed to his base what it had at all times believed – that over-educated city liberals have been hypocrites, comfortable to bend guidelines and norms when it suited their functions,” he mentioned.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – NOVEMBER 06:  Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to talk throughout an election evening occasion on the Palm Seaside Conference Middle on November 06, 2024 in West Palm Seaside, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
“Lawfare turned Trump from being a loser right into a victor,” he instructed Democrats pointedly.
Their third mistake, Zakaria continued, was the celebration’s fixation on identification politics, “that largely got here out of the city tutorial bubble, however alienated many mainstream voters.”
For instance, the time period “Latinx” was not effectively acquired among the many Latino group, he mentioned, however divisive identification politics had morphed into an “obsession” on the left.
“There’s an irony in claiming to be pro-Latino by insisting that individuals use the time period Latinx solely to find that Latinos themselves suppose the phrase is bizarre,” Zakaria argued.
“This type of obsession made Democrats view folks an excessive amount of by way of their ethnic or racial or gender identification and made them miss, for instance, that working-class Latinos have been transferring towards Trump, maybe, as a result of they have been socially conservative or favored his macho rhetoric and even agreed along with his hard-line stance on immigration,” he continued. “The issue is deeper than one about nouns and pronouns. The complete deal with identification has morphed into one thing deeply intolerant. Judging folks by the colour of their pores and skin moderately than the content material of their character.”
The CNN host proceeded to lecture Democrats for embracing college “speech codes” and cancel tradition, which have “grow to be methods the left censors or restricts that the majority cherished of liberal concepts, freedom of speech.Â
A flag is left on the occasion held for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Night time at Howard College in Washington on November 6, 2024. (REUTERS/Daniel Cole)
“One easy manner to consider the teachings of the election is that liberals can’t obtain liberal targets, nonetheless virtuous, by intolerant means,” he concluded.
Zakaria famous earlier in his monologue that whereas it is easy to mirror on the celebration’s ignorance “postmortem,” he warned about “every of those errors on the time,” regardless of “prompting indignant responses from the left.”
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In an interview with PBS in Might, the CNN host urged President Biden to “reform the entire” immigration system, calling on him to “study” from Trump and take “excessive motion” to safe the border to higher his political possibilities of securing a second time period.
Democrats have spent the times following Trump’s resounding victory final week finger pointing and casting blame at totally different factions of the celebration for Harris’ beautiful loss. Some have blamed Biden for failing to droop his presidential marketing campaign sooner, whereas others mentioned Harris was accountable for protecting up Biden’s psychological decline.
