Since the (re)election of Donald Trump, it’s natural that Democrats would engage in some self-reflection. Of course, it’s not like Republicans did that after Trump lost in 2020 and then tried to overthrow the election. But, you know, if you’re a rational group of humans, you reassess after you lost and think about what you could do better. Perhaps you come up with some new ways to inspire voters. Perhaps you think about the running of campaigns and methods. Maybe you even figure out how to present your party’s beliefs in a way that makes more sense.
You know what you don’t do? You don’t cry, “Uncle” for an extended period of time while punching yourself in the face repeatedly. You don’t decide that the real solution to your failure to move the needle the two percent it might have taken to win is to abandon your values and to turn your back on the rhetoric you used throughout the campaign about Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. You don’t throw people and movements under the bus. And you don’t, you absolutely don’t offer a helping hand and any words of encouragement or praise for a man who you declared a “fascist” and a “Nazi” and a criminal and a rapist whose return to power would mark the end of American democracy and would plunge the world into chaos.
