Division continued to prevail on the left, prompting one Democratic Party representative to publicly reprimand his peers and their “purity tests.”
As with many twisted revisions of terms in an ongoing political word game, the Big Tent of the Democratic Party had proven, like with all DEI, to limit inclusion to only those who toe the line. For Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, who’d already run afoul of the gender ideologues, the problem warranted a public shaming in the form of a Washington Post op-ed.
Published Friday, the piece by the congressman, who’d run a short campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination from April through August 2019, faulted the behavior and chosen focus of many of his peers for the sweeping election losses that paved the way for President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
“Since Election Day, I’ve learned two things about the Democratic Party: The word police will continue to patrol no matter how badly we lose, and a growing number of us are finally ready to move beyond them to start winning again,” asserted Moulton. “I’m done with Democratic purity tests.”
“Voters want elected officials to give voice to their concerns, not tell them what they should think,” he argued. “Until not so long ago, we were the party of free speech. We welcomed real, rigorous debate when orthodox conservatives in the Republican Party were afraid of change.”
The congressman spoke to one particular issue that had found him in hot water with his party as he wrote, “When Democrats don’t engage honestly on real issues important to Americans, we give the impression that we either don’t understand or, worse yet, simply don’t care.”
“According to one exit poll, the No. 1 reason swing voters chose Trump was ‘Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class,'” stated Moulton.
Shortly after Election Day, the lawmaker had come under fire and set the stage for potential primary challenges ahead of the 2026 election when he asserted, “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. But as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”
Moulton had told The New York Times, “Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face,” and in response, rainbow activists had coordinated with Salem City Councilor Kyle Davis in his hometown to prove his point with protest.
“In the wake of Trump’s election and Seth Moulton’s recent transphobic comments, I am working with local LGBT organizations and local leaders on a large rally in Salem outside of Moulton’s office,” said Davis. “This rally is meant to express first and foremost to the trans community that we stand in solidarity with them but also to communicate to Seth Moulton that we do not agree with his stance and his willingness to throw this community under the bus.”
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— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) November 15, 2024
Drawing the distinction between the present state of the left, where the triggered abandon social media platforms like Elon Musk’s X simply because the digital town square permits the exercise of the First Amendment, and how his party had been in the not-so-distant past, Moulton wrote, “In every case, we listened, we built trust, and we welcomed those who disagreed into our expanding tent — the definition of a majority party. Just 12 years ago, we even nominated a Democrat who was against gay marriage for president.”
“Independents and Republicans see what we do to fellow Democrats who disagree with the party line. Why would they think they’d have a prayer with us?” he posited.
Of course, though he dug at his own side for losing the plot on what everyday Americans are actually concerned about, the politician still had unsavory things to say about the GOP as he wrote, “We lost the White House to a felon who has alienated many of the Republican faithful. Republicans are so dysfunctional that they couldn’t even elect a Speaker of the House for three weeks last year, another first in modern history.”
“But the American people voted for Trump because he articulated a vision, however twisted and unconscionable, for solving their problems and addressing their fears,” added Moulton who’d faulted the Democratic Party for turning “straight to denial” on issues like the economy and the border crisis.
“But it turns out that voters knew better, and wanted answers. When 94 percent of Americans said they worried about the border crisis, Trump said he’d fix it. Trump, for all his bluster and lies,” contended the congressman, “sees and understands real fears.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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