Democrat failures on the southern border are so obvious that the party’s top brass are now fessing up to their fecklessness.
Voters saw through the gaslighting, shaming tactics and media’s best spin efforts in 2024, and declining support numbers are taking their toll on the left-leaning political party. Now, lawmakers are left with no choice but to bear the weight of their leadership’s policy decisions.
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, spoke to The New York Times regarding the party’s flailing support and put in perspective just how bad things are looking for them.
“When you have the most Latino district in the country outside of Puerto Rico vote for Trump, that should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party,” he said, adding that he watched President Donald Trump “win every county in his district along the border with Mexico.” This is a massive change from their previous support of Dems in past elections.
“This is a Democratic district that’s been blue for over a century,” he explained.
And as Trump makes good on his campaign promises, specifically his targeting of illegal aliens for deportation, Democrats are effectively watching helplessly from the sidelines after being relegated to the minority party by voters.
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, believes his party “got led astray by the 2016 and the 2020 elections, and we just never moved back.”
“We looked feckless, we weren’t decisive, we weren’t listening to voters, and the voters decided that we weren’t in the right when it comes to what was happening with the border,” he told the outlet.
The report indicates that many Democrats are “pushing for a course correction they see as overdue.”
“I’m happy to argue with Stephen Miller or anyone else about why they are wrong,” said president and CEO of the Center for American Progress Neera Tanden. “But the way we’re going to be able to do that is to also honestly assess that the border has been too insecure, that it allowed too many people to come through and that we need to fix that.”
“We, and I include myself in this, created a vacuum on this issue that we allowed the current president to fill,” added former Obama official Cecilia Muñoz, noting that “the country is now living with the results. And the results are appalling.”
Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, says she knew the party was in deep trouble as far back as 2022 as illegal aliens were allowed to flood into the country.
“Living through what El Paso lived through, feeling how unsustainable all of this was, and frankly how challenging this was, I knew this would cause a massive shift in the perspective of Americans about immigration,” she said. “There was a failure on the part of the Democratic Party altogether during the last administration in adequately recognizing what was happening.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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