Democrats blame leftist ‘Yale Law’ populists for Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump — though winner JD Vance praises Lena Khan

PITTSBURGH – Establishment Democrats lost the 2024 election and are to blame. , , gone populist,

Vice President Kamala Harris lost all swing states, the popular vote and even the working class to President-elect Donald Trump, but Democratic influencers are scapegoating the left’s anti-monopoly populism for her defeat – Even when a western Pennsylvania House Democrat survived the red wave by focusing on his fight corporate power,

Centrists are looking in the mirror and not seeing themselves as the problem.

Adam Jentleson, former senior staffer for Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, Elizabeth Warren, and the late Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the opinion pages of The New York Times to urge their Democratic colleagues to “embrace”supermajority opinionTrump appealed to the working class to take back the White House in 2028.

But then the apparent revolutionary offered the recipe on which Harris ran and lost.

Jentleson again peddled the same policy smorgasbord (like Medicare and abortion rights without mentioning the minimum wage), said a second Trump administration would prove a failure and told the party he wanted to be “people with the cultural sensibilities of Yale Law School graduates.” “Remove those who act as populists.” “Relying heavily on specific issues, such as the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust actions.”

The leftists smelled like fools and frauds.

“The only Yale Law graduate who addressed ‘niche’ things like corporate power and the FTC during the campaign was J.D. Vance. I forget, did his side win?” Tweeted Matt Stoller, director of the anti-monopoly American Economic Freedom Project.

Vice President-elect Vance, who leads a small populist force in the Republican Party, is praised regularly President Biden’s FTC chair, Lina Khan, is calling for expanding antitrust powers and breaking up big tech companies like Amazon and Google.

And although he could not be confirmed, President-elect Trump was appointed disbelief hawk And Big Tech critic Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has been appointed to lead the Justice Department as attorney general.

Far from the Ivy League elite, the Teamsters union, which represents 1.3 million blue-collar workers, asked Harris if she would committed to maintaining the mineHarris did not, and the Teamsters famously did not support him,

Harris never embraced Khan while billionaire Democratic donors and surrogates publicly urged Harris to eliminate Yale law anti monopoly warrior,

“No swing voters were complaining about it, the Silicon Valley money guys were,” Said Progressive journalist Zaid Jilani mocked Jentleson and the “Democratic egghead class”, saying that “woke nonprofits” have an antitrust agenda.

Instead of condemning the cartels or placating progressives, Harris watered down her “anti-value” proposal, distanced herself from Biden’s populist ambitions to tax the rich, and promised to crack down on illegal immigration. and campaigned with former Republican Representative Liz Cheney and “Shark Tank” billionaire Mark Cuban.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic socialist, said, “It should be no big surprise that a Democratic Party that has abandoned working-class people will find that the working class has abandoned them.” Said The day after the election, Democrats were accused of listening to “big money interests and well-paid consultants” rather than voters.

However, centrist Democrats retweeted Jentleson’s words and blamed the left for Harris’ defeat.

“Incremental progress can lead to revolutions,” Said Gun-control advocate Shannon Watts.

“We’ve seen a failure by the Dem administration to listen to Yale Law graduates over anyone else,” said Obama alumnus Joel Wertheimer. SaidPressured Democrats to listen to people with corporate experience — even though Harris often sought advice from them uber executive brother in law Tony West on economic talking points during the campaign.

Jon Favreau, host of the Obama-alum podcast Pod Save America, PROMOTED This article highlights that politics is about winning and policy comes second.

Except polling shows that the no-confidence policy is good politics,

A centrist Democratic polling firm found that 39% of voters want government to prosecute “Price gouging” companies – the most popular policy approach to lowering prices.

Facing backlash from the left, Jentleson said there was a “A-hole problem“But he supports it”good tool in the toolboxWhile stressing that this is “limited as an overall worldview or political strategy”, it shows Amazon – much maligned by antitrust advocates – is a popular institution. second after the army,

When Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Mary Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) bucked progressive orthodoxy, supported deregulation and retained their House seats in Trump-y districts, they tried to overcome such niceties. Blamed antitrust purists for.

But then again, as Biden alumnus Jennifer Harris noted“Virtually the campaign we all witnessed was marked by a **very absence** of distrust.”

And Jentleson himself appears to be part of the problem.

He went to an Ivy League university (Columbia), worked for progressive senators, was president of Fight Corporate Monopolies and was reportedly involved in policing until 2023 transphobic journalism The New York Times all criticized interest groups for pushing Harris to adopt the same vigilante positions that Trump had used against her.

As a leftist writer keep it To his centrist critics: “You lost. Why should anyone listen to you about how to win?”

“It’s getting to the point where there’s enough of a market for ‘antiwoke’ that you can get a bunch of people to eat something, even if you’ve been wrong about everything and you’re actually the one who’s the one being the Democrats. Were requesting to do so. Super leftist on all social issues,” Jilani couple,

“[I]t is the height of sly deceit,” Said Jesse Single, who was shamed by Jentleson for reporting on transgender medical problems. But Singlet said he expects more D.C. “snakes” to attack the left without acknowledging their own role in promoting its conservatism.

As a pastor says after the election in the Washington-set Netflix show “House of Cards,” “A man’s character is determined not by how he enjoys victory, but by how he enjoys defeat.” Bears.”