Teddy

We as Democrats paid a heavy price for the Biden Administration’s malpractice of acting like a deer in the headlights as the migrant crisis raged on for years. Since 2022, there has been an overwhelming wave of migration whose impact was felt not only at the border but in blue cities like New York, where the shelter system came under severe strain. Despite widespread public outcry, the Biden Administration waited two years before issuing an executive order restricting migration at the border. By then, it was too late. The damage was done. The Republicans had won the issue. Lesson learned: when there’s a metaphorical fire provoking widespread public outrage, you must act decisively to extinguish it or else the voters will decisively punish you at the ballot box. After the President issued the Executive Order (EO) restricting migration at the border, subsequent polling revealed that the EO, contrary to the media’s misconceptions about Latinos, enjoyed widespread public support from every racial category—Black and White, Latino and Asian. If the EO enjoyed broad public support, why did the President take so long before issuing it? Though popular among most Americans, the EO was unpopular among far-left elites, who have been given outsized power over the policymaking and messaging of the Democratic Party. Therein lies the second cause of our defeat. The first cause is inflation.