Without question, the Potty Mouth Party is in trouble. Its approval rating is lower than whale excrement, some of the most unlikeable people on the planet are Democrats, the party’s purity test — go along with them 100 percent on everything 100 percent of the time — is a gigantic turn-off, and the crazy, creepy, left-wing lunacy most members embrace is off-putting to everyone including the party’s long-time voting blocs: Minorities, women, and young Americans.
Now, the Democrats are a party divided. We’ve watched Democratic operatives repeatedly appear on cable news, puzzling over what went wrong—was it the “messaging”?—while tensions flared between Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg and party leadership as he pushed for primary challenges against incumbents, directly contradicting the DNC’s traditional role. At the same time, a wave of new books began to paint a more candid picture of Biden’s presidency, revealing that he had been mentally diminished for much of his time in office.
Now, a former aide to California Rep. Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Kamala Harris is publicly criticizing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), accusing him of failing to mount an effective response to their chief political bogeyman, Donald Trump. The Daily Caller:
Ashley Etienne, a former communications director for both former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Kamala Harris, blasted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ decisions at the helm of the Democratic Caucus during a podcast episode released Thursday.
Etienne, who ran the former speaker’s anti-Trump war room, blasted Pelosi’s successor as House Democratic leader over his alleged lack of coordination and organization, during an appearance on Politico’s Playbook Deep Dive podcast. Etienne, citing conversations with Democratic House lawmakers, portrayed Jeffries as indecisive and too weak in opposition to President Donald Trump.
Etienne didn’t hold back in her criticism of the man she said she “adores” (profanity warning—something that seems increasingly necessary when quoting Democrats these days):
“If you don’t have coordination, you’ve just got words on a paper that you’re calling talking points,” Etienne said. “It’s meaningless. And I think that’s where we are right now.”
“I was hearing from leadership staff that the leadership on Capitol Hill right now wants to sort of move away from that Pelosi era — that they … don’t want to embrace anyone or anything that’s like Pelosi,” Etienne told the podcast host, Politico’s Rachael Bade. “Which I just think is the dumbest s*** ever.”
She then launches into a familiar progressive refrain about “messaging,” a topic that seems to dominate their discussions. But the real issue isn’t how the message is delivered—it’s that the message itself no longer resonates with the American people:
Although Etienne expressed respect for Jeffries’ “ability to message,” she immediately followed up saying that the top House Democrat cannot effectively make decisions on how to message.
“What I’ve been hearing from members is that, to sort of some it up, he thinks long, too long and wrong about things. He takes too much council and then takes too long to make a decision,” Etienne said. “Which says that maybe you don’t trust your gut in the moment, which is also fair when you’re a new leader cause you’re still trying to figure it all out. It might also suggest maybe you don’t have a handle on the caucus, or you don’t have a handle on how to actually land some punches on Donald Trump.”
The Democratic Party is a party not in flux but one that seems to be dying — thankfully. They no longer seem interested in anything policy-wise that is truly beneficial to the country, so in that vein, it’s time for them to go the way of the Whigs.