Democrats and their allies in the media have utterly failed to grasp the cataclysm that befell them in this last election. Their moral narrative, which they have used to justify their authoritarian movement disguised as “Our Democracy” is shattered and, along with it, the politics of the past decade. The left’s business model is bankrupt, perhaps never to recover.

In the process of selecting Donald Trump as their party’s nominee, Republicans held a contested primary and vetted serious contenders. At the outset, leaders like Ron Desantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, and others ran serious campaigns for the Republican nomination. Some, like Haley, were outright rejected. Others, like DeSantis and Ramaswamy, were absorbed into the greater movement.

In contrast, the Democrats followed a process that largely took place out of public view. The typical decision-making and leader-selecting process for Democrats involves complex and opaque negotiations among behind-the-scenes “stakeholders.” Democrats don’t have leaders, rather they have  “facilitators” who balance the many competing demands of their disparate coalition, leading to a rigid script of talking points. A single deviation from the script endangers the entire enterprise. Deception and ambiguity lubricate these negotiations.

Thus, when the final message is delivered by a candidate like Kamala Harris, or whomever the Democratic National Committee blob chooses to be its public face, the speeches only vaguely touch upon messages worked out in advance. Thus, Harris held few interviews and always evaded questions that broached subjects outside of her instructions. You could hear it when she spoke. Nobody thought she wrote her own talking points. Nobody thought she was a genuine representation of the people.