Guys Who Work for a Living Think Dems are 'Weak,' 'Woke' and Unfocused

So, this is news, huh? That Democrats have problems relating to and connecting with working-class folks and particularly working-class men?

Huh.

Whoda thunk it, no?

I KID, I KID

Only everyone with half a brain and an ounce of testosterone that hadn't been injected, but yeah. While we were all in on the loop here that formerly core constituencies of the Democratic Party weren't just drifting, but running away from them as they lurched toward the trans-loving, radical hugging, anti-American, illegal, and illiberal lauding elite progressivism they are now thoroughly wrapped in, Democrats have yet to emerge from the shock of their loss last November.

You know, when they woke up with one of the worst hangovers ever, broke and wondering where all the taken-for-granted folks had gone. There was no curative hair-of-the-dog, either, when they found that disgruntled Hispanics, blacks, and union workers hadn't sat this one out, but actually voted Republican instead.

Gloom, despair, and befuddled agony on thee.

And when you've gone out to find men-men to talk about being man-mans, how could that miss? How could that fail to reach the guy with the dad belly mowing his lawn after his shift?

Democrats knew they'd done the least little bit they could do to reach those males of the species. Why, they even had The Lightbringer™ berate members of his own group of cool dudes, using his own peculiar blend of arrogance and disdain to tell these puny manlings in his exalted presence what miserable sacks of poo they were for not being better Democrats. To 'speak some truths,' his truth anyway. Maybe not theirs, but the inference being that it should be theirs.

BETTER MEN WANT TO BE ME

None of the finger wagging worked, no matter what the consultants drew up and the Dems wrote a check for.

The problem, I believe, is that Democrats have moved so far beyond dirty fingernails, Saturdays spent with the kids, hugging your wife, and accepting responsibility for anything from a bounced check to a blown election, that their academically driven elite world feeds on itself. It no longer accepts input it feels is inferior to what it already knows to be true, whether it is or not, in fact, the truth. You see, they've already got their truth constructed, which is how all these ads and Obama's lectures bounced off the ears they were intended for, after much uproarious mockery.

To Democrats, that only proved how much more education the knuckle-dragging classes require and why they are so unworthy of time and effort.

To the subjects these pretty clear vignettes were constructed for, the message was loud and clear, even to the youngest of former followers.

Democrats despise us, and we are done here.

EXIT, STAGE RIGHT

The Democrat Party treats masculinity like a disease and common sense as a threat.

Young men are DONE being treated as the enemy in our own country.

That's why we've LEFT the Democrat Party! pic.twitter.com/7CmSONjxmc

— Brilyn Hollyhand (@BrilynHollyhand) July 9, 2025

Over and over. Harris picked a supposedly everyman running mate to appeal to working-class Americans.

What did the guy who actually knows what end of a shotgun the boom comes out of think of giggly, prancing, buffoonish poltroon Tim Walz?

One year ago today.

“I used to think Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods, but then, I met Tim Walz." pic.twitter.com/HYnsFkrM6l

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) October 17, 2025

Yeah.

Their contempt is so palpable that, to this day, you can spread it with a knife. This is Batya Ungar-Sargon talking about it back in May.

The Democrats have lost the working class because as the party of the rich and the credentialed, they have contempt for regular people, who they believe they have the right to rule, but no idea what those people want—hence attempts to trick them into voting for the Left again. pic.twitter.com/BS5w1RWetb

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) May 28, 2025

Now we find out that the bubble world navel gazing has once again been taken to absurd, expensive heights by Democrats, who can't see the forest for their weak knees and thick glasses.

The party has actually paid God knows how much for a nine-month-long survey collecting data about the failed election caused by the loss of their formerly loyal to the death working-class constituencies, titled 'Why Does Everyone Hate Us When We're So Coolsers?'

Okay. Maybe that's not the title, but it sure is the gist of information that we all had for free, and these spendthrifts blew good money on bad work again.

Working-class voters see Democrats as “woke, weak and out-of-touch” and six in 10 have a negative view of the party, concluded a frank internal assessment of the hole the party finds itself in.

The nine-month, 21-state research project is the latest in a wave of post-mortems and data dives aimed at solving the Democratic Party’s electoral challenges after their sweeping losses in 2024. It was funded by Democracy Matters, a nonprofit aligned with flagship Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, and backed by months of polling, dozens of focus groups and message testing.

American Bridge’s project focused exclusively on working-class voters, shedding light on a once-core constituency for Democrats that’s drifted away from the party over the last decade. And the initial feedback is grim: Working-class voters don’t see Democrats as strong or patriotic, while Republicans represent safety and strength for them. These voters “can’t name what Democrats stand for, other than being against [Donald] Trump,” according to the report.

The Democratic brand “is suffering,” as working-class voters see the party as “too focused on social issues and not nearly focused enough on the economic issues that impact every one, every day,” the report said.

“We lost people we used to get [in 2024], so why did we lose them? Why don’t we go ask them,” said Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of Democracy Matters and senior adviser to then-President Joe Biden. “They said what they thought about us and it was painful to hear … They feel forgotten, left out, and that their issues are not prioritized by the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.”

Welp. There are five paragraphs of stunning revelations...NOT.

There were many more, but I'll touch on two that will have you guffawing like Hee Haw was still on.

Try this on for size first.

...But it also found one-third of independents would be “much more likely” to support Democrats if they said “transgender women should not play in women’s sports,” the second highest testing message in swaying these voters.

They paid good money for something so obvious and yet so unattainable for the Democrat Party at the moment as to be a fairy tale.

Democrats will never climb off this hill with progressives at the helm.

The second item I wanted to point out is the very last portion of a very lengthy article. These researchers were shocked to find the flyover country, Bible-clinging, knuckle-dragging, low-info voters were...nothing of the sort.

They just don't get their information from approved Democrat sources. And you know what that means.

...The report included a detailed media consumption study, finding that working-class voters are “consuming less news and using YouTube and playing video games more than the overall electorate.” They rely on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook for news, and they’re more likely to use TikTok specifically for news than the overall electorate.

They also are constantly tuned into audio throughout the day, be it radio, streaming or podcasts.

“We heard time and again in the groups that these are not low-info voters and they’re not traditional news readers, but they’re getting inundated with information,” said Ryan Berni, a Democratic consultant who advised on the project. “It’s almost a slur to call them low-info voters. They’re getting a lot, but not from Democrat-aligned sources.”

If these lunatics ever, EVER get their imperial hands on power  again, the first thing they're going to do is shut down all those 'non-Democrat-aligned sources.'

The snotty Democrat consultant perfectly illustrates the attitude that drove off the working-class. It's 'ALMOST A SLUR' to call us lo-info voters, he says.

ALMOST

Yeah. 

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