Quote of the day

The Democrats Are a Social Club for Gerontocrats Who Love Losing

—Splinter

This is true...as turnips is. It was as true...as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

The Democratic Party is unquestionably the party of old, rich white people at this point. Kamala Harris became the first Democrat in ages to lose voters who make less than $100,000 per year, and the only demographics who shifted left in this last election were voters over the age of 65 and white voters with a college degree. One would think that in a historic realignment election which served as a wholesale rebuke to the Democratic Party writ large that the Democratic Party would want to make some serious changes.

But the Democratic Party is not a political party first and foremost. It’s a social club for gerontocrats and braindead consultants who specialize in losing winnable elections. It’s difficult to find a better example of what the Democratic Party actually values than losing a two out of three series to Donald Trump then giving a bunch of lip service to fundamental change, all while the same people stay in place.

This is the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) in a nutshell.