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New York Times Rips Democrat's Denial Over Massive Losses In 2024 Election

The New York Times Editorial Board is sounding the alarm for the Democratic Party.

In a newly published editorial, the left-leaning outlet argued that the party is in deep denial about the reasons behind its 
losses in the 2024 election-including the presidency, Senate, and House-and warned that its current strategies for recovery are 
not only misguided but outright delusional, Fox News noted.

"As comforting as these explanations may feel to Democrats, they are a form of denial that will make it harder for the Democratic 
Party to win future elections," the Editorial Board's column noted on Saturday. The title of the editorial declared simply, "The 
Democrats Are in Denial About 2024."

The Times editorial comes amid historically low approval ratings for the Democratic Party. Recent national polls from CNN and NBC 
News, released earlier this month, show that just 29% and 27% of respondents, respectively, have a favorable view of the party. 
These figures mark the lowest approval ratings recorded by either outlet for Democrats since the early 1990s.

The NYT editorial board hammered 'many party leaders" who have 'decided that they do not need to make significant changes to 
their policies or their message" following their "comprehensive defeat."

According to the board, Democrats have turned to a "convenient explanation for their plight," claiming that forces beyond its 
control, like "post-pandemic inflation" harmed its chances last year, as well as citing a need for better messaging - not a 
change of policies. "If Democrats could only communicate better, particularly on social media and podcasts, the party would be 
fine," the board stated, summarizing part of their denial.

The editorial went on to note how new Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin is certain that the party has the "right 
message" but simply needs a way to "connect it back with the voters." The board also noted that former Democratic vice-
presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., recently told voters that "90 million" people stayed home during the last 
election, emphasizing that the party needs to rally their support.

The editorial highlighted Governor Tim Walz's remark that Democrats don't need to bother appealing to voters who supported 
President Donald Trump.

The board pointed to comments like that as clear signs the party is in denial-and cautioned that this mindset should worry not 
just Democrats, but conservatives and the entire country as well.

But then the board turned to its usual breathless hyperbole regarding President Donald Trump and how he's supposedly the biggest 
threat to America.

"The country needs two healthy political parties. It especially needs a healthy Democratic Party, given Mr. Trump's takeover of 
the Republican Party and his draconian behavior. Restraining him - and any successors who continue his policies - depends on 
Democrats taking an honest look at their problems," the board wrote.

The board acknowledged that inflation can negatively impact the incumbent party in the U.S., similar to its effects on other 
countries, regardless of political affiliations. "Whether on the political right or left, ruling parties lost power in the United 
States, Brazil, Britain, Germany and Italy," it wrote.

Still, the board mentioned that "incumbent parties managed to win re-election, including in Denmark, France, India, Japan, Mexico 
and Spain. A healthier Democratic Party could have joined them last year."

It wasn't just inflation that turned the tide against Democrats, the board wrote, pointing out how "voters also trusted 
Republicans more than Democrats on immigration, crime, government spending, global trade and foreign policy."

The editors then debunked Walz's voter turnout point, saying, "Nonvoters appear to have favored Mr. Trump by an even wider margin 
than voters."

After criticizing Democrats, the board then offered some advice on how it can rise from its resounding defeat. That begins with 
'more rigorous and less wishful reflection" and taking concrete steps for regaining voters" trust, notably, "they should admit 
that their party mishandled Mr. Biden's age."

"Second, Democrats should recognize that the party moved too far left on social issues after Barack Obama left office in 2017," 
it said, adding that the third step is that "the party has to offer new ideas."

The board said former Vice President Kamala Harris "failed" to offer any new ideas in her presidential bid, adding that "few 
Democrats are doing so today."

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was 
a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people 
in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."