The Blame Games begin

As many influencers predicted, the American left has already started to play the Blame Game – or the Blame Tournament! Major players in (and out of) the Democratic Party, and in the legacy media, are blaming various demographics. Some are now even blaming one another. Almost none want to question the delivery of the left’s basic message, much less the message itself. Furthermore, none of them want to admit that Donald Trump, and those who follow him (and, more to the point, take his implied advice), have a better message.

Current results

The Daily Wire maintains this Election Hub that draws vote totals and other results from Decision Desk Headquarters and elsewhere. As of about 4:30 p.m. EST today, Trump still led Kamala Harris in the popular vote, 74,347,892 to 70,462,282. This puts Trump 123,917 votes ahead of his 2020 vote total – and 3,885,610 votes ahead of Harris. Harris, in fact, has nearly 10.8 million fewer votes than Joe Biden got. The total vote thus far is 144,810,174, which is about 10.7 million fewer than the 2020 total. Now perhaps Trump “took” those 123,917 votes away from Harris, but where did those 10.7 million votes go? In fact, Harris never outperformed Biden in any unit by 3% or more.

CNAV repeats: they represented dead or moved-out voters. Many State Secretaries of State have since scrubbed their names from the voter rolls. (And that without any help from the Electronic Registry Information Center, or ERIC, based in “Blue” Michigan.)

Republicans have captured the Senate, by 52-48 or better. (That accounts for Senators Angus King, I-Maine, and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., caucusing with the Democrats.) Republican Dale McCormick leads in Pennsylvania, but Democrat Ruben Gallego leads in Arizona. McCormick and former television anchor Kari Lake (the Republican) are raising funds for very likely litigation.

Republicans thus far have clinched 216 House races, Democrats 208. The eleven races remaining to decide include one each in Colorado and Alaska; Republicans lead in both. The other nine races are in California, where counting is suspiciously slow.

At first, blame various voting groups

Democrat allies in the legacy media leaped immediately to blame various voting groups. Sunny Hostin of The View called the election “a referendum on cultural resentment.” That “resentment,” in her view, was due entirely to white Americans not wanting to elect a mixed-race woman President.

Or at least, that’s what leftist anchors said at first. But then, “Morning Joe” Scarborough and The Rev. Al Sharpton started to blame members of the multi-ethnic Democratic coalition. As CNAV predicted long ago, that coalition fractured along identity lines. Donald Trump peeled away voters from the black and Latino coalition. So Scarborough and Sharpton accused those defecting voters of racism, sexism, or both.

Of course, Maria Herrera Mellado, editor-in-chief of Gateway Hispanic, could tell Democrats the real reason, if they would but listen:

Late-term abortion policies; allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports, diminishing opportunities for women; supporting transgender surgeries for minors and for detained immigrants; printing money; and endorsing policies that have led to a decline in purchasing power—about $1,000 less per month since this administration began.

Oh, and in case anyone thinks Latinos always favor immigration, Srta. Herrera Mellado says, not so fast! She does what almost every Democrat has forgotten how to do: count the cost.

This directly affects Hispanic Americans, as it brings labor that competes directly with U.S. Hispanics. It increases demand for social services funded by taxpayers and puts additional strain on healthcare services, leading to hospital overcrowding.

But again, Democrats want to blame everyone but themselves. George Gascón, for example, is no longer the Los Angeles County District Attorney. Voters got fed up with the criminals he let loose, and turned him out. So he blamed the “rightward shift across America,” which he called “heartbreaking.” Hm-m-m-m. CNAV believes the late Vincent T. Bugliosi, who famously prosecuted Charles Manson and his “family,” would offer a simpler explanation.

Next, blame one another

But now Democrats especially have begun to blame one another for Kamala Harris’ loss. That probably started with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) arguing with Donna Brazile at Kamala Harris’ concession-speech venue. No one knows, because no one got close enough, or carried a sensitive-enough microphone, to make out their words.

Many have blamed President Biden for not getting out of the race soon enough for Harris to hit her stride. In fact Nancy Pelosi is saying that right now. (Could that be what her argument with Donna Brazile was about?) But now others are blaming George Clooney for allegedly engineering Biden’s drop-out.

But several Democrats are telling some hard truths. Sen. Sanders did blame Democrats generally for abandoning working-class families – of all ethnic groups. But Nancy Pelosi, who still tries to play the elder stateswoman of the House Democratic Conference, won’t accept that.

James “Ragin’ Cajun” Carville had plenty of places to lay the blame. Why, for instance, did Sunny Hostin have to ask Kamala Harris what she would have done differently from Biden? Harris couldn’t answer, and that, says Carville, sank the campaign. For that matter, he blamed the too-quick selection of Harris.

But Julie Roginsky had the most devastating critique. This long-time Democratic strategist criticized the Party’s style of communicating with voters.

We are not the party of common sense, which is the message that voters sent to us.

She cited coining the word Latinx (rhymes with Kleenex®), and failure to enforce student discipline on college campuses.

Van Jones said “we’re the idiots” because Democrats missed the significance of the Trump campaign’s on-line apparatus.

What else is happening?

For what it’s worth, Joy(less) Reid seemed to forget, if she ever learned, the long history of her Party’s policies. In addition to her earlier rant against white women and Latino men, she offered this explanation for Harris’ loss:

A majority of Gen X voted to turn America into an autocracy and to condemn our kids and grandkids to a far-right Supreme Court, probably for the rest of their lives. [These are] the F your feelings latchkey kids.

Lay aside whether “a far-right Supreme Court” is a good or bad thing. Does Joy Reid even know what a latchkey kid was? Probably not. Beginning in the 1980s, mothers started hanging the latchkey (to the front door) on a bead chain around their children’s necks at roughly the time they reached junior high school. (We call it “upper middle school” today.) So those children had no adult supervision for three or four hours at a time. If they learned to take care of themselves by themselves, but forgot things like consideration for others, how can Joy Reid or anyone else blame them? Rather, blame the Democrats for telling married women that they could relieve themselves of the responsibility to supervise.

More ironically still, several Democratic X users have noticed the total votes being 10 million fewer than in 2020. And now they want audits of the election returns. They really think corrupt rightist registrars made 10 million votes disappear. But if they want audits, let’s have them – and let’s audit the 2020 returns, to have an acceptable “control.” Those Democrats won’t like what the auditors might find.

The first of those audits is already on schedule – in Texas, by order of its Secretary of State.

Summary

When George H. W. Bush shellacked Michael Dukakis in 1988, Democrats looked inward. They then selected a total unknown, with no particular ideology, to bear their standard. Bill Clinton then became the most successful President the Democrats ever sent to the White House. To be sure, he and his crew were inordinately crude in their behavior. But Clinton at least knew when to pull back on the extreme Marxist ideology. When Republicans took both chambers of Congress in 1994, he governed almost like a Republican. After winning reelection in 1996, he managed to spin complete deadlock into a good outcome: the first budget surplus since the inception of the Federal Reserve System.

Not so today. Democrats seem to think they have all the answers – and, having all the answers, have the right to govern. And when voters ask questions, Democrats scold – or worse. Last Tuesday the people completed their rejection of them. That rejection might be even worse if the disappearance of those 10 million votes indicates anything more than an ultra-slow vote count. In any case, Democrats started blaming the voters for that rejection, and now blame one another for a bad campaign. Never mind that the best campaign can’t sell a bad message.

The meltdowns are worthy of James Reston, in 1972, saying Americans voted their “meanness” in the shellacking of George McGovern. If Democrats and their media allies have learned nothing more in 52 years, they’ll never learn anything at all.