OPINION:
Democratic analysts don’t seem to understand why the all-out legal assault on former President Donald Trump isn’t working. It’s because they keep talking among themselves and not with the American people.
Most Americans don’t live and work in the New York-Washington political-media-government bubble. If reporters and analysts listened to Americans, as we do at America’s New Majority Project, they would learn how decisive the choice between President Biden and Mr. Trump is. They would also see how difficult, if not impossible, it will be for Mr. Biden to get easily reelected.
The propaganda media are trying to focus the election on what it sees as Mr. Trump’s flaws. The Democrats, including the Biden campaign, are trying to focus the election on what they see as the threat Mr. Trump represents.
The 2024 election, however, will come down to a simple question: Can Americans afford four more years of Mr. Biden’s policies and principles?
Mr. Trump’s problems all involve his own alleged behavior and activities. Even the phony legal attacks remain locked into a Trump-centered issue. No American is hurt by the things Mr. Trump has supposedly done. Indeed, few Americans pay attention to the outlandish legal attacks on Mr. Trump.
Most Americans see the case against Mr. Trump as political lawfare. If anything, they are offended by the left’s assault on the rule of law and the Constitution. This is why the conviction in the so-called hush money trial led to a surge of contributions to Mr. Trump’s campaign. Far from running away from Mr. Trump, the American people found themselves running to defend him. They saw him as a champion being persecuted unfairly and took the conviction as a direct warning of what could happen to them.
By contrast, the problems under Mr. Biden affect everyday Americans. “Bidenflation” continues to drive already high prices higher. Child care costs increased by 4.1% in the last year. Young parents are having to take on third and fourth jobs just to break even on costs. Grocery prices are forcing Americans to make tough decisions about how to feed their families. Young people can’t afford to buy houses — which is more than offsetting any goodwill Mr. Biden might have generated by (illegally) waiving student loan repayments.
Mr. Biden’s policies are causing millions of Americans real pain.
The president’s open border policy allows Venezuelan criminals to go to New York and kill police officer. Mr. Biden’s open border policy allows fentanyl and other drugs to flood our country and poison our communities. When more than 100,000 Americans a year are dying from drug overdoses, it is hard to worry about how Mr. Trump valued his apartment or paid his attorney.
Many Americans can’t afford groceries, gasoline, or the electric bill thanks to Bidenflation. Democrats want Americans to focus on these legal attacks. But Americans are focused on their own survival in the terrible economy President Biden and Democrats created.
For the elite establishment Democrats, this is all still about politics. For the American people, it’s about survival.
Economically, Mr. Biden’s destructive policies make life more expensive. Culturally, people are sick of radical dictates that denigrate religious liberty and seek to indoctrinate children against the will of their parents. Finally, as a matter of safety, Americans realize that Mr. Biden does not have the knowledge or ability to defend our nation against our adversaries.
The 2024 election isn’t about what the establishment media think. It’s about America’s survival.
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