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Chapter 1: What is happening with the Democrat Party after the 2024 election?
What happens when a leader is corrupted by a desire for power and fame? When the mission gets lost and they are willing to compromise everything for a buck, for a vote, for popularity, you name it. They might ride that high momentarily, but history and also current events have shown us that they will always inevitably fail.
And that is exactly what is happening right now with the modern Democrat Party. Now, it's not news to anyone that the Democrat Party is a mess after the 2024 election. I mean, they are like a floppy fish out of water. They have no idea what's going on. Nobody's working together. There is no unified message, and we are watching all of that unfold.
I think for them, it is pretty heartbreaking and disastrous, but for me, you know, I've been able to laugh at it. I think we've all been able to laugh at it over the last couple of months. I mean, they
completely lost touch with their voter base, they have lost the trust of their voter base, the party is now run by these geriatric elites who are trying to hold onto power, and then the party itself, like the grassroots messaging, is driven by left-wing young people who are radical and who hate most of the people who are actually in power. So it is just a complete mess.
And the smart thing to do, what I would advise, is, you know, to take a step back, to take a pause, to look inward, to do some self-analysis, you know, look at their failed policies, and maybe redirect. But of course, that strategy would just make too much sense. That would be too genuine. And of course, the Democrats cannot do that.
Instead, they have put David Hogg in charge of the DNC and Gavin Newsom started a podcast. Apparently, those are their two big strategies to take back power in 2028. And this podcast, Gavin Newsom's podcast, we've all been talking about it. It is actually indicative of a far broader trend that I want to talk about today that we've seen really with the Democrats for the last decade. Decade.
Calculated rebrands to try to reverse engineer authenticity and trust with voters. But I mean, come on. The gig is up. Whether it is Newsom on his new podcast, or Gretchen Whitmer's recent flirtation with Trump, Hillary Clinton's innocent grandma act and how she just has hot sauce in her purse, or Kamala being brat all last summer, it is all fake.
They are trying to emotionally manipulate their voters, but we are not falling for it, and neither are the modern Democrats. And on the show today to talk about how all of this happens from an insider's perspective is ex-RFK running mate and ex-California liberal, Nicole Shanahan.
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Chapter 2: Who are the key figures in the Democrat Party's rebranding efforts?
The Michigan Attorney General did not mince words when she slammed Whitmer for not calling Trump out because he is, quote, a wannabe petty dictator who thinks and fashions himself to be a king. That was her response to Whitmer's recent address.
I mean, guys, there's so many other examples I could go on and on, like Pete Buttigieg and his documentary from a couple of years ago trying to paint him as some really sweet individual. innocent, moderate, centrist, which just pissed off all the socialists because they know that that is not true.
One article about the documentary reads, The almost comical absence of a program or ideology in a documentary about a man running for president has far more to do with Buttigieg himself than it does with the quality of the filmmaking, and albeit accidentally, Mayor Pete does tell us something very real about the way that centrist liberalism increasingly seeks to cloak
It's pro-corporate vision with the politics of personality. That really is what this entire episode is about, the politics of personality. Now, another example is that in 2016, they tried to repaint Hillary Clinton as this docile, sweet grandma. She was in her grandma era while simultaneously having her use pop culture to pander to young black Americans, and again,
It never worked, even with her own base. And after running through all of these examples, I asked Nicole, you know, after all of this time, all of these years, going back to 2016, maybe even earlier, why? Why are the Democrats still trying to do this? We know that it doesn't work. And unsurprisingly, she said that it goes back to money. Take a listen.
I think the Democrat Party is surrounded by individuals still playing the old game and the thing is is they can get away with it because they have so much money they have so much money because they have Silicon Valley top donor money and they have Hollywood top donor money so that's why they're just kind of spiraling out because they don't have they're not forced to change yet financially the financial incentives
to be better and to be more honest and truthful aren't there.
So based on Nicole's experience and her insight, it goes back to money, but it also goes back to the quote unquote pyramid scheme of political consultants who are similarly out of touch with normal Americans. This is what she had to say about that.
They're still just relying on these top donors that are so out of touch with the average American. I mean, I was one of them for many years and I was so blind to what was going on in America. And I was seeing just a very superficial version of everything that was being presented to me.
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