CNN host Fareed Zakaria said Sunday on his show “Fareed Zakaria GPS” that Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris are fighting a “legislation” and “deeply illiberal” culture war against President-elect Donald Trump. He said he lost because of.
“The New York Times projects that Harris will win the national popular vote by about a point and a half, the first time a Democrat has done so since 2004,” Zakaria said.
“The first big mistake was that the Biden administration was blind to the broken immigration system and chaos at the border,” he added. The asylum system, intended for a persecuted minority, was used by millions to gain legal entry. Instead of shutting it down, liberals branded those who protested as heartless and racist. They missed the dramatic changes in American public opinion in just a few years. In 2020, only 28% of Americans wanted to reduce immigration. By this year, it was 55%. When Kamala Harris appeared on The View and was asked what she would have done differently from Biden, she said instead of basically saying nothing would change, she would have closed the border earlier and harder. I should have said deaf. ”
“The second mistake was overusing the law to punish Mr. Trump. The most egregious of the cases pursued was the Alvin Bragg case in New York, where even he was skeptical, but was reportedly pressured by some on the left to pursue it. This gave the impression that the legal system was being weaponized to win over Trump, giving his supporters what they had always believed: an overeducated, urban population. It confirmed that liberals are hypocrites and are willing to bend rules and norms when it suits their purposes.
Zakaria added: “Thanks to the law, Trump turned from a loser to a winner.”
“The final mistake,” he concluded, “was the left's identity politics, which promoted all sorts of DEI policies born primarily from urban academic bubbles, but alienated many mainstream voters.” There is an irony in people insisting on using the term Latinx and claiming to be pro-Latinx, when Latin Americans themselves think the word is strange. This kind of obsession shows that Democrats see people too much through their ethnic, racial, or sexual identity, and that working-class Latinos are moving toward Trump. Maybe I'm letting you miss it. Perhaps they were socially conservative, liked Trump's macho rhetoric, or agreed with his harsh opinions. stance on immigration. One of President Trump's most effective statements on trans issues was his tagline, “Kamala is for them.” President Trump is on your side. ” This problem is deeper than one about nouns and pronouns. The whole focus on identity has turned into something very illiberal, where we start judging people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. Similarly, cancel culture and universities with speech codes have become a means of censoring the most cherished liberal idea: free speech. The simple lesson of this election is that liberals, no matter how well-intentioned, cannot achieve liberal goals by using illiberal means. ”
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