Democrats are trying to figure out how to connect with voters after their hard-left disposition cost them the 2024 elections. The problem is that the Democratic Party, as it is currently ideologically constructed, does not have a message focused on working and middle-class voters. Democrats are now instead using inauthentic stunts to endear themselves to voters.

The centrist Democratic think tank Third Way organized a summit of “moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials and party leaders,” according to Politico, to figure out how to reach the voters with whom the party has fallen out of touch. The resulting “solutions” from this meeting include that Democrats should “embrace patriotism, community, and traditional American imagery,” “ban far-left candidate questionnaires,” “own the failures of Democratic governance in large cities,” and “get out of elite circles and into real communities (e.g., tailgates, gun shows, local restaurants, churches).”

All of that sounds nice. But ultimately, it’s a collection of hollow, symbolic displays focused on changing how Democrats are perceived. Take, for example, the first solution: “Embrace patriotism, community, and traditional American imagery.” The fact that this even needs to be said to Democrats is indicative of their problem. The Democratic Party currently rejects patriotism and traditional American imagery because it does not think America is anything special.

This has been on display since the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. Just last year, former President Joe Biden, when he was still the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, told black college students that........

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