Democratic strategist Doug Schoen has been a Democrat all his life. When you’re a Democratic strategist, you’re pretty committed. But if you’ve watched him over the years, he’s also one of the few who’s maintained any common sense in the process. He’s always seemed like a classical liberal to me. That means that in today’s climate, he sometimes ends up more on the right on issues where the left has often abandoned common sense.
Schoen was on a Fox panel on The Faulkner Focus and they were discussing how you didn’t know what you were getting with Harris because of her changing positions. He said you get a candidate who’s trying to paint herself as the candidate with a “new way forward.”
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He said he says that with a “smile on his face” because “we really don’t know what that new way forward is.” He said Trump had to make the case that he has a plan of tax-cutting and deregulation which is much more in sync with what the American people want than “redistribution of wealth and higher taxes.” Oof, brutally accurate.
Faulkner spoke about how Schoen had previously decided he couldn’t vote for Hillary even though he’d worked for Bill Clinton.
“At this point, I cannot. I would call myself undecided at this point. But I can’t vote for her for reasons related to her change in position and also the Middle East as we have talked about before. I do not believe she is sufficiently committed to Israel and fighting antisemitism.”
We’ve reported on that flip-flopping before and how CNN even called her out on the air for her radical positions in the past. Harris’ campaign even refused to give them any answers when CNN asked about her positions, they just issued statements that said nothing.
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Democrats want to talk about Liz and Dick Cheney and a few neocons supporting Harris, as though they’re significant when today’s Republicans and Republican-leaning folks pretty much don’t give a darn what they think. If anything, that’s an endorsement for Trump. It also makes the Democrats look silly to their own people when they spent years calling Dick Cheney a warmonger and now they’re embracing him.
However, it feels like there are a lot more folks moving away from the Democrats and/or to the Republicans. There’s Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy, and some of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who don’t like what the Democrats have done to censor things. Then there are folks like Alan Dershowitz, who think the Democrats have gone too far off the rails after a Democratic National Convention featuring “AOC, Sharpton, Liz Warren, and Bernie Sanders; that’s not my party.” He said it had been coming for a while and he now considers himself an independent. Then there are the masses of Blacks and Hispanics who are moving to the Republicans because they see they make more economic and practical sense on the day-to-day issues.
It’s easy to see Schoen following that same path as Dershowitz, given he has sense. Both he and Dershowitz are a bellwether that other Democrats/independents are likely going there on the subject as well. Democrats have gone so far left they’ve gone off the rails that folks in the middle can’t even recognize their own party anymore.
