Beards, Flannel & Fake Roots? Democrats’ 2028 Rebrand Won’t Fool Voters | Victor Davis Hanson

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🗓️ 9 April 2026

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Following the Democrats’ crushing defeat at the ballot box in 2024, the DNC launched a postmortem to answer a very simple yet surprisingly elusive question: What went wrong? Their findings? On 70-30 issues, Democrats landed on the 30 side. Their solution? Democrats aren’t changing their message—they’re just rebranding the mess. From Pete Buttigieg in flannel to Tim Walz playing hunter, the “working-class pivot” looks more like political cosplay. Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to connect on issues that actually matter to voters. The bottom line: You can’t fake authenticity—and voters aren’t buying it. 👉 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: http://dailysignal.com/donate 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Also on Spotify: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.3	The Democratic Party, after their loss of the presidency in 24, and they were not able to take back any of the congressional seats and they don't control either
0:55.7	the House or the Senate. They ran a post-mortem, an autopsy. What went wrong? Now, they didn't really
1:01.5	divulge what they found, but I think we all know what it was because it's leaked out in various
1:07.0	manifestations. They feel that the white working class, that demographic that used to go for
1:15.6	John F. Kennedy and even Bill Clinton, but was a solid Roosevelt, Truman, Democratic group,
1:22.4	Union, and the middle working class in general, not just the white working class, Hispanics, blacks, but the working class, they had lost that.
1:32.3	And they wanted to know why.
1:34.0	And they found out that their message, and I guess I could be as bold to say open borders, illegal immigration, the trans issue, radical green energy at the expense of fossil fuels, indecision
1:48.0	or appeasement abroad, signified by the Afghanistan disaster of 2021, et cetera, et cetera,
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