Letters

The defeat of Kamala Harris and the flipped Senate seats on Election Day are an overwhelming repudiation of the failed fiscal, social and lawfare policies of the Democratic Party. The electorate just didn’t buy what they are selling.

Harris tried and failed to reinvent herself from her far-left values by moving back toward center while campaigning, yet couldn’t think of a single thing she would change under the dismal policies of doddering, barely sentient Joe Biden leadership. The voters rejected the Democratic National Committee fantasy and thus decided Biden’s legacy.

An exploding border crisis allowed over 10 million border encounters plus an undetermined number of migrants who successfully evaded capture. Inflation had spiked to 20 percent but was rationalized as being under control when it gradually eased to levels seen during the Donald Trump administration. Dismissed during this ludicrous delusion is the quite obvious fact that everything is now 20 percent more expensive than it was four years ago, and it’s never going to come back down. People are reminded of this every time they step into the grocery store or buy gas.

Lower-income and middle-class citizens are profoundly affected by such inflation; they voted their pocketbooks rather than drink the Kool-Aid.

The electorate handily dismissed the absurd cultural imperialism imposed by their identity politics, forcing a woke agenda that defies logic. This includes such examples as boys playing in girls’ sports, basically nullifying Title 9; transgender activism that excludes parental notification; and sexually explicit literature in non-age-appropriate school libraries and calling it censorship when parents object. Promoting gender dysphoria by distributing tampons in boys’ bathrooms. One Pennsylvania school district’s seven elementary schools were teaching first grade students about gender dysphoria and gender transitioning but stopped after a civil suit brought by the parents was upheld in U.S. District Court.

Examples of such absurdities abound and could probably fill up the entire issue of this newspaper, yet the Democrats are perplexed as to how they managed to lose every battleground state.

Donald Trump survived more than eight years of lawfare brought on by vengeful and disgruntled Democrats. They criminally indicted him four times, even targeting his family business. They finally found success with a Democrat prosecutor who twisted the law and turned misdemeanors into felonies and was tried by an appointed, decidedly left-wing judge in a Manhattan courtroom, an overwhelmingly Democrat city, by a jury of supposed peers.

As a candidate, he survived two assassination attempts while being left vulnerable by an inept Secret Service.

Through it all, he has been branded the next Adolf Hitler — while the DNC managed virtual regicide by installing Kamala Harris as the replacement presidential candidate without any primary election.

John Porta

Westhampton