The article explores the reasons behind the Democrats' 2024 presidential election loss, focusing on a perceived lack of trust in institutions and the influence of a self-proclaimed 'progressive institutionalist' group. It argues that this 'Indigo Blob,' comprising media figures, academics, activists, and political staffers, alienated voters with their focus on social justice and 'identity politics', leading to a backlash from the working class.
What’s wrong with these darn institutions, and why does nobody trust them? That’s the question lurking behind every postmortem about why Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election and what they could do to start winning future ones. The thinking goes like this: Donald Trump, as a political figure, represents blowing up the status quo; Trump won and the incumbent vice president lost; ergo, a majority of voters are unhappy with the people and groups responsible for the status quo.
But the evidence that residents of the United States don’t trust their institutions goes beyond election results. It’s also visible in theof Americans who get news from what were once known as “mainstream” sources, and in the declining share of people who say in polls that they, uh,—blame the influence of bumbling, know-it-all leftist elites in media and politics.
So if it’s not the Indigo Blob’s fault that no one trusts anything, then what is it? Perhaps the answer has something to do with the first institution I mentioned: Our beloved free press. Thanks to the innovative work that, it’s increasingly difficult to sustain a media outlet whose business mostly involves the costly process of nonpartisan fact-gathering and reporting.
Stay too long in this environment and you either join a tribe, stop believing anything at all, or both. Part of the tendency among Democrats to downplay risingnumbers during Biden’s presidency may have been ideological; part of it was also probably the boy-cried-wolf effect of right-wing media having already been reporting constantly, for decades, that the country was in the midst of an unprecedented crime and immigration crisis.
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