An Appeal to Democratic Voters

The respectful case to join our cause…

In the aftermath of any big victory in life, there is a natural human tendency to gloat a bit…or maybe a lot. But in the wake of the amazing Trump and America First electoral success of November 5th, those of us in the patriotic populist movement should, instead, make a humble, thoughtful, and heartfelt appeal to our fellow citizens who voted for the Democrats, but are persuadable.

Millions of them, no doubt, voted blue with the best of patriotic intentions. Many of them simply pursued the comfortable path of well-worn political behavior patterns. Others were surely misled by the constant barrage of propaganda from legacy media platforms. Still others live busy and complicated lives – especially in stressful times like these, created by Biden and Harris – and do not follow politics closely, for understandable reasons.

For all of these voters, here are the three most compelling reasons to at least consider joining our America First cause -- and to vote Republican into the future.

1.     The Democrat Leadership Disrespects You – the corrupt permanent political class of the Democratic Party of the 2020’s disregards, and even disparages, the concerns of regular citizens, especially working-class Americans. Those masses who formerly shaped the backbone of the Democratic Party now find themselves as afterthoughts, at best, dismissed by politicians like Biden who views tens of millions of American citizens as “ human garbage.”

Most tellingly in this election cycle, once Biden was overthrown in a backroom palace coup by Nancy Pelosi and others, the masses of Democratic voters had zero say in his replacement. A coronation, orchestrated in the dark by Democrat powerbrokers – is hardly a sign of respect for rank-and-file Democratic voters.

2.     The GOP Is Now the Party of Workers – this trend is astounding as the two parties quite literally trade places in representing the working class. For example, per NPR, Trump won nationwide among voters making less than $50,000 per year. For context, back in 2008, Barack Obama won that group by a giant +28% margin, 63-35% over John McCain. That kind of shift is massive, systemic, and almost unprecedented in American political history.

The Democrats of 2024 clearly stood for the highly-credentialed, already-successful strata of society, winning commanding positive margins among high earners with advanced degrees. But that slice of ruling class voters does not represent the vastness of this great country, and those managerial elite Democrats generally support policies that harm and repress the shrinking American middle class.

Even left-leaning Senator Bernie Sanders concedes this point, posting that “the Democrats lost this election because they ignored the justified anger of working class America and became the defenders of a rigged economy and political system.” The 2024 results back Bernie’s claim. For instance, Trump won Latino men nationally by +10%, 54-44% according to NBC News. This group, Hispanic men, boasts the highest workforce participation rate in America.

3.     The Democratic Party Obsesses with Social Radicalism – regular Americans struggle mightily, grappling with soaring grocery bills and the worst housing affordability crisis ever in America, per Goldman Sachs. Consequently, despondency pervades, as citizens lose hope in the American dream and tragic deaths of despair soar. But instead of urgently trying to fix these economic and societal crises, the obtuse leadership class of the Democratic Party fixates on an extreme, and highly unpopular, social engineering campaign that targets children.

For example, nearly every prominent Democrat leader in Americas supports the unjust and ludicrous idea that boys and men should be able to invade girls’ sports and female locker rooms. Even worse, Harris, Biden, Democrat governors, and their allies in corporate media insist that vulnerable and confused children should be subjected to permanent sex change procedures through pharmaceuticals and through surgeries that chop off healthy body parts. This madness finds minimal support among sensible Americans, and yet it forms a pillar of a radical ideology that now permeates the ranks of Democratic influencers. In fact, Kamala Harris even demanded that American taxpayers pay for such cruel procedures, including for illegal aliens and for convicted prisoners.

Now, given these policy and political realities, there are undoubtedly millions of country-loving voters who have supported Democrats but begin to challenger their own assumptions. Indeed, the scope and scale of Trump’s win demands introspection from all thinking citizens who previously accepted the corporate media’s slanderous aspersions of him.

Accordingly, we in the patriotic populist movement must do two things. First, of course, is to follow through on the promises made during this campaign season to govern effectively and for the benefit of the working-class masses of Americans. Secondly, intentionally and earnestly reach out to our American brothers and sisters who voted for the Democrats, often with high hopes, but now stand ready to “cross the aisle” and join our movement.

Steve Cortes is former senior advisor to President Trump and JD Vance, former commentator for Fox News and CNN, and president of the League of American Workers, a populist right pro-laborer advocacy group.