Democrats have spent years talking about democracy. They argued that winning the 2024 election was vital to saving democracy from Trump. However, many Democrats in Congress didn’t really believe it, and some were themselves convinced that a second Trump administration would be more like the first.
Other elected Democrats admitted after Trump’s victory that they had abandoned the issue of democracy because it neither interested nor affected voters.
The problem wasn’t that the American people didn’t care about democracy. The problem was that not everyone had the same definition of democracy, and Democrats never specifically defined what they meant by democracy, but seemed to take it for granted that people would know what they meant by it.
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The protests that took place during the first year of the second Trump administration clearly demonstrated that people care about democracy. In the people’s view, democracy is about having a government that works for them, not about wanting to become king and president.
However, Democrats have failed to connect the issue of democracy to the overriding issue on the minds of the American people, namely inflation and affordability.
There are signs that Democrats are starting to get it.
One of those signs involved California Governor Gavin Newsom, who connected the economy to the bigger picture.
Read and watch what Newsom had to say as the story continues below.