Here's What COST Democrats the Election
00:00:00.000 | The final tally, it looks like, is going to be 312 electoral college votes for President
00:00:05.940 | Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris' 226.
00:00:10.580 | Just for context, in 2016, Trump won with 304 electoral votes and Biden won in 2020
00:00:17.060 | with 306.
00:00:18.840 | So it's a pretty sweeping victory.
00:00:20.460 | He won all the supposed swing states this year fairly resoundingly.
00:00:25.880 | There's no real super close calls.
00:00:27.300 | There's some close calls, but a pretty resounding victory.
00:00:30.940 | Chamath, what happened?
00:00:32.940 | Wow.
00:00:33.940 | It's a really good question.
00:00:35.980 | I think that there's many layers of the answer, but I think in its most basic calculation,
00:00:43.900 | I think that the bottom fell out of the Democratic Party.
00:00:47.980 | And if you look at why, there's a simple explanation and then there's the more nuanced explanation.
00:00:57.700 | I think the simple explanation is like they just lost the script.
00:01:02.420 | I think that there was so many people that just got really tired of being spoken at and
00:01:11.900 | labeled misogynist, racist, fascist, transphobe, whatever it was.
00:01:20.760 | And there was just these litany of these judgmental labels that would come out instead of engaging
00:01:26.420 | on the topics at hand.
00:01:28.420 | So I think the Democratic Party played this game of trying to use identities, genders,
00:01:35.980 | races as a bid to basically get people that they thought should always vote in their direction
00:01:43.260 | to continue to support them.
00:01:44.580 | And instead what happened was people just started to think for themselves and say, "Hold
00:01:48.140 | on a second.
00:01:49.140 | I'm just a normal person that wants to be left alone.
00:01:51.260 | What matters to me?"
00:01:52.820 | And I think what Donald Trump spoke to was a desire for folks to have economic prosperity,
00:01:59.820 | a safe neighborhood, a predictable educational curriculum where these kids could go to school,
00:02:06.020 | not be indoctrinated and come out the other side and just know some useful skills so that
00:02:09.900 | they could get a good job and do better than they did.
00:02:12.860 | And all these basic truths ended up on the ballot.
00:02:16.300 | And so it was a bunch of perception versus just a bunch of hard realities.
00:02:20.740 | And I think Trump stayed focused and ultimately made sure that people understood that that's
00:02:27.380 | what he was focused on.
00:02:28.820 | And I think the Democrats just went to this place of demagoguery and labels.
00:02:34.780 | And I think it was just a resounding defeat.
00:02:37.140 | And David, I just want you to just to put a pin on how resounding it is.
00:02:43.260 | In California and New York, which I would say are the two most prolific bastions of
00:02:49.560 | elitist liberal thinking, Democrats won those states in some of the narrowest margins they've
00:02:57.700 | ever seen.
00:02:59.540 | I think in 2020, they won California by 29 points.
00:03:04.220 | It was barely half is what they won by this year.
00:03:07.660 | In New York, it shrunk to a 12 point margin.
00:03:10.940 | So what is this telling you?
00:03:12.180 | It's telling you that the Democrats really need to retool and get back to first principles.
00:03:16.040 | It was a cataclysmic dismissal of wokeism, of cancel culture, of judgmentalism.
00:03:27.000 | It was an ringing endorsement of a meritocracy, of just plain, simple common sense, of talking
00:03:35.080 | with people and to people, being able to tolerate disagreements, remaining friends.
00:03:43.580 | All of those things were on the ballot.
00:03:45.060 | And it was just an absolute resounding victory for just normalcy.
00:03:49.860 | That's what I think we saw.
00:03:50.900 | We saw a return to normalcy.
00:03:53.380 | Is this the nature of democracy, that over time, when you have a two-party system and
00:03:59.740 | one party veers too far to the left or one party veers too far to the right, people jump
00:04:05.300 | ship to the other party?
00:04:07.260 | And ultimately, they pull the policies of the party that they left back to the middle.
00:04:12.060 | And that's the way democracy is supposed to work and has worked historically.
00:04:15.480 | So is this the way it's supposed to go?
00:04:17.220 | And do we project that four years from now, the Democrats will need to be and need to
00:04:21.900 | adjust to the center, and we'll see less of this extremism because of the way the voting
00:04:27.100 | turned out this election cycle?
00:04:28.380 | Well, I think that's a very interesting question, is whether the Democrats have the necessary
00:04:33.580 | introspection to learn from this loss.
00:04:35.940 | I would say that one of them does.
00:04:38.260 | If you look at Matt Iglesias, who's someone I've sparred with on TwitterX, who is a Democrat
00:04:43.940 | partisan, he basically tweeted a list of principles that he thought the Democrat party needed
00:04:48.700 | to adopt.
00:04:49.700 | I read it and retweeted it.
00:04:50.700 | I said, laughing my ass off, this is a list of Republican principles.
00:04:54.020 | It was all about, you know, opposing woke and being in favor of merit and innovation.
00:04:57.900 | Tolerance.
00:04:58.900 | Tolerance.
00:04:59.900 | I'm like, great.
00:05:00.900 | Look, you know what?
00:05:01.900 | If the Democratic Party wants to adopt these principles, that's a wonderful thing for the
00:05:03.860 | country.
00:05:04.860 | I hope that they do it.
00:05:06.560 | Okay.
00:05:07.560 | But will they do it?
00:05:08.560 | I have my doubts.
00:05:09.980 | You look at this tweet by Ari Fleischer, where he talks about who the Democratic Party now
00:05:14.960 | is.
00:05:15.960 | Yeah, I think that this is a really important tweet because it sort of tells you, Sax, who's
00:05:20.260 | going to be left in the room?
00:05:22.820 | If these are the only people left in the room, the last thing they're going to do is admit
00:05:26.300 | defeat.
00:05:27.300 | Right.
00:05:28.300 | Exactly.
00:05:29.300 | So what you see is that the Democratic Party base is these very affluent, very overeducated,
00:05:35.260 | very non-religious types.
00:05:37.120 | And frankly, I wonder whether they're too out of touch to know they're out of touch.
00:05:41.640 | They're certainly very whiny and entitled.
00:05:43.540 | And I just don't think they're going to cede control of the party without a fight.
00:05:49.060 | And frankly, they've disappeared so far up their own woke asses that I don't think they
00:05:54.940 | can find an electoral majority if they try.
00:05:57.660 | So if these people stay in control of the party, and these are the people who you're
00:06:01.740 | seeing having a mental breakdown on TikTok, they're posting all the videos, they're insulting
00:06:06.740 | the electorate.
00:06:07.780 | And let's face it, it's not just on TikTok, it's on the legacy media, it's on MSDNC.
00:06:12.860 | It's basically the legacy media who are trying to diagnose a psychosis in the American electorate
00:06:19.020 | to explain why they were so wrong.
00:06:21.780 | If those people stay in control, I think that the Republicans could have an electoral majority
00:06:26.400 | as far as the eye can see.