Death By Dumb

Dateline:  StupidVille, February 24, 2025

The Dems just won’t give up howling about Kamala’s defeat in November. They were, and remain, so stunned by Trump’s victory – and their loss of power – that the excuses just can’t stop coming.

These excuses are a babbling stream of inconsistency and fantasy.

The first explanation was that candidate Biden should have withdrawn early enough for Dems to hold a primary to nominate his replacement. This seems to be a backhanded way of saying that Harris was the wrong stand-in. It has also been interpreted to mean that Harris simply needed a primary win to validate her candidacy.

Both interpretations come down to the same thing. However you get there, Harris was the wrong choice.

Undoubtedly Kamala was a poor performer, even a laughable one. But as undeniable was the fact that the state of the Country in 2024 foreshadowed bad tidings for the Party in power.

Boarding on the trivial, another excuse is that Biden himself could have won if he’d given an interview during the 2024 Super Bowl.

Nitpicking explanations are foolish and only keep Dem losses rolling in.

An argument trotted out just last week – apparently in earnest – was that Biden should have remained in the race. According to this theory, his debate performance was bad but not that bad. It didn’t really impact his poll numbers. And, of course, Biden’s mental capacity was just fine. The real problem was the Party’s over-the-top reaction to his debate loss.

What very few, if any, Dems admit is that Biden’s job performance was repugnant to most Americans. Harris’s affirmation that she wouldn’t have done anything differently killed whatever chances her Party had in November.

Death occurs for many reasons – age, infirmity, accident, etc. Death by dumb only happens to the very stupid.