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Fox News’ The Five rightly spent airtime this week dissecting a damning new internal assessment that center-left strategists quietly circulated about the Democratic Party. The report, produced by the group Welcome and titled “Deciding to Win,” bluntly argues that Democrats have become captive to left-wing ideas that have hollowed out their appeal to ordinary voters. Conservatives should be glad this truth is getting out into the open instead of being smothered by the coastal media elites who helped manufacture the problem.
The research — which canvassed hundreds of thousands of voters over six months — found a startling consensus that Democrats appear out of touch on basics like border security, crime, and the economy while over-indexing on cultural priorities that many Americans view as fringe. Roughly seven in ten voters told researchers the party seems disconnected from everyday concerns, a reality Democrats would do well to heed before they lose more working-class and suburban voters. This isn’t speculation; it’s the kind of empirical reckoning Democrats have avoided for years while allowing woke activists and donor-class ideologues to set the agenda.
Welcome’s prescription is commonsense: Democrats must stop performing for coastal think tanks and actually sell policies that speak to the middle and working classes. The report even includes endorsements from party veterans urging a course correction rather than doubling down on ideological purity tests that cost elections. For patriots who love America, watching a major party turn inward and elite-driven while ignoring basic public safety and economic concerns is alarming; this is why conservative messaging that centers on real-world problems keeps connecting with voters.
Right on cue, the party’s cultural excesses spilled into public view in a nasty online spat between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines. Gaines posted that the country is “being destroyed from within,” and Ocasio-Cortez’s snide reply suggested Gaines should have “channeled all this anger into swimming faster” after tying for fifth with a trans competitor. The exchange is more than social-media theater; it’s emblematic of a party that has learned to mock and belittle critics instead of addressing the substantive issues those critics raise.
Gaines didn’t back down — she called out the left’s hypocrisy and publicly challenged AOC to a debate on values, crime, and the direction of the country, showing the kind of backbone Americans respect. Conservatives saw in Gaines a common-sense defender of women’s sports and parental rights, while AOC’s response came off as the sort of condescending elite contempt that drives voters away. If Democrats continue to answer legitimate concerns with mean-spirited jabs, they will find the electorate less and less forgiving come election time.
This is the moment for patriots and conservatives to push the contrast hard: we stand for safety, prosperity, and respect for Americans’ values, while the left doubles down on culture-war spectacle and alienating rhetoric. The Welcome report is a wake-up call Democrats are only now pretending to hear, and the AOC-Gaines clash is a live demonstration of why that call is necessary. Hardworking Americans deserve leaders who care about jobs, borders, and safe communities more than they care about scoring viral points; it’s time to keep making that case so our country can get back to common-sense governance.
