Democrats have talked about democracy for years. They emphasized the idea that winning the 2024 election was crucial to saving democracy from Trump. Many Democrats in Congress, however, didn’t really believe that, and some had convinced themselves that a second Trump administration would be more like the first.
Other elected Democrats admitted after Trump’s victory that they had dropped the democracy issue because it did not interest or move 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 as a given that people would know what they meant.
The protests that occurred during the first year of the second Trump administration have provided ample evidence that people care about democracy. According to the people, democracy is about having a government that works for them, and not about wanting to be king-president.
However, the Democrats had failed to connect the issue of democracy to the most important issue in the minds of the American people, namely inflation and affordability.
There are signs that Democrats are starting to understand.
One of those signs involved California Governor Gavin Newsom, who connected the economy to the big picture.
Read and see what Newsom had to say as the story continues below.
