“The Revenge of the Pissed-Off Suburban Mom”: Democrats’ Painful Election Night Shows It’s Time to Shred the Playbook
Races in Virginia and New Jersey aren’t necessarily bellwethers for the rest of the country. But Terry McAuliffe’s loss and Phil Murphy’s slim victory do suggest Democrats need to switch things up—and stop “obsessing” over Donald Trump—if they want to succeed in 2022.
Lis Smith, the Democratic strategist who steered Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential bid, puts it more pointedly. “This election was the revenge of the pissed-off suburban mom,” Smith says. “The suburbs largely delivered the White House to Joe Biden in 2020, and they almost cost Phil Murphy the election in New Jersey and helped cost Terry McAuliffe the election in Virginia. Cable news exists on obsessing over Trump and obsessing over January 6. But voters don’t. Voters obsess over gas prices. Voters obsess over whether they can afford their health care.” (Vanity Fair)
I read this entire article and became a PISSED OFF ALTER KACKER (In Jewish usage, A crotchety, fussy old man a mildly pejorative term for: an elderly man. Abbreviated "AK".). WTF actually fell across my pursed lips, with a few AS IF’S, and COME BACK TO EARTH, LADIES! Gas Prices-Health Care okay, but any mention of keeping YOU AND YOUR KIDS, safe from COVID? Any mention about saving the future lives of your kids from a Fascist government? How about providing some Dignity if your KIDS are Females or Gay? How about the next generation of KIDS and Healthy Air? I am not and never HADS been a Suburban Mom, and I am certain, how, and why they think the way they do, will always remain an UNKNOWN to me. BUT I am a PARENT, and AMERICAN, and just like the SUBURBAN MOMS, I lived through the past four years of a wanna be AUTHORITARIAN, a Republican Party, not one bit interested in the true welfare of Suburban Moms, just how to manipulate them, so when the next election arose, those MOMS would shoot themselves in the foot, and the bullets ricocheting toward the lives or demise of their CHILDREN. So, the SUBURBAN MOMS of New Jersey and Virginia made their presence noticed, and sadly for me, the IDEA that Gas Prices, and Health Care trump the nastiness and evil of TRUMP and his COHORTS are FRIGHTENING!
