By John Loftus. Media: Dailycaller
Democrats appear to have a new midterm strategy: make Deep State bureaucrats cool again.
The Democratic Party has been scrambling to rebuild its image as it continues to sink to historic levels of unpopularity. A recent analysis by The New York Times found that between the 2020 and 2024 elections the Democratic Party lost around 2.1 million registered voters across the 30 states that permit party registration, in addition to Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, the Republican Party saw an increase of 2.4 million registered voters during that same period.
In a Times story published Thursday, the party’s latest strategy appeared to take shape: championing former national security officials (specifically, women) to bolster their image as patriotic, “alpha” politicians tough enough to take on Republicans and the Trump administration.
The Times highlighted several Democratic women, namely former Democratic Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who is running for Virginia governor. Spanberger, a former CIA spook, told the outlet that her past job experience in the Deep State is a “shortcut to ‘She’s tough. She’s hardworking. She’s thorough.’”
Spanberger also argued that her CIA experience is a buffer against attacks from the GOP that Democrats are far-left radicals who hate America.
“With someone who was previously a federal agent and then in the intel community, it’s clearly contradictory for someone to lob the reductive attacks about Democrats not being focused on public safety,” she told The Times.
Other women profiled include Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who previously worked at the CIA and within the Pentagon blob, and Democratic New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill, who represents the Garden State in Congress and previously served as a naval officer and federal prosecutor.
“A lot of people I come across think that Democrats don’t love America,” Slotkin said, arguing that her national security background is “shorthand for people to understand that you love your country and that you put yourself at risk to protect your country.”
Although The Times and a Democratic strategist argued these ladies are antidotes to the party’s image of being too “weak, woke, and whiny,” Spanberger’s lead in the Virginia race over Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears is slipping. As debates about gender ideology in school become a central focus of the campaign, Spanberger has yet to stake out any strong position and appears to be avoiding the discussion altogether. She also vowed Wednesday to roll back Virginia law enforcement’s cooperation with ICE and federal immigration authorities, should she win.
And what could have been a welcome repudiation of wokeness from the Democratic Party, only two House Democrats voted to pass the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in January, which would have banned biological men from competing in women’s sports: Texas Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar. Sherrill voted against it.
When Senate Democrats ultimately tanked the bill, the supposedly tough, anti-woke Slotkin was notably absent from the vote. So much for alpha energy and standing up for normalcy.
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