The Democrat infighting may never end. It might be here to stay.
And a Democrat governor just went off on his fellow party members.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear just offered a revealing look at the deep trouble inside his own party. On Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” the Democrat tried to walk a careful line while admitting that some voters feel the system has failed them.
Beshear made clear he has limits with the rising crop of democratic socialists. “I don’t agree with everything some of those candidates are talking about,” he said.
Yet he also conceded that those same candidates are connecting with real frustration in ways mainstream Democrats have not.
The governor described the source of that frustration in blunt terms:
“Though, I worry a little that just calling it affordability is political sciencing people’s real pain. It’s that you can’t afford a house right now, until you’re 40 years old, and how much do you feel raising a family knowing that your parents own that house?”
“It’s not being able to take your kids on the same vacation that your parents took you on. It’s working hard and playing by the rules but feeling like you’re not getting ahead. And that makes people feel like the system is rigged. It makes him feel like they’re a failure.”
That sense of failure, Beshear warned, pushes voters toward extreme answers.
“And, again, when you start starting to believe that the American Dream is no longer possible, that it’s just a hallucination, then you’ll vote for people that you believe can burn down the system or at least will do something dramatic,” he stated.
Beshear insisted Democrats must reclaim the American Dream as their own brand.
“I believe that Democrats need to be that party of the American Dream, but I want to support candidates that have real solutions that will work, that will deliver in the short term, that will lead to a better United States of America,” he contninued.
Right-leaning populists have been saying this for years. Ordinary Americans who work hard, follow the rules, and still cannot buy a home, raise a family, or keep the lights on without constant fear are not imagining the problem. They are living it.
What Beshear never addressed is why those problems exploded under years of Democratic control in Washington and many state capitals.
