Heartbreaking Video of Black Workers Shows Exactly Why Dems Lost: Who Do You Think They Voted for in November?
The Democratic Party is experiencing a notable decline in popularity, facing the loss of the White House, the House, and the Senate to Republicans. This has led to a perception among voters that the party is now more associated with wealthy urban elites rather than the working class. In response, there has been an internal struggle within the party, with many leaders opting for familiar insiders and activists rather of addressing their unpopularity. Though, Representative Ro Khanna from California is seeking to re-engage with working-class Americans, as evidenced by his recent video featuring workers from a closed Master Lock plant in Milwaukee.Khanna acknowledges the economic challenges these individuals face and suggests that the Democrats need to develop a new economic vision to regain trust, especially among minority voters who have been disillusioned. He emphasizes that the party must confront its failures and listen to the needs of middle America to have a viable future.
Democrats are reeling from a massive loss in November.
Beyond losing their shot at the White House and surrendering the House and the Senate to the Republicans, the Democrats are at their lowest levels of popularity with American voters in roughly two decades.
Many voters see the Democrats as the party of wealthy progressive urban elites, not the working class, which the Democrats have marketed themselves as representing for so long.
Just this past weekend, most Democratic leaders nevertheless showed they were unwilling to grapple with why they are so unpopular, electing a slate of milquetoast party insiders and leftist activists to lead the Democratic National Convention for the foreseeable future.
But at least one Democrat seems to be trying to bring his party back to the drawing board.
Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, posted a video on Tuesday in which he interviewed various workers left unemployed by the recent closure of Master Lock’s plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Rather than repeating platitudes and lying to their faces, as many Democrats did in the last election cycle, Khanna seemed to admit that the Democrats need to better represent Americans in the heartland impacted by the decline of manufacturing and industry.
“You know, we made a colossal mistake in this country to allow all of our industry to leave,” Khanna acknowledged to the workers.
One of the unemployed workers said that Master Lock “took my livelihood away from me.”
Khanna noted how the employees once had “a decent life, a car, a house,” until they lost it all when the plant closed.
Another one of the workers recounted how his daughter learned that her dad lost his job, then took chalk and wrote, “I am so sorry that your lost your job Dad” on their sidewalk.
“And that made me cry,” he said.
But the video got even darker.
Chancie and Quentin’s story is why we lost the election. We failed them. Their livelihood was snatched from them. We need a transformational new economic vision to earn back their trust. pic.twitter.com/92FIA1bwGq
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) February 4, 2025
Another former employee d how several coworkers had killed themselves after the plant closed.
Khanna once more admitted that the Democratic Party message simply was not resonating with middle America.
“Until we grapple seriously with how we have shafted working and middle class families and hollowed out the industrial base of this country, and why people are so upset at the direction of our country, we’re not going to understand how the Democratic Party comes back,” the lawmaker remarked.
Khanna spent most of the video talking to two black workers named Quentin and Chancie.
Neither of them voted this year because they had lost faith in the Democrats.
That reflects a broader trend of minority voters, particularly black and Hispanic men, either staying at home or pulling the lever for the Republicans.
Khanna is right.
It’s hard to see how the Democratic Party survives on the basis of preferred pronouns and pro-Palestinian protests while ignoring the interests of working class people in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Madison.
Americans left, right, and center are sick of seeing our country’s heritage shipped overseas.
No political party has a future any longer while continuing to ignore those matters.
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