Donald Trump’s return to the White House is causing Democrats nationwide to analyze what went wrong in the most recent election.
Jay Jacobs, chair of the New York State and Nassau County Democratic Committees, argues that the left wing of the Democratic Party, with assistance from Republicans, gave voters the impression that Democrats were soft on crime and more focused on cultural issues than on the widespread economic pain voters were feeling. His views appear in an opinion piece published in Schneps Media Long Island’s ten newspapers.
“Too many see our party’s most left-leaning activists and elected officials as out-of-touch,” Jacobs wrote. “Republicans have been far too successful at painting all Democrats with that same brush.”
Jacobs accused the far left wing of the Democratic Party of supporting terrorist group Hamas at times, being indifferent to antisemitism, and said that their failure to demand the release of the hostages held in Gaza was responsible for hemorrhaging the support from their longtime base of Jewish voters.
In the 2024 election, Long Island continued its electoral trend of pushing further right.
In the 2022 midterms, Long Island Republicans blew out Democrats on Long Island, beating them in all four contests and netting the Republicans two seats in the U.S. House as well as being a significant contributor to swinging control of the House back to the Republicans.
