The Party of Karens: Democrats Fear Their Base Is Increasingly Just Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFLs)

What I'd be even more afraid of is that the Karen Bloc, the AWFLs, are bossy, toxically self-righteous, and hateful and alienating to everyone else on the planet.

No one likes Karen. No one.

The Karen Coalition will be a lonely one.

After Barack Obama's 2008 White House victory, Democrats believed they had created an unbreakable "coalition of the ascendant" voters, driven by increasing participation of minority groups and college-educated women. But recent left-wing economic and policy woes have brought about a demographic realignment that threatens to sink Democrats' chances not just for 2022, but for the next several decades.

As President Biden's approval ratings have tanked with nonwhite voters, the Democratic Party increasingly has become dominated by liberal white women who virtue-signal with suburban lawn signs and then henpeck people in supermarkets to pull their face masks up over their noses. Or, put more simply, the Democratic Party is at risk of becoming a party of "Karens." Recent polling suggests that Hispanic and Black voters are abandoning the party -- many of these individuals are being harmed by the surging inflation, anti-business COVID measures, and exploding crime rates in urban areas brought about by a year of left-wing measures.

The article notes defections away from the Democrats among blacks, and the major fall in Hipanic support.

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If the Democratic Party no longer has Hispanic and Black voters as electoral locks, it is left with a diminishing constituency of its most consistent members: single, college-educated white women, who dominated last year's social media slacktivism and protests.

It is possible that this liberal woman demographic would be able to hold enough sway to choose Democrat nominees for the foreseeable future. And yet, party bigwigs must understand that as offensive as much of the electorate considered Donald Trump, morphing into the party of "Karens" who are more concerned about your carbon footprint than keeping your community safe, likely will further alienate Hispanic and Black voters.

Could this be the Twilight of the Karens?

posted by Ace at 04:56 PM

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