Poll: Majority of Democrat Voters Don’t Want to Say Gay

BUCK: Here we are, right now, Clay, seeing that there are issues where Democrats go on offense, until the moment that the American people find out what’s really going on, and then you say, “Oh, hold on a second. They aren’t with them on this issue.” And to that, I bring you that more than 52% of Democrats — according to the recent Politico/Morning Consult poll — support the Florida parental bill, which they had dubbed the “don’t say gay” bill.

They had made this up. The activists came up with this. They renamed the bill something that, “Oh, of course!” It’s a little bit like Black Lives Matter. “How can you be opposed to Black Lives Matter as a movement, because the name is… Of course, black lives matter!” But the whole point is, you call it something that if anybody opposes you, they’re automatically on the defensive, because, “What do you mean that you can’t say ‘gay’?”

Well, no one says that, but that didn’t really matter. It turns out that Democrat opposition to parental involvement at the school board level and beyond when it comes to the educational of their children is not popular to the American people, that this game they play of Critical Race Theory isn’t really a thing….” You see, Chris Rufo, who has been raising the public awareness of Critical Race Theory indoctrination in schools? He got called out on The View by Sunny Hostin, and I retweeted this.

CLAY: (laughing) No, they won’t have him.

BUCK: He wants to go on The View and debate —

CLAY: Credit to him.

BUCK: I mean, he absolutely should get on. She trashed him, called him a troll, said that he’s basically lying about Critical Race Theory being taught in schools. I know Chris. I’ve interviewed him many times. He’s not a troll.

CLAY: We’ve had him on this show.

BUCK: Yeah. Of course. Like I said, I’ve known Chris for years. I’ve talked to him many times about this, and he should have the opportunity to respond. Point here being, when people find out more about what the Democrats have done over the last year, Clay, they don’t like it.

CLAY: I think, Buck, what is becoming increasingly clear is that Democrats have a massive, massive issue with trying to make social media happy and the fact that the vast majority of their party doesn’t agree with what makes social media happy. The “don’t say gay” bill — so-called, falsely called, “don’t say gay” bill — is a perfect example, because parents of kindergarteners, first, second, third graders are not going to be in favor of sexuality instruction in public schools to kids of those ages whether they’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents.

And you know that Democrats are getting slaughtered out there. And they know it. Deep down, they know it, because in the war of ideas, that’s what the state of Virginia. That’s to a large extent, what almost flipped the state of New Jersey. We we’re talking about two states that Joe Biden won comfortably and they’re swinging, ten, 12, 14 points in the other direction, and if that can happen — and this is why I say 2022 is so intriguing.

What happens in a true landslide election, Buck. Yes, you win closed races. But you have people that get crushed that had no idea they were actually in danger. And we almost saw that with New Jersey. Right? Nobody was actually talking about the governor of New Jersey being in actual peril. Now, we talked a lot about what was happening in Virginia and what the outcome was going to be there with McAuliffe was going up against Youngkin.

But nobody… I didn’t see a single person, Buck, say, “Hey, you know what you need to pay attention to, the Democratic governor of New Jersey. He’s going to be on tenterhooks here, the tiny margin of whether he will win or lose,” and that’s what they’re afraid of, because their ideas don’t poll well, and their ideas don’t reflect well. White liberals like them because they’re overwhelming involved on Twitter. But Hispanic, Asian, black voters? They don’t think that their kids will get in first, second, third grade, and public schools are talking about sex.

BUCK: So they’re starting to wake up to exactly what you’re saying —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — because the only thing that makes the Democrats change course is, “Oh, my gosh, we’re actually going to lose power?” Whatever they have to do to get there, is fine. They don’t care. But if it means they’re not going to be able to make you do what they want to make you do because they don’t actually have the votes and they don’t have the system at their disposal, the apparatus is no longer under their control, they change things.

The New York Times, the last day or so, “Democrats Are Making Life Too Easy for Republicans,” and this is just the start of this piece by this guy, Thomas Edsall. “As the 2022 midterms draw into view, the question arises: To what degree are Democratic difficulties inevitable? Ruy Teixeira, a co-editor of The Liberal Patriot, argues in an email that ‘the cultural left has managed to associate the Democratic Party with a series of views on crime, immigration, policing, free speech and, of course, race and gender that are quite far from those of the median voter.

“That’s a success for the cultural left, but the hard reality is that it’s an electoral liability for the Democratic Party.'” Absolutely true. It’s almost like what we say on the show every day. We are talking to people about the reality that is playing across the country, which is that the woke left has essentially hijacked… They’re not just a fringe of the Democrat Party, they have hijacked the Democrat Party.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: They’re in the cockpit of the Democrat Party, and that’s what Biden has allowed to happen. He was essentially a head fake toward normalcy and the middle. The woke left is calling all the shots, and the American people aren’t with them. Not at all, man.

CLAY: Which is why I think 2022 and 2024 — the story of 2022 and the 2024 — is going to be the destruction of the Democratic Party, as it presently exists. There are… I really believe this, Buck. I believe that we’re going to see such an onslaught in 2022 and such an onslaught in 2024, that the Democratic Party is going to have to go back to reconstruct itself, and they’re going to have to bury wokism.

They’re going to have to bury identity politics. They’re going to have to bury cancel culture, because the overwhelming majority of even their own party, repudiates the ideas that they’re embracing on a day-to-day basis, and it’s going to be ugly. People talk about the Republicans in trouble, because of January 6th and everything else? No, no, no.

They’re missing the bigger story here, which is, they have allowed — “hijack” is the right word. They’ve allowed social media blue checks to hijack their party. Remember, I believe if you look at the overall trajectory of the blue checks Twitter, it’s Portland, right? It’s basically a Portland congressional district is what the overall method and madness of Twitter would be on a day-to-day basis. It’s Democrats plus 23 or 24 points, not a remotely competitive marketplace, and they’ve convinced themselves that it’s the real world, when it’s not — and it’s a big part of why they’re going to get their ass kicked in 2022.