Conservatives love to joke that the Democrats should keep supporting outrageous Democrats that will hurt their image, from Jasmine Crockett to David Hogg to Tim Walz. What they fear is Democrats figuring out why they lost and fixing it.
On Ezra Klein’s podcast for The New York Times, they turned to Democrat consultant David Shor, who analyzed the 2024 results in a way that’s discouraging to the leftist press. “I think that superpolitically engaged people are overrepresented at every single step of the political process,” Shor announced. “I really think the only point, other than Election Day, when regular people get a say, is in polls.”
The biggest Democrat assumption that Shor set out to crumble was that fuller turnout always translates to a bigger Democrat win. Shor argued with his data that if only people who had voted in 2022 had voted,…
