This Simple, Age-Old Principle Shows Where Democrats Went off the Rails

This Simple, Age-Old Principle Shows Where Democrats Went off the Rails


Still dumbfounded by how Trump won re-election by decisively overcoming his unending lawfare charges, a sometimes-abrasive persona, and his omnipresent sparring with the legacy media, California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently claimed the Democrats had yet to do an autopsy of what went wrong.

However, in answering that question, an analytical principle first appearing in 1852 might surprisingly guide the way.

That still-useful investigative tool, Occam’s Razor, “shaves off” false assumptions by asserting that when competing explanations exist for a confounding result, the most obvious “keep it simple, stupid” possibility is often the primary catalyst.

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That said, beginning with Trump’s first term and continuing during Biden’s administration, one factor dominated in triggering an electoral result that few predicted — and that was, progressive gaslighting prompted such

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