Biden advisor ignores warnings from election defeats, wants to push further Left

• Author: A.J. Kaufman
• Published date: 08 November 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

The party even refuses to listen to its own strategists, or a Democrat congresswoman who's been successful in the very places where they received backlash last week.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who's twice won in a suburban Richmond district that was held by Republicans for 40 years prior, is someone with credibility. After the Tuesday shellacking, she told the New York Times "nobody" made Joe Biden president to pursue sweeping legislation similar to former President Franklin Roosevelt's transformative New Deal, but rather they elected Biden to "be normal and stop the chaos."

Needless to say, that has not occurred.

Asked on "Fox News Sunday" if Spanberger was wrong for this view, Biden's senior advisor and former congressman Cedric Richmond surprisingly said she was:

@FoxNewsSunday

When asked if Congresswomen Spanberger (D-VA) was wrong for saying Biden wasn't elected "to be FDR" @Richmond46 says " I think she is, people elected President Biden to do big things." #FoxNewsSunday

"The president has an ambitious plan for the American People, for the American economy, and he's going to invest in them," Richmond added.

There is simply no evidence of this, numerically or otherwise. Even the left-wing New York Times editorial board is aghast at Democrats' recent recalcitrance.

But this is par for the course when ideology trumps reality.

Barack Obama's Democrats also refused to moderate after their 2010 debacle — the worst losses in more than six decades — and the party still does not reside in political reality.

Despite Republicans' huge Nov. 2 achievements and a split Congress, many —...