A Lesson For The Old Democrat Party:

[PoliticalChic]

.....from Stephen A. Smith.


On TheView, Joy Behar, bellowed that Trump doesn't have a mandate.
Behar, the old Democrat, need be put out to pasture.
The lesson comes from Stephen A. Smity, who is black, and a Democrat....the new Democrat sort.

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 4, 2025

Here's how that beatdown went:

JOY BEHAR: He (Trump) has only been in office six weeks. It seems like six years, doesn't it? And he's been going around with his cronies, tabbing (sic) his so-called "landslide" and "blowout" win. But he won the popular vote by 1.5 percent, one of the smallest ever, he won the general election by less than fifty percent. So what kind of mandate is this really?

Now, there's so much wrong with that opening remark, so much ignorance aggressively on display here, that it's difficult to know where to begin. Fortunately, Stephen A. Smith took care of that.

STEPHEN A. SMITH: It is a mandate, and I'm going to explain why.

Now I don't mind the question, but let me be very clear. I'm no supporter of Trump. I'm a supporter of truth and facts. And here's the facts. The man won every swing state. He increased in terms of his vote, his voter turnout, in his favor, from the standpoint of blacks, Latinos and young voters. He increased his numbers in that regard from 2020. 89 percent of the counties shifted to the right. That's a mandate.

We can sit up here and play around all we want to. In 2020, Trump didn't win the popular vote. He didn't win the electoral college vote. As a matter of fact the Republicans have won the popular vote, if I remember correctly, since 2004. But they did this year. So 20 years after they last won a popular vote, they won the popular vote. They won the electoral college vote. The man won every swing state. And on top of it all, 89 percent of the counties shifted (inaudible.)

I don't understand how people can look at that and say "There's no mandate." There's a mandate.

Everything about that is factually correct, which may be what prompted Joy Behar to attempt to re-write the Oxford Dictionary:

JOY BEHAR: There's a different definition of a mandate.

What? Mr. Smith didn't give her the chance to enlighten us as to how "mandate" might be alternatively defined. Is there some other form of mandate other than winning every swing state, increasing the vote share in key demographics, winning more votes than any Republican candidate ever, and utterly destroying his opponent? Because that sure seems like a mandate to anyone with enough smarts to pound sand.

STEPHEN A. SMITH: The problem is, if you're the Democratic Party, and you lost 49.8 percent to 48.3 percent, if you're looking at that 1.5 percent, that's an excuse for you to say "What we did really wasn't that bad. We should continue to do that."

No. Don't continue to do that. Find a new strategy."

All of us should hope the New Democrats win, and follow Smith's advice:

Find a new strategy."

 

[PoliticalChic]

"...here's the facts. The man won every swing state. He increased in terms of his vote, his voter turnout, in his favor, from the standpoint of blacks, Latinos and young voters. He increased his numbers in that regard from 2020. 89 percent of the counties shifted to the right. That's a mandate."


"... Stephen A. Smith may be a liberal - he admitted to voting for Kamala Harris in 2024 and later admitted that her catastrophic loss made him feel foolish"
Op. Cit.

While there is no Far Right in this country, the party that lost to Trump is the Far Left.

We need two strong pro-American parties in this country.

At the present time, we have only one.

 

[kyzr]

A "mandate" doesn't mean anything. A win is a win, by one vote or millions.
The Constitution limits what presidents can do, not a "mandate" or "no mandate".

 

[toobfreak]

.....from Stephen A. Smith.
What? Mr. Smith didn't give her the chance to enlighten us as to how "mandate" might be alternatively defined. Is there some other form of mandate other than winning every swing state, increasing the vote share in key demographics, winning more votes than any Republican candidate ever, and utterly destroying his opponent? Because that sure seems like a mandate to anyone with enough smarts to pound sand.

Smith left one thing out:

Trump did all of that, and did it spending a FRACTION of what democrats spent.
Harris spent something like 5X as much money and ended up in the hole still OWING money.
Trump spent a fraction as much and still had cash left over.

Just imagine if they had spent equal?

 

[PoliticalChic]

A "mandate" doesn't mean anything. A win is a win, by one vote or millions.
The Constitution limits what presidents can do, not a "mandate" or "no mandate".

I think that the discussion I'd like to have is about whether the Democrat Party needs to change, will it change, and who are the leaders of the stay-the-same Democrats, and who are the agents of change in that party.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Smith left one thing out:

Trump did all of that, and did it spending a FRACTION of what democrats spent.
Harris spent something like 5X as much money and ended up in the hole still OWING money.
Trump spent a fraction as much and still had cash left over.

Just imagine if they had spent equal?

OK.....they lost, and lost big time.


Still...I think that the discussion I'd like to have is about whether the Democrat Party needs to change, will it change, and who are the leaders of the stay-the-same Democrats, and who are the agents of change in that party.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

"...here's the facts. The man won every swing state. He increased in terms of his vote, his voter turnout, in his favor, from the standpoint of blacks, Latinos and young voters. He increased his numbers in that regard from 2020. 89 percent of the counties shifted to the right. That's a mandate."


"... Stephen A. Smith may be a liberal - he admitted to voting for Kamala Harris in 2024 and later admitted that her catastrophic loss made him feel foolish"
Op. Cit.

While there is no Far Right in this country, the party that lost to Trump is the Far Left.

We need two strong pro-American parties in this country.

At the present time, we have only one.

I think it's too late for Democrats, they've become far too corrupted, in fact their very existence is built on distortions promoting stupid so that dumb supports them, as they're thrown around like rag dolls.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I think it's too late for Democrats, they've become far too corrupted, in fact their very existence is built on distortions promoting stupid so that dumb supports them, as they're thrown around like rag dolls.

And Ro Khanna, Fetterman, and Stephen A. Smith.....are they finished, too>

We need two strong pro-America parties, or we become what California and North Korea are.

I sure hope you change your mind.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

And Ro Khanna, Fetterman, and Stephen A. Smith.....are they finished, too>

We need two strong pro-America parties, or we become what California and North Korea are.

I sure hope you change your mind.

I don't know Khanna. Fetterman seems okay to me, and Smith strikes me as level headed.

 

[toobfreak]

OK.....they lost, and lost big time.
Still...I think that the discussion I'd like to have is about whether the Democrat Party needs to change,

Obviously YES if they want to succeed, obviously NO if they want to try to stay pure to their central goal.

will it change,

No. Democrats know no other way, they are consumed with far leftist progressive statist/socialist/globalists, and they are COMMITTED to promoting the Soros agenda.

and who are the leaders of the stay-the-same Democrats,

All of them.

and who are the agents of change in that party.

Very few. And those few are completely terrified with speaking up, that is why the DNC lost RFK, lost Tulsi Gabbard, and now lost that big dem sponsor Lu.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I don't know Khanna. Fetterman seems okay to me, and Smith strikes me as level headed.

I'm about to add another name.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

How times change in a month! Musk does not want tariffs and is outta there.

MSN

 

[Blaster]

Behar is an old hag that hates Republicans.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Behar is an old hag that hates Republicans.

Young hags and cuties hate Republicans, too.

 

[Blaster]

Young hags and cuties hate Republicans, too.

Only pink haired weirdos.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Only pink haired weirdos.

Nah, the weirdos are the MAGA.