Red-Pilled Hard Wednesday Open Commentary

Evan Barker, Democratic Fund Raiser

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I raised $50 Million for the Democrats.  This Week I voted for Trump.

I was 17 when I started working in Democratic politics. While still in high school, I was an intern for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign; later, I served as a field organizer for Hillary Clinton. By the time I turned 26, I was a consultant for dozens of U.S. House and Senate campaigns, four George Soros-backed district attorney races, and a wide range of Democratic organizations. I’ve raised at least $50 million for the left.

And yet, on Tuesday, I voted for Donald Trump. It felt like the biggest middle finger I’ve ever raised to the party I’d supported for most of my adult life. When he won, I was utterly euphoric.

Let me tell you why.

and,

Then on August 21, 2017, his ship—the USS John S. McCain—collided with another in the South China Sea, killing him and nine other sailors. By then, I had been working in Democratic politics off and on for a decade, and through my connections, I tried to reach out to former president Obama, hoping he might remember my brother and send a letter to his two children. I remember how striking the lack of empathy was from the people I worked with in Democratic politics. Relationships in politics are extremely transactional, and I never heard anything back from Obama.

Two months later, when Halloween came around, a Republican senator asked Trump’s White House to extend an invitation to my brother’s children for the White House party. Eight other members of our family were also invited. Republican senator Pat Roberts sat with my stepsister and her husband for over an hour at his Washington, D.C., office and listened to them tell the story of my brother’s life. John McCain called them personally. The comfort they offered was deeply appreciated.

and,

But it didn’t turn out that way. As much as anything, he was a Democratic technocrat. Still, in 2016, when Trump ran against Clinton, I was one of those people who laid in bed for three days when the Democrats lost. By then, however, I was an outlier in my family, who had already made the shift to Trump—as had millions of others in Missouri, a former bellwether state that grew redder with every election. For the longest time, I couldn’t understand why.

In 2019, I decided to move to San Francisco, a place where you’re unlikely to hear anything good said about Trump. After that, I got married to a man who worked in the Bay Area, and my circle of acquaintances was virtually all Democrats.

plus this,

When you consider what the modern Democratic Party has become, you begin to understand how they lost touch with their base. At the home of a major donor, a billionaire who lives in a mansion overlooking San Francisco Bay, I listened to the speakers hoping to raise funds for the 2022 midterms. Waiters dressed in black with silver trays bounced between wealthy elites. The speakers outlined their strategy for winning the midterms and the 2024 election saying: “We no longer want to win the working class. We don’t need those people anymore. They’re gone forever. The future will be young Latinos and people of color.”

BONUS LINK:  This is a video of a Laura Trump interview with Evan Barker.