Katie Bernhardt Trashes Mike Johnson, Gets Ratioed By Her Own People

Since Mike Johnson was elected Speaker of the House yesterday, the Democrats have been scrambling to find reasons to demonize him.

He’s a homophobe, of course, because of an op-ed he wrote 20 years ago about the Lawrence v. Texas case which prohibited states from criminalizing sodomy. Johnson’s thrust was that nothing in the Constitution protects homosexual sex, which puts him squarely in the same camp as Clarence Thomas who has said the same.

He’s also an election denier because he wrote an amicus brief in the Texas v. Pennsylvania case about 2020 election irregularities. Somehow, if the practices and circumstances of that election looked peculiar to you, you’re ineligible for a political leadership role – but of course, if you had questions about the 2016 election you’re good. An example…

They’re also claiming that Johnson wants to put women in jail for having abortions. Which is an outright lie – in fact, Johnson lobbied hard against some of his own people when such a measure was contemplated in the Louisiana legislature a year ago.

But Katie Bernhardt, the likely soon-to-be-outgoing chair of the Louisiana Democrat Party, decided that yesterday would be a good time to pour all of the attacks into one short press release when everybody else in Louisiana was celebrating the fact that the state is now in an almost unprecedented position in Congress…

It’s fair to say that didn’t go well for her.

The post generated over 50 responses in almost no time flat and not a single one was positive. What was more, while several of them were from conservatives chortling over Bernhardt’s sore-loserism, most were from other Democrats furious about the party’s awful electoral performance of late.

A quick taste…

It was a pretty brutal response. Moreso than we’d expect.

There are a couple of things going on here that are obvious. First, the classy thing, and the thing which would have generated a less vicious response, would have been for Bernhardt to put out a press release congratulating Johnson on his election as Speaker and talking about the inherent superiority of Louisianans when it comes to things political, or some such statement which would then reference the history of prominent Louisiana Democrat politicians through the years (Russell Long, Lindy and Hale Boggs, Huey Long, John Breaux, Mary Landrieu, etc.). Pot-shots would still have been taken, and demands about what Democrats are NOT ancient history would have been made, but it would still have come off as more gracious and productive than what Bernhardt did offer.

But right now the people who make up the core of the Democrat Party, most of whom seem to be unmarried females and members of the various species of Alphabet People – and this is a strange thing, because more than 60 percent of registered Democrats in Louisiana are black voters, and it’s black Democrat politicians who are a staggering majority of that party’s elected officials, and yet they’re not very vocal at all right now – really isn’t very interested in graciousness.

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For example, the reaction among the party’s base when John Bel Edwards, who might be the last statewide elected Democrat in Louisiana for a very, very long time, congratulated Jeff Landry on winning outright in the gubernatorial primary was nothing short of breathtaking. Those people put him on blast like we’ve never seen.

Here’s just a quick taste of those responses…

What some of those complaints are referencing is that the Louisiana Democrat Party backed Madison O’Malley, a twenty-something lawyer from Cleveland, in the uptown New Orleans-centered District 91 House race against the crazed abortion advocate Mandie Landry. That went exceptionally badly, as Landry pulled more than 60 percent of the vote and will now become the voice of white Democrats in Louisiana going forward.

Bernhardt is more of an old-school center-left Democrat who was tasked as party chair with keeping the party from going completely over to the Democratic Socialists of America crowd that Mandie Landry, Gary Chambers and Davante Lewis represent. And she’s failing miserably in that regard.

So much so that she can’t even trash Mike Johnson without her party’s voters giving her both barrels.

That’s what life in the political wilderness is going to be like for Louisiana’s Democrats, and it isn’t getting better any time soon.

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