{"id":170002,"date":"2025-05-28T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=170002"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:54:44","slug":"republicans-compared-to-apex-predators-democrats-to-slow-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=170002","title":{"rendered":"Republicans compared to apex predators, Democrats to slow animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A democratic researcher conducted focus groups consisting of swing voters. During these focus groups, voters were asked to compare Republicans and Democrats to certain animals. A pattern emerged after approximately 250 focus groups. Republicans were compared to apex predators like lions, tigers, and sharks. Democrats, on the other hand, were compared to slow animals like tortoises, slugs, or sloths.<\/p>\n

From The New York Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

After around 250 focus groups of swing voters, a few patterns have emerged, said the researcher, Anat Shenker-Osorio. Republicans are seen as “apex predators,” like lions, tigers and sharks — beasts that take what they want when they want it. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths: slow, plodding, passive.<\/p>\n

So Ms. Shenker-Osorio perked up earlier this year when a Democratic man in Georgia suggested that a very different kind of animal symbolized her party.<\/p>\n

“A deer,” he said, “in headlights.”<\/p>\n

The man had more to say.<\/p>\n

“You stand there and you see the car coming, but you’re going to stand there and get hit with it anyway.”<\/p>\n

Six months after President Trump swept the battleground states, the Democratic Party is still sifting through the wreckage. Its standing has plunged to startling new lows — 27 percent approval in a recent NBC News poll, the weakest in surveys dating to 1990 — after a defeat that felt like both a political and cultural rejection.<\/p>\n

Communities that Democrats had come to count on for a generation or more — young people, Black voters, Latinos — all veered toward the right in 2024, some of them sharply. And unlike Mr. Trump’s win in 2016, his victory last year could not be waved away as an outlier after he won the popular vote for the first time.<\/p>\n

The stark reality is that the downward trend for Democrats stretches back further than a single election. Republicans have been gaining ground in voter registration for years. Working-class voters of every race have been steadily drifting toward the G.O.P. And Democrats are increasingly perceived as the party of college-educated elites, the defenders of a political and economic system that most Americans feel is failing them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goldmacher, S. (2025, May 25). Six months later, Democrats are still searching for the path forward. The New York Times<\/em>. Link<\/a>. [The below Gateway Pundit Lake offers a workable link]<\/p>\n

Taylor, K. (2025, May 27). Focus group participants describe Republicans as “apex predators”, Democrats as “tortoises, slugs, or sloths”: Report. Gateway Pundit<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A democratic researcher conducted focus groups consisting of swing voters. During these focus groups, voters were … Republicans compared to apex predators, Democrats to slow animals<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}