Liberals, Democrats, and others on the Left have learned absolutely nothing from their humiliating election defeat in November 2024. Over three months later, they are still using the same political and cultural playbook from 2015 to appeal to people in 2025. One must look no further than Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special, which featured a skit with actor Tom Hanks in which he portrayed a caricature of a racist, redneck, hillbilly, white supporter of President Donald Trump.
The only thing missing from Hanks’s skit was a Hitler or Nazi reference. In 2025, after Trump earned a higher percentage of minority voters than nearly every Republican presidential candidate since Reconstruction, the appeal value of the “Trump supporters are racist” insult has passed. Moreover, the shock value of it has grown tiresome. At this point, it’s archaic and has as much appeal as the malodorous stench of expired milk.
Some may argue that the skit was a humorous attempt to show similarities between Trump supporters and black people. With Hanks’s character in the skit seeming to know many things about black culture, initially, one could make that case. However, it is when the black game show host, portrayed by Kenan Thompson, approaches to give Hanks’s character a handshake and he raises his hands as if he is about to be mugged, that the message of the skit is revealed: Trump supporters are inherently racist and view black people as criminals.
Moreover, if there are any similarities between the groups, that bond disappears when push comes to shove. Obviously, a game show host in a suit coming to greet a contestant would not in any way be a criminal threat. The reaction of Hanks’s character is supposed to reveal Trump supporters’ true colors, circling back to the aforementioned main idea.
The failed attempt at humor rightly drew a lot of negative feedback. It was good to see, and it shows just how much the culture has changed since Trump’s first term. It’s indicative of just how out of touch the Left is with society. They are still the same divisive, radical, fearmongering, hateful people they were before November 5, 2024. It’s at the root of their beings and in their political DNA. They honestly can’t help themselves.
Yet, despite their insistence on replicating failure and ignoring the lessons of reality in the world, it is hard to imagine a time in which Democrats fully abandon their “white people are racist” shtick since they have clung to it for the last 60 years. I’d imagine separating from it now would be like a drug addict going through detox from their daily narcotic fix. Nevertheless, it should be discarded. The attempted insult is about a decade past its prime, which is perhaps ironic since it was around 8 years ago that the late-night comedy show first used the skit, also featuring Hanks.
Trying to appeal to an audience from 8 years ago. If that is not the perfect synopsis of the expiration of ideas in the contemporary Democratic Party, then I am not sure what is.
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The Left, and especially the leftist elite, like to reside in their affluent bubble in an aristocratic fashion, telling themselves how morally superior and righteous they are over their political opponents. Their arrogance and superciliousness are altogether silly, if not outright insulting. The only saving grace is how comically wrong they continue to prove to be to everyone other than their rabid political base. As reality has shown, it is their base, and only their base, that finds skits such as Hanks’s repurposed one appealing.
They continue to demean what they cannot understand, and they cannot understand how nearly 77 million Americans disagree with how the liberals, Democrats, and others on the Left think and see the world. Their rhetoric, antics, anger, protests, and other acts of disapproval come off as unserious, jilted lovers more than a political movement looking to inspire change. The Left has shown its immature politics and inability to process change, tolerate diversity of thought, appreciate the inclusion of different ideas, and engage in an equitable political arena with those different from them.