So, this group, who look like a barrel of laughs at any well heeled dinner party, want the Democrats to become even more conservative than they already are. This, despite countless polls indicating Democrats lost votes for being too conservative, historic wins like socialism-friendly Zohran Mamdani, and that the base is far more left than the Democratic Party elite.

This “Democratic think tank” (an oxymoronic term I absolutely loathe) wants to throw LGBTQ people under the bus and stop talking about that pesky existential threat of looming climate catastrophe. I’m betting they aren’t too keen on Palestinian human rights either.

I mean, who needs human rights, an end to genocide and a livable biosphere when you have the corporatized version of Fleetwood Mac to make the party exciting again?

From left to right, Breston McWhiteywhite III, Hester Ravenwhite, Burley Whitewallace, Chester Thomas (nephew of the Supreme Court justice), and Karen von Whitenstein.

The excerpt below is from the piece in the New York Times on their nauseating attempt to get the Democrats to become more like Maga.

“As Democrats search for their way out of the political wilderness, a new think tank, introduced on Wednesday, has some ideas about where the party went wrong.

Among them: too much emphasis on issues like climate change and L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and far too much deference to the powerful liberal organizations championing those causes at the expense, some argue, of appealing to voters in battleground states.

The think tank, the Searchlight Institute, was started by Adam Jentleson, a veteran Democratic operative. He knows that his effort, intended to minimize the sway that left-leaning groups have over candidates before what is expected to be a crowded 2028 presidential primary, will infuriate almost everyone — activists, organizations and the party’s liberal base, which is urging Democrats to fight President Trump.”

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025