This week, we saw a spate of news stories blaming Democrats’ troubles on their vocabulary. They’re just using too many darn multisyllabic, academic-sounding words and turning off numbskull voters, is the basic message.

Seriously?

The Democrats’ problem isn’t linguistic, it’s ideological. But no one in the party wants to admit that.

A Washington Post story this week – “Democratic troubles revive debate over left-wing buzzwords” – begins by saying:

Maybe it’s using the word ‘oligarchs’ instead of rich people. Or referring to ‘people experiencing food insecurity’ rather than Americans going hungry. Or ‘equity’ in place of ‘equality,’ or ‘justice-involved populations’ instead of prisoners.

As Democrats wrestle with who to be in the era of President Donald Trump, a growing group of party members — especially centrists — is reviving the argument that Democrats need to rethink the words they use to talk with the voters whose trust they need to regain.

The Post goes on to say that “liberal candidates too often use language from elite, highly educated circles,” and quotes Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear saying that: “It makes Democrats or candidates using this speech sounding like they’re not normal.”

Earlier this year, a group of centrist Democrats gathered at a ritzy resort in Loudoun County, Virginia, the richest county in the country, to talk among themselves about how to regain working-class trust.

Among the recommendations: “get out of elite circles and into real communities” and embrace “traditional American imagery.”

This week, we also learned that Democrats are spending $20 million to “study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality” of “American men.” The project is called – and we are not making this up – “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.”

So, if we understand all this correctly, the answer to the Democrats’ problems is to wave more flags, pretend to like beer, drop more f-bombs, and stick to one-syllable words?

The problem is that voters can smell the phoniness a mile away. Just ask Tim Walz

The country has overwhelmingly shifted to the right because Democratic policies no longer appeal to anyone other than insulated, elitist, over-educated snobs who can’t stand the majority of their fellow countrymen.

In a truly eye-opening report, the New York Times found a massive disparity in the number of counties that have shifted rightward in the past three presidential elections (1,433) versus those that shifted to the left (a mere 57).

What’s more, almost all the counties where Republicans made gains are working class, while Democratic gains were isolated in wealthier, better-educated counties.

Is that because Democrats use words such as “intersectionality” or “cisgendered.”

Hardly. It’s the Democrats’ far-left agenda that is turning off voters. Their policies, not their word choices, are what resulted in a flood of illegal immigrants, economic stagnation, sky-high inflation, worsening violent crime rates, growing racial strife, climate and “gender” fanaticism. They can’t talk to regular Americans anymore because nothing they stand for these days appeals to regular Americans.

And it’s not because of how Trump talks, but what he talks about, what he proposes, and what he’s achieving that is drawing people to the Republican Party. You know, common-sense things such as secure borders, lower taxes, fewer federal mandates, less wasteful spending, safer streets, better schools, an unapologetically America First foreign policy.

Democrats can break out their thesauruses all they want, but their fortunes will never change so long as their agenda is dictated by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board