CONSENSUS: SOCIALIST CELEBRITIES WON'T WIN VOTES IN KANSAS 3RD DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST!!!

Congressional contender Brent Welder was doing well against Congressman Yoder right until the point he started believing progressives on the national level rather than his own experience.

We've noted that Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks has been a staunch advocate of the upstart candidate as he attempts to debunk the notion that "all politics is local" in an effort to galvanize progressives across the nation in order to champion avowedly liberal candidates. That's great in theory but in practice donations from hipsters in NYC don't mean much for a candidate in Middle-America who now threatens to be blacklisted and confined to the political fringe given the very real Heartland aversion to an ideology that his been held in contempt since the days of the Cold War. Kansas is not Queens. People are friendly, to a point, but also easily scared by talk of higher taxes or state interference into their lives of quiet consumer desperation.

But I digress . . . 

Mr. Welder has made it this far by talking about issues that matter to voters like healthcare, jobs and corporate control of politics.

When he strayed into culture war issues like gun control, he was quickly smacked down.

And now in a defining move for his candidacy, he's counting on progressive star power instead of street level advocacy that had served him so well.

To wit . . .

BRENT WELDER HAS COMMITTED A HORRIFIC MISCALCULATION IN TOUTING SOCIALISM TO KANSAS VOTERS!!!

Congressman Yoder is weak on the economy and is outright anti-labor. Even worse, Congressman Yoder's increasingly strong defense of Prez Trump makes his otherwise moderate record seem unhinged. There was room to challenge Rep. Yoder but Kansas also isn't Cuba despite the record of fickle JoCo/WyCo voters who aren't as party loyal as the decidedly Red State.

A brief description of the district and Mr. Welder's predicament . . .

"Kansas's 3rd Congressional District is the only one in the Great Plains that backed Hillary Clinton for president, but it is far from a liberal outpost. For 12 years, it sent centrist Democrat Dennis Moore to Congress; Rep. Kevin Yoder, elected in the red wave of 2010, is the first antiabortion Republican to hold it for more than one term."

Again, Mr. Welder had a chance here but as a candidate who was going to bring reform and not total upheaval to this district in constant flux.

Check the related links . . .

CNY: Are socialist candidates the future of the Democratic Party?

The Hill: Socialist agenda will prove disastrous for Democrats

Vox: I’ve spoken to hundreds of voters in “flyover country.” Socialism is an easy sell.

The Week: Socialism won't save the Democrats

Chicago Tribune: Why are millennials so hot for socialism?

You decide . . .