Winning Wordle strategy doesn’t work for Democrats’ agenda

Kamala Harris’s strategy for playing Wordle has a lot in common with the progressive Democratic playbook.

In the Vice President’s case, it’s pretty successful.

Harris told The Ringer that she repeats the same word every day when she’s playing the popular New York Times five-letter guessing game: “notes.”

The strategy has led to a 48game winning streak, according to Harris. She said it takes her, on average, four out of six tries to correctly guess the daily answer. Democratic Party power players also use the same words every day — spend, tax the rich, forgive student loan debt, companies and/or Putin are to blame for inflation — but the hopes of a win are dimming.

The midterm elections loom, and voters battered by inflation, fed up with Washington brawls over spending bills and unease over border security and immigration policy are expected to show their displeasure with Biden and Co. at the ballot box.

Democrats are worried. The solution? Try the same words, a little louder this time.

“Democrats win elections when we show we understand the painful economic realities facing American families and convince voters we will deliver meaningful change,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Monday.

To be fair, Democrats have delivered change — inflation is at a 40-year high.

“To put it bluntly: if we fail to use the months remaining before the elections to deliver on more of our agenda, Democrats are headed toward big losses in the midterms,” wrote Warren.

The notion that voters are disillusioned with that agenda seems lost on our senator — though President Biden’s how-low-canyou-go approval rating of 39% would seem to offer a clue.

“Time is running short,” she wrote. “We need to finalize a budget reconciliation deal, making giant corporations pay their share to fund vital investments in combating climate change and lowering costs for families, which can advance with only 50 Senate votes.”

The idea that spiking the tax on corporations would fund climate change investments and other top agenda items, with higher taxes on wealthy individuals also contributing to a government fiscal windfall has come up short with those who’ve crunched the numbers. Even the most draconian tax grabs couldn’t fund all of the Democratic spending sprees.

Warren also touted the “cancellation” of a sizable slice of student loan debt, a pet issue with progressives.

“Like many Americans, I’m frustrated by our failure to get big things done — things that are both badly needed and very popular with all Americans,” she wrote.

While forgiving student loan debt is a popular topic with Americans, the grand sweep Warren calls for is not. The senator told a virtual town hall in January that canceling $50,000 in student-loan debt could give 36 million borrowers “permanent total relief.”

A poll conducted this month by Morning Consult and Politico, showed that 64% of respondents supported some form of student loan forgiveness, The Hill reported.

Specifically, 19% said they would support the federal government forgiving student loans for all Americans. Another 16% said they supported some student loan forgiveness for all. The survey found that 13% of respondents supported total student loan forgiveness for low-income Americans, and 16% supported some forgiveness for this group.

The word Democrats have failed to guess is “reality,” but that answer should hit them in November.