The 2024 presidential election result might have shown Democrats to be on the wrong side of history with President Donald Trump’s historic reelection, but there remains a sense of denial that led to getting run over by the proverbial train.

Six months after Trump’s landslide Electoral College victory that also handed a rare popular vote victory to a Republican president, Democrat strategists were testing Americans on how the parties are viewed by asking for a comparison to their spirit animals, The New York Times reported.

While Republicans are generally viewed as “apex predators” lions, tigers, and bears, Democrats got a shockingly poignant comparison from one of their voters in Georgia, pollster Anat Shenker-Osorio told the Times: “A deer in headlights.”

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