This is like Trump’s superpower; finding a bunch of 80-20 issues and getting on the 80 – and everybody who is reflexively against him getting on the 20. Now the Democrat Party has a 31% approval rating. This is why!
Scott Jennings (CNN political analyst)
Warning: if you think the political class in Washington has been on the up and up since 2000, do not read this article.
You can read it now and believe it after the 2026 mid-term elections: the Democrat Party is imploding. Every politico from conservative Scott Jennings (CNN) to liberal Bill Maher (HBO) is talking about the sequel to Trump Derangement Syndrome (spoiler alert: Democrats die in a circular firing squad). When they’re not defending stupid expenditures ($20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq), they’re losing liberal TV hosts like Jon Stewart (“listening to Chuck Schumer speak on almost any topic makes me want to bomb Canada”).
The party is so divorced from reality, its future is no longer a given. Don’t scoff, because we the people decide the fate of the political class, and Democrats peaked in 2008 with the election of President Obama. Sixteen years later, its far-left positions (e.g. open borders) and policies (e.g. transgenders in girls sports) resulted in Kamala Harris delivering the party’s worst presidential defeat since 1988.
Between Obama’s 2008 win and Harris’ 2024 loss, the Democrat electoral advantage shrank in three key measures: (1) popular votes for president – down 11.9 million, (2) popular votes for Congress – down 17 million, and (3) share of registered voters – down 8 points to 31%. Last month, for the third year in a row, Gallup reported more Republicans (46%) than Democrats (45%).
The Democrat Party today is rudderless and increasingly voteless, because it is leaderless. The same folks that decided against presidential debates in 2023 and presidential primaries last summer, chose to ignore the lessons of 1992. That’s when the DNC pivoted to a centrist party platform and Bill Clinton (D-AR). Not this time, because the DNC just blamed white males for Harris’ loss, and elected one radical and one simpleton to run the party.
Asked if “racism and misogyny” were factors in Harris’ defeat, every candidate vying for DNC chair raised his or her hand. That’s reckless (36% of electorate are white men) and dumb (2024 exit polls show that Harris lost because none of Biden’s policies had even 40% voter approval, Trump ran on situational politics, and Bobby Kennedy dragged the votes of dissident Democrats into Trump’s column).
There’ll be no pivot to the middle from 24-year-old vice-chairman David Hogg (D-CA), who supports “legalizing all drugs” and “a 100% tax after your first billion” (he told Fox News in 2022 that “any politician doing anything with me is in effect committing political suicide”). And no common sense from DNC chairman Ken Martin (D-MN), who proclaimed a “new DNC” in which he’d “take the low road so my candidates and elected officials can take the high road.”
Apparently, his elected officials don’t know what “high road” means. Tim Kaine (D-VA) demanded (now) Secretary of Defense Hegseth “acknowledge you cheated on the woman by whom you had just fathered a child” in a Senate confirmation hearing. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) told CNN’s audience that the President’s orders ending DEI were needed to protect “mediocre white boys” who weren’t “competent” enough to succeed in a color-blind America.
A real leader would be aware of near record Army enlistments since Trump’s election, and rein in Kaine’s vitriol. He’d probably tell Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that Twitter-X having 2024 EBITDA of $1.25 billion on revenue of $2.7 billion, and Space-X catching missiles falling to earth, means Elon Musk is not “the dumbest billionaire” in the world. And, with Democrat voter-favorability (31% in Quinnipiac’s latest poll) at historic lows, he’d surely align his party with the will of the people.
Like talking Democrat governors and mayors out of interfering with CBP and ICE agents, because 87% of Americans want criminal aliens deported, and 63% want recent illegal entries deported (source: New York Times). Yet, not a peep out of Martin, Hogg, Jeffries, or Schumer; a leadership void that’s left the Democrat Party so rudderless, its members are suing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to stop looking for waste, fraud and abuse (AKA inefficiency).
Biden left the federal government $36.4 trillion in debt and the US Treasury on the hook for $1.04 trillion in interest payments, and 77.3 million voters want President Trump to identify and stop “wasteful deficit spending” in order to stave off “economic chaos.” But not Ron Widen (D-OR), who claims DOGE audits “threaten the full faith and credit of the United States” (too dumb), or those legislators defending USAID spending our tax dollars on idiotic programs (too dumb squared).
You want rudderless? Watch the streaming video of Maxine Waters (D-CA) trying to barge into the Department of Education and Corey Booker (D-NJ) urging folks to “fight in the streets” against DOGE. When CBS reports a majority of Americans approve of Trump and support DOGE, Reuters reports 56% of Americans want to cut ALL foreign aid, and the President controls every agency of the federal government, that’s deranged.
Dems are in a panic over their new reality. This time, Trump won because Biden screwed up, the administrative state won’t derail Trump’s agenda because his appointments are more MAGA than he is, and the trail of dumb and dark money left by Biden’s team is indefensible (the list of projects funded by USAID reads like a “jobs program” for left-liberal NGOs).
In time, they will realize that stays of Trump’s executive orders by activist judges end up before a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court, and that subversive leaks by deep-state partisans to their media handlers get fact-checked by citizen journalists with audiences that dwarf those of legacy media.
In closing, I’ll bet you’ve seen Animal House. Didn’t the rants from Chuck Schumer and Corey Booker remind you of Brother Blutarsky’s response when it was “over” for Delta House?
Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! No, I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!