The election of Donald Trump really did something to them... and I don't mean the election in 2024, I mean the one in 2016. Since that election, they've become the "not-Trump" party, and that's about as deep as it gets. If Trump is for it, they're against it, and they will actively take the 20 position in an 80/20 issue simply out of spite. It doesn't matter what the issue is. 

They won't even stand for a kid with cancer if Trump is for him. 

This anti-Trump attitude caused lefty loyalists to retreat further into their leftist corner and, as a result, paved the way for more radicals to get elected and begin dragging the party even further in that direction. This created an ideological rigidity that has made the Democrat Party even uglier to look at. 

Yet, the Democrats haven't caught up yet. They're still staring in the mirror, either oblivious to the obvious or not wanting to accept where they are in life now. 

As my colleague Nick Arama reported on Sunday, Randi Weingarten has left the DNC with her sayonara note saying something I found to be personally funny: 

Weingarten, who has been a member of the DNC for 23 years, wrote DNC Chair Ken Martin that she had fundamental disagreements with leadership.

“I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging,” she said in the letter dated June 5, “and I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more of our communities.”

Read: More Delicious Dem Implosion: Randi Weingarten's Big Message to DNC Head Ken Martin

Firstly, reading the whole letter, one has to wonder why a teacher's union president was sitting on any Democrat Party committees at all. Seems like a massive conflict of interest, but that's another article. 

The part that really got my attention was the "I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more communities."

I can put her mind at ease so she wonders no longer. 

It's because of the aforementioned ideological rigidity. In truth, it's always been there. The Democrat Party was never a big-tent kind of place; it only felt like it was because the left was constantly high on its own narrative supply. The legacy media had told the left stories about itself for decades, making it seem like they were the protectors of the downtrodden, the accepters of those who were different, and the welcoming place where everyone could link arms and give a rousing rendition of Kumbaya together. 

The ugly truth is that its "inclusivity" obsession involved a ton of exclusion, and trying to introduce ideas or facts that fell outside the approved narrative would result in expulsion and destruction. Moreover, your position within the left depended squarely on your usefulness. You could be the toast of the town one minute, the pariah of all society the next, and the only thing that truly decided this was your willingness to be used. 

Watching the Democrat Party today, I'm not sure Weingarten is being dishonest when she says she "keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent." I genuinely think she doesn't know why it's not happening, and I think it's because she doesn't realize people like her are the problem. She's been told repeatedly by DNC yes men, Democrat hardliners, teachers, activists, and the legacy media that she's on the side of good and her cause is noble. 

She doesn't see herself for what she really is because, despite her popularity and position in the upper echelons of the leftist universe, she has a veil of unreality draped over her face, same as all the others. 

I think, only now, we're starting to see some Democrats question things. They're pointing fingers at one another, trying to find out who's to blame for their current predicament, and little by little, some of them are going to start learning to point the finger at the person in the mirror. 

Or not. When has a leftist truly ever taken accountability for their own actions?