Let's first go bottom line:
A growing number of Democrat voters are beyond fed up with their "fractured" party, as the Washington Post recently found out, no doubt to the exasperation of the once vaunted news outlet.
The sharp criticism comes as the Democrat Party continues its psychotic obsession with all things President Donald Trump. I know — who knew?
Due to a leadership vacuum, internal feuding, and mostly, a complete lack of putting forth policy initiatives designed to help a majority of Americans, Democrat voters and donors now view their party as "rudderless, off message, [and] leaderless."
Even worse (better), from late-stage Trump Derangement Syndrome to identity politics, and critically, the party's overall politics of division, Democrat bigwigs still don't get it.
Let's hope they never do.
For a recent editorial for the Washington Post, titled "Can Democrats rebound? These voters aren’t so sure," WaPo campaign reporter Dylan Wells and independent journalist Joe Lamberti spoke with over 20 Pennsylvania Democrat voters about their hope for a comeback in the midterms and in the 2028 presidential election.
I'm not a fan of hyperbole, so I won't suggest the responses were "shocking," "stunning," "staggering," or other such clickbait, but I will suggest the overall take was somewhat unexpected, even, in some cases, if just from a position of being less than candid.
Via WaPo:
The Pennsylvania Democrats’ responses are in line with national public polling, which has found that Democrats are less enthusiastic about their party than Republicans and more likely to describe their party in starkly negative terms.
The party’s image is at a historic low, with 63 percent of voters holding an unfavorable view of it, according to a Wall Street Journal poll in July.
Many loyal Democratic voters are furious at their elected officials, saying they are not doing more to stop Trump, and the party remains divided over its future.
Most respondents said their party is directionless and lacking a leader who can unify supporters or drive the campaign against Trump, including 26-year-old Julian Adaya, a nonprofit worker in Philadelphia:
I want them to do more. I feel like they are so powerless, and they make it seem like they’re on our level, right? But they’re literal legislators that are in charge of the budget and in charge of all these different things that are going on right now, and they’re just letting it happen.
Wayne Stewart, a stained-glass artist in Philadelphia, added:
Right now, this is no leader. There is no strong voice for people as a whole.
Both of these gentlemen couldn't have been more correct.
The Democrat Party, despite its decades-long absurd claim to be "the party of the people," and other such nonsense, looks at hardworking Democrat voters as pawns and useful idiots who only matter at the ballot box come election time.
And as for the "strong voice of the people" thing, Democrat lawmakers and their hack lapdogs in the left-wing media are way too busy vilifying (lying about) Trump and his policies than taking time to speak honestly to rank-and-file Democrat voters about their challenges and concerns.
Several respondents told the writers they didn't even understand what the Democrat Party stands for anymore. Here are some of their responses:
It’s hard for me to say who they are, because I can’t tell who they’re even not, which is a bigger problem.
They get too lost in the outskirts, too afraid to lose voters, that they won’t take a strong stance and really say, ‘We are pro-this, anti-this,’ and take a hard-line approach, which Republicans really do well.'
We’re fractured. We don’t have a definitive message.
Graduate student and intern therapist Emily Hyde, 27, really nailed it:
I think that we are really good at doing little protests and making cute signs and stuff. I feel like there’s not a lot of action that backs that up.
Don't forget "and singing ridiculous songs in front of the Capitol, White House, Supreme Court, et al."
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So here's the thing: In my not-so-humble opinion, the Democrat Party has three overriding problems.
First, the party has clearly lurched way too far to the left in an effort to attract — or not lose — fringe voters, who make up a small fraction of Democrat voters. Not smart: the Democrats do so at the expense of losing moderate voters to the Republican Party, as we saw in the 2024 general election.
Second, obsessive TDS, which I referenced earlier. The psychological affliction drives virtually every comment and action Democrat lawmakers make or take.
And third — which I've written for decades — if Democrat politicians were honest with the public about the real motives behind their positions and policies, they'd never win the White House again.
