WaPo Political Reporter Lays Out Damning Details of Why Dems Are in Deep Trouble

Democrats have been thrashing around since President Donald Trump won the presidential election, not seeming to know how to respond, and they've just been going back to the playbook they've had for the past ten years: "Orange man bad/Hitler!!!"

But if you don't have more than that to offer, you are going to get rejected. That's exactly what happened in the election in November, with the Republicans taking the presidency, the House, and the Senate. That doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's a message. But it's a message the Democrats don't seem to be getting yet.

That's a problem for them, and what's more, that's on top of a bigger structural problem that the Democrats have which Washington Post political reporter Dan Balz outlined earlier this month. He spoke at a forum at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Institute of Politics on February 5, as our sister site Townhall reported. Trump has "flipped the script" and changed the demographics. And this does not bode well for the Democrats.

Democrats are concerned that they cannot win in enough states to maintain a viable electoral future:
Dan Balz: "Donald Trump has won 25 states in the past three elections in those 25 states.
The Republicans have 22 governors, 24 state legislatures, and all 50 senators.
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— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) February 26, 2025

Donald Trump has won 25 states in the past three elections.
In those 25 states, the Republicans have 22 governors, 24 state legislatures, and all 50 senators.
The Democrats have a problem winning in enough places to be able to really be a majority party, and particularly to have consistent hopes of winning the Senate.
Two other things, we know that the college/non-college split in the country is, in many ways, the basic fault line now.
About 40 percent, maybe slightly less of the voting-age population has college degrees. Kamala Harris got about 55 or 56 percent of that vote. The rest of the population, without college degrees, Trump got 56 percent of that vote. That is a problem that the Democrats haven’t solved and need to solve.

Balz also pointed out how Trump won in households with income below $50K, which usually would be the bastion of the Democrats -- the first time that had happened "since the 90s." Trump also won with the next bracket up -- the $50k to just under $100k. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris won with over $100K.

"These are the structural problems the Democrats have got to solve," Balz said. "There's gotta be some hard thinking."

This picture of the audience listening to Balz says it all.

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— Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) February 27, 2025

Situationally, they're also going to have two Democratic senators not running again, as Townhall noted -- Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI).

Then also, in the long term, there's something else that Balz didn't mention in that clip, but it follows given what he laid out -- that there are now more Americans now who identify as Republican in the electorate than Democrats, probably in large measure because of the failure to address critical issues that may have also caused the "flip," as we previously reported.

Democrats' only other option that they seem to be employing now is hoping Trump fails and that will help their chances. That's a pretty sad and poor option, but again, it shows how empty they are.