Not to be Shakespearean about this, but I have been writing for months about how the Democrat Party is disintegrating right in front of our eyes.
From Joseph Curl’s article at washingtonexaminer.com:
Things have never been this bad for the party of hope and change. They hope they can change, but they’re face-to-face with a three-headed beast that threatens to push them off a cliff: Millions of voters are abandoning the party, approval ratings have hit a 30-year low and fundraising is in the dumper.
Let’s break down those three. Between the 2020 and 2024 elections, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in all 30 states that track voter registration by political party, as reported by The New York Times last week. The exodus represents a staggering 4.5-million-voter swing toward Republicans, and the political chasm could take years, even decades, to bridge.
Democrats lost more than 2 million registered voters during the period, while Republicans gained 2.4 million, according to the paper’s analysis. Last year, for the first time since 2018, more new voters nationwide chose to register as Republicans than Democrats. The voter flight occurred across the political spectrum: in battleground states, deep-blue strongholds and red states alike.
The party’s struggles extend beyond voter registration. A recent CNBC survey shows the Democratic Party’s net favorability has plummeted to a near three-decade low of -32 among registered voters. The party now holds just a 24% positive rating, compared with a 56% negative rating. “The -32 rating appeared to be the lowest rating for either party going back to at least 1996,” CNBC reported.
But, despite the disastrous situation described above, there was hope. This past week the Democratic National Committee had a meeting in Minnesota; a chance to show the country it was something different than what they clearly have been rejecting so decisively over the last few years.
So how did it go?
Curl continues:
The Democratic National Committee’s meeting opened with a “land acknowledgment” statement. “In many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress Indigenous peoples’ cultural and spiritual history,” said an Indigenous woman who took the podium, wearing what appeared to be a Pride scarf.
The group meeting then moved on to a presentation from the Vera Institute, a think tank that supports defunding the police, the Daily Caller reported. The presenter told the crowd that being “tough on crime” is “authoritarian” and said, “Migrant crime and carjackings are things that don’t matter to many Americans.”
Where next? Transgender teens, of course. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison boasted about filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration for prohibiting minors from getting sex change operations. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee then bragged about how her city’s law enforcement is refusing to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
This was supposed to be a boon to the Democrat Party? Bring it back in focus with the mainstream of the country?
I’ve been following politics for a long time. And never have I seen a political party go this far off the rails. Not even close.
Unless things change dramatically, quickly, and credibly – which, as of now, appears to be a virtually non-existent possibility – the Democrat Party is doomed to continued disintegration.
This obviously would be disastrous for the party. And it would be disastrous for the country as well because, until and unless a different alternative materializes, it would leave us with one viable major political party.
I can only hope against hope that, despite its current state, the Democrat Party somehow finds a way to reconnect with mainstream America.
