A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people.
The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways.
First, it serially lied to Americans about the cognitive decline and cancerous condition of President Joe Biden, both while in and after office.
Only when caught did the complicit media fess up that the Biden inner circle serially misled the American people about Biden’s inability to fulfill the duties of the presidency.
Second, left-wing politicos used Biden as a waxen effigy. His job was to pose as a “moderate” cover to push through the most radical and unpopular agenda in the last half century.
Only that way could “Old Joe Biden from Scranton” and his backroom handlers ram down the throat of the American people unpopular policies that nearly wrecked the country: hyperinflation and $7 trillion in new debt, weaponization of the government, and partisan lawfare, an open border and 12 million illegal aliens, a racialist DEI commissariat, a crackpot Green New Deal, defunding the police, biological men competing in girls’ sports, and two theater-wide wars abroad.
Third, without either a functional president or viable initiatives, the new hard-left Democrats sought to brand Donald Trump as “Hitler” and half the country who supported him as “fascists.”
For nearly nine years, the Democrats launched one failed hoax after another on the American people: “Russian collusion,” “laptop disinformation,” and the lying so-called “51 intelligence authorities.” They proved quite willing to undermine the rule of law by manipulating the court system in efforts to destroy their bogeyman, Donald Trump.
Never had the American people seen a political party engineer 93 bogus indictments of a rival candidate and ex-president. Two dozen states tried to take Trump off their presidential ballots. And the Biden Department of Justice sicced an FBI SWAT team to barge into Trump’s home.
The people finally got tired of all the potty-mouthed Democrat videos, the congressional stunts and meltdowns, the pampered rich kids rioting on elite campuses, the knee-jerk obsessions with racial slurs, the firebombing of Tesla dealerships, the romanticization of left-wing political murderers—and always the adolescent tantrums over Donald Trump.
The Democrats had mostly given up on democracy some 13 years ago. That was the last time they transparently and democratically nominated Barack Obama a second time as their presidential candidate.
Ever since, their nominations have been rigged.
In 2020, party insiders—terrified of the left-wing crazy primary field—forced out all the leading contenders.
Then they coronated the debilitated but still supposedly useful moderate Joe Biden as their COVID-era candidate. Biden then bragged that he would pick his vice president on the basis of race and gender.
What followed was the most bizarre campaign in history.
Biden stayed put in his basement and outsourced his candidacy to the partisan media.
Party activists changed long-standing voting laws in the key swing states. For the first time in American history, 70 percent of Americans did not vote in person on Election Day—the majority of them by design Democrats.
Next, in 2024, they forced the now no longer useful Biden off the ticket, nullifying his 14 million primary voters.
Then, without a vote, they rammed in inept Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee. As a failed candidate in 2020, she had never won a single delegate.
Some in the party now concede it must roust out its radicals.
But Democrats will not.
AOC and her Squad, the unhinged Jasmine Crockets of the party, and the ossified socialist Bernie Bros would demonize any Democrat who offered a sane reboot.
A few fossils in the party may think they know how to save it. But they are terrified that the medicine would be considered far worse than the illness that prompted it.
Would Democrats consider embracing measured and legal-only immigration?
No—the crazy base would scream “xenophobe!”
A return to meritocracy and the Martin Luther King notion of race as incidental, not essential, to who we are?
Again, that would be called “racist!”
Maybe reforms to fix failed schools with vouchers, school choice, and charter schools?
Again, “racist!”
How about developing gas and oil reserves and nuclear power to lower energy costs for the struggling middle class?
That would be condemned as “destroying the planet!”
Restore police forces, end critical race and legal theory, and deter criminals with tough sentencing?
Again, “racist!”
How about ceasing the whiny fixations with “white privilege” and “white rage?” Or quit seeing a “white supremacist” under every bed?
Again, “racist!”
The left created DEI—the use of race to adjudicate every political issue.
And like any addictive, toxic drug, they now can neither survive with DEI—nor without it.
Yes, Democrats have put themselves in an ideological cul-de-sac from which it will be difficult in the extreme for them to escape. A realistic attempt must begin with reforming their party, and that won’t happen as long as people like Pelosi, Schumer, Obama, and certain outside contributors have influence bordering on a stranglehold. The less unhinged among Democrats in Congress need to force out the Old Guard who created the mess and have far outlived their usefulness. At its earliest, that process won’t begin until they lose the next presidential election. If I were a Democrat of the less-unhinged variety, I would be quietly panicked over my party’s efforts to shut down a duly elected Trump Administration with one court injunction after another. But the people in control of the Democrat Party see nothing wrong with that, which is why 2028 is already in the bag for Republicans. My prognosis for Democrats is that their party splits apart in four to five years, if only for the sake of its less-unhinged wing putting up a moderate front for gullible voters. But that won’t work either.
Both CNN and MSNBC are cratering further in the ratings, so I’m at a bit of a loss knowing where the true believers on the Left are getting their marching orders. I’ve watched as the Generic Ballot has gone from D+5 back in February to D+1 now at the Real Clear Politics average of polls. The same outlet has also been chronicling the popularity drop of the Democrat Party as a whole and Democrat leaders in particular.
The latest news of the DNC spending $20 million to figure out how to talk to young men also demonstrates the rudderless ship drifting with the current. Jessica Tarlov of Fox’s The Five remains confident her Party will get it together before the mid-terms, but she seems alone in her views. Both Gavin Newsom and Rahm Emmanuel are trying to shed the dying spector of DEI much the same as reptiles and bugs shed their outer coverings. How much the public buys the transformation is a very open question.
I would like to think that we are witnessing the death throes of a dying Party, but refuse to celebrate until I see the corpse.
If ever there exists an example of foul corpses it would be those now living within the party of aged Whigs. They cannot change else they would not be who they really are ideologically. Have you ever heard of a trans Democrat?
What should be apparent is that there is no difference between the aged and the young (which appear fanatical) except in one respect. The aged know enough to keep their real intentions under wraps so their Party does not appear like a flaming dumpster full of overripe garbage ready to be extinguished by common sense. Other than that Schumer is exactly what AOC hopes to be and she is what Schumer wish he could be except for his awareness that he would have been outed decades prior.
Don’t say 2028 is already in the bag for Republicans. Republicans have a habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Furthermore there is voting fraud, a massive influx of new voters, fraudulent judges and a divided SCOTUS. AOC and Katanji Jackson are the same in almost every respect. In addition a lot of people like living on the dole and they vote for that standard of living. What really surprised me is the number of people who dislike Musk because of DOGE. If it were not for finding that out I would have thought they would possibly vote Republican. People out themselves in the most peculiar of ways.
As someone who is actively engaged and has been for about 20 some years mentoring young men - mostly immigrants from West Africa or Bangladesh - who are committed to actually making something of their lives - as opposed to the standard issue - idiots who pass for young men in America?
I laughed when I saw that absurd headline about how the Democrats were going to waste money on figuring out how to speak the language of young men and bring them back into the cesspool that is their party.
They really are stupid beyond belief but that is good because they will continue to drill the dry hole that has helped to get them where they are - no where.
The best young men - as those who frequent these pages know - are interested in living lives that are meaningful, not afraid of responsibility - whether it is in the form of a job,having a family and being faithful to a wife.
They know that these are part of the puzzle that make up a good life and result in the relationships and connections that hold one’s life together.
The Left is a party of the dead but still walking like they are alive. The sooner they die as a force - the better.