After trump won democrats had their chance to regroup and work with trump on things that the majority of Americans support hence showing to people that they can govern and work in a bipartisan fashion.
They had a chance to move their party back to the center and isolate the left.
But they didn’t, instead they doubled down on all the failed policies and ideology that got them in the hole to begin with
Since Clinton/Gore, the Dems haven't given 2 shits about American citizens, governing, or anything else. They have cared about power and, more importantly, the money that comes with that power., both economically and politically.
This is the appropriate lens to view Democrats with. It is money and power only. Ideology is there too, but it is definitely the third priority. These are the most disgusting people in our country.
Power and money….two strong aphrodisiacs. Personally, I wonder how they can talk with such conviction about social issues that average Americans abhor. Are they trying to win over voters by supporting so called “trans rights” and other radical groups? Or a more simple explanation, are they just plain stupid? It makes no sense from where I sit.
Bill Clinton doesn't deserve to be considered in the same category as today's Democrats. He was a good leader, and he did good things for the country, personal faults aside.
Neither he nor JFK would have a place in today's Democratic Party. What is so frustrating is that Bill Clinton and Kennedys other than RFK Jr. continue to support the leftist extremists that the Democratic Party is known for today, rather than joining the country's classical liberals, best represented by Donald Trump, et al.
Clinton was Reagan wearing playing the sax, ffs. He totally sold out to the corporate donor class, signed thru NAFTA, bombed the Baltic states, and plundered Ukraine along w/his pal Yeltsin. He pandered to the Public while 'selling' to the donors. He was the beginning of the end. And he ushered in all the rest of the utterly corrupt Dems: Pelosi, Schumer, his wife, Obama, et al.
Meanwhile they have taken up the talking points of the MAGA movement. Listen carefully to what they now say, they understand what worked in the last election and now they adopt the words as their own. But they don’t have those same principles. They don’t know or care about upholding the constitution, or do they care about free speech for everyone. They have contempt for family, Christians, capitalism, decency and guns.
I get that the most extreme are the loudest activists. But they in truth they act crazy and come off incredibly ignorant.
Democrats are still pushing all same agenda positions that we saw under Biden. The DNC is continuing to defend the indefensible. Why are they for: Government waste, fraud, corruption and grift. Child genital mutilation and chemical castration. Allowing boys in a skirt to rape girls in bathrooms and locker rooms. Keeping every illegal alien that is a murder, rapist, thief, violent gang member, nazi terrorist, and child sex slaver from being deported. Encourage and support rioting in the streets to stop ICE from removing them. Allowing Iran to get nuclear weapons. Supporting and using assassination against their political opponents.
With those and many other similar position and actions democrats will continue to lose voter support and forget about winning any election for the next decade. They will be on the wrong side of every 80/20 to 95/5 political issue for the foreseeable future. This is just like the Bud Lite effect. The company lost over a third of its market share and never recovered despite firing Dulvany and all the back tracking on their LGBTQ position they have done over the last few years.
Sounds like a solid strategy to me. In order to lose. We should all invite them to move to Venezuela! Why wait 50 years to transform the U.S. when you can have it all right now?
People are taking the red pill, and refusing to believe in their Insanity, anymore.
Moderate and liberal Democrats are leaving in droves. And the curious thing about that is, the more moderates that leave the party, the more radical the party will become...bring it on!
Oh man... the responses here are embarrassing. I'm seeing our side, the 'pretty much MAGA' coalition respond to Memdami Da Commie in the identical fashion that the Dems responded to Trump:
- 'dis guy's gonna ruin everything!
- 'dis guyz a terrorist!
- dis guy's gonna put us all in camps!
The Democrats/Lefties/Whatever... failed for one reason: They refused to ask "WTF?" Instead of giving Sanders a fair hearing and a place at the table, they smeared him to the point that he became their bitch. Today, he's a laughable phony- see the YT's on his Rogan appearance. As a result, the issues such as income disparity first personified in Occupy Wall Street and Robert Reich's documentaries have only been exacerbated.
Aaand opened up a huge lane for DJT.
As I see it, Trump's 2nd term is an echo of FDR's time in office. Think about it for a second: FDR was president for about 10 years b4 he died and Truman took over. Well, we're in the 10th year of the Trump era people; he came down the escalator in 2015. And FDR battled w/Socialists on one side and the KKK types on the other while coping w/ havoc in Europe and an advancing threat in the Far East.
Zoiks! Shades of Fourth Turning indeed...
Yes, I think the other side's got some stoopid ideas. HOWEVER... they only came about b/c of grinding economic challenges. Think about it for a minute: there's an entire generation of young people (I'm looking at the 30 and younger group--maybe 35 or so) who have...
NO HOPE in our current system. IDGAF 'why'; I'm simply stating what is. Pointing out the shitty job of MSM is only part of the causes; a child centered education system also played a big role in addition to the coddling by parents, but there's other reasons. The fact is, these kids have NO HOPE.
They need to be listened to. NOT argued with. Let 'em vent, take the shots, so at least they know you give a shit about them...right the hell right now, despite the wide disagreements.
We are treating them, looking at them today with the identical scorn we MAGA-ites have gotten for the last decade. It's a mirror image of that scene in the West Wing that ended with "...You don't like the people. The people."
This is direct result of the "everyone gets a Trophy" mentality. Don't keep score, don't compete, just have fun. My advice to New York republicans would be to get your house on the market soon, and vote for the Communist, and then move when he wins. New York will turn into a third world S***hole city and you're gonna need Snake Pliskken to get out of there.
It's the old adage of hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make bad times. But yeah, there are a lot factors involved in the chipping away of our societal values.
Well yeah, the fact that he is in favor of globalizing the intifada, and is highly antisemitic, is another good reason. Making it open season on New York's 1.3 million Jews, is not a good idea.
Raising taxes on "all da white people," is also not a good idea.
Government run grocery stores...huh?
This guy will be a disaster.
But hey, bring it on.
You are right in one regard. Not enough of the young people know how much of an utter failure that socialism is, wherever it has been tried. Maybe it's time to try it in New York City and just demonstrate how bad it is for every citizen.
He's also on video saying that one of the future goals is to "seize the means of production". If that's not communism, I don't know what is. But remember, the East Germans called themselves "socialists", not communists..... I think Mamdani is following suit.
The democrats have control of the major media outlets or should I say whoever has control of the democrats. Sasha Stone and Megyn Kelly and Charlie Kirk and most of Fox News are great, but I sure miss Rush.
1. Supreme court decided states rights and GOP are two faced about it.
2. Federal has control of the borders for better or worse
3. PR move and many businesses know its a PR move since they need the labor
4. PR move to move the debate from Musk
5. Who cares about LGTQ they lost
6. So Irish Scotsmans are banned from teaching now?
I do find it funny GOP have no real solutions to real issues like SS, Medicare funding, AI and automation just kick the can down the road blame the democrats when it comes down to them again and have a base a gullible morons because PR rocks.
Because GOP never compromised in the first place on anything they even denied Obama any congratulations on taking out Osama Bin Laden and called those spending gap bills which was nothing more than kick the can down the river capitulation when really nothing was gained either side.
It’s not all or nothing. Why is illegal immigration a “Republican” issue. Why is boys in girls sports (men in women’s sports) a “Democratic” party plank. It’s the one year anniversary of Joe Biden’s traumatic debate performance. Hey — there was some common bipartisan sentiment that he wasn’t up to a second term. Yeah Democrats capitulated on that.
As I said over at Liberal Patriot "Trump called Mamdani a communist lunatic. Bernie called him the future of the Democratic Party. These are not mutually exclusive.,,"
Eventually, Democrats will come to realize that they've painted themselves into a corner where they find they've allied with violent Islamist extremists, BLM/Antifa rioters & looters, and Latin American narco-terrorists by resisting Trump, MAGA, the U.S. Constitution, and traditional American values.
Mamdani ran on the same platform as Trump, a promise to make life livable again for people who live paycheck to paycheck.
The only difference is one had a plan and actual policies that will make a direct difference the other didn’t and is just doing the same shit that got us here in the first place.
Trump actually succeeded in making life better for the forgotten Americans. Mamdani did not run on clamping down on illegal immigration, lowering income taxes, lowering the corporate tax, backing the blue, reinforcing the First and Second Amendment, strengthening private property rights, and a strong military.
And how is that going for you? Has your life changed? Is food cheaper? Is your transportation cheaper? Is housing more affordable?
I’m guessing no.
The reason is all of those things rely on the invisible hand of the market to pass them on to you. It’s magical thinking. The only thing the invisible hand has ever done is funnel money upward.
If you want to make America great again, you have to ask what made it great in the first place. It was a massive redistribution of wealth after WWII, a 90% tax on the super wealthy, free education for some people, high enough wages so that you could have a rich household with a single earner, almost anyone could own their own home, and almost anyone could have a job because there were jobs programs. There was a lot of money circulating in local neighborhoods because it had been freed from the investment funds of the rich and returned to the place where it could do the work it was supposed to do. You could start a business in your town because you didn’t have to compete with international markets and people had disposable incomes.
America was great. It should be great again.
So why is Trump doing all the opposite things that created the greatest peace time economy the world has ever seen? The example is there. He’s more like Herbert Hoover, imposing tariffs, inviting business leaders to advise him, he drove the US into the greatest depression it had ever seen.
That's an old saw and really boring. What made America great was the opportunity afforded to the common folk. Laws like the Mining Law of 1872 and the Homestead Act. Unique in all the world, a legal structure where the poor man had the same opportunity as the rich man to stake a claim. It's going quite well for me, but then I removed myself to Alaska from lower America over 40 years ago. That old American spirit is still alive here.
Regarding that 90% tax on the super-wealthy, no one ever paid it. No one ever would pay that. So many loopholes were available to avoid it. If anyone did, almost none of that money was distributed to the poor, since back then, Americans had too much pride to "go on the dole". My grandmother was an Okie whose family lost their farm during the Great Depression and joined the migration to Colorado to pick sugar beets and to California to pick walnuts and other farm produce. They would never dream of going on the dole.
That is a total myth that there was a lot of money circulating in local neighborhoods. I'm a boomer and your fantasy did not exist in America.
We can start a business because we are not choked with trade guilds or the burdensome regulations that "democratic socialist" countries impose on their subjects. We can open a new business simply by stating so and buying a $100 business license. Try that in the UK or Holland or Sweden.
BTW, there is no such thing as a free education. Someone has to pay unless the teachers are all volunteers and the classes are conducted outdoors. Besides, things that come freely have little to no value. You're using the tired-out language of the socialist. Only those who have never been forced to live under socialist doctrine believe it.
Who is going to spend money on your easy to open business if most people have no money to spend on it? Plus part of Mamdani’s platform was to deregulate and lower taxes on small businesses. What has Trump done to help the owners of small grocery stores and sandwich shops? He’s only made it easier for national chains to put them out of business.
What was the economy like in the US after the Hoover presidency? What was the economy like after the FDR presidency? Which one would you choose to live in?
I’ll continue to live in my reality where my wife has an extremely persistent cancer that she will never be free of, but still the costs of her many surgeries have been borne by the country as a whole. I’ll continue to live in a reality in which Norway has nationalized their energy and now has a sovereign wealth fund over a trillion dollars; they use it to fund healthcare and housing. My reality includes Finland who make me sure everyone has housing. Mr reality includes Cuba who despite the best efforts of the most powerful country in the world trying to crush it has developed a globally respected medical system. My reality includes a nationwide standardized high-speed rail system built in China that allows people to travel across the vast country at a very low cost. My reality includes Vienna and Singapore where the majority of people don’t own land or housing but still live in places considered luxurious by most standards.
You can continue to live in your reality where housing ownership is being transferred to investment funds. Your reality where the most people (bottom 75% of earners) in the 60s could spend up to 25% of the take home pay on anything they wanted to now where you’re lucky if you can spend 10% and most have a negative discretionary income. They have less money than they need for the essentials of life. Your reality where the rich have to pay even less in your common wealth and the people who are struggling have to pay more as they are unable to use Medicaid. Your reality where ICE is the best jobs program you have, where you get to buy your own tactical gear and run around in a mask harassing brown people (no one is harassing Ukrainians or Israelis).
You were born in the best possible time to be alive. You thought you earned it, and that it came for free. You thought you didn’t have to pay into the system, you thought the rich didn’t have to pay into system. And now we all have to fix a system that your generation drained and bankrupted.
For myself, I would rather look to the successes in the world for inspiration, not the slow collapsing disaster the US had become.
Every group within the Democrat coalition is a member of a "victim group."
That's how they "win," by promising all these groups that they will "fight for them." People have to be found to blame for all of their problems.
So if you are in the party, you automatically have to toe the party line, on policy. No dissent allowed.
What is really funny is when these positions they espouse, start to contradict one another, and they twist themselves into pretzels trying to justify their positions.
Get the popcorn.
It's gonna be a great show, watching the Left eat itself.
Biden opened the border to bring in millions more members of 'victim groups' to vote for their handouts. The Dems can't persuade Americans so they cheat by adding non-citizens to their future voting base. Even if some of the illegals don't vote yet (but many do as revealed by DOGE), they add to the number of representatives blue states are allowed. How did that happen? Why do non-citizens get representation? I am totally on board with deportation. Multiculturalism is killing America. If people don't love American principles, values, and history, they should not be here. I also believe birthright citizenship CAN'T mean if you cross the border illegally to have your baby in a U.S. hospital, that baby is a U.S. citizen. Americans in the 1800's valued citizenship too much to have created that possibility for abuse.
I wish the Left wouldn’t eat themselves but rather reconstitute themselves as a worthy party to listen to because they have some good ideas. We need voices from both sides… but I’m wore down and tired of those who cast its constituents into oppressor/victim roles.
As long as the Democrats embrace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI-- Didn't Earn It), or Critical Race Theory, they will be unable to judge a person or situation based on its merits. Instead, race will determine who is the "oppressor," and who is the "oppressed."
I’ve begun to realize that the entire rational, intelligent political spectrum is embodied in the Republican Party. The Democrats—and I used to be one—have devolved into hysterical irrelevance.
True... Most of the positions that Republicans now embrace, were the property of the Democrat party for a long time...
If JFK were to run today, with identical positions, he would be labeled as a right-wing extremist by the media and Democrats. Oops, sorry for the redundancy there.
Agreed. I was raised as a Kennedy Democrat and still consider myself as one, but I also see that today's DNC bears virtually no resemblance to the old anti-communist, pro-border, pro-business Kennedy-Moynihan Democratic Party.
I saw the remnants of state owned grocery stores all around Central Europe in 1991. Ask a middle aged Pole what it was like shopping for empty shelves. Stupid will be as stupid does.
I was asked to pick up a Russian hockey player and his wife at the airport at the last minute. I decided to have them over for a BBQ so I stopped at the store on the corner of Sunset and PCH. Her husband waited in the car. I could not get her to leave. She had me go get her husband from the car. We spent over an hour in the store.
It is different in Russia now. They have beautiful grocery stores and they are shaking their heads watching what is happening in America. It is true, these democrats hate Trump more than they love America.
I have related this story elsewhere on Substack. In 1986, a cousin of mine married a guy from Poland. When his parents visited Canada a few years later, they dropped into a neighborhood Safeway…and were utterly dumbstruck by the abundance (which in their wildest
dreams they could not have envisioned) right before their eyes, and available not only to Party big shots as in Poland, but to pretty much anyone.
I have spoken to several immigrants from Eastern Block nations. Nearly all of them reported bursting into tears on their first visit to an American grocery store.
I’ll never forget my experience in a state owned grocery store in Budapest in the 80s. The shelves were literally almost empty. The next time I saw anything like it was during the covid panic buying.
Everyone seems to understand this. It just shows how desperate and out of touch the democrats are. They are lining up behind this fellow who is a leftist quack in my book. Unfortunately, he is attracting young voters who have a legitimate beef. I’ve been warning this might happen for years now. Both parties are to blame for ignoring their plight and prioritising foreign adventures and bailouts.
My prediction is that democrats will end up getting soaked in 2026 losing many seats they once considered safe.
This will continue in 2028 with republicans winning majorities large enough to pass any legislation they want.
In 2030 as the illegal alien population has been reduced and only citizens will be counted in the census democratic states especially CA and NY will lose seats in the house and electoral college votes empowering red states.
This will set of a civil war within the party which the left will win, the last moderates standing will leave the party forming a new party which will seal the fate of old Democratic Party
I've been studying election fraud since 2020. The elections are rigged in many ways — through the computer tabulators, mail-in ballot harvesting, and computerized voter rolls. Many tech guys have found hidden algorithms in the voter rolls. We have to ban voting machines, insist on in-person voting with picture ID. That will solve a lot of the issues. Otherwise I have no confidence in 2026.
There are only like 40-50 seats that can be competitive due to Gerrymandering and voluntary assortment. Republicans have a thin margin now and won’t have Trump directly on the ballot. Dem base is fire up and convinced we’re in a fascist country ruled by a king. They’ll win a good amount of seats back for that reason alone.
You are correct that the number of competitive seats has declined due to a variety of factors including redistricting in conjunction with gerrymandering and you are also correct that normally midterms come with a enthusiasm gap that normally benefits the party out of power.
Having said this however 2026 is going to be far from a normal midterm election and the dynamics at least right now do not favor democrats.
The first problem democrats have is that they are perceived as radical and out of touch, if you look at the numbers and compare them with other midterms you find that the number of voters that stated that democrats represent their views is at a record low especially with independent voters.
Democrats have also lost a lot of support from Hispanic and Asian American voters a trend that started in 2016 and has accelerated since then .
And to top it all off democrats just elected a socialist and antisemit to run as mayor for a city that sports the largest Jewish community outside of israel .
Republicans could not have wished for a better gift.
Democrats may be fired up over trumps policies but this time republicans are equally if not more fired up over defending trumps record on immigration and to keep socialists and radicals from taking over.
Ah, the Dems have been digging a hole for ten years, intending to bury Trump and his supporters for eternity. Now they’re realizing that they are about to be buried in that grave intended for Trump. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of hateful and intolerant people.
More importantly, it’s no longer cool for normal people to identify as Democrats. The Dem positions such as DEI, transgender surgery for minors, boys playing girls’ sports (and sharing locker rooms!), etc are repulsive 🤮 to normal people. Hysterically, the Latinos they’ve been desperately importing are rapidly becoming Republicans. The world will be a better place when the hate and intolerance of the Dems has finally been buried.
Mamdani seems to conveniently blame New York’s problems on Trump, but New York has been almost exclusively under Democratic rule for most of my life. I think it is high time for the Democrats to cop to the mess they have made of American cities. According to the New York Post this week, Soros and Co. just financed one of those “harm reduction” drug centers on Mercer Street. Photos show people injecting themselves in the neck on the street, passed out on the sidewalk etc. Former (Democratic) Mayor DiBlasio’s wife appears to have disappeared a billion meant to help the mentally ill. (Unfortunately I actually voted for this incompetent.) During the pandemic, Trump didn’t close the public schools while leaving the private schools open to kowtow to the teachers union. Trump also didn’t stock up hotels and shelters all over the city with illegal migrants. The sheer numbers are astonishing. For example, a shelter for 2,200 men recently popped up in the Bronx. These policies and more are drastically affecting life in the city. None of them were caused by Trump.
Gavin Newsom has been California’s Mandani for years. Rather than admit he’s wrong on policy, Newscum doubles down on stupid. He does not discuss issues affecting Californians, he only attacks Trump, like it’s a state governor’s job to take on the US president and not attend to the state citizens. We all see the disaster California has become., this is how it will be with NYC under Mamdani.
Both CA and NY start with lots of money. This nest egg makes socialism seem to work. Unfortunately all that money is mobile and unlike a generalissimo, neither government can stop it.
This was a nice read. Strangely the words of the poem "Ozymandias" came into my mind as I read your analysis:
"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
I am still waiting for the moment when that poem fully resonates as a true metaphor of what happened to the Democratic Party. It would be nice if this happened in the 2026 mid-terms.
I’ve yet to see any Dem talking head explain how their party recovers from being on the wrong side of every 80 / 20 issue.
While President Trump is attempting to solve problems with common sense solutions, all the Dems have is their anti-Trump rhetoric, which the American public is tuning out after 10 years of hearing it. There’s a high level of fatigue with normal Americans for anything or anyone associated with the Dems.
People now recognize that the Dems are toxic and unhealthy to be around. The Dems just give off a vibe of being mentally unstable, so normal people don’t want to associate with them.
There is no path here without entirely new voices and leaders for the Ds. These positions are not lightly taken. Ds have not said “this seems interesting let’s try it and see while keeping an open mind.”
Instead they have planted flags of moral righteousness in every one of these issues. How do you backtrack from proclamations of being “on the right side of history.” You can’t do it. It’s not a messaging issue - it’s (if you’ll pardon the religious language) a heart issue. They are fully invested in the faith.
the only path to abandoning the faith is a conversion like Sasha Stone.
But we do need a competent center-left party. Having one party too dominant for too long has usually been a disaster. Opposition and competition foster better ideas and accountability. So even though I lean right, I hope new D leadership emerges (or perhaps a new party?).
In many circles, the TDS is stronger than the fatigue. There have been revolutions led by young, idealistic, charismatic characters who can sway a generation. The disciples of this new progressive religion/cult might very well put this inexperienced charlatan in the mayor’s office. If NYC falls, other big cities will follow and they won’t be from Republican victories.
But like the people in Chicago they will keep voting idiots like this in. They comfort themselves with the idea they are being preyed upon by outside forces.
Let’s see if Mamdani now gets rich. Bernie after all has three houses, I believe, and is flying around on private jets to talk about the climate crisis. Maybe Mamdani can get a jet to fly around lecturing people on socialism.
Sanders flew on private jets on his Fighting Oligarchy tour. The irony of it! According to Washington Free Beacon, he spent over $221k just on flights. And refused to apologize for it when he was asked about the use of private jets on the Special Report. It is hard not to get cynical looking at the elitist life style of “progressive” left promoting socialism. And their hypocrisy in regards to climate change. They are shameless.
Other than the densely populated urban areas, NY is already red. That's roughly 75% or more of the geography of the State. Its what keeps the Progressive Democrat Elites up at night.
This is, I think, the real danger for the Ds. NYC will stay in the D column even if Mamdani burns it to the ground. But it is losing population - some 300k since 220. That, combined with some moves toward the R Column in the margins, is tilting state politics to the right. NY will never be S. Dakota, but it could more resemble Pennsylvania in the near future.
That may happen, its a better outcome than what we have in NYS now.
Or, the State could split in to 3 autonomous regions (the idea and framework has been proposed) that allows for each region to govern itself socially. Mamdami's election could revive that proposal.
As a native Central New Yorker, former Manhattanite, and now living on Long Island, this would be ideal. These three regions (upstate, NYC and LI) have very little in common, and two of the three deeply resent the third for dragging them down. However, the succubae in Albany will never ever let that happen unless there is a red shift.
The part about journalists as a victim group is unfortunately spot on. They have gotten a huge number of recent stories wrong and have completely abandoned the idea of attempting truthful, non-biased reporting. Their stories on RFK Jr., the unvaccinated, Trump supporters, and others have been downright vicious. Yet they always get terribly upset when criticized. I am not sure what is going on with them. If they at least corrected stories they got wrong I might have some sympathy.
For once it's actually simple: They ceased being journalists years ago. In fact, "journalist" is in serious danger of going the way of other formerly useful words like "liberal," "gay," "pride," etc..
After trump won democrats had their chance to regroup and work with trump on things that the majority of Americans support hence showing to people that they can govern and work in a bipartisan fashion.
They had a chance to move their party back to the center and isolate the left.
But they didn’t, instead they doubled down on all the failed policies and ideology that got them in the hole to begin with
It's always GREAT when Trump gets the Democrats to take another losing side on an 80/20 issue...
They hate Trump so bad, they oppose him, reflexively. Without even thinking
Now Trump even has some of these Democrats defending Iran 😂😂
Remember the movie Gaslight?? Same concept!!
Since Clinton/Gore, the Dems haven't given 2 shits about American citizens, governing, or anything else. They have cared about power and, more importantly, the money that comes with that power., both economically and politically.
This is the appropriate lens to view Democrats with. It is money and power only. Ideology is there too, but it is definitely the third priority. These are the most disgusting people in our country.
And we saw with grants and USAID how the government funded it all.
Yes! Isn't it curious, now that USAID money it cut off, that the Democrats are having trouble raising money? 🤔
Power and money….two strong aphrodisiacs. Personally, I wonder how they can talk with such conviction about social issues that average Americans abhor. Are they trying to win over voters by supporting so called “trans rights” and other radical groups? Or a more simple explanation, are they just plain stupid? It makes no sense from where I sit.
The Dem playbook for the last ~3 decades has been to use identity politics to hide that they are the corporate/donor class Party.
Bill Clinton doesn't deserve to be considered in the same category as today's Democrats. He was a good leader, and he did good things for the country, personal faults aside.
Neither he nor JFK would have a place in today's Democratic Party. What is so frustrating is that Bill Clinton and Kennedys other than RFK Jr. continue to support the leftist extremists that the Democratic Party is known for today, rather than joining the country's classical liberals, best represented by Donald Trump, et al.
Clinton was Reagan wearing playing the sax, ffs. He totally sold out to the corporate donor class, signed thru NAFTA, bombed the Baltic states, and plundered Ukraine along w/his pal Yeltsin. He pandered to the Public while 'selling' to the donors. He was the beginning of the end. And he ushered in all the rest of the utterly corrupt Dems: Pelosi, Schumer, his wife, Obama, et al.
I think you are describing your dear leader, Trump..
At least Trump knows where he's at...
He's doing what people elected him to do! 💯
Meanwhile they have taken up the talking points of the MAGA movement. Listen carefully to what they now say, they understand what worked in the last election and now they adopt the words as their own. But they don’t have those same principles. They don’t know or care about upholding the constitution, or do they care about free speech for everyone. They have contempt for family, Christians, capitalism, decency and guns.
I get that the most extreme are the loudest activists. But they in truth they act crazy and come off incredibly ignorant.
Love Tom Petty.
To put it in the words of a billy Joel song “its only just a matter of trust “ and democrats lost the trust of Americans a long time ago.
People are used to talk and they hear what politicians are saying but they ask where is the guarantee that you will deliver ?
Trump already proved to people that he delivers or at least tries in earnest to deliver and by doing so
Earned the trust of people.
You wrote ...
"But they didn’t, instead they doubled down on all the failed policies and ideology that got them in the hole to begin with.".
The Book of Proverbs captures the situation rather more pungently: "As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly."
Democrats are still pushing all same agenda positions that we saw under Biden. The DNC is continuing to defend the indefensible. Why are they for: Government waste, fraud, corruption and grift. Child genital mutilation and chemical castration. Allowing boys in a skirt to rape girls in bathrooms and locker rooms. Keeping every illegal alien that is a murder, rapist, thief, violent gang member, nazi terrorist, and child sex slaver from being deported. Encourage and support rioting in the streets to stop ICE from removing them. Allowing Iran to get nuclear weapons. Supporting and using assassination against their political opponents.
With those and many other similar position and actions democrats will continue to lose voter support and forget about winning any election for the next decade. They will be on the wrong side of every 80/20 to 95/5 political issue for the foreseeable future. This is just like the Bud Lite effect. The company lost over a third of its market share and never recovered despite firing Dulvany and all the back tracking on their LGBTQ position they have done over the last few years.
Sounds like a solid strategy to me. In order to lose. We should all invite them to move to Venezuela! Why wait 50 years to transform the U.S. when you can have it all right now?
BINGO...
People are taking the red pill, and refusing to believe in their Insanity, anymore.
Moderate and liberal Democrats are leaving in droves. And the curious thing about that is, the more moderates that leave the party, the more radical the party will become...bring it on!
Oh man... the responses here are embarrassing. I'm seeing our side, the 'pretty much MAGA' coalition respond to Memdami Da Commie in the identical fashion that the Dems responded to Trump:
- 'dis guy's gonna ruin everything!
- 'dis guyz a terrorist!
- dis guy's gonna put us all in camps!
The Democrats/Lefties/Whatever... failed for one reason: They refused to ask "WTF?" Instead of giving Sanders a fair hearing and a place at the table, they smeared him to the point that he became their bitch. Today, he's a laughable phony- see the YT's on his Rogan appearance. As a result, the issues such as income disparity first personified in Occupy Wall Street and Robert Reich's documentaries have only been exacerbated.
Aaand opened up a huge lane for DJT.
As I see it, Trump's 2nd term is an echo of FDR's time in office. Think about it for a second: FDR was president for about 10 years b4 he died and Truman took over. Well, we're in the 10th year of the Trump era people; he came down the escalator in 2015. And FDR battled w/Socialists on one side and the KKK types on the other while coping w/ havoc in Europe and an advancing threat in the Far East.
Zoiks! Shades of Fourth Turning indeed...
Yes, I think the other side's got some stoopid ideas. HOWEVER... they only came about b/c of grinding economic challenges. Think about it for a minute: there's an entire generation of young people (I'm looking at the 30 and younger group--maybe 35 or so) who have...
NO HOPE in our current system. IDGAF 'why'; I'm simply stating what is. Pointing out the shitty job of MSM is only part of the causes; a child centered education system also played a big role in addition to the coddling by parents, but there's other reasons. The fact is, these kids have NO HOPE.
They need to be listened to. NOT argued with. Let 'em vent, take the shots, so at least they know you give a shit about them...right the hell right now, despite the wide disagreements.
We are treating them, looking at them today with the identical scorn we MAGA-ites have gotten for the last decade. It's a mirror image of that scene in the West Wing that ended with "...You don't like the people. The people."
Shame on us.
This is direct result of the "everyone gets a Trophy" mentality. Don't keep score, don't compete, just have fun. My advice to New York republicans would be to get your house on the market soon, and vote for the Communist, and then move when he wins. New York will turn into a third world S***hole city and you're gonna need Snake Pliskken to get out of there.
I think that plays a role, yeah. But that's not all of it, don't you think?
It's the old adage of hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make bad times. But yeah, there are a lot factors involved in the chipping away of our societal values.
Well yeah, the fact that he is in favor of globalizing the intifada, and is highly antisemitic, is another good reason. Making it open season on New York's 1.3 million Jews, is not a good idea.
Raising taxes on "all da white people," is also not a good idea.
Government run grocery stores...huh?
This guy will be a disaster.
But hey, bring it on.
You are right in one regard. Not enough of the young people know how much of an utter failure that socialism is, wherever it has been tried. Maybe it's time to try it in New York City and just demonstrate how bad it is for every citizen.
He's also on video saying that one of the future goals is to "seize the means of production". If that's not communism, I don't know what is. But remember, the East Germans called themselves "socialists", not communists..... I think Mamdani is following suit.
Exactly!!
The democrats have control of the major media outlets or should I say whoever has control of the democrats. Sasha Stone and Megyn Kelly and Charlie Kirk and most of Fox News are great, but I sure miss Rush.
Charlie Kirk is great. When he first started, he was all by himself.
When he first started, he was all by himself. Proclaiming the truth.
Now he has lots of places where he has people lined up to listen to him on campus.
Proclaiming the truth and using common sense. Who would have known that there would be college students that actually are interested in that 😂🤣
The college students don't seem to be so interested in Charlie Kirk's views as they are in grandstanding with their version of debate.
Oh, the people who speak, or debate, definitely.
But there are lots of Charlie Kirk supporters that listen to these grandstanding Leftists...
Things have really come around.
You could add these words to your last sentence: "because their minds are broken"
All Trumpers are fascists. Working with him means establishing Trump as a dictator and destroying everything good and decent in this world.
Annnnnd... Probably another Democrat that has NO IDEA what a fascist even is. But, CNN said, MSNBC said...
ALL Democrats are Karens, busybodies, trying to tell everyone else what to do.
I'm this case, literally...
You vote for the people a who want to ban abortion ànd return sodomy laws.
Nobody is campaigning on sodomy laws. Turn off CNN and MSNBC...
And yes, I think it was sick as hell that the state of New York legalized abortion, up until the day of birth, and the NY assembly celebrated it!
Democrats are sick in the head, with everything they stand for.
1 Boys in girls' sports and locker rooms
2 Defense of illegal alien criminals, over US citizens!
3 Defund the cops
4 Sanctuary Cities
5 Abortion up until birth
6 Hairy gross drag queens reading to kindergarteners.
7 )reaching that there are more than 2 sexes...is it 9, or 27, or 59? Democrats can have their own opinions, but not their own "Truth"
When has either party worked with the other party to get things done? The last time it happened was a war and nothing else.
By opposing EVERYTHING Trump does, they are just making themselves irrelevant. I'm all for it! Let's go Whigs!
GOP did that as well 1993 , 2009 and 2021.
Well, opposing EVERYTHING Biden did, was a no brainer.
1. Is it bad, that Trump wants to prohibit boys from changing with girls and competing in their sports?
2. Is it bad, that Trump has secured the border, it doesn't let millions of unvetted illegal aliens in?
3. Is it bad, that Trump has ICE arresting illegal alien criminals, who have raped women, molested children, and traffic people?
4. Is it bad, that that the riots that started in La, were stopped by the national guard, via Trump, before they burn the city down?
5. Is it BAD that Trump proclaims that there are TWO sexes, not 8, or 27, or 59, or whatever Democrats proclaim?
6. Is it BAD, that Trump doesn't mind everyone else to pay for college graduates loans?
7. Is it bad, that Trump doesn't want hairy guys in dresses, reading to kindergartners?
You Democrats pick some pretty interesting 80%-20% hills to die on.
1. Supreme court decided states rights and GOP are two faced about it.
2. Federal has control of the borders for better or worse
3. PR move and many businesses know its a PR move since they need the labor
4. PR move to move the debate from Musk
5. Who cares about LGTQ they lost
6. So Irish Scotsmans are banned from teaching now?
I do find it funny GOP have no real solutions to real issues like SS, Medicare funding, AI and automation just kick the can down the road blame the democrats when it comes down to them again and have a base a gullible morons because PR rocks.
So, of those six things I listed, which ones are you in favor of?
They are all big 80/20 issues that more people care about.
I'm not exactly sure what some of your points are meant but why don't you answer my question?
All those 80/20 issues, which ones are you in favor of and which ones do you oppose?
Like you say, Obama and Biden major legislature had no compromise with Republicans and basically zero Republican votes.
Because GOP never compromised in the first place on anything they even denied Obama any congratulations on taking out Osama Bin Laden and called those spending gap bills which was nothing more than kick the can down the river capitulation when really nothing was gained either side.
GOP has ALWAYS compromised with the Democrats. We even have a name for the Compromisers.
RINO Republicans in Name Only.
Remember McCain, Romney, Murzowski, Susan Collins, etc
Its called being “pot committed”
Just like they did in 2016.
Do you realize NO PARTY has worked with the majority to get work done in the modern era. You want democrats to capitulate and become Republicans.
It’s not all or nothing. Why is illegal immigration a “Republican” issue. Why is boys in girls sports (men in women’s sports) a “Democratic” party plank. It’s the one year anniversary of Joe Biden’s traumatic debate performance. Hey — there was some common bipartisan sentiment that he wasn’t up to a second term. Yeah Democrats capitulated on that.
They're sending themselves to the wilderness, with their insanity.
I say, bring it on! Let's go, Whigs!
As I said over at Liberal Patriot "Trump called Mamdani a communist lunatic. Bernie called him the future of the Democratic Party. These are not mutually exclusive.,,"
The red guards always devour their own. The democrats are the party of identarian struggle sessions. We are all counter revolutionaries who must be denounced: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/elon-musk-trump-struggle-session-gfy
Eventually, Democrats will come to realize that they've painted themselves into a corner where they find they've allied with violent Islamist extremists, BLM/Antifa rioters & looters, and Latin American narco-terrorists by resisting Trump, MAGA, the U.S. Constitution, and traditional American values.
But aren't they already there?
Yes, but do they know this?
Self awareness is not the strongest point of either party
So true.
The Democrats don't acknowledge it. They're doubling down on insanity...
Mamdani ran on the same platform as Trump, a promise to make life livable again for people who live paycheck to paycheck.
The only difference is one had a plan and actual policies that will make a direct difference the other didn’t and is just doing the same shit that got us here in the first place.
Trump actually succeeded in making life better for the forgotten Americans. Mamdani did not run on clamping down on illegal immigration, lowering income taxes, lowering the corporate tax, backing the blue, reinforcing the First and Second Amendment, strengthening private property rights, and a strong military.
And how is that going for you? Has your life changed? Is food cheaper? Is your transportation cheaper? Is housing more affordable?
I’m guessing no.
The reason is all of those things rely on the invisible hand of the market to pass them on to you. It’s magical thinking. The only thing the invisible hand has ever done is funnel money upward.
If you want to make America great again, you have to ask what made it great in the first place. It was a massive redistribution of wealth after WWII, a 90% tax on the super wealthy, free education for some people, high enough wages so that you could have a rich household with a single earner, almost anyone could own their own home, and almost anyone could have a job because there were jobs programs. There was a lot of money circulating in local neighborhoods because it had been freed from the investment funds of the rich and returned to the place where it could do the work it was supposed to do. You could start a business in your town because you didn’t have to compete with international markets and people had disposable incomes.
America was great. It should be great again.
So why is Trump doing all the opposite things that created the greatest peace time economy the world has ever seen? The example is there. He’s more like Herbert Hoover, imposing tariffs, inviting business leaders to advise him, he drove the US into the greatest depression it had ever seen.
That's an old saw and really boring. What made America great was the opportunity afforded to the common folk. Laws like the Mining Law of 1872 and the Homestead Act. Unique in all the world, a legal structure where the poor man had the same opportunity as the rich man to stake a claim. It's going quite well for me, but then I removed myself to Alaska from lower America over 40 years ago. That old American spirit is still alive here.
Regarding that 90% tax on the super-wealthy, no one ever paid it. No one ever would pay that. So many loopholes were available to avoid it. If anyone did, almost none of that money was distributed to the poor, since back then, Americans had too much pride to "go on the dole". My grandmother was an Okie whose family lost their farm during the Great Depression and joined the migration to Colorado to pick sugar beets and to California to pick walnuts and other farm produce. They would never dream of going on the dole.
That is a total myth that there was a lot of money circulating in local neighborhoods. I'm a boomer and your fantasy did not exist in America.
We can start a business because we are not choked with trade guilds or the burdensome regulations that "democratic socialist" countries impose on their subjects. We can open a new business simply by stating so and buying a $100 business license. Try that in the UK or Holland or Sweden.
BTW, there is no such thing as a free education. Someone has to pay unless the teachers are all volunteers and the classes are conducted outdoors. Besides, things that come freely have little to no value. You're using the tired-out language of the socialist. Only those who have never been forced to live under socialist doctrine believe it.
Who is going to spend money on your easy to open business if most people have no money to spend on it? Plus part of Mamdani’s platform was to deregulate and lower taxes on small businesses. What has Trump done to help the owners of small grocery stores and sandwich shops? He’s only made it easier for national chains to put them out of business.
What was the economy like in the US after the Hoover presidency? What was the economy like after the FDR presidency? Which one would you choose to live in?
I’ll continue to live in my reality where my wife has an extremely persistent cancer that she will never be free of, but still the costs of her many surgeries have been borne by the country as a whole. I’ll continue to live in a reality in which Norway has nationalized their energy and now has a sovereign wealth fund over a trillion dollars; they use it to fund healthcare and housing. My reality includes Finland who make me sure everyone has housing. Mr reality includes Cuba who despite the best efforts of the most powerful country in the world trying to crush it has developed a globally respected medical system. My reality includes a nationwide standardized high-speed rail system built in China that allows people to travel across the vast country at a very low cost. My reality includes Vienna and Singapore where the majority of people don’t own land or housing but still live in places considered luxurious by most standards.
You can continue to live in your reality where housing ownership is being transferred to investment funds. Your reality where the most people (bottom 75% of earners) in the 60s could spend up to 25% of the take home pay on anything they wanted to now where you’re lucky if you can spend 10% and most have a negative discretionary income. They have less money than they need for the essentials of life. Your reality where the rich have to pay even less in your common wealth and the people who are struggling have to pay more as they are unable to use Medicaid. Your reality where ICE is the best jobs program you have, where you get to buy your own tactical gear and run around in a mask harassing brown people (no one is harassing Ukrainians or Israelis).
You were born in the best possible time to be alive. You thought you earned it, and that it came for free. You thought you didn’t have to pay into the system, you thought the rich didn’t have to pay into system. And now we all have to fix a system that your generation drained and bankrupted.
For myself, I would rather look to the successes in the world for inspiration, not the slow collapsing disaster the US had become.
Every group within the Democrat coalition is a member of a "victim group."
That's how they "win," by promising all these groups that they will "fight for them." People have to be found to blame for all of their problems.
So if you are in the party, you automatically have to toe the party line, on policy. No dissent allowed.
What is really funny is when these positions they espouse, start to contradict one another, and they twist themselves into pretzels trying to justify their positions.
Get the popcorn.
It's gonna be a great show, watching the Left eat itself.
Biden opened the border to bring in millions more members of 'victim groups' to vote for their handouts. The Dems can't persuade Americans so they cheat by adding non-citizens to their future voting base. Even if some of the illegals don't vote yet (but many do as revealed by DOGE), they add to the number of representatives blue states are allowed. How did that happen? Why do non-citizens get representation? I am totally on board with deportation. Multiculturalism is killing America. If people don't love American principles, values, and history, they should not be here. I also believe birthright citizenship CAN'T mean if you cross the border illegally to have your baby in a U.S. hospital, that baby is a U.S. citizen. Americans in the 1800's valued citizenship too much to have created that possibility for abuse.
💯💯💯
Illegal aliens can't vote.
Allegedly.
I wish the Left wouldn’t eat themselves but rather reconstitute themselves as a worthy party to listen to because they have some good ideas. We need voices from both sides… but I’m wore down and tired of those who cast its constituents into oppressor/victim roles.
Which good ideas are those?
A question that nobody can answer.
Exactly.
As long as the Democrats embrace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI-- Didn't Earn It), or Critical Race Theory, they will be unable to judge a person or situation based on its merits. Instead, race will determine who is the "oppressor," and who is the "oppressed."
Racism at it's finest.
I’ve begun to realize that the entire rational, intelligent political spectrum is embodied in the Republican Party. The Democrats—and I used to be one—have devolved into hysterical irrelevance.
True... Most of the positions that Republicans now embrace, were the property of the Democrat party for a long time...
If JFK were to run today, with identical positions, he would be labeled as a right-wing extremist by the media and Democrats. Oops, sorry for the redundancy there.
Agreed. I was raised as a Kennedy Democrat and still consider myself as one, but I also see that today's DNC bears virtually no resemblance to the old anti-communist, pro-border, pro-business Kennedy-Moynihan Democratic Party.
“They’ll have no choice but to accept the truth — that they’ve helped build an army they can’t control.”
Brilliant line Sasha !
I saw the remnants of state owned grocery stores all around Central Europe in 1991. Ask a middle aged Pole what it was like shopping for empty shelves. Stupid will be as stupid does.
And here is mine firsthand account of Empty Shelves:
https://open.substack.com/pub/barrylederman/p/ebrief-from-life-2-empty-shelves?r=o30r9&utm_medium=ios
Thanks for sharing your personal account. Everyone should read it and beware...
I was asked to pick up a Russian hockey player and his wife at the airport at the last minute. I decided to have them over for a BBQ so I stopped at the store on the corner of Sunset and PCH. Her husband waited in the car. I could not get her to leave. She had me go get her husband from the car. We spent over an hour in the store.
It is different in Russia now. They have beautiful grocery stores and they are shaking their heads watching what is happening in America. It is true, these democrats hate Trump more than they love America.
The stores in Poland are now also very different since Poland joined EU.
I have related this story elsewhere on Substack. In 1986, a cousin of mine married a guy from Poland. When his parents visited Canada a few years later, they dropped into a neighborhood Safeway…and were utterly dumbstruck by the abundance (which in their wildest
dreams they could not have envisioned) right before their eyes, and available not only to Party big shots as in Poland, but to pretty much anyone.
I have spoken to several immigrants from Eastern Block nations. Nearly all of them reported bursting into tears on their first visit to an American grocery store.
I wish this could be remembered.
I’ll never forget my experience in a state owned grocery store in Budapest in the 80s. The shelves were literally almost empty. The next time I saw anything like it was during the covid panic buying.
Everyone seems to understand this. It just shows how desperate and out of touch the democrats are. They are lining up behind this fellow who is a leftist quack in my book. Unfortunately, he is attracting young voters who have a legitimate beef. I’ve been warning this might happen for years now. Both parties are to blame for ignoring their plight and prioritising foreign adventures and bailouts.
My prediction is that democrats will end up getting soaked in 2026 losing many seats they once considered safe.
This will continue in 2028 with republicans winning majorities large enough to pass any legislation they want.
In 2030 as the illegal alien population has been reduced and only citizens will be counted in the census democratic states especially CA and NY will lose seats in the house and electoral college votes empowering red states.
This will set of a civil war within the party which the left will win, the last moderates standing will leave the party forming a new party which will seal the fate of old Democratic Party
I've been studying election fraud since 2020. The elections are rigged in many ways — through the computer tabulators, mail-in ballot harvesting, and computerized voter rolls. Many tech guys have found hidden algorithms in the voter rolls. We have to ban voting machines, insist on in-person voting with picture ID. That will solve a lot of the issues. Otherwise I have no confidence in 2026.
Also eliminate rank choice voting.
Rank choices voting in almost incomprehensible, and is almost impossible to audit.
Also seems to heavily favor the D's. Not sure why.
Because they can just keep "counting," until they get the result they want.
Yes. Paper ballots ONLY.
From your lips to God's ears
Amen!
I hope so.
Let's hope so!
Let's go WHIGS!
There are only like 40-50 seats that can be competitive due to Gerrymandering and voluntary assortment. Republicans have a thin margin now and won’t have Trump directly on the ballot. Dem base is fire up and convinced we’re in a fascist country ruled by a king. They’ll win a good amount of seats back for that reason alone.
I politely disagree !
You are correct that the number of competitive seats has declined due to a variety of factors including redistricting in conjunction with gerrymandering and you are also correct that normally midterms come with a enthusiasm gap that normally benefits the party out of power.
Having said this however 2026 is going to be far from a normal midterm election and the dynamics at least right now do not favor democrats.
The first problem democrats have is that they are perceived as radical and out of touch, if you look at the numbers and compare them with other midterms you find that the number of voters that stated that democrats represent their views is at a record low especially with independent voters.
Democrats have also lost a lot of support from Hispanic and Asian American voters a trend that started in 2016 and has accelerated since then .
And to top it all off democrats just elected a socialist and antisemit to run as mayor for a city that sports the largest Jewish community outside of israel .
Republicans could not have wished for a better gift.
Democrats may be fired up over trumps policies but this time republicans are equally if not more fired up over defending trumps record on immigration and to keep socialists and radicals from taking over.
We shall see. Much will also likely hinge on the economy in the late summer/early fall.
Ah, the Dems have been digging a hole for ten years, intending to bury Trump and his supporters for eternity. Now they’re realizing that they are about to be buried in that grave intended for Trump. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of hateful and intolerant people.
More importantly, it’s no longer cool for normal people to identify as Democrats. The Dem positions such as DEI, transgender surgery for minors, boys playing girls’ sports (and sharing locker rooms!), etc are repulsive 🤮 to normal people. Hysterically, the Latinos they’ve been desperately importing are rapidly becoming Republicans. The world will be a better place when the hate and intolerance of the Dems has finally been buried.
Mamdani seems to conveniently blame New York’s problems on Trump, but New York has been almost exclusively under Democratic rule for most of my life. I think it is high time for the Democrats to cop to the mess they have made of American cities. According to the New York Post this week, Soros and Co. just financed one of those “harm reduction” drug centers on Mercer Street. Photos show people injecting themselves in the neck on the street, passed out on the sidewalk etc. Former (Democratic) Mayor DiBlasio’s wife appears to have disappeared a billion meant to help the mentally ill. (Unfortunately I actually voted for this incompetent.) During the pandemic, Trump didn’t close the public schools while leaving the private schools open to kowtow to the teachers union. Trump also didn’t stock up hotels and shelters all over the city with illegal migrants. The sheer numbers are astonishing. For example, a shelter for 2,200 men recently popped up in the Bronx. These policies and more are drastically affecting life in the city. None of them were caused by Trump.
Gavin Newsom has been California’s Mandani for years. Rather than admit he’s wrong on policy, Newscum doubles down on stupid. He does not discuss issues affecting Californians, he only attacks Trump, like it’s a state governor’s job to take on the US president and not attend to the state citizens. We all see the disaster California has become., this is how it will be with NYC under Mamdani.
Both CA and NY start with lots of money. This nest egg makes socialism seem to work. Unfortunately all that money is mobile and unlike a generalissimo, neither government can stop it.
He can't deliver on most of his promises. Beyond his pay grade. This lost generation will follow him over the cliff like lemmings. I'm sad for NYC.
You lie with dogs, you get fleas.
This was a nice read. Strangely the words of the poem "Ozymandias" came into my mind as I read your analysis:
"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
I am still waiting for the moment when that poem fully resonates as a true metaphor of what happened to the Democratic Party. It would be nice if this happened in the 2026 mid-terms.
“Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Far better for it to happen to the Democrat party than for their vision to become reality and see it happen to America.
Damn Sasha! There’s an old saying…”There’s nothing worse than a reformed sinner”. Perhaps that should be …”A reformed liberal!” Give em hell girl!
I’ve yet to see any Dem talking head explain how their party recovers from being on the wrong side of every 80 / 20 issue.
While President Trump is attempting to solve problems with common sense solutions, all the Dems have is their anti-Trump rhetoric, which the American public is tuning out after 10 years of hearing it. There’s a high level of fatigue with normal Americans for anything or anyone associated with the Dems.
People now recognize that the Dems are toxic and unhealthy to be around. The Dems just give off a vibe of being mentally unstable, so normal people don’t want to associate with them.
RE: The wrong side of 80/20 issues
There is no path here without entirely new voices and leaders for the Ds. These positions are not lightly taken. Ds have not said “this seems interesting let’s try it and see while keeping an open mind.”
Instead they have planted flags of moral righteousness in every one of these issues. How do you backtrack from proclamations of being “on the right side of history.” You can’t do it. It’s not a messaging issue - it’s (if you’ll pardon the religious language) a heart issue. They are fully invested in the faith.
the only path to abandoning the faith is a conversion like Sasha Stone.
But we do need a competent center-left party. Having one party too dominant for too long has usually been a disaster. Opposition and competition foster better ideas and accountability. So even though I lean right, I hope new D leadership emerges (or perhaps a new party?).
They are really a stone’s throw from national power. Best to have a reliable party.
In many circles, the TDS is stronger than the fatigue. There have been revolutions led by young, idealistic, charismatic characters who can sway a generation. The disciples of this new progressive religion/cult might very well put this inexperienced charlatan in the mayor’s office. If NYC falls, other big cities will follow and they won’t be from Republican victories.
This is exactly the point of the David Friedberg clip in Sasha’s article.
But if Mamdani gets elected, New Yorkers will soon realize what Chicagoans have already realized: they don’t want a Marxist mayor.
But like the people in Chicago they will keep voting idiots like this in. They comfort themselves with the idea they are being preyed upon by outside forces.
Well at least NY’ers can be together in bread lines.
Let’s see if Mamdani now gets rich. Bernie after all has three houses, I believe, and is flying around on private jets to talk about the climate crisis. Maybe Mamdani can get a jet to fly around lecturing people on socialism.
Mamdani has been rich all along. He attended a Manhattan private elementary school that charges $60k a year tuition.
Bowdoin College tuition is $87k per year.
That, too!
Sanders flew on private jets on his Fighting Oligarchy tour. The irony of it! According to Washington Free Beacon, he spent over $221k just on flights. And refused to apologize for it when he was asked about the use of private jets on the Special Report. It is hard not to get cynical looking at the elitist life style of “progressive” left promoting socialism. And their hypocrisy in regards to climate change. They are shameless.
I cannot wait for the state run grocery stores (because I'm not in that state).
Why stop there? Why not state run fast food joints serving democratic burritos and progressive enchiladas?
Do they not understand that they're doing everything they can to paint NY red (as in Republican)?
Other than the densely populated urban areas, NY is already red. That's roughly 75% or more of the geography of the State. Its what keeps the Progressive Democrat Elites up at night.
This is, I think, the real danger for the Ds. NYC will stay in the D column even if Mamdani burns it to the ground. But it is losing population - some 300k since 220. That, combined with some moves toward the R Column in the margins, is tilting state politics to the right. NY will never be S. Dakota, but it could more resemble Pennsylvania in the near future.
That may happen, its a better outcome than what we have in NYS now.
Or, the State could split in to 3 autonomous regions (the idea and framework has been proposed) that allows for each region to govern itself socially. Mamdami's election could revive that proposal.
I see this idea from time to time. interesting, but a tough sell I think. And I shudder at the logistics and political hurdles of such a plan. Still…
As a native Central New Yorker, former Manhattanite, and now living on Long Island, this would be ideal. These three regions (upstate, NYC and LI) have very little in common, and two of the three deeply resent the third for dragging them down. However, the succubae in Albany will never ever let that happen unless there is a red shift.
The last time Andrew Cuomo ran for governor he won all but 57 of the states 64 counties.
We do have State run liquor stores for some reason. Go to a “total wine” and compare.
The part about journalists as a victim group is unfortunately spot on. They have gotten a huge number of recent stories wrong and have completely abandoned the idea of attempting truthful, non-biased reporting. Their stories on RFK Jr., the unvaccinated, Trump supporters, and others have been downright vicious. Yet they always get terribly upset when criticized. I am not sure what is going on with them. If they at least corrected stories they got wrong I might have some sympathy.
For once it's actually simple: They ceased being journalists years ago. In fact, "journalist" is in serious danger of going the way of other formerly useful words like "liberal," "gay," "pride," etc..