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Democrats are in free fall.
As of Monday, Donald J. Trump is officially the 47th President of the United States. He’s starting his second term in the Oval Office with a bang—issuing dozens of executive orders fulfilling promises made to American voters—and he’s more popular than he’s ever been.
Democrats have no idea how to respond. Their party currently has the lowest approval rating ever, and for good reason. He is guilty of perpetrating the biggest political scandal of our lifetime — pretending that President Joe Biden is okay to run for another four years. Their efforts to brand Donald Trump as a threat to democracy have failed and their leadership is in shambles. They deserve every minute they serve in political purgatory.
Former communications director Kamale Harris says Democrats “need to tear down our image.” He has a right.
TRUMP’S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS WAS A TRIUMPH FOR HIM AND HIS SUPPORTERS
The trials of the parties will not end soon. As Trump takes office, he and his team will focus on dishonest efforts by Democrats to bar him from public office, from trumped-up lawsuits aimed at imprisoning him to the Russiagate hoax. The state is seeking accountability for those trying to censor right-wing voices and for hiding evidence of the Biden family’s corruption.
By issuing pardons to some of the criminals, like Anthony Fauci and Liz Cheney, Biden is acknowledging their complicity. By granting a pardon to numerous members of the Biden family, Joe all but admitted that they aided and abetted the influence peddling and pay-to-play activities run by Hunter Biden. What an embarrassing departure, cementing Biden’s status as one of the most unpopular presidents of all time.
Democrats must now rebuild their trust with the American people. They have lost favor (and elections) because they do not know what they stand for and who they represent. Joe Biden in his farewell address talked about a mysterious “oligarchy” of “extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy,” but most think it’s the crowd that threw a billion dollars into Kamala Harris campaignjust to see her lose.
PRESIDENT BIDEN PARDONED HIS BROTHERS AND SISTER JUST MINUTES BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE
Gallup reports that for the third year in a row, slightly more Americans identify as Republicans (or Republican-leaning independents) than Democrats; they note that before 2022, “Republicans only had a small lead once, in 1991.” That’s a significant heads-up.
The decline in Democrats’ popularity occurred mostly among Hispanics, young adults, lower-income Americans, those without a college degree, Catholics and black Americans. In short, Democrats are losing ground with the very groups they’ve relied on to win elections for decades. People who support the Democrats are increasingly students and people with above-average incomes – the limousine liberal set.
Democrats come unglued even as leadership crumbles. Bickering between longtime party leaders like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi is uncomfortable; one of Nancy Pelosi’s daughters recently compared Joe’s wife Jill Biden to Shakespeare’s callous and ambitious Lady MacBeth. That stings.
The Pelosi-Biden split is not just about personality. It’s also about the vast Democrat-led conspiracy that allowed Joe Biden to become president in 2020 and that pushed him to serve a second term, despite his apparent mental decline. Voters saw through a carefully staged scene that sought to hide Joe’s impairment. Even halfway through his term, most of the country thought he was too old to run.
Incredibly, Joe Biden he still thinks he could have beaten Donald Trump, proving that the people around him kept him in the dark. This detachment from reality was already shown in 2021, when Biden and his wife participated in a call-in show on Christmas Eve. The caller viciously told the Bidens, “Merry Christmas and let’s go, Brandon,” a popular and widespread jab against the president at the time. Biden, clueless, repeated the phrase, laughing and saying, “Come on, Brandon, I agree,” showing how out of touch he is.
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The information bubble may have protected Biden from mean tweets or negative polls, but it also allowed his political team to finish the presidency and manage White House policy. We may never know to what extent Ron Klain, Biden’s first chief of staff, or former Obama apparatchiks like Susan Rice and Jeff Zients were in charge of policy.
House Speaker Mike Johnson recently described a meeting where he pressed Biden on why he was pausing new LNG export permits, only for the president to deny taking such action. Johnson trusted the president he “truly didn’t know what he was signing” and left the White House worried that the nation was in “serious trouble.”
Signs of Democratic weakness are everywhere. On the cusp of Trump’s inauguration, their efforts to reject his Cabinet nominees appear to be failing; their nasty personal attacks on Defense Department appointee Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi, who is likely to become our next Attorney General, seemed petty and spiteful rather than consequential. Equally distasteful was the slew of lawsuits and executive actions the White House filed at the last minute, many of which put roadblocks in the way of the new Trump administration.
Even the liberal media is stumbling, and many leading organizations, including the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, are apparently rethinking their role as Democratic propagandists. Only the New York Times remains resolute in its opposition to the incoming president, but then they have crossword puzzles and recipes to keep them afloat.
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The Democrats have to decide who is in charge. The progressive wing of the party, which has championed open borders and men playing women’s sports, will try to reassert its power. Within minutes of Trump being sworn in, left-wing groups demanded that he halt efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to shrink the federal government and make it more efficient.
DOGE may be Trump’s most popular initiative; trying to shut him down could, along with other “resistance” moves, keep Democrats in the wilderness for a long time. Fingers crossed.
