Democrats are the party of suck, precisely the phrase ‘you suck.’
The party’s favorability among voters has collapsed. Republicans are
more popular among voters, and it’s not even close. It’s been trending
this way for years, something some Democrats noted as a critique of
their party’s disastrous showing in 2024. The latest Quinnipiac poll also rips open the 2024 wound; never has the Democratic Party been viewed so unfavorably:
Voters' views of the Democratic Party and Republican
Party set new records since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking
voters about the parties in November 2008.
In today's poll, 31
percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party,
while 57 percent have an unfavorable opinion. This is the highest
percentage of voters having an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic
Party since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question.
Forty-three
percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party,
while 45 percent have an unfavorable opinion. This is the highest
percentage of voters having a favorable opinion of the Republican Party
since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question.
This
marks the biggest favorability advantage the Republican Party (43
percent) has held over the Democratic Party (31 percent) since the
Quinnipiac University Poll began asking these questions.
Democrats
know they need to do something to get out of the wilderness. No one is
arguing to stay the course, but everyone has a different take on
rejuvenating the party. One area that will likely cause some discomfort
is reaching out to working-class voters. Democrats lost working-class
whites, but now non-white working-class voters are drifting into the
GOP—the 2024 election solidified that shift. Granted, some have been
also trying to quell fears that the Democratic Party is on life support,
and don’t overanalyze the polls (via NYT):
Only one thing for Dems to do - quadruple down on calling everyone Nazi. https://t.co/IAc9w5NQEr
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 29, 2025
Many
loud voices in the party are demanding a reckoning, and a reinvention.
But others envision less an overhaul than a wait-and-see approach,
hoping to harness what they expect will be a backlash of public opinion
against Mr. Trump’s ambitious White House agenda to capture the House of
Representatives in 2026.
The divide does not fall neatly along
ideological lines. Some of the most moderate and progressive Democrats
alike are aligned in seeking a sharp course correction to reverse the
party’s erosion of support, especially among working-class voters.
“We
need deep changes and hard conversations, not nibbling around the
margins,” said Representative Pat Ryan, a Democrat who represents a
swing district north of New York City and who outperformed the top of
the ticket by one of the wider margins in the nation. “At the core, the
brand is weakened to the point that, without members running against it
in tough districts, we can’t get to a majority, which is structurally
untenable.”
Democrats who share this bleaker outlook see
statistical signs of the party’s decline everywhere: Blue states are
ceding population to red states. Voter registration figures are mostly
headed in the wrong direction. More Americans are identifying with the
G.O.P. than with Democrats. And Democrats lost ground last year among
core constituencies including lower-income, Latino and younger voters as
Mr. Trump swept every battleground state.
[…]
Some
Democrats see the party’s losses in 2024 as more situational than
systemic. They blame Mr. Biden for ignoring polling that showed the
public was gravely troubled by his age, and for withdrawing so late and
in such a politically weakened state that Ms. Harris effectively
inherited his unpopularity without enough time to carve out a separate
identity for herself.
“There were people who were just very
unhappy with the incumbent administration, and all they needed to know
about Harris was she worked with Biden,” said Jared Bernstein, who was
the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers for Mr.
Biden.
The obsession with the popular vote margin embodies how Democrats
become all-consumed in the minutiae. They’re obsessing over facts and
figures to marginalize Trump’s 2024 while missing the point: You lost.
Trying to take figures that illustrate where Democrats fell short in a
vain attempt to cobble together a moral victory narrative is why this
party has run awry. There’s no accountability; they think they’re still
right. You lost the privilege when Trump swept all the swing states.
Either way, you do the math, and the result is the same: Trump wins, and
Harris loses. Who cares about whether this margin or that figure was
better for Biden four years ago? Who cares? He got booted by his party.
I
have a feeling that Democrats will eat themselves inside out over data
sets that are irrelevant to future elections. 2024 is over. What are you
going to do for 2026 and 2028? Right now, it’s nothing because they’re
still trying to make the case that MAGA hasn’t taken hold in America
when it's more entrenched than ever, thanks to their illiberal and
unhinged antics over the better part of a decade. The discussion on how
to move forward will always come back to faulty data sets that only show
what Democrats lost, with or without the shoddy paint job hiding that
fact. Democrats risk devolving into a Colombo crime family internal
leadership struggle that could prove both bloody and crippling. And like
the Colombo family, Democrats could end up like them now: the weakest
of the Five Families in New York City. Democrats are starting to become a
weak, regional party whose base is comprised of gays, wine-guzzling
white women, and rich college-educated extremists, all of which aren’t
enough to win national elections or exhibit broad appeal.
It’s the weirdo club, with Tim Walz as its chairman.
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