While Americans begged for jobs, safety, and lower grocery bills, Democrats handed out drag shows, gender lectures, and climate hallucinations.
The Democratic Party has become a circus—and the elephants aren't the ones doing the juggling. It's the donkeys now tangled in their own ropes. From the rise of fiery far-left radicals like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders to the teetering whispers of moderation from Chuck Schumer, the party is in complete disarray. Democrats are no longer fighting Republicans; they’re fighting each other. And while they stage their internal civil war, Americans are fuming—mad that these Democrats have traded solutions for slogans, dumped law and order for chaos and confusion, and sold patriotism for performative politics.
The infighting is no longer behind closed doors—it’s playing out on live calls and social media for all of America to see. On one side, you have the far-left firebrands like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, preaching an unapologetically socialist gospel. On the other, the beleaguered moderates like Sen. Chuck Schumer and what’s left of the old guard, desperately trying to rein in the insanity. The divide has grown into a chasm. After the 2024 election drubbing, centrist Democrats practically begged their colleagues to never use the words “socialist” or “socialism” again—acknowledging that the radical branding cost them dearly. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a moderate Democrat who barely clung to her seat while watching colleagues fall to Republicans, blasted her party’s obsession with "defunding the police" and other far-left slogans. In plain English, Spanberger told her progressive peers: Cut the crap, or we’re all doomed.
But did the socialist wing listen? Of course not. Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and her squad fired back with characteristic snark. "We didn’t lose because we’re too far left," they insisted. "We lost because you moderates ran lousy campaigns!" AOC pointed out that some complacent Democrats spent zero dollars on digital advertising in the final stretch of 2020—essentially bringing butter knives to a gunfight. She and her progressive allies feel unappreciated and scapegoated, with AOC even musing aloud whether she wants to remain in politics given the hostility from her own party. Imagine that: one of the Democrats’ brightest young stars considering quitting because her colleagues treat her as the enemy. It’s a circular firing squad, and every Democrat is getting splattered with friendly fire.
The mutual resentment is palpable. Moderates resent being branded as sellouts by the left; progressives resent being treated as pariahs by the establishment. After the 2024 loss, both wings amazingly claimed vindication—each arguing that their approach was the righteous path. It’s the left hand versus the far-left hand, each accusing the other of losing the fight. In their echo chambers, the progressives believe milquetoast moderates failed to energize the base, while moderates believe socialist extremism alienated Middle America. They’re both right, of course—and both dead wrong. The truth is, the party’s identity crisis is turning into a suicide mission. The Democrats are like a two-headed donkey trying to run in opposite directions: they’re not going anywhere but apart.
While Democrats squabble over how blue is too blue, ordinary Americans are livid—and for good reason. People care about putting food on the table, feeling safe in their neighborhoods, and having a decent job. What did Democrats prioritize instead? Fantasy land proposals and culture war crusades. They harped on a "Green New Deal" that would spend trillions and eliminate cows and cars. They championed open-border posturing and looked the other way as cities drowned in crime. In the summer of 2020, as riots and looting rocked American cities, too many Democratic leaders were busy virtue-signaling about “racial justice” while businesses burned. In Minneapolis, a Democrat-dominated city council voted to dismantle their police department in a spasm of woke fervor—only to backpedal furiously when violent crime spiked and terrified residents screamed for help. It’s hard to take a party seriously when its answer to crime is to cancel cops and pray for the best.
Even President Barack Obama tried to knock some sense into his party. He warned Democrats that “snappy” slogans like "Defund the Police" are disastrously counterproductive, noting "you lost a big audience the minute you say it." Obama was being polite: in reality, you don’t just lose an audience—you lose elections. Voters don’t want police funding slashed when they’re worrying about their family’s safety. They don’t want lectures on critical race theory when their kid can’t read at grade level. They’re sick of being told they’re deplorable or racist because they don’t march in lockstep with the left’s social agenda.
Don’t take my word for it—look at the stampede of voters away from the Democratic Party. During the Biden years, more than one million voters switched to the GOP across 43 states. That’s not a typo: a million Americans said “thanks but no thanks” to the Democrats and walked into the arms of Republicans. And why? Many cited the party’s support for mandatory COVID-19 vaccine rules, inability to stop violent crime, and frequent focus on racial grievances. Americans aren’t necessarily falling in love with the GOP; they’re running away from a Democratic Party that seems to have lost its mind.
Instead of focusing on kitchen-table issues, Democrats spent years chasing radical ideologies and pet projects. They obsessed over impeaching Trump (twice!) while average folks just wanted relief from pandemic lockdowns. They prattled on about free college and loan forgiveness, delighting woke university elites, while the working class with no degree asked, “What about us?” The party that once claimed to stand for working people has morphed into a party that stands for elite virtue-signallers, bureaucrats, and the Twitter mob. Bernie Sanders even blasted his own party for "abandoning working-class voters" after 2024’s losses. Think about that: even Bernie—the socialist—thinks the Democrats have lost touch with workers. He’s not wrong.
The polls are devastating. The Democratic Party’s favorability just plunged to the lowest level on record in modern polling. One survey in March 2025 found only 29% of Americans viewed the Democratic Party favorably, while 54% had an unfavorable view. That 29% is the lowest rating for the party in over 30 years. It’s a drop of 20 points since January 2021. Even rank-and-file Democrats are looking at their leaders and saying, "You’ve let us down."
Leadership? What leadership? The once-formidable Nancy Pelosi is gone. Chuck Schumer is a Senate minority figurehead who can't corral his own caucus. Hakeem Jeffries is herding cats in the House. Kamala Harris has faded into political irrelevance. And Joe Biden? He was shown the door in 2024 after one term of sleepy speeches and declining support.
Now Donald Trump is back in the White House, steamrolling forward with a renewed mandate while the Democrats hold a match and a gas can. The only unity Democrats seem to have is their hatred of Trump—but hatred is not an agenda. Voters saw through the hysteria. They want competence, not chaos.
Bernie Sanders is now encouraging his followers to abandon the Democratic label and run as independents. Ocasio-Cortez is traveling the country with him, rallying her base not just against Trump but against her own party’s establishment. The Democrats are imploding. The far left wants revolution. The moderates want rehabilitation. And the American people? They just want results.
The Democrats have become the gift that keeps on giving—mostly to the Republican Party. At this rate, the DNC's new slogan should be: "We put the ‘party’ in party implosion."
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