I wish @LafayetteBear were here to witness some of this cutting and pasting.... lmfao...
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4998060-democratic-dysfunction/
Democrats just can’t catch a break.
After a bruising campaign season and a humiliating defeat at the polls, this week saw Dems’ internal conflicts spilling out into public view. Party insiders are now engaged in tit-for-tat Twitter battles that do nothing to offer the party a roadmap back to political contender status. Instead, they confirm normies’ worst caricatures of Democratic dysfunction.
Well, pile on the sorrows, because a new poll from Puck and Echelon Insights finds that a majority of Americans (51 percent) now dislike the Democratic Party, and think of Donald Trump more favorably than any national Democrat. That should be a wake-up call to party leaders who spent 2023 and 2024 dismissing concerns about the party’s fracturing electoral coalition.
A larger majority of Americans (58 percent) say they expect Trump will improve the economy next year, and the number of people who think the country is on the right track rose to three in 10. Those are all numbers that suggest voters are buying the president-elect’s optimistic but oversimplified economic ideas.
That poses a real problem for Democrats. Although the party’s post-election unpopularity shouldn’t come as a surprise, Trump’s growing popularity is harder for Dems to untie. The situation is worsened by the fact that no one on Democrats’ national political bench garners much enthusiasm from voters at large. Most Americans don’t even know who these people are.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4998060-democratic-dysfunction/
Democrats just can’t catch a break.
After a bruising campaign season and a humiliating defeat at the polls, this week saw Dems’ internal conflicts spilling out into public view. Party insiders are now engaged in tit-for-tat Twitter battles that do nothing to offer the party a roadmap back to political contender status. Instead, they confirm normies’ worst caricatures of Democratic dysfunction.
Well, pile on the sorrows, because a new poll from Puck and Echelon Insights finds that a majority of Americans (51 percent) now dislike the Democratic Party, and think of Donald Trump more favorably than any national Democrat. That should be a wake-up call to party leaders who spent 2023 and 2024 dismissing concerns about the party’s fracturing electoral coalition.
A larger majority of Americans (58 percent) say they expect Trump will improve the economy next year, and the number of people who think the country is on the right track rose to three in 10. Those are all numbers that suggest voters are buying the president-elect’s optimistic but oversimplified economic ideas.
That poses a real problem for Democrats. Although the party’s post-election unpopularity shouldn’t come as a surprise, Trump’s growing popularity is harder for Dems to untie. The situation is worsened by the fact that no one on Democrats’ national political bench garners much enthusiasm from voters at large. Most Americans don’t even know who these people are.
