see how it can go on for a lot longer. “Intensity” and “Popularity” are simply not the same thing. And Democrats all too often confuse one with the other.
And this brings us to the Democrats of 2025: A new Wall Street Journal poll showed a mind-blowing 63% of voters(!) now have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party.
Only 33% have a favorable view. They’re an astonishing 30 points underwater! These are the worst polling numbers for the Democratic Party since 1990.
… Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, their high-intensity, low-popularity issues are festering absolutely EVERYWHERE. You see it with the trans issue, children and gender, and fairness in women’s sports. You see it with Israel, Hamas, and Gaza. You see it with the agenda of Zohran Mamdani, radical redistribution, and his quest for Castro-styled communism.
Democrat partisans are almost always very high intensity. The problem is that the Democrats suffer from very low popularity. The group of people who agree with them are incredibly noisy, but that is actually a small slice of the total population.