that no longer exists. you know, like the Dodo bird or the Passenger Pigeon. The moderate Democrat is extinct. The “Blue dogs”have gone the way of the Dodo. They only exist in memory and in the opium dreams of a few dead-enders.
Lefties too often don’t understand the depth of our anger.
I voted for this!
Democrats, do not ask for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee!
Enten began his analysis in the Southwest. “Arizona. How about Nevada? Republicans haven’t done this well since 2005 — oh my goodness gracious — at this, at this point in the cycle.” As he moved eastward, the numbers just kept getting better for the GOP. “North Carolina: I couldn’t find a point at which Republicans were doing better at this point in the cycle. It’s at least this century. It probably goes way back in the last century.” There was more: “And Pennsylvania, very similar: Republicans doing better at this point than at any point, at any point this century, at least as far as I could find.”
Of course, I want to emphasize the obvious caveats, that elections are more than a year away and things can change and let’s not get cocky, etc. But right now the GOP is kicking some major butt!
have fallen and they can’t get up. BUT, they certainly might in the next year. They look right now to be in very bad shape. But they may recover. In fact, history says it is probable. The “out” party almost always gains seats in the mid-terms.
That said, I’m not at all sure I would bet that way. We are in very different conditions than usual right now. And we, I think, are seeing a level of conservative enthusiasm that is not much in history. Not for mid-term, anyway. Right now, we are singing that we have never seen happened before. What does that mean? I don’t think we really know yet. We are kind of in uncharted waters.
After four years of the Biden administration, the Pew Research Center said the presidential electorate moved favoring Democrats by six points in 2020 to favoring Republicans by one point in 2024, with Republicans close to equal among under-30 voters. “For months now,” Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini notes, “We’ve observed a new trend in polling: the Democratic party’s favorability ratings have fallen below the GOP’s. That’s hardly ever happened before.”
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.
to be bullied and cowed cowed into supporting the “orthodox” Lefty positions. But what if a large portion of them suddenly started acting according to their own common sense? Boy, that is something for the Left to be fearful of!
Please note, this guy is joking about having to go into hiding simply because he told an obvious truth. Because what he is saying contradicts the orthodox Lefty position.
Ask yourself “Why is that a joke?” The famous Lefty brutality toward anyone who tells the truth is laid bare here. And even Rahm Emanuel is acknowledging it. So he’s joking about going into hiding. And everyone understands the joke. Wow.
bugs me is that in a government system of checks and balances, there ARE no checks on SCOTUS and it is not at all answerable to the people. Which is exactly why the Left loves it so!
Here is my “modest” proposal: We need checks on SCOTUS. So any SCOTUS decision can be nullified or reversed by a Presidential signature and 2/3 of the House AND the Senate, or a vote of the people.
High bar? Yes, yes it is. Very. But that is rather by design–it is so difficult to actually implement so that it will be used only in rare and egregious situations.
makes me think of this old nursery rhyme:
There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead
And when she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
Pretty much Lindsay Graham in a nutshell, eh?
He has potential, but has never been reliable enough to bring his admittedly great strengths to bear. Lindsay 2.o was great. But we rarely see that anymore! It’s hard for him to break free of his RINO heritage. When he does, it is awesome. But it’s far too rare, and it’s not very reliable.
His actual voting is pretty reliable. But he’s like a bulldog–usually sweet and long-suffering and will take any amount of Lefty abuse and is prone to RINO-ism, but very occasionally he is pushed into “berserker mode,” and THEN there is Hell to pay…
have some internal issues to work out. And they probably will, But it won’t be a fast process. Like a drunk, they have to “hit rock bottom” before they will actually change. No more denial. No more excuses. No more weaseling out. Just brutally honest introspection. And THAT is hard!
Any recovering drunk can tell you that hitting rock bottom is not a pleasant thing, but one is ultimately grateful for it–it is a necessary precursor to change. You have to be ready for Step One–to admit that there is a problem and commit to change.
I think it will take at least one more Presidential election for Democrats to bottom out, to stop denying and change. Probably two or three.