Oh Democrats can complain about how the party is doing, about its leadership, about how poorly it communicates its “message”. But they don’t leave, they don’t disavow the Party, because there is a Something a je ne sais quoi exactement at the heart of the Party which they cannot relenquish.

The insane Left has controlled the Party since Clinton left office, and utterly dominated it since 2004. They get away with it because the GOP (until Trump) flatly refused to take advantage of the opportunity.

The public was dismayed by Democratic Crazy, no question. But the GOP kept offering the Business Agenda as an alternative, and the Business Agenda is a permanent non-starter.

The Dems were vulnerable on immigration, on gender, on religious and traditional grounds, on national sovereignty and national security grounds. The GOP responded with ‘I can work with Democrats!’ McCain and ‘unleash Wall Street!’ Romney.

The problem was that the GOP elites had no issue with most Democrat positions, they just wanted more immigration and ‘free trade’ and whatever else the Chamber of Commerce demanded. So the Dems could survive being dominated by their craziest factions, and even win.

If the GOP starts taking heavy advantage of those vulnerabilities, the Dems will eventually be forced to backbench the crazies. But the Party will be fine, it’ll be the current dominant factions that lose out, if that happens.

But it’s a slow process. The risk of losing Congress in 2026 is real, even if the Dems are losing ground. There’s a natural tendency for the out-of-power party to gain ground in off-year elections, because people respond to the negative by instinct, and thus the unhappy voters are usually more motivated than the ones whose party is in power (and thus having to make compromises and deal with practicalities).

But it’s not a law of nature, either. George Bush II led the GOP to 3 upset wins in a row (2000, 2002, and 2004). The GOP gained seats in 2002, in part precisely because the Democratic crazies were especially loud and proud that year (remember the Wellstone funeral?)

If Dubya had stayed on course after his 2004 upset win, he might have repeated his wins in 2006. But after 2004 he started trying to implement the stuff his family had taught him and that the GOP business wing wanted, and it wrecked him (especially Amnesty).

So far, Trump hasn’t repeated Dubya’s second term error.

The lexicon of Democrat elites’ jargon in this post is stupefying, and pretty complete. Either their supporters simply aren’t listening to it (as in, “why watch interviews of Kamala when I’ve already decided to vote for her?”), or they are so used to it now that they don’t even notice how stupid it sounds.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/08/22/45-words-democrats-shouldnt-say-politico-memo/

Democrats are alienating Americans by their use of “tortured language” and should stop using 45 words and phrases including “patriarchy” and “privilege,” according to a memo obtained by Politico.

“For a party that spends billions of dollars trying to find the perfect language to connect to voters, Democrats and their allies use an awful lot of words and phrases no ordinary person would ever dream of saying,“ the memo says.

While Democrats’ intentions are good, “The effect of this language is to sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory enforcers of wokeness. To please the few, we have alienated the many — especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant.”

The memo was published on the website of Third Way, a nonprofit organization that describes itself as a center-left think tank that “champions moderate policy and political ideas.”

“We are doing our best to get Democrats to talk like normal people and stop talking like they’re leading a seminar at Antioch,” Third Way’s executive vice president of public affairs, Matt Bennett, told Politico. “We think language is one of the central problems we face with normie voters, signaling that we are out of touch with how they live, think and talk.”

The memo says the alienating words and phrases fall into six categories:
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[not quite complete list of the obnoxious phrases used by the Left, but enough to show the problem]
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Longtime strategist James Carville has been sharply critical of the party in recent months, and recently told Jesse Watters on Fox News, “I want somebody to talk in clear definitive language and communicate with people in a simple elegant way and that’s what the Democratic Party needs.” He has also told Jen Psaki on MSNBC that Democrats need to stop using “that idiotic NPR jargon” when talking to voters.
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The authors, who are not identified, admit that they have used some of this language in their writing in the past, but said that when “policymakers are public-facing, the language we use must invite, not repel; start a conversation, not end it; provide clarity, not confusion.”

For “a sizable segment of the American public,” the 45 words and phrases are a red flag, the authors said.

“Before you draft your angry tweet thread, think about conversations with persuadable voters in your own life — especially friends, family, and co-workers — and consider whether the use of the language above would help or hurt your case.”

I think Kudlow’s overly optimistic, but if Congress would codify some of Trump’s EOs, it would help maintain the collapse.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/22/kudlow_you_are_witnessing_the_collapse_of_the_democratic_party_and_the_deep_state_forces_against_trump.html

Vance is correct, but that line has been used before, the Democrats did crazy anyway, and still won.
But what can’t go on eventually won’t go on, as shown by the shift of many (not yet enough) traditional Democrat voters to the GOP in 2024.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/20/vance_to_democrats_stop_sounding_like_crazy_people_that_really_is_all_it_is.html

You’ve actually got to talk to people honestly about the issues. I don’t think it’s that complicated. Don’t be a crazy person. Be authentic. If the Democrats did that, they’d do a hell of a lot better. But the thing is, the Democrats really can’t help themselves.

If you look at the transgender issue, they’re still talking about letting men play in women’s sports. If you look at the crime issue, they’re calling Donald Trump a fascist for taking action that in nine days has dropped armed robberies by 55 percent. So part of sounding less crazy is being less crazy. And if the Democrats were less crazy, I think we’d all get along a whole lot better.

Indeed.
That seems to be the effect even if he isn’t doing it deliberately (although I think he is).

That’s been the quote and my argument for months.

Look at Scott Presler. He’s STILL trying to flip Pennsylvania red by registering voters at various events. He’s tireless, and he’s got his sights set on New Jersey next.

But I think the fast, relentless, disruptive actions over the first few months are going to thwart the conventional wisdom regarding midterms. Why? Because this is government as entertainment. Let’s face it, some constituencies want their bread and circuses, and seeing the most holier-than-thou members of our society (woke white liberals) getting their comeuppance is entertaining. The fact that things are getting better at the same time is gravy.

Look at D.C. Union Station is clean and free of vagrants and drug dealers. It doesn’t smell like a restroom anymore. They haven’t had a homicide in a week. The criminals who have been terrorizing the citizenry (read: law-abiding black people) are getting arrested and thrown in jail. Black people can lift their heads and breathe again. You think that’s not going to encourage them to vote for the party whose leader has a mug shot?

Also, Republicans are not acting like they’re the Establishment, because even though they won the election and control all three branches, they know they’re not the Establishment. That doesn’t change with elections. Ripping out the roots of the Establishment via USAID, redistricting, pursuing leftist criminality, that’s what changes the Establishment.

I’m cautiously optimistic.

Are independents really that stupid to not look at the underlying mountain of carp that newsom haa left

20 minutes. VDH explains multiple trends like the big shift in party affiliation, out with illegals, Red/Blue state differentials in fertility, the fact that Universities are now no longer liberal but socialist, and elite driven character of D-Party leadership and influence — far away from the median voter class.

Dems used to own the Black vote by 90%, but a quarter of Black men went R, last November. Even more, the Hispanic men went Republican by half!

Hansen thinks only a 1972 McGovern loss will drive the Democrat Party to re-examine their faithful commitments.