Report: Democrat Civil War Looms As Party Discontent Reaches ‘Historic’ Levels
“The numbers are clear: No longer satisfied with the status quo in their party, Democrats are on the verge of a Tea Party-style, intra-party revolt.”
There has been a Democrat Civil War bubbling beneath the surface for at least a decade or so, with discontent among the party’s base voters and various other warring factions leading socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to give Hillary Clinton nightmares in 2016 and Joe Biden nightmares in 2020 during their respective presidential primaries.
But though Biden catered to nearly every demand of the party’s rabidly “progressive” wing during his time in office, the discontent continued to grow, especially after Kamala Harris’ embarrassing defeat to the Democrats’ Public Enemy Number One: Donald Trump.
It was a defeat that signaled the American people’s wholesale rejection of woke, incensing a base that was used to forcing its extremist ideology on elementary school children and their parents, and which was only made worse for them once Trump took office and proceeded to begin tearing apart the Democrat machine that operated within the federal government and beyond it.
Between that, Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) caving to Republicans and Trump on the CR, and Democrats having only limited success in hamstringing Trump’s agenda via the courts, the official start of the Democrat Party Civil War is looming, with its approval ratings among its base voters at “historic” lows:
Congressional Democrats have typically enjoyed higher popularity with their voting base than their Republican counterparts. But the trauma of the 2024 presidential election defeat appears to have ruptured that relationship. A review of Quinnipiac University’s annual first-quarter congressional polling reveals that, for the first time in the poll’s history, congressional Democrats are now underwater with their own voters in approval ratings.
Just 40 percent of Democrats approve of the job performance of congressional Democrats, compared to 49 percent who disapprove. That’s a dramatic change from this time last year, when 75 percent of Democrats approved compared to just 21 percent who disapproved. The Democratic base’s disillusionment runs so deep that it’s eerily reminiscent of Republican grassroots sentiment in the period leading up to Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party.
The numbers are clear: No longer satisfied with the status quo in their party, Democrats are on the verge of a Tea Party-style, intra-party revolt.
Quinnipiac’s annual polling shows that, for the first time in the poll’s history, Congressional Democrats are now underwater with their own voters in approval ratings…. while Congressional Republicans are nearing an all-time high. pic.twitter.com/qNyAOzTx2Y
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) March 22, 2025
The verdict is in:
Nobody likes the Democratic Party — not even their own voters https://t.co/omd0DUKQm7
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 21, 2025
There’s basically a battle going on right now between the Woke Caucus—which aligns itself with all things LGBTQ, antisemitic campus lunatics, hardline pro-abortion/pro-open borders activists, climate change fanatics, and racial arsonists, versus the more “old guard” type Democrats who see themselves as a more “moderate” version of all that:
NEW: David Friedberg explains why people have lost interest in the Democratic party (MUST WATCH)
"I think the Democratic party has split into two parties: the democratic party *with* beliefs and the democratic party *without* beliefs.
The Democratic party with beliefs is very… pic.twitter.com/mNl7ReSKNK
— Autism Capital
(@AutismCapital) March 22, 2025
We’re already seeing this play out on the national stage in the form of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is now laughably trying to portray himself as a pragmatic Democrat who believes the party has gone too far left on issues like transgender rights, “Latinx,” and other areas – even though Newsom has been at the forefront of a lot of the Democrat Party’s shifts to the far left.
Exhibit A:
“Everyone deserves to love and be loved.”
History changed on February 12, 2004, when the newly elected mayor of San Francisco, @GavinNewsom, did something extraordinary: He defied the status quo by ordering the county clerk to begin accepting gay marriage license applications. pic.twitter.com/K83czVkBax
— Governor Newsom (@CAgovernor) February 12, 2024
14 years ago today, we made history by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in San Francisco.
Since then, we've continued to lead the way from universal healthcare to standing up to the NRA. Because in California we know: it's never the wrong time to do the right thing. pic.twitter.com/HAkUdDhHGc
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 12, 2018
On the other hand, you’ve got the Sanders/AOC wing, which is currently on tour and encouraging Democrats to not only embrace the far-leftism that got them trounced in November but to run as an independent instead of a Democrat in hopes of defeating Trumpism and ushering forth their socialistic utopian vision for America.
Here’s what Sanders and AOC both know: Doing things like this is going to splinter Democrats further and will cause more defeats at the ballot box. The goal here seems to be “we must destroy the Democrat Party in order to save it” by either forcing party leaders to adopt even more radically left policy ideas in the name of unity or to get them on record as rejecting them, either of which will only widen existing fissures.
Either way, Democrat Party leaders are in a lose-lose situation for the foreseeable future. You love to see it. You truly do.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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The Democrat ‘Civil War’ is nothing more than an extened temper tantrum by the Left.
Dems are like punks playing the knockout game. Hit and run. Eventually they will start receiving instant justice.
65 years ago my father told me that democrats fight like cats and dogs until Election Day, then they step into line.
Fighting like cats and dogs sounds a lot like Muslims.
There’s a good chance the party will split in two. Both sides will endorse violence.
Where does the line for donations begin?
Red and Redder?
” leading socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to give Hillary Clinton nightmares in 2016 and Joe Biden nightmares in 2020 during their respective presidential primaries.”
Stacey, let me stop you right there. While realizing that the world “respective” has more than one meaning, there was nothing respective about either Bernie’s, Joe’s or Hillary’s campaigns.
From watching them, it’s not even evident that any of those three are actually humans.
Stacey, let me stop you right there.
I think you may mean respectFUL?
RespectABLE?
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Respect mah authoritah!
Respective refers to the order of events in the sentence. Bernie v. Clinton in 2016 and Bernie v. Biden in 2020.
The word in this context has no relation to the respectability or respectfulness or decency or anything about how any of those individuals conducts themselves, although I agree with your premise.
Please remove my last line!
We’re not stupid here. We understand you were editing and hit the send button early.
It’s embarrassing but I hope their civil war becomes very violent. That way they’ll leave the rest of us alone for a while.
No. They won’t. Think Bataklan Theater. That sort of thing.
Maybe pillow fights?
Like the Good Book says, stay strapped or get clapped.
Yet they still win elections by millions. Isn’t that curious?
Because the wrong lizard might win.
The Politicians on the Left (mostly Democrats but some Republicans), along with their media cohorts, have put considerable time and effort into convincing their supporters that the opposition are the worst people in the world, Fascists, Nasis, racists…an existential threat to Democracy itself. To the point where their supporters truly believe that to their core.
And now that the Left has had their but handed to them in an epic loss, the Political class is trying to figure out how to stay in the game while their supporters see that as caving in to their worst fears. Their supporters who believe to their core that the only solution is to bring back the guillotine (this is not hyperbole, Social Media is flooded with these posts and have thousands of people agreeing).
The Democrats cant come out and admit to their supporters they were being gas-lit…that would be the end of those politicians. Not to mention the majority of those supporters would not believe it anyway.
This leaves the Democrats in a no-win situation. In the minority, they need to get along with the majority to try and get something of their agenda tacked onto legislation. But doing so will likely cause them to face a primary challenge, something the Republicans need to be ready to jump on and maybe snipe a few seats each election.
I left over 10 years ago. So glad to not be a participant.
Are we sure that TDS suffering Republicans, like the fine folks at the Bulwark, the Lincoln Project and the like, who are now allying themselves with the Democrats, won’t be enough to turn those numbers around?
Is the 49 percent on the extreme woke side or the more moderate side? I’m inclined to think that if it’s the latter, there may be hope for the Democrat Party. But if it’s the former, they could very well go the way of the Whigs.
Don’t get too excited. The Democrats constantly turn on each each other for power, and then when election time rolls around they fall into line and pretend to support whatever empty vessel the party has nominated. Sanders and AOC are perfect examples of this.
The Democrats have been turning to the left for decades now, and the supposed “moderates” have let it happen. The inexplicably powerful AOC wing is the future of the Democrats. The old guard is, well, OLD. Dying. Schumer, Pelosi, and their fellows don’t have long, and the party will belong to Occasio Cortez, David Hogg, and the young socialists who will yell “ramming speed!” straight into the iceberg. But when they do there won’t be any “intra-party revolt.”
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