Report: Democrat Civil War Looms As Party Discontent Reaches ‘Historic’ Levels
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.
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:
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:
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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