Democrats are reaching for everything in their political campaign playbook, but nothing is working for them.
Even their stalwart mainstream media outlet, CNN, has just shared a recent poll that boggles the mind. While Far Left Dem’s believe in Fighting Oligarchy, dancing to inane protest music, and shouting cusswords repeatedly that our economy is going in the gutter, and that President Donald Trump and his neo-Nazis brethren are fighting with our trustworthy allies on tariffs, Americans believe that Republicans are still better for our economy by an astonishing 8 points!
And that poll is down 3 points from a November 2023 poll, but it documents that even Democrats (and Independents) believe that President Trump is trying to improve our economy, albeit via fits and starts.
Despite talk from JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon that we are on the verge of a recession, Americans do not accept that assessment, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has responded by saying that none of Dimon’s predictions have ever come true.
The CNN poll went on to ask registered voters which Party they consider is the “party of the middle class?” and it is amazingly a tie. President Trump has led the surge among working middle-class Americans, and the Democrats have dropped from a 23-point advantage in 2023 to a 17-point margin in 2016, and then just a 4-point lead in 2022, to now a tie.
Recently, in a previous column, I opined that Democrats needed both a salient message and a strong messenger. Neither has appeared.
Instead, the DNC is in shambles with a pending fight to ouster its newly elected Vice Chair David Hogg, while spending $20M to try and indoctrinate elected Dems on how to speak to males, called “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.”
This is exactly why the donkey party is spiraling into oblivion. They continue to cut up Americans into nice, homogenous blocs so that they can tailor their message to just that segment.
This never works because it becomes obvious to everyone that they are just trying to win over a bloc with a certain message that almost certainly will conflict with their messaging to other blocs of voters. And it looks like pandering, which is what the DNC is trying to teach their electeds to do better, and it seems pathetic.
One would have thought that they would have learned their lesson in the last election debacle when attempting to juice up various factions, they barely were able to get their base out, and they turned off independent voters, which they desperately needed to outfox Trump.
Admittedly, not everything that President Trump undertakes is the right thing, but that can be said of any President.
However, a failure to acknowledge that he is doing some things correctly means that Democratic whining will fall on deaf ears, as they truly believe nothing is going well.
Americans disagree strongly, and recent polling even indicates that 50% of Americans believe our country is on the right track and approve of President Trump’s job handling. In a fiercely divided country, this is indicative of a President doing what he said he would do if elected, and Americans are happy that a politician is willing to follow through and do what was promised.
If Democrats want to become relevant again, they must not be 100% opposed to everything that Trump wants, says, or does, and instead pick and choose their fights.
To date, what have the Democrats offered on improving the economy?
Nada!
Instead, they continue to fight over illegal aliens, a losing issue, supporting Hamas and Palestine, another losing cause, transgender boys competing in women’s athletic events, a consistent losing point, and now they have even turned their back on electric vehicles (because of Elon Musk) and big tech companies (because of Elon Musk).
None of these issues impact the kitchen table of average Americans and therefore have had no impact on altering voters’ beliefs.
For Republicans, President Trump has been a whirlwind of proactive declarations that have already impacted the economy.
Recall, within the first week of becoming President, the mainstream media tried to tie him to the price of eggs, which was so transparent as to be idiotic. Yet within weeks, Trump and the Agriculture Department rolled out a program to attack egg prices, and today, no reporter asks anymore about the price of eggs.
Gasoline prices. President “Drill, Baby, Drill” Trump immediately unlocked our fossil fuels, and the price of gasoline, which impacts grocery prices, manufacturing, and distribution, has gone down. Americans are feeling it every time they gas up their car, SUV, or truck at the pump.
Now comes the tricky part. Medicaid is a budget black hole that is threatening to eat the federal budget, but it is also a safety net for low-income and/or disabled people, the elderly, and the very young.
While Democrats pronounce that millions of Americans will be hurt, the only thing that Republicans want to do is to make any benefits dependent on one’s ability to work. That will not impact the elderly, the disabled, or the young, but it will have an effect on those who want freebies but are not willing to work for them.
Americans get that, as most of us work. Religiously. Every day. Even in jobs that we do not like, or a boss that we hate. We work.
Medicaid recipients who can work must work. It is as simple as that, and spending $20M for Democratic elected officials to learn how to tell male Medicaid recipients that they do not have to work if they do not want to is only going to lead Democrats into a deeper hole.
President Trump has trumped the Democrats with the middle class. With the unions, especially auto workers, steel workers, and oil workers. With voters who want criminal illegal aliens deported, who want safe neighborhoods again, where their children can play, and where they can walk to the park or the supermarket without fear.
One final note.
My father taught me, brutally, that honesty is always the best policy, because the truth will always come out. It may take a while, but karma has a way of evening things out.
Former President Joe Biden was too old for the job, forgetful, and out of touch, to put it diplomatically.
All of America knows it. We saw it. We heard it.
The very best way for Democrats to try and climb out of the deep hole they continue to dig is to be honest with Americans and quit trying to paper over, make excuses, deflect, or obfuscate what we know is the truth.
If Democrats can bring themselves to admit that trying to force Biden down our collective throats for another four years was a grave mistake, then they can begin the long and hard road back to some semblance of trust with voters.
You still have to find a cogent message and the right messenger, but without first a bond of trust with voters, the midterms will be disastrous for your Party.
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