Democrats worry on ‘how disadvantaged they are right now as a brand’ and their descent into the minority against Trump and MAGA
Rhian Lubin / Fri, March 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM EDTDemocrats are “f***** right now,” one strategist warned, as others said the party risks becoming a “permanent minority” against Donald Trump’s MAGA movement - as the party struggles to find its footing in the current political environment.
After Kamala Harris’s devastating defeat against Trump in November, the Democratic Party is struggling and is “deeply fractured, and rudderless,” strategists, elected officials and leaders told Politico in a scathing report.
“I don’t know if Dems realize how f***** they are right now as a brand,” one anonymous party strategist told the outlet.
While the Trump administration steams ahead at a breakneck speed, the Democrats have been distracted by party infighting over their lack of resistance to a short-term spending bill. They have offered little organized resistance to the Trump agenda that is reshaping the federal government.
Democrats worry on ‘how f***** they are right now as a brand’ and their descent into the minority against Trump and MAGA
While the Trump administration implements its aggressive agenda at a breakneck speed, the Democrats have been distracted by party infighting
The Democrats stumbled badly in the 2024 presidential race.
In 2020 former vice president and presidential nominee Joe Biden identified himself as a transitional candidate, implying he would only serve a single 4 year term.
Perhaps it was as simple as a mental lapse common to those of Biden's seniority that Biden accepted the Dem's 2024 nomination.
Biden stumbled so badly in debate against Trump that the Dem. nominee tossed the political hot potato of Democrat presidential candidate to his VP, Kamala Harris. There were better Democrats available.
VP KH nice lady perhaps, but never able to shake the aura of a light-weight. The Dems lost.
But it would compound the detriment of Democrat's failures to jeopardize their principles, conservators of U.S. political traditions, including prosperity.
The weak & ill-prepared Kamala Harris lost to a media s a v v y conman and media professional, D.J. Trump.
What should the Dems. do now, and in 2026, and in 2028?
Apparently the U.S. electorate has dysfunctionally short memory. They gambled on Trump (zero experience in government service) in 2016,
dumped Trump for Biden in 2020,
and for reason (misnomer noted) inexplicable went back to Trump in 2024. Had they forgotten ?!
Constitutionally Trump can't run again the next time. BUT !!
Constitutionally Trump couldn't run again the last time.
Where did the Dems. fail in 2024?
On offense? Offering a campaign platform voters would go to the polls to support?
Or defense? Exposing Trump's prolific lies:
"IT’S TIME FOR CROOKED JOE BIDEN, THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES—AND I TO DEBATE. WE OWE IT TO OUR COUNTRY. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE!" realdonaldtrump
There are other explanations. But it's likely a decisive segment of the U.S. electorate found Trump's character-assassinating superlatives persuasive. Will the Dems. remain vulnerable to such fiction in the next few political elections?
Mike Kinsley defined "political gaffe" as a politician telling the truth.
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." Lord Acton
"Just remember, what you're seeing & what you're reading is not what's happening." President Trump
“Everyday we make good in our motto: 'Promises made, promises kept.' We've kept more promises than we've even made.” U.S. President Trump 19/05/20
