I suppose it make a kind of perverse sense that floundering as they so clearly are, pro-abortion Democrats would chortle at the prospect that President Trump had died over the weekend.
You keep thinking—or at least I keep thinking—that Democrats had hit rock bottom.
Come to think of it, I’ve written many times about how the party is directionless, so why wouldn’t they salivate at the thought that, after two failed assassination attempts, Donald Trump was finally dead?
Taking this long to come to this conclusion clearly demonstrates that I wasn’t paying attention to all the signs: Democrats truly are the party of death.
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But as thinking turns to the 2026 mid-terms, Democrats are plotting a way forward, according to Marianna Sotomayor of the Washington Post. Her headline is “Inside the Democratic plan to recapture the House majority in 2026.”
The problem for the abortion-saturated Democrat party, however, is in her subhead: “Their effort is running up against harsh political realities, from Trump’s efforts to revamp the House map to a tarnished Democratic brand with abysmal approval ratings.”
The first paragraph explains what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries trying to do. He “is engaged in a major effort to redefine what his unpopular party stands for, readying a new Democratic agenda intended to turbocharge efforts to recapture the House in 2026 and make him speaker.”
Alllllright!
Jeffries (D-New York) has heard the many complaints from Democratic lawmakers clamoring for a proactive agenda following the party’s devastating losses in the 2024 election — one that doesn’t revolve entirely around fighting President Donald Trump. He’s racing to release a plan to revive a depressed base and sell voters on a Democratic Party that hears their concerns on affordability, safety and helping the working class.
However, that “plan”—“one that doesn’t revolve entirely around fighting President Donald Trump”—
is running up against the harsh political realities of the moment, from Trump’s aggressive efforts to revamp the congressional map through redistricting in Republican-led states to a tarnished Democratic brand with abysmal approval ratings, according to polls.
Let’s ignore for a moment that blue states such as California and Illinois and Maryland are gung-ho to eliminate virtually any vestiges of Republican office holders. (Maryland is attempting to join other blue states in having no Congressional Republican representatives.)
She quotes Jesse Ferguson, a strategist who previously worked for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who assures Sotomayor that Democrats “now have a real story we can tell.
But “Interviews with more than a dozen House Democratic lawmakers, aides and strategists suggest that Jeffries has his work cut out for him. ‘Our brand is really toxic right now,” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D), who represents a New York swing district, said. ‘Everybody’s registering as independents because they’re fed up with this whole thing.’”
Sotomayor reminds us that there have been previous campaign agendas that have worked, “ such as the ‘Contract With America’ of then-Minority Leader Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) have served as rallying cries for lawmakers as they clearly outlined policies to be implemented if the party running on them takes charge.”
Good news, right? Actually, no.
But the issues Democrats are likely to include — health care and lowering costs — are hardly novel, and they’ve run on them before. Those involved in crafting the 2026 agenda say the problem, however, has been in how they’ve previously communicated and that they’ve also avoided issues — like crime and immigration — that splinter their party.
The list of principles currently doesn’t contain any stances on crime and immigration, either. The agenda is not final and will change, Democrats say.
So, what is their message to voters? “‘You deserve better’ than Trump and House Republicans.”
That’ll move hearts and minds.
Finally, the Post also ran another story the same day as Sotomayor’s. It was written by Dylan Wells and Joe Lamberti. The headline? “Can Democrats rebound? These voters aren’t so sure.”
Read the story and you will really get a sense of just how “harsh” the realities are that House Minority Leader Jeffries faces.
