Posted on | October 22, 2025 | No Comments
Think back to mid-November 2024. President Trump had just scored a decisive victory, winning all seven “battleground” states and, unlike 2016, winning the popular vote by a margin of more than 2 million votes.
In the wake of their shattering defeat — which not only put Trump back in the White House, but left Republicans with majorities in both houses of Congress — many Democrats, and their media mouthpieces, seemed willing to admit that maybe it was time to reconsider their general approach to politics. Perhaps taxpayer-funded sex-change treatment for prison inmates and DEI quotas in the Pentagon were not a winning policy agenda, some liberals were willing to confess. For a few weeks there, in November and December, it seemed that Democrats might be on the road to recovery from their long bout with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Ah, fleeting hope! The brief prospect of a more sensible (or at least, more cautious) stance by Democrats did not last long, and they swiftly reverted to the shrieking rhetorical extremism — “Resist Orange Hitler!” — that had been their habit for more than eight years. So here we are, more than three weeks into a shutdown caused by the Democrats filibustering a spending bill in the Senate, and the No. 2 Democrat in the House can’t seem to understand why some people might be upset about it:
“Shutdowns are terrible and, of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage items we have. It is an inflection point in this budget process where we have tried to get the Republicans to meet with us and prioritize the American people.”
Democrat Whip Rep. Katherine Clark: “Shutdowns are terrible. Of course there will be families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility seriously, but it is one of the few leverage times we have.”
Talk about saying the quiet part out loudpic.twitter.com/ZVfPNyZuMi
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 22, 2025
After that exploded, Katherine Clark went on CNN to try to clean up her mess, but the real problem here is that Democrats have apparently forgot that they lost the election, and elections have consequences.
Clark represents a deep-blue district (D+24) in the deep-blue state of Massachusetts. She is second-in-command of a caucus led by Hakeem Jeffries who represents a deep-blue district (also D+24) in the deep-blue state of New York. Over on the Senate side, Democrats are led by Chuck Schumer of New York (which Kamala Harris carried by a 13-point margin) with his second-in-command being Dick Durbin of Illinois (which Harris won by a margin of 11 points). None of these people are from anywhere that Republicans constitute a meaningful competition, and seem to have no regard for the 77 million Americans who voted for Trump. This is a big part of why the Democratic Party is stuck in its ranting extremist mode, shutting down the government just to thwart Orange Hitler, and clueless about what a majority of voters actually want.
Everyone is now looking toward the off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey as an indicator of what we can expect in next year’s midterms. Both states went for Harris last November — Virginia by a five-point margin and New Jersey by a six-point margin. While it would be hard to imagine a GOP victory in either state, if the Republican gubernatorial candidates in either of those states do at least as well as Trump did, it could bode well for Republicans in their bid to maintain the House majority in 2026. But that’s more than a year into the future, and we don’t know what could happen between now and then.
It is clear that Democrats have not learned their lessons from 2024, and only by repeating the lesson — beating them again and again in successive elections — can we ever hope to teach them anything.
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