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Posted on 04/20/2026 7:41:53 AM PDT by DFG
A recent poll showed current Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who had worked in Cuba with the Marxist Venceremos Brigade trailing Councilwoman Nithya Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Only 24% of Los Angeles residents approve of the job that Bass is doing, which included the worst wildfires in the city’s history, while 47% disapprove.
If disappointed voters replace Bass with an even more extreme version, that will be in line with what happened in New York City where a widely despised former Mayor Bill de Blasio was, after a one term break to make room for former Mayor Eric Adams, swapped out for Zohran Mamdani, who described him as a role model. Even only 100 days into his term, usually the political ‘honeymoon’ period, Mamdani’s approval rating is at only 43%. And the majority of New Yorkers believe that the city is headed in the wrong direction.
In Chicago, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, widely hated by voters, was replaced with Mayor Brandon Johnson, who made Lightfoot seem responsible, civil and moderate. Johnson’s approval ratings have recently been in the twenties, but the extremist teachers’ union hack may well be replaced by someone even worse. Possibilities include Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez who spoke in front of a burned American flag at a pro-terrorist rally, and would move the city even further leftward.
Democrats are in a downward spiral towards further extremes even as their poll ratings sink.
In Maine, Democrats may well find themselves stuck with Graham Platner, a rich kid pretending to be a fisherman, who boasted of being a Communist, had a Nazi tattoo and praised a Hamas attack. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim who called for abolishing ICE and ‘choking out’ political opponents, who claimed that many in Dearborn mourned Iran’s Jihadist leader, and who has been campaigning with Hasan Piker, a social media influencer who celebrated Hamas and mourned the fall of the USSR, is running neck and neck in the Democrat primary.
This is less of a reflection of the state of the country than of a party stuck with a base of extremists that is pushing into adopting wildly unpopular radical positions.
The party bet everything on two prongs, hating Trump and going far leftwards, but there’s no evidence that voters are responding to either one. President Trump’s approval ratings may be low but even CNN polls are showing that Democrats are trailing Republicans in party approval ratings. Democrat election victories remain largely confined to blue areas and special elections.
Meanwhile, Democrats are rapidly mainstreaming calls to abolish ICE and support for Hamas, as if there were any backing for these destructive agendas outside the farthest of the far Left.
Unfortunately that now includes their own party.
Even when Democrats run as moderates, they soon pivot to their extreme agenda items.
In Virginia, newly elected Gov. Abigail Spanberger, chosen by the bedroom communities of Northern Virginia, who won by pretending to be a moderate, had her approval rating sink after she mistook the victory as a mandate for supporting illegal alien criminals, forcing men into women’ s locker rooms and gerrymandering the state to eliminate the political opposition.
Zohran Mamdani, hyped as the new leftist face of the party, is already down to a 43% approval rating into the first 100 days of his political ‘honeymoon’ as most residents believe the city is on the wrong track. But Mamdani wasn’t elected by New Yorkers, but a minority coalition between urban leftists and Muslim occupants, while native New Yorkers mostly sat out the election.
That larger trend of voters sitting out elections in places has worsened extremism
Democrats aren’t winning over voters, they’re convincing voters who might otherwise support there that there’s no point in even bothering because there are no good choices anymore. Gerrymandering provides them with political control while eliminating even the illusion of democracy or choice leading to corrupt one-party states and cities in a state of freefall.
The political failure cycle of urban politics isn’t just making cities worse, it’s making politics more extreme. Voters elect increasingly radical politicians running on the same old promises of affordability and higher taxes, as if the two were complementary rather than mutually opposed, the equally paradoxical pledge of equality through equity, along with endless free government services. The DSA and other socialist groups are in ascendance, cashing in on the frustration of voters, rather than bearing the brunt of the backlash for the woke misery they made.
The urban political failure model, what some used to call the failed ‘blue state model’ is driven by three entangled causes. Politically competitive areas have been disappearing as politics consolidates its cultural control over entire areas. Between gerrymandering, demographic identity politics cracking and voter harvesting, once Democrats seize control of a local political system, it’s rarely competitive again. And Democrat primaries tend to trend leftward as the voters most likely to show up for primaries lean further leftwards.
This isn’t just the fault of Democrats, who have surrendered their party’s identity to socialists and marxists, but Republicans, who have forgotten how to talk about these issues.
Republicans who run for office in blue areas have also forgotten most of the lessons learned by their predecessors in the Reagan era who actively made the case that left-wing policies were bad. Instead they either veer between trying to run as apolitical moderates and promising to do a better job of fixing homelessness, creating jobs and running public schools, or virtue signal strictly rightwards without connecting the conditions that everyone hates to the policies that everyone keeps voting for.
Affordability isn’t a problem in New York City because of the rich, but because a vast regulatory bureaucracy has set out to make all aspects of life, including housing, more expensive to squeeze out the middle class and replace economic independence with government dependency. Homelessness isn’t a problem because of the high cost of housing, but because leftists rebranded mentally ill drug addicts as victims of the high cost of housing, fought all efforts to institutionalize or imprison them, and instead built a social services machine that has made billions from promising (and always failing) to get them off the streets.
Most voters don’t identify homeless programs, criminal justice reform or housing affordability as leftist policies. They may be able to identify higher taxes as a socialist position, but since these are aimed at the ‘rich’ and are presented as necessary for solving the assorted manufactured social problems, like homelessness, or funding the free government programs, like free childcare, that they are tempted by, they decide to side with the Left. Hapless conservative candidates get into arguments about the impact of taxing the rich on the economic base and thereby play into the hands of the socialists, fighting the fight on their terrain.
Meanwhile, crime, affordability and education continue to worsen.
Even more conservative Republicans fail to make the case that their leftist opponents didn’t fail because they were “naive”, a term they still apply to the likes of Zohran Mamdani, and incompetent, but because they are radicals who deliberately set out to make things worse to profit from the ruin. And until they make that case, they won’t be able to connect with voters.
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Few people are aware of who is funding this shift to extreme measures on the left.
Obama pushed the Left and the Dems from bad to extremely bad.
The ‘60s radicals grew up and took over the party.
But they will show up like good little socialists waiting in the breadline to elect the next Democrat without fail. The vast majority of them are THAT stupid.
More desperate = more extreme. Or is it the other way around?
But they will show up like good little socialists waiting in the breadline to elect the next Democrat without fail. The vast majority of them are THAT stupid.
Or the masks are coming off.
The Demoncrat party is totally obsessed with power.. any way it can be secured. They have no issues I see to help the average working American... which they claim to champion but from all evidence I can see, they actually hold in contempt. Their only election strategy I see for 2026, is HATE TRUMP HARDER! They have also said if they gain power, the government will conduct a grand Inquisition (J6 on steroids)... all “heretics” who dared even question much less oppose their tyranny dreams will be “dealt with” (per Susan Rice’s and James Carville’s recent video tirades). Old Serpent smiles.
When will the democRATs decide that their polling numbers can be improved at gunpoint.
Yup.
Basically the Dems stand for more gov’t while the true Right stands for Constitutional Freedom.
Rather than establish a new party (a process that takes decades to grow into effective substance), the leaders of the secular religious cult known as The Left continue to accelerate its complete takeover of the political party formerly known as the Democrat Party which has become, in its function as well as its secular theology and political principles, the Democrat/Communist/Jihadist Party of the USA ...
... a "new" party that is, indeed, a powerful, undeniably existential threat to our Republic and, particularly, to our Constitution.
The Democratic Party has been on a leftward path since the days of George McGovern, but now are openly embracing Marxism under the guise of Progressivism. Ironically under Trump, the Republicans are now the party of the working class. The Republican establishment hasn’t come to grips with their new base and are clinging to their fossilized leadership who were happy to get along with the Washington swamp. The RINOs gutted the SAVE Act and are not supporting ending birthright citizenship two things that could mean an end to the GOP ever winning elections again and reducing the US to a uniparty government. Perhaps the epic failure of Mondami’s New York experiment in Marxist governance will be a wake up call for the GOP.
There’s no thing as a moderate democrat. They’re all evil.
Like cornered rats
Greenfield makes a good point. Democrats are not moderating toward the center when found to be unpopular in their mannerisms or policies. They only double down toward the hard-left fringes.
Once the GOP decided against honest elections, the Democrats knew that they could adopt crazy and extreme policies and still *ahem* “win” the mid-terms.
But that begs the question: Why was the Rat party so easily co-opted?
Because they have always been Communists. Their proto-form is of Jacksonian democrat, then "moderate" democrat, then evolving to Progressivism (note the hipster vocabulary at use all the time going forward), then Democratic Socialism, now full blown Mao/Stalinism.
It really has never been a different philosophy; just adaptation to the host organism. When we (normals/conservatives) were healthier hosts, we would have purged the parasitic Communists within, and for some time we did, and they were kept under the porch.
Now the host is weakened by both moral rot and forced immigration from gimmedat pagans from all over the world whose only motivation is blaming the Western world for their lots in life.
It's really bad to be outnumbered by them, a state we are rapidly approaching.
There is also no reasoning with them, because they consider learning, reason, the scientific method, industry, saving, investment, as Western inventions to exploit their them in their perceived natural, all-deserving, excellent, ignorant selves.
In fact they are just bums who when they outnumber us, will simply take our society and culture from us, believing it their just possession.
“The Democrats Are Becoming More Extreme”
Which is less worry some than the idiotic voters who are still electing them to represent then in many high Government Offices.
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