Posted on 10/30/2025 12:16:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
There seems to be general agreement that Democrats need to radically transform their party image. The second election of Donald Trump and the subsequent failure of the party to gain favor in voters’ eyes even as many of Trump’s actions are notably unpopular suggests that Democrats have a “yuck” factor that just isn’t going away.
Can the Democrats accomplish such a renewal of their party’s brand? On the plus side there are a number of Democratic-aligned organizations focusing on the party change imperative and promulgating useful analyses and suggestions. These include the new Searchlight Institute, the new Majority Democrats group of Democratic officeholders, the Welcome Party (whose terrific new data-driven report, “Deciding to Win,” is cited below) and the more venerable Progressive Policy Institute and Third Way. Their ideas are not without support in significant sectors of the Democratic party, including House moderates, some Senators, and some who appear to be intent on contending for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.
This is promising, but of course the pushback has been fierce from those in the party who believe the party’s image merely needs a few strategic tweaks to become enticing to voters. This includes a huge contingent of Democrats who are not really interested in anything that distracts from the party line that Trump-is-a-fascist-and-everything-he-does-is-wrong. And there are those who, astoundingly, believe the solution lies in the Democrats becoming even more progressive! It’s just a fact that energy in the Democratic Party seems to be coming preponderantly from these quarters, not from the reformers.
Moreover, it’s not even clear that the reformers are offering stern enough medicine to cure what ails the party or, even if they were, that sympathetic politicians would actually be willing to...
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I saw “ Forecast for Democratic Party REMOVAL” and thought “heck yeah!”👍
Trump broke them.
It is not a matter of image, but ofcsubstance.
The Dems seem to have decided that full on communist is a winner. Given the indoctrination that has been done to the American public, the plan might work.
The ‘Rats can renew themselves into oblivion FAIC.
The internet is forever, any Republican running against a Democrat who endorsed Zohran Mamdani needs to have a continuous run of advertisements of the endorsement and the results of what he will do to NYC.
Just like Democrats have always run ads against Republicans of them throwing Grandma off the cliff, Republicans need to make every Democrat a person who supported a communist to be Mayor of the world center for capitalism and the destruction it will bring about
“What lies do we need to concoct to fool the American people into voting for Democrats?”
The word Woke is not in this article.
Exactly! they will change what they look like e.g. Tallerico, Platner...) instead of changing what they are.
“eyes even as many of Trump’s actions are notably unpopular suggests that Democrats have a “yuck” factor that just isn’t going away.”
And therein lies the problem right there. The need to believe that Trump’s actions are unpopular. They aren’t. They are the opposite and are popular. It’s the democrat opposition that is wildly unpopular and they the “yuck” factor is in overdrive.
Oh, they definitely deisre to usher in communism, for communism provides them with a lot more control, then a representative republic offers them.
Why compare the current state of the Democrat Party to any
“modern” equivalent? The AOC wing of the party is not the same
as the Teaparty was to the Republican 15 years ago.
A better comparison might be that the current Democrats are
closer to the government of Russia after 1917. Like the Kerensky government, Schumer and the Democrats are looking for
a reason to exist let alone rule. And like Lenin in 1917-18, AOC/Mamdani/Sanders lead a small but virulent minority that
punches way above their weight.
I can’t help but think that the formally recognized Democrat
party is doomed. They bleed center-left constituents every
time Antifa lights up another ICE facility or AOC opens her
mouth. And tacking to the center ala Bill Clinton just makes
them a weaker, less effective version of the RINOS.
Just my 2 cents...
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