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DNC Summer Meetings Show Why Democrats Are in Shambles
AMAC Newsline ^ | 29 Aug, 2025 | Shane Harris

Posted on 08/31/2025 7:51:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Democrat Party leaders gathered in Minneapolis this week for the DNC summer meetings, billed as a critical opportunity for the party to “turn the page” on a turbulent 13 months starting with former President Joe Biden’s early exit from the presidential race last July. But from literally the opening minutes of the event, it became clear that Democrats either have no real interest or are completely incapable of reforming the aspects of their party that have left them hopelessly out of touch with everyday Americans.

Just when it seemed Democrats might finally be realizing how exhausted most people are of their constant woke lecturing, the DNC chose to kick off the meetings with a land acknowledgment. Lindy Sowmick, a Minnesota Democrat and self-described “Indigenous queer woman,” stated that the land on which the meetings were taking place was “not claimed, or traded – it’s a part of a history of broken treaties and promises.”

From there, things only got worse for Democrats, as various party officials reaffirmed that they would not be moving off their extremely unpopular stances.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, for instance, bragged that his state had “sued Trump for gender-affirming care,” alluding to efforts to keep allowing doctors to prescribe puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries to minors. According to a Center Square poll last October, 59 percent of American adults oppose such practices.

In one of the more shameful moments of the meetings, DNC Chair Ken Martin withdrew his own resolution on the Israel-Gaza war amid backlash from the radical anti-Jewish wing of the party. The resolution was entirely symbolic and attempted to chart a middle course on the conflict, calling for more humanitarian aid to Gaza, an immediate ceasefire, release of hostages, and a two-state solution. But in a sign of how much power the antisemitic left has gained within the party – to the point where even a symbolic resolution stating Israel’s right to exist is unacceptable – Martin folded.

Yet another shockingly tone-deaf moment came when Insha Rahman, the vice president of the Vera Institute, a left-wing think tank, declared that “migrant crime, carjackings and other public safety threats ‘don’t matter to that many Americans.’”

As if that weren’t enough to alienate voters, as Fox News reported, “The DNC’s Resolutions Committee, meeting on Tuesday during the second day of the national party’s annual summer meeting, unanimously passed a resolution affirming what it highlighted as the ‘American Values’ of diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Even more outrageously, a DNC committee member later declared that DEI is the “very foundation of the Christian church” – to thunderous applause from those in attendance. (As the Christian Post notes, Democrats removed mentions of “God” and “Jerusalem” from their platform in 2012, and the audience booed when the chairman called for a vote to restore those words.)

Heading into this week, Democrats were already grasping for answers on a litany of crises facing the party, which is still licking its wounds from a stinging defeat last year at the hands of Donald Trump. Not only did Trump win back the presidency, he swept every swing state and totally embarrassed Kamala Harris, whose short-lived campaign managed to burn through $1.5 billion in just 15 weeks.

The DNC is still paying a significant chunk of those campaign expenses – $15 million in the first six months of 2025 alone. But those funds have been hard to come by as the party is strapped for cash and donors are sitting on their wallets. At the end of July, the DNC had just $15 million cash on hand, compared to $80 million for the RNC. The New York Times reported in June that the DNC may have to borrow money this year “just to keep paying the bills.”

Meanwhile, Democrats are also badly lagging Republicans in voter registrations, seen as a key metric of party strength and enthusiasm. As the Times again reported earlier this year, “Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections – and often by a lot.” In 2024, for the first time since 2018, more new voters registered Republican than Democrat.

Unsurprisingly, given both the dire fundraising and registration numbers, Democrats are also in the depths of a favorability crisis that is unlikely to change much following the absurd displays this week in Minneapolis. A Wall Street Journal survey late last month found that just 33 percent of voters hold a favorable view of the Democrat Party, compared to 63 percent who hold an unfavorable view – a 35-year low in the history of the poll.

The Democrats came to Minneapolis hoping for a reset, but instead they put their dysfunction on full display. From land acknowledgments to DEI sermons and surrendering to the party’s antisemitic fringe, the entire spectacle only reminded voters why Democrats are broke, divided, and bleeding support in every corner of the country.

If this week was supposed to be a turning point, it was only in the sense that the car swerved even further off the road.


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To: MtnClimber
If this week was supposed to be a turning point, it was only in the sense that the car swerved even further off the road.
If the Democrats did a turning point, it was a 360 to loudly end right in the same place.

More power to 'em. They don't need to change a thing.

21 posted on 08/31/2025 8:31:49 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: BenLurkin

Right? Waltz and Ellison brag about making MN a sanctuary for trannies. Then a trannie shoots up a sanctuary for Catholic kids. Quite a bookend to the meeting of mentally ill Democrats at the DNC.


22 posted on 08/31/2025 8:37:20 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Drew68

At some point we’ve got to figure out how to win elections when Donald Trump is not on the ballot.

********

“There’s the rub.”

I wish I had an answer or solution to this problem, but I don’t.


23 posted on 08/31/2025 8:38:16 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: GOPJ

Give the Democrats a few more decades and they will be doing land acknowledgements to Neanderthals.


24 posted on 08/31/2025 8:45:31 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: MtnClimber

They never did.


25 posted on 08/31/2025 8:47:37 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: cgbg

I’m surprised they haven’t done so already.


26 posted on 08/31/2025 8:47:54 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: mel

And ONLY for the lunatics at this point.


27 posted on 08/31/2025 8:49:23 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber

This is what state mental hospitals were for.

It was the left who had them shuttered. No need to wonder why.


28 posted on 08/31/2025 8:49:49 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Vaquero

It’s past time to reopen them and send all the braindead lefties there.


29 posted on 08/31/2025 8:50:45 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: silent majority rising

Don’t declare the DNC dead just yet. That would be a terrible mistake.


Exactly right. Common sense would have said that Communism/Marxim was dead after the fall of the Soviet Union, but it has been remarkably resilient in this country (and the West in general).


30 posted on 08/31/2025 8:53:08 AM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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To: Liz
Bill Clinton being married to Hillary....advised the DNC to go after the “celibate vote.”

LOL - first time I've heard that one. Good one Liz.

Maybe Hillary is the "brains" behind this new move to toss the American working class in favor of indigenous queer woman,” vote. Could Hilllary also be the person behind dumping the 'we don't want to live in crime ridden hellholes' vote? In favor of the 'pity party for criminals' vote? Or the drunk woman vote? So many questions about the irrational democrat party...

31 posted on 08/31/2025 8:56:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (Chicago's mayor? Is he working with the cartels and organized crime? <I><B><big><center> )
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To: Drew68

The Left has more people who live and breathe this stuff than the Right does.

And among the low-info people, the Right doesn’t give a crap about “minor” elections because they have busy lives. “Election on Tuesday? Meh, I never heard of any of these bozos and they’re all the same. I’m busy at work and need to put in some OT, and my kid has a game that night.”

But the low-info Left thinks they’re going to be put in camps and they need to RESIST the fascist orange dictator, so they make it a point to vote.


32 posted on 08/31/2025 9:00:59 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: MtnClimber

“…and self-described “Indigenous queer woman,”

Why indulge such an idiotic attention seeker?


33 posted on 08/31/2025 9:01:32 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: rbg81
The fantasy of communism is that we can all go back to being children in a loving family where loving adults do FOR US and we do what we can in response... like smiling or saying 'thank you Mom'....

The people who think communism can fulfill it's promise in spite of over a hundred years of failures (with millions of useful idiots murdered) is 'hope ' over sanity. I wish it worked - it doesn't and never will. The incentive pattern is toxic and the results and end product are evil.

34 posted on 08/31/2025 9:04:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (Chicago's mayor? Is he working with cartels and organized crime? <I><B><big><center> )
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To: FlipWilson
What is the GOP plan to take advantage of it? All I am seeing is us basking in the glow the the last election victory.
Surely you jest.

The R plan is a roaring economy, money in people's pockets, no DEI, push back on LGBT & trans, support the 2A, redistricting, strong military *but* no wars - no Ukraine, tariffs and the cash they bring, drill baby drill, no solar & windmills, energy independence, low inflation, lower interest rates, stop wasting time on Epstein, prosecute J6 & Russia Russia Russia, best the Democrat toady judges, set up JD as the heir to be, and whatever I left out...

What's not to like?

35 posted on 08/31/2025 9:07:02 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: MtnClimber

This is “inside baseball”, never covered by the mainstream media, and unbeknownst to most Americans. They will never see the true colors of the Dems, and will still have a 1990s view about the Democrats. The rightwing blogs on YouTube and elsewhere need to bring this to people’s attention.


36 posted on 08/31/2025 9:07:49 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: dfwgator
Meanwhile at the state and local level, the Republicans are in even worse shape.
Got it. You're predicting the Blue wave.
37 posted on 08/31/2025 9:12:14 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: MtnClimber

Prison stripes or strait jackets.


38 posted on 08/31/2025 9:13:55 AM PDT by Track9 (Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT!)
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To: MtnClimber

we can start the critique with their choice of Minneapolis for the meeting.


39 posted on 08/31/2025 9:15:33 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: FlipWilson

I think it is important that despite the losses and their awful poll numbers they have not moderated a bit. This probably means they plan to cheat at level never before seen. Why not, they have yet to face any consequences for it. The rats have learned it is a near impossibility to get a court to even delay an election “result” let alone reverse one.


40 posted on 08/31/2025 9:16:21 AM PDT by iamgalt
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