Posted on 11/07/2025 11:29:56 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It depends on who’s running the tent.
Democrats are famously in very poor shape these days. Despite the unpopularity of many of Donald Trump’s specific moves, Democrats’ popularity has not been rising. Indeed, in many polls it is mired at historic lows. Democrats’ lead in the generic congressional ballot for 2026 is alarmingly modest and the situation in the Senate is dire. And no, the Democrats’ strong showing in the idiosyncratic 2025 elections, boosted by favorable terrain, disapproval of the incumbent Trump administration, and their now-traditional advantage in lower turnout elections where their educated, engaged supporters flock to the polls, does not change these fundamental problems.
The Democrats’ current woes come on top of their decisive defeat in the 2024 election and the restoration of their nemesis, Trump, to power. Democrats as a result are at their wits’ end. They know they need to do something…but what? Many in the party want to fight, fight, fight. Hence the government shutdown and the unending stream of denunciations of each and every move Trump makes. But logically such truculence will do—and has done—nothing to change the party’s toxic image among wide sectors of working class and red-state voters the party desperately needs to turn around their electoral fortunes.
For such voters, the Democrats are out-of-step with their preferences on everything from crime and immigration to trans issues to patriotism and even the economy. They neither like nor trust the Democrats and, not without reason, feel Democrats view anyone who doesn’t share their priorities and blanket opposition to Trump as a hopeless reactionary if not an enabler of fascism. In short, they believe Democrats look down on them as the “deplorables” who must be “educated” by their betters to see...
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It’s not a tent, it’s a Low Information Voter Pen at the slaughter house.
The Bolsheviks had a small tent in 1918.
I don’t want to be in a big tent. I want to be in the right tent.
“Big tent” = diversity.
You triggered the lyrics that have been nagging my subconscious recently:
"Sheep" by Pink Floyd
"Meek and obedient, you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors, into the valley of steel...
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes
Now things are really what they seem
No, this is not a bad dream!"
I agree. The 2026 tarain will be Purple or Red.
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