The End of Democrats
Ever since the 2024 election results came in, folks have predicted that this is the beginning of the end of the Democrat Party in U.S. political circles. There’s no message, they say…no leader…they’re wrong on the issues…young people are flocking to the GOP…the party lied to the public about Joe Biden’s fitness for office…etc., etc.
If this keeps up, the prognosticators say, there won’t even be a Democrat party left in a few years.
That’s exactly the kind of attitude that means the Democrats will once again return to majority party status at some point, probably sooner than later.
Yes, Republicans are poised to be generational leaders, holding majorities for some time—but only if they deliver on what they promised six short months ago. And so far, with the lone exception being the guy in the White House, they’ve done absolutely nothing to deserve re-election next year much less next decade.
Those in the two major parties—Republicans and Democrats—consistently agree on one thing: keeping power. They work together to rig the game so that other parties can’t get a foothold, so their power-sharing alliance continues (never mind how that impacts citizens or public policy). This is not like when the Whig party faltered and the Republican party was founded in Crawfordsville, Iowa in 1854.
Obviously, this Republican party with Donald Trump at the top is far different from Republican parties in the past, so the first question is whether once Trump is gone from the scene, the party reverts back to its old form, or if MAGA continues to be synonymous with GOP.
And while the Democrats can’t seem to get out of their own way these days, Republicans aren’t much better—again as noted, certainly in terms of actually doing anything. All it takes is one leader to catch fire and they’re right back in the game.
With voters being divided roughly equally between Republicans, Democrats, and “no party” independents, it won’t take much for things to swing wildly in the other direction. So enough with the “Democrats will soon go out of business” comments. Better to focus on how to amp up your own party’s game, to make it harder for them to recover.
