During a June 2019 MSNBC Democratic presidential primary debate, co-moderator Savannah Guthrie asked the candidates to raise their hands if their healthcare plans would cover undocumented immigrants. All ten candidates, including former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, raised their hands.
That shocking moment demonstrated just how far left the party had drifted. It showed that Democrats had abandoned their centrist roots and fully embraced a more radical agenda. As ludicrous as the idea seemed, with the backing and promotion of legacy media and Big Tech, this and other equally extreme proposals soon became normalized.
Today, the party bears little resemblance to the Democratic Party of former President Bill Clinton. The party’s shift toward radicalism began in earnest during the Obama administration. At a 2008 campaign rally, then-candidate Barack Obama declared, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” The crowd roared. Those weren’t mere words. The junior senator from Illinois was deadly serious.
Obama and his first attorney general, Eric Holder, worked quickly to fill the government and its agencies with as many liberals as possible, effectively politicizing them.
By the end of Obama’s presidency, top-ranking administration officials were actively targeting then-candidate Donald Trump. In July 2016, then-CIA Director John Brennan informed Obama that the Steele dossier — a bogus collection of salacious stories about Trump — was commissioned by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to distract from her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Yet, the Obama FBI still used it as the “basis” for a FISA court warrant (and three subsequent renewals) to spy on Trump’s campaign.
Without credible evidence, the FBI presumed that Trump was colluding with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election. This claim was leaked to the press. The baseless investigations that followed cast a shadow of illegitimacy over the first two years of Trump’s presidency. Despite multiple investigations finding no collusion by Trump — and declassified documents revealing serious misconduct by Obama officials — none of those responsible were ever held accountable. The lack of consequences emboldened them to take their war on Trump to even greater heights.
When the Mueller investigation failed to provide grounds for impeaching Trump, Democrats shifted their focus to a July 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. They alleged that Trump conditioned U.S. aid to Ukraine on its government’s willingness to investigate the Biden family’s business dealings in the country. This time, they succeeded.
Three weeks ahead of the 2020 election, the New York Post published emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop that suggested Joe Biden’s possible involvement in the family’s influence-peddling business. We now know that Antony Blinken, then a top adviser to Joe Biden’s campaign, arranged for 51 former high-ranking intelligence community officials to sign a now-infamous letter that said the report bore all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign. Days later, Joe Biden cited the letter as proof that he had no knowledge of his son’s activities during a presidential debate with Trump.
When Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination a week after the 2022 midterm elections, Democrats launched a coordinated lawfare campaign against him.
Against all odds, Trump won a decisive victory in November. After 10 years of the Democrats’ Soviet-style tactics, voters finally caught on. The injuries to the Democratic brand were self-inflicted. It seems they forgot Rule #7 from community organizer Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
Yet Democrats also appear to have learned nothing from Harris’s stinging defeat. Her loss left the party leaderless and, many believe, lost. Their downfall was massive, yet their arrogance has remained intact.
Democrats, who once championed the fight for working-class Americans, no longer stand for anything. Nor do they have a coherent message beyond “Trump is evil.” Their collective “Trump Derangement Syndrome” has left little room for actual governance or advancing the will of the people they were elected to represent.
Fast forward to their disgraceful behavior during Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night. As was with Republicans such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who heckled Joe Biden during his 2024 State of the Union, their actions betrayed the sanctity of the offices they are privileged to hold. Instead of conducting themselves as dignified members of an esteemed body of legislators, they behaved like classless, anti-American fools. From their initial heckling and shouting, which led to Rep. Al Green’s (D-TX) removal from the chamber, to their refusal to acknowledge even the most poignant and bipartisan moments of the speech, the party’s transformation was on full display.
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Apparently, not all party members were on board with their performance. According to Axios, “Congressional Democrats’ internal divisions over how to combat President Trump surfaced with a fury” the next day. In other words, they all agreed they should resist Trump; they simply disagreed on what form their resistance should take.
Can we still call the Democrats a mainstream political party, or have they devolved into little more than disorganized factions of disgruntled radicals?