If AOC is its future, the Democratic Party is hopelessly lost

Even Will Rogers might be hard pressed to come up with an appropriately harsh jibe about the current state of the Democrats. “I am not a member of any organized political party,” the 20th-century humorist famously said.“I am a Democrat.” Now, the problem isn’t a lack of organization per se, but the hangover of their dogged, dishonest support for a comprehensively failed presidency, joined to an irrational commitment to outlandish positions on cultural issues. The Democrats shouldn’t be shocked that after insisting that Joe Biden was hale and hearty and fit to serve as commander-in-chief until January, 2029, the public has a dim view of their party.The Democrats attempted to perpetrate one of the worst frauds on the American public in recent history, and then followed it up with another lie — that Biden’s overmatched emergency replacement, Kamala Harris, was joyful and impressive. In a new CNN poll, the Democratic Party’s favorable rating is 29% — a record low going back to 1992.In a new NBC poll, the Democratic Party’s favorable rating is 27% — a record low going back to 1990.Detect a pattern? Part of the reason for the dismal rating is that Democrats themselves want their party to be more confrontational with Trump and are dissatisfied.But the party has taken a broader hit — in the NBC poll, only 11% of independents have a favorable view of it, and 56% unfavorable. The agonized state of the party was encapsulated by its psychodrama over the so-called continuing resolution that 10 Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted to pass last week.Progressives consider Schumer’s support a rank betrayal, and he’s had to postpone a book tour amid “security concerns.” The New York senator, who warned conservative Supreme Court justices a few years ago, “You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price,” is now paying one himself. Schumer made the right tactical call.

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