Zero Sympathy for the Democrats’ Political Death March

After years of empowering the fringe, Democrat insiders are discovering that the monsters they cultivated are now consuming them.

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"Forget about the fact that they screwed Sanders out of the nomination both times. They should never have given him ballot access. He wasn’t a Democrat. He still isn’t. But his little wannabe commissar clown-car minions all are."

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"Primary season is just about over in advance of the 2026 midterms, and it looks like the old-time party faithful on the Democrat side are awfully disappointed with how things sit.

"PJ Media’s Matt Margolis noted that the big midterm wave they’ve been insisting was coming is… not inevitable.

On the surface, it looks like Democrats should be able to win easily. Aside from precedent, Donald Trump’s polling gives them even more room to work with. Yet recent surveys suggest Democrats are underperforming badly enough that the wave they were counting on might not materialize.

That underperformance could cost them control of the House.

If Republicans hold the House this November, the reasons will be obvious: a socialist insurgency reshaping the party from within, and a singular obsession with opposing Trump that has crowded out everything else voters actually care about.

The evidence is already sitting in the polling.

On the generic congressional ballot, Republicans are either tied with Democrats or ahead by three to four points, nowhere near the margin Democrats need to flip the House. A recent Washington Post/Ipsos poll put Democrats up just 48 percent to 45 percent on that same generic ballot question. Asked which party they agree with more on the issues that matter to them, voters split 41 percent Republican to 40 percent Democrat. Asked which party they trust more to handle the economy, the gap widened: 39 percent for Republicans to 35 percent for Democrats.

"Along with that rather underwhelming showing thus far comes what comes off as pre-recriminations. For example, here’s Van Jones…"  Van Jones on X: "I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas.Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE . . .

"Liberal comedian Bill Maher says he’s “out” on the Democrat party: "Democrats are cowardly… their party is being taken over now. Every day I hear about a new radical...when we're cheering for the intifada, I'm out.” . . . More...

Did Zohran Mamdani call for an insurrection?

Expect the usual angry demonstrations with Hamas scarves, professionally-printed signs, and instigations to violent police reactions. TD

Andrea Widburg  

"Given that Bibi will be in the U.S. as an invited, and therefore protected, guest of the United States government, it’s almost as if Mamdani is trying to stir up...dare I say it?...an insurrection."

. . . "The Democrats later tried to imprison Trump and ban him from the presidency forever over language they contended was tantamount to a call for insurrection against the federal government. Interestingly, they don’t have the same standard for a mayor who’s issuing a similar call for people to protest a visiting head of state. Apparently, only some (i.e., Democrat) politicians are allowed to call for citizens to speak out.

"Mamdani’s call, of course, came in the context of his conceding that he lacked the power to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s wanted in the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) for alleged war crimes. A few points about that:

"First, neither the United States nor Israel is a party to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC. This means that the ICC has no authority over them, and they have no obligation to abide by its demands.

"Second, Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor who sought the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant, seems to be a dirty actor.

"Yesterday (July 24), based upon sexual misconduct allegations against him, the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties, by an 82-to-13 vote (with 15 abstentions), voted to remove him from office after he had committed “serious misconduct” and a “serious breach of duty.” I’m shocked that a British Muslim man of Pakistani descent would be accused of this type of wrongdoing. Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

"Third, of course, the entire charge is laughable. As many have pointed out repeatedly, it’s not genocide if you wage a traditional war against an enemy that has deliberately embedded itself among a civilian population; if you send food to enemy civilians only to have their military steal that food; and if you offer escape corridors to enemy civilians only to have their own military shoot at them. It’s also not a genocide if the enemy civilian population has dramatically grown both while under your aegis and after you pulled out from their territory." . . .

Gun, knife, or hammer control?  . . . "A group called ‘Palestine Action’ is apparently promoting this barbaric method of assault as a promising new means of employing “direct action.”

Journalist Andy Ngo recently posted on ‘X’: “Palestine Action is advertising ‘direct action’ training for people who want to take up militant action using hammers.” 

78-year-old Ann Widdecombe was bashed on the head repeatedly with a hammer until she died.
Palestine Action is advertising "direct action" training for people who want to take up militant action using hammers. pic.twitter.com/JOIQrZYiBj

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2026

How the Left Naturalizes Sedition

Many Americans see that law enforcement and the justice system in America have devolved into a state resembling the procedures and protocols of banana republics. 

Scott S. Powell - American Thinker 

 "Americans became further destabilized when they realized government authorities were unable or unwilling to do anything about the destruction in big cities across America."

"Yuri Bezmenov decided he wanted out of the KGB and the Soviet system some 56 years ago while serving in New Delhi, India. Disguising himself as an American hippie, he defected to the U.S. Embassy and debriefed with the CIA.

"It was decided that Bezmenov should settle in Canada under a new name for a while. Bezmenov came back to the U.S. in 1980 with a mission to educate people about Soviet "ideological subversion," which is the basic systematic methodology communists use to take down countries and establish Marxist-Leninist socialist-type states.

"More recently, a Chinese defector immigrant, Xi Van Fleet, has been on a crusade to warn Americans about the parallels between what is happening in America today and what Mao did in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

"The systematic plan Bezmenov revealed involves four fluid stages of communist subversion: 1) Demoralization, 2) Destabilization, 3) Crisis, and 4) Normalization. In Mao’s America, Xi Van Fleet explains how Mao’s destruction of the “Four Olds” (old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits) is being replicated by today’s leftist cancel culture in the U.S., which, she says, will end what is left of freedom in America if not stopped.

Demoralization

"In Bezmenov’s analysis, the first stage, demoralization, can take a generation or more. One of its main thrusts is to undermine the Judeo-Christian beliefs, customs, habits, and traditions that have been foundational to America; these parallel the “Four Olds” that Mao destroyed in China.

"Included in customs and traditions is the destruction of the family, which communists want to replace with the state. Xi Van Fleet points out that just as the Chinese Cultural Revolution turned children against their parents, American families are under increasing attack." . . . More...

Scott S Powell is senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. His book, Rediscovering America -- a previous #1 new release in history at Amazon for eight straight weeks -- captures the essence of this year’s Quarter Millennium 250th anniversary of America’s founding Declaration document.