The Democrat Party is struggling to come to terms with the scale of its defeat to Donald Trump and could face a Tea Party-style breakaway movement, as discontent among the party base reaches historic levels.
According to a detailed analysis of polling data conducted by Politico, “Just 40 percent of Democrats approve of the job performance of congressional Democrats, compared to 49 percent who disapprove. That’s a dramatic change from this time last year, when 75 percent of Democrats approved compared to just 21 percent who disapproved. The Democratic base’s disillusionment runs so deep that it’s eerily reminiscent of Republican grassroots sentiment in the period leading up to Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party.”
These data are “unlike any in recent history” and suggest the Democrats are “on the verge of a Tea Party-style, intra-party revolt.”
The first time the Democrats lost to Donald Trump, congressional approval ratings actually went up, because voters agreed with the way the party opposed him. The same trend was noticeable among Republican voters in 2020, despite Trump’s loss.
The data clearly suggest that anger among Democrat voters is directed at the party’s leadership. There seems to be no clear sign that voters want the party to be more left, less left or just stay the same. Instead, polling suggests voters believe party leadership isn’t doing enough to resist Trump.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is now facing a determined push from a Soros-backed group to step down after he helped pass a six-month spending bill to avert a federal shutdown last week.
Indivisible, an activist organization that has received nearly $8 million from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations since 2017, is now calling for Schumer to resign and is hosting an event tonight at which attendees will be encouraged to write “happy retirement” cards to the veteran politician.
The group’s co-executive director Ezra Levin announced the plan to oust Schumer shortly after the funding bill passed: “Senator Schumer should step aside as leader. Every Democrat in the Senate should call for him to do so, and begin making plans for new leadership immediately.”
He added that the wrangling over the spending bill should have been used by Democrats as a “rare, precious point of leverage,” but “Schumer did the opposite. He led the charge to wave the white flag of surrender.”
The new campaign to oust Schumer drew pointed comment from a White House official who spoke to The New York Post.
They said: “The Democrats will have an important question to answer in the coming days: Who actually leads their party — Schumer or Soros?”
