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God, you are so out of touch. The Democrats don’t even need Republicans to sink them, Democrats like you do it for them. The Fox News bit just shows how out of touch you are. As for trans, it’s not a wedge issue, though I know that is what you desperately want to believe. It’s unfortunately an issue of credibility for the Democrats, and voters simply don’t believe them. There have just been so many lies from the party on the issue. When you have middle school girls staging school walkout protests in blue states to protect their safety and they get attacked and screamed at on camera by adult Democratic activists, it doesn’t matter what the underlying issue is: you’ve lost on that issue. Now, I don’t think trans is going to play as much of a part in the next election as it did in 2024, but that’s because Trump is so incredibly unpopular, not because Democrats are trusted on the issue. It isn’t going away as an issue. Believe me, I would love to be able to agree that trans is an irrelevant wedge issue. But it isn’t and it isn’t going away. And just putting your head in the sand and chanting “But Fox News! But Fox News!” over and over doesn’t change reality. |
DP. If the trans issue was still enough to win elections then Winsome-Sears and Miyares would not have gotten blown out of the water in VA. Miyares especially considering he was Trump endorsed AND was running against a very weak, scandal plagued dem. It’s not enough no matter how much you keep saying it is. For one, a bad economy impacts everyone. The trans issue primarily is something that, to the extent it actually bothers people, is something that parents with girls care about most passionately. Like if you are childless or if you have boys or your children are adults? How does it effect your day to day life? |
Midterms have a very different voter pool than the presidential election: the outcome in VA was not a surprise (though welcome). Unpopular president combined with motivated opposition base is a common midterm outcome. And I agree that the bad economy is the number one issue, people always vote their pocketbook. All I am saying is that trans as an issue isn’t going away for Democrats, because it goes to credibility. I think Democrats will win the next presidential race because Trump is so unpopular and the economy is shaky, but that doesn’t mean people actually like and trust Democrats. As for who it impacts, trans is like immigration in that Democrats are demanding that voters accept lies. Voters don’t like that. They don’t like being told by politicians that what they know is true isn’t happening. The Democrats are demanding their voters deny their own reality and that has a corrosive impact on trust in the party. Does it show up as the key issue in every election? No. But does it harm the future of the party? Yes. You can only lie to your voters so often. Even Trump is learning that lesson with his voters, who are abandoning him. |
Pritzker, Kelly, Buttigieg and the other who spoke about illegal orders. Anyone who has spoken out against trump. Trump is probably dead long before 2028 and Don jr or Vance to run against |
Yep. Back and forth until … I dunno. The outlook looks bad. Maybe AI will run was an independent and everyone will pick that over the human alternatives. |
Yup. Democrats win in 2028 with an unpopular candidate, they lose four years later to some repellent Republican, and on and on. It is depressing. |
You're not getting that people can hate Trump and still hate Democrats more. They can despise the Republican party's approach to deporting undocumented immigrants while despising Democrats even more for lying about the problem, worsening it and having no plan whatsoever to fix it. They can despise the Republicans on abortion, but hate the Democrats more on women's rights because inventing a human right for men to self-identify as women is the greater daily threat to a greater number of women. They can hate Trump's pandering to Israel while hating Democrats more for lying about being the party of human rights when they're in genocidal Israel's pocket as well. Democrats like you don't want to understand that "voters hate Trump" says nothing about what voters think about you. It's the latter that will decide your fate. |
This was probably sarcastic, but it's the exact position of virtually every Democratic politician. |
So many people on here can’t understand that two things can be true at once. It’s terrible. They believe and want everyone else to believe that Trump is bad means Democrats good. |
| thanks for pulling that statement. so true. |
Exactly. |
Well, there are only two parties. You either vote for Republicans, Democrats, or stay home. So far in 2025 your assertion that voters hate Democrats is patently false, since Democratic candidates have either won or drastically outperformed expectations. So no, trans hysteria isn’t stopping the Democratic Party. 99% of voters either don’t care, or are willing to put aside disagreement on the issue because they realize so much more is at stake than who uses what bathroom. You can howl all you want about trans endangerment to women, but the election results of 2025 show that very few people share your outrage. |
Imagine writing all this without grasping the difference between local/state-level elections versus national elections. A Virginia Democrat who diligently ran from every opportunity to express any support for the transgender foolishness Democrats are pushing beat a Republican who couldn't land Trump's endorsement, so that means voters love Democrats for the presidency. Makes sense! |
There are more than two options. Stop being a sheep. Work toward establishing a new major parties. There can be two but these jokers need to go. People here are also small-minded. |
Also, there is more than one person who thinks the two existing major parties (or should I say corporations) need to be supplanted. |