The Left is at a loss. They don’t know how to turn around their sinking ship.
And now the Democrat Party is falling apart after suffering a massive mutiny.
Stephen A. Smith isn’t holding back—he says the Democratic Party is in complete disarray.
The outspoken sports analyst can’t fathom why his name is even being floated as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, calling it a glaring sign of the party’s dysfunction.
“I think it is an indictment against the Democratic Party,” Smith said on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Four months after the election, Democrats are still scrambling to figure out how to counter President Trump’s aggressive agenda. The only consensus? There is no consensus.
Some want a more forceful pushback. Others think that’s a mistake. Some believe the party should double down on Leftist policies. Others argue for a moderate shift.
Meanwhile, Democratic leaders in Congress are floundering, unable to find an effective strategy since losing their grip on both the House and Senate. The only lifeline they have is the recent economic turmoil, which they hope to use as leverage.
Potential 2028 presidential candidates are keeping their options open, waiting to see where the party is headed while trying not to alienate the voters who handed Republicans control of Washington.
“I don’t think it’s a secret that Democrats have been on their heels since Trump won the election,” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, admitted on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are under growing pressure from their base to ramp up their attacks on Trump, whom they claim is dismantling democracy. Activists have taken their outrage to GOP town halls, demanding an all-out war against the administration.
The message from the Democratic grassroots is loud and clear: Enough with the weak opposition. They want party leaders to make Trump’s life as difficult as possible.
Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible, a Left-wing political group, warned that unless Democrats prove they’re ready to fight, they could find themselves replaced.
“Are we in a constitutional crisis or not?” Levin asked. “There’s zero tactical or innovative leadership.”
With no clear leader stepping up, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed socialist, is trying to fill the void. At 83, he’s launched the “Stop Oligarchy Tour” to fire up liberal voters in key House swing districts.
But longtime Democratic strategist James Carville has a different take.
“With no clear leader to voice our opposition and no control in any branch of government, it’s time for Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead,” Carville wrote in a New York Times op-ed. “Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”
Former Sen. Sherrod Brown, who lost his re-election bid, believes the party’s biggest problem is its “toxic” brand. He argues that Democrats must return to their working-class roots instead of pandering to corporate interests.
“But instead, the message they’ve heard from party elites, over and over, has been: We know better than you do. Voters sense it. They hate it. And until we fix it, working-class voters will continue to abandon us,” Brown wrote in the National Review.
He says Democrats need to start listening to working-class Americans, even when their views don’t align with the party’s elite.
“But if we are going to be the workers’ party, that can’t apply only when the opinions of working-class voters happen to match up with those of current party leaders and elite donors,” he added.
The cold, hard truth for Democrats is that 2026 offers few Senate pickup opportunities, and the 2028 presidential primary is shaping up to be a brutal battle over just how far left the party should go on issues like transgender policies and immigration.
For now, Schumer and Jeffries are struggling to hold their party together.
Their calls for unity were ignored during Trump’s first address to Congress.
Rep. Al Green of Texas had to be removed from the chamber after shouting and shaking his cane in protest. Most Democrats wouldn’t even stand to honor a 13-year-old brain cancer survivor—simply because he was Trump’s guest.
Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, didn’t mince words, calling his party’s behavior a “sad cavalcade of self-owns and unhinged petulance.”
“It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained,” Fetterman said. “We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to—and it may not be the winning message.”
Rep. Ro Khanna of California agreed.
“The story should have been on President Trump” and the Republican budget that would balloon the deficit while slashing Medicaid, he said.
“Instead, we are talking about our own behavior, and that’s a distraction from us getting out our economic message.”
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