Overall, just 33% of all Americans express a favorable view of the Democratic Party, an all-time low in CNN’s polling dating back to 1992. The GOP clocks in a tick higher, with a 36% favorability rating. Four years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Democrats’ rating stood at 49%, and the Republicans’ at 32%.
Overall, just 33% of all Americans express a favorable view of the Democratic Party, an all-time low in CNN’s polling dating back to 1992. The GOP clocks in a tick higher, with a 36% favorability rating. Four years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Democrats’ rating stood at 49%, and the Republicans’ at 32%.
I'm not particularly surprised. The party is in full self-flagellation mode right now. Different wings of the party/base are taking our loss to insist that we need to immediately abandon the [opposite end of the party compared to the person speaking] if we ever hope to win an election again.
"Normies" are being bombarded with messages that democrats too far right, too far left; that we are too nice to immigrants, too hostile to immigrants; that we only engage in social issues, that we ignore the socially vulnerable; that we're warmongers, that we're peaceniks; that we do not care about the poor, that we only care about the poor...
Is it any surprise that we've lost so much favorability? All this BS pushes people out from the party, making it sound like there's no home here for anyone left of republicans regardless of their exact ideological tilt. Hopefully the public infighting dies down as people get pissed off by all the inevitable horrors we are about to face and we refocus our efforts on ending those horrors.
It's not going to last forever, but I don't think I can recall a "wind out of the sails" moment for a political party like what the Democrats experienced from October-November 2024. From people fired up to just . . . utter retreat and fatigue. And it's understandable' the fatalism has struck me too. But we've got to dust ourselves off and pretty soon.
1988? 2000? 2004? 2016? This is nothing new for the modern day Democratic Party. Even with our winners like Bill Clinton in 1992, Barack Obama in 2008, and Joe Biden in 2020 there were very much doubts at times.
I mean aggregated polling is showing Dems at their lowest place in modern times; it's definitely worse. 2016 seemed like a fluke. In 88 we still had the House.
It seemed like Trump had made himself completely toxic to voters at the end of his 1st term, he runs a campaign basically being a terrible person, and still wins. That's a much bigger gut punch than simply Generic R aka W Bush winning a second term as an incumbent post 9/11. Plus the educational realignment crossing racial lines that's occurred ensures both winning the Senate and Presidency is significantly harder than it was in the aughts. And that cohort of the population is in a social media-driven news bubble environment completely detached from any respect of fact or integrity.
In 1988 we lost the White House in a landslide for a third straight year and five out of the last six Presidential Elections. The US House Democratic majority was still well to the right ideology wise of the US House Democratic minority of today. We had the majority of the US House seats in states like Alabama and Oklahoma back then, for crying out loud. And those Democrats for the most part were anything BUT liberal, let alone "progressive." In 2004, the "conventional wisdom" was that the Democratic Party was "permanently doomed" to exist on the coasts......and little elsewhere.
In short, let's not write the obituary of the Democratic Party. Especially since there isn't another up and coming left wing party coming up to supplant them. This isn't the USA Whig Party of 1854 or the UK Liberal Party of 1918.
That the party is ideologically divided on a lot of issues is a big problem. The Republicans don’t have that problem, even before Trump. And now it’s whatever Trump wants. That makes it easier for them to present a united, clear message. Unlike the muddled message and weak presentation usually coming from the Democrats.
Overall, just 33% of all Americans express a favorable view of the Democratic Party, an all-time low in CNN’s polling dating back to 1992. The GOP clocks in a tick higher, with a 36% favorability rating. Four years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Democrats’ rating stood at 49%, and the Republicans’ at 32%.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/politics/democrats-party-change-cnn-poll/index.html
I'm not particularly surprised. The party is in full self-flagellation mode right now. Different wings of the party/base are taking our loss to insist that we need to immediately abandon the [opposite end of the party compared to the person speaking] if we ever hope to win an election again.
"Normies" are being bombarded with messages that democrats too far right, too far left; that we are too nice to immigrants, too hostile to immigrants; that we only engage in social issues, that we ignore the socially vulnerable; that we're warmongers, that we're peaceniks; that we do not care about the poor, that we only care about the poor...
Is it any surprise that we've lost so much favorability? All this BS pushes people out from the party, making it sound like there's no home here for anyone left of republicans regardless of their exact ideological tilt. Hopefully the public infighting dies down as people get pissed off by all the inevitable horrors we are about to face and we refocus our efforts on ending those horrors.
Defeat brought out the worst in us.
It's not going to last forever, but I don't think I can recall a "wind out of the sails" moment for a political party like what the Democrats experienced from October-November 2024. From people fired up to just . . . utter retreat and fatigue. And it's understandable' the fatalism has struck me too. But we've got to dust ourselves off and pretty soon.
1988? 2000? 2004? 2016? This is nothing new for the modern day Democratic Party. Even with our winners like Bill Clinton in 1992, Barack Obama in 2008, and Joe Biden in 2020 there were very much doubts at times.
I mean aggregated polling is showing Dems at their lowest place in modern times; it's definitely worse. 2016 seemed like a fluke. In 88 we still had the House.
It seemed like Trump had made himself completely toxic to voters at the end of his 1st term, he runs a campaign basically being a terrible person, and still wins. That's a much bigger gut punch than simply Generic R aka W Bush winning a second term as an incumbent post 9/11. Plus the educational realignment crossing racial lines that's occurred ensures both winning the Senate and Presidency is significantly harder than it was in the aughts. And that cohort of the population is in a social media-driven news bubble environment completely detached from any respect of fact or integrity.
In 1988 we lost the White House in a landslide for a third straight year and five out of the last six Presidential Elections. The US House Democratic majority was still well to the right ideology wise of the US House Democratic minority of today. We had the majority of the US House seats in states like Alabama and Oklahoma back then, for crying out loud. And those Democrats for the most part were anything BUT liberal, let alone "progressive." In 2004, the "conventional wisdom" was that the Democratic Party was "permanently doomed" to exist on the coasts......and little elsewhere.
In short, let's not write the obituary of the Democratic Party. Especially since there isn't another up and coming left wing party coming up to supplant them. This isn't the USA Whig Party of 1854 or the UK Liberal Party of 1918.
I mean, I'm not writing any obituaries and think a lot can turn around, particularly with a recession, but we are mostly a coastal party again.
That the party is ideologically divided on a lot of issues is a big problem. The Republicans don’t have that problem, even before Trump. And now it’s whatever Trump wants. That makes it easier for them to present a united, clear message. Unlike the muddled message and weak presentation usually coming from the Democrats.