Has Trump caused the establishment Democratic Party to
implode?
by Douglas MacKinnon, opinion contributor - 03/22/25
12:00 PM ET
Is the Democratic Party as we’ve known it for decades
officially over?
Charlamagne tha God, co-host of the nationally
syndicated radio show “The Breakfast Club” — and often
one of the most aware, sane and needed voices in our
country — had this to say about the Democratic Party:
“If I was a Democrat, I wouldn’t even speak for the
party right now because the party is in shambles. The
party is in disarray. The party has no leadership. The
party has no messaging. … We all have eyes and we all
have ears, and we can see that they don’t have any
direction.”
And just how bad is it really for the Democrats? Quite
possibly much worse than Charlamagne believes. In a
recent poll from Quinnipiac of voters, only 21 percent
approve of Democrats in Congress — the lowest number on
record.
While this may be shocking news for those not already
tracking this downfall, it’s something I’ve been hearing
for weeks from the Democrats I know. My friends on the
left consider themselves to be more “old-school liberal”
— more in line with the thinking and policies of former
Presidents Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon
Johnson, with a bit of Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter
thrown in for good measure.
These old-school liberals believe the Democratic Party
they signed up for should — and must — be about
protecting the rights of the working class, the
disenfranchised and the voiceless. However, they also
all believe that mission must be folded within
commonsense and pragmatic boundaries, not sidetracked
and sabotaged by “woke” initiatives now being demanded
by the far-left wing of their party.
Back in the day, the Democratic Party did stand for the
working class, the disenfranchised and the forgotten.
What happened? That is a question my many old-school
liberal friends are asking themselves.
For each one who has asked me, I have given them the
exact same answer: “Donald Trump happened.” Ever since
the New York City businessman rode down the escalator at
Trump Tower to announce that he would be running for
president, the Democratic Party of principles, of the
working class, of the disenfranchised and the voiceless
began to unravel.
Almost instantly, the knee-jerk policy for the Democrats
— and their allies in the media, academia, science and
medicine — was to oppose anything and everything said or
proposed by Trump. It was as if a curtain of red rage
had instantly descended over their eyes and all that
remained visible was their unhinged hatred of Trump
pinballing within their minds.
No more thoughts about the poor; no more discussions
about how said poor and working-class constituents could
no longer afford the rising costs of food, rent,
medicine, childcare or education. No more thoughts about
an open border and how tens of millions of illegal
migrants were siphoning off taxpayer dollars that could
have dramatically helped those poor and working-class
Americans; no more thoughts about rising violent crime,
crumbling inner cities or failing public schools.
No. Every ounce of the energy and brainpower of these
Democratic “leaders” seemed to be redirected to wrecking
Trump’s first administration, and then doing all in
their collective power to prevent him from becoming the
Republican nominee in 2024. All that came before Trump’s
decisive reelection last November.
Since Trump took office on Jan. 20, he has accomplished
two noteworthy things. The first is to get more done in
his first few weeks in office than any president in U.S.
history. The second, to finally push the Democratic
Party over the edge and into the abyss where, even as
they are plummeting to the bottom, they are bizarrely
screaming out their defense of fraud, waste and abuse
within the federal government while totally ignoring the
bread-and-butter issues so critically important to their
constituents.
“We hate Trump” is now the entirety of the Democratic
platform.
Many of my old-school liberal friends thought that after
Trump embarrassingly defeated the ticket of Vice
President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz,
what was left of the “leadership” of the Democratic
Party would pivot back to those bread-and-butter issues.
But no. Apparently led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-N.Y.) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), they have
tripled down on “we hate Trump” as their only policy.
Promises kept and results from the Oval Office matter to
the American people and Trump has been delivering on
both at record speed. The Democrats and media can deny
it all they want while they attack Trump and Elon Musk,
but the voters know success and the real thing when they
see it.
For multiple reasons — including his decades of real-
world business experience; because of his “America
First” policies; because he is making American energy
independent again; because he is reshaping our military
into the finest fighting force in the world; because of
the multiple witch hunts, lawfare scams and raids he
survived; because he demonstrated a courage few could
replicate when he got shot by a wannabe assassin and
instinctively jumped to his feet to scream “fight,
fight, fight”; and because he is the catalyst behind the
coming ceasefire in Ukraine — I honestly believe
unbiased future historians will one day declare Trump
our greatest president.
But when they do, will they note that, aside from being
the catalyst to preventing a potential World War III, he
brought about the end the Democratic Party as we know
it?
“Hate” is not a policy. It is a death sentence for a
once-great party.
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