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Angry democrats gone wild

With wild scenes from the nation’s students deploying to Spring Break hot spots, Democrats are in tight competition for questionable decisions.

By:

Amanda Head

March 14, 2025

Since the November election produced no discernible pivot from Democrats, midterm battleground voters show no new love for the party or their message.

In a blow to platform architects and champions of progressivism in the Democratic Party, a new Navigator Research poll shows that a majority of those polled, 56%, do not believe Democrats are looking out for working people. Just 39% believe they have the right priorities.

One of the researchers who conducted the poll met with House Democrats at their Issues Conference on Wednesday in Leesberg, Virginia to discuss the party’s platform heading into the crucial 2026 midterms. If Democrats are able to flip the House of Representatives, it gives them a small boost in combatting President Donald Trump’s agenda. Without that, they will remain effectively powerless to stop anything out of the executive, with the exception of fighting long court battles to overturn Trump and Republicans’ actions.

A deeper dive into the poll reveals how voters feel about work and its value to the Democratic Party. Only 44% reported that they think Democrats respect work. An even smaller margin, 39%, believe Democrats value work.

An even harsher blow: 69% of voters said Democrats focus too much on being politically correct. 51% said the identifying term “elitist” fits the party well.

According to the same survey, however, Republicans have their own set of issues. 54% of respondents said they view Republicans in Congress unfavorably. Roughly one third said they approve of Republicans’ handling of the economy.

Perhaps the harshest blow in the results was the finding that among independents, only 27% believe Democrats are focused on helping them. 55% said Democrats are focused on others.

Since the campaign for the 2024 general election, the Democratic Party has experienced a great deal of difficultly fusing the fringes of their party and congealing a winning message.

On core issues like the border, economy, law-and-order and social issues like trans rights, Democrats stumbled over their own messaging. Since then, they’ve yet to find even one major issue that aligns with broad sentiment in the country.

Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn joined the Furthermore with Amanda Head Podcast on Friday and spoke to this very issue: “The American people gave Donald Trump an overwhelming vote to deal with the border, inflation, get our country back to its standing in the world, crime in our communities, the bureaucracy and reduce the federal government, and find a way to get this country back on track. Donald Trump made that promise. That is exactly what he with a Republican House, and Republican Senate is doing so the Democrats again find themselves on the wrong side of the issue, and the American people are looking at them and their antics and saying to them, ‘you are out of touch with where the American people are.’”

To Blackburn’s point, many high profile Democrats have been airing their grievances publicly. Democrat senator Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., appeared on ABC’s The View told their viewers, “I think there’s a feeling in the country, and I often say this, we’re about to turn 250-years-old, right? We’re still pretty young for a country. These are, like, our angry teenage years, right?”

Further insulting voters she continued, “we are going through this push and pull where we’re happy, we’re sad, we want this, we want that, and what do you do when you have a teenager who’s threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form and you can come back.”

Another Democrat with brow-raising comments: that of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Sanders, who was born in 1941 and is of Jewish heritage, lived his early years during the Holocaust and World War II. He also was an adult during Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and 9/11. Despite living through those harrowing periods in our nation’s past, he told Jon Lovett on Pod Save America that, “these are the scariest times in my life.”

Sanders, who owns three homes, told the podcaster, “it is not just that they want to give tax breaks to billionaires and cut programs for working people. Trump is suing major media outlets and is threatening to investigate PBS and NPR. So it’s not only the power of money, it’s also combined with that the movement toward authoritarianism.”