The Democrats have been losing support from voters for well over a decade. It’s to the point now where they’re getting desperate. The Hill mentioned this in an article from August 22:
A devastating New York Times report Wednesday showed that of the 30 states that maintain voter registration records by political party, Democrats fell behind Republicans in all of them between the 2020 and 2024 elections. In total, Republicans added up to 4.5 million voters compared to Democrats, creating a huge hole that could set Democrats back for years. “I think it should be an alarm” for the party, Democratic strategist Eddie Vale. “I think it’s a real problem.”
Democrats have lost ground to Republicans in all 30 states that record party affiliation, shedding 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections while the Republican Party gained 2.4 million, according to a Wednesday New York Times report.
"The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls," the Times reported after analyzing voter registration data compiled by the analytics firm L2. "All told, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections in the 30 states, along with Washington, D.C., that allow people to register with a political party," the Times found, while "Republicans gained 2.4 million."
Apparently a number of Democrat office holders, particularly in Congress, are seeing the same thing. Sarah Ewall-Wice at The Daily Beast notes that the last eight lawmakers to die in office were all Democrats, and suggests the reason they’re staying in their seats is because of the feeling that they cannot afford to lose any more members, suggesting, in turn, that name recognition is needed to tip the scales — name recognition new blood wouldn’t have.
Of course, there are other signs of mounting issues for the Democrats. The party has gone to great lengths in their attempts to eliminate the only real opposition they've had since Ronald Reagan. They’ve labeled Republicans — and particularly conservative Republicans — as Nazis, fascists, dictators, and threats to democracy. They've leveled criminal charges — which were usually, if not uniformly, baseless, particularly in the case of Donald Trump. They've spent entire news cycles screaming "Resist!" They've spent so much time and effort on character assassination that some transitioned to attempting actual assassination. And then, most recently, they were caught celebrating when one of those assassination attempts was actually successful. None of which has gained them voters.
Worse, Democrats have now sunk into a feedback loop, wherein every concern, justified or not, has in their minds only one answer. Go further left, toward outright socialism. There seems no stopping this descent, even when it's clear they don't have the support.
So, we now come to the point where the party that had always described itself as the party of love and open-mindedness has exposed itself as a party wrapped up in narrow-minded anger and hatred, a love of socialist dictators, and far-left rhetoric that would cause even the most radical leftists from the 1950s and '60s to blanch and run for the exits.
Now, as a result of their desperate attempts to hold power, the Democrats have found out that their rhetoric has caused them further problems. As Glenn Reynolds points out:
The murder of Charlie Kirk at the hands of a leftist gunman has revealed that many, many more Americans — and even people elsewhere around the world — supported Charlie and his views than was commonly appreciated. New Zealanders in London danced a Haka in his honor; crowds gathered all over the United States, as well as in Rome, London, Germany, and Israel.
Charlie’s views — uniformly disparaged by the press as “far right” — are in fact mainstream, generally held by the majority of people. His assassination has caused people to step forward, and realize that the normal-American community is a huge majority.
This, of course, raises the question of why and how the belief that the far left had the support of the American voter was so prevalent until last week. The longer-term answers to this follow.
First, a taxpayer-funded, government-run education system will never properly teach young minds the Founders' vision of limited government. This educational system has been increasingly dominated by leftists since the 1960s The '60s radicals who were trying to burn down campuses in those days are now running the place.
Secondly, most folks are not the information junkies that you and I are, and are therefore not going to stand up and be counted unless and until the offenses by Democrats are so egregious as to be impossible to ignore.
Third is the often proven willingness of the press to go to bat for the left. One needs look no further than the last decade of negative press about anyone opposing Democrats and the obvious whitewashed, glowing reports on Democrats themselves.
Those three causes established a nearly insurmountable pattern. I dare to suggest that pattern was broken last week, when Charlie Kirk's murder got the attention of Joe and Jane Average. That woke up the sleeping giant, as did the very public and reprehensible grave dancing of a lot of the far left, who apparently believe that those who disagree with them deserves a bullet.
Folks who hadn't been paying attention are now focused more sharply on what’s been happening, and recognizing that their involvement is required. This has resulted, for example, in some 18,000 new Turning Point USA chapter requests coming in from around the country, and caused even greater numbers of defections from the Democratic Party. Add to that the fact that, in the 30 states with party registration, more new voters have registered as Republicans than as Democrats. The approval ratings for Dems have been underwater for months, now with no change in sight.
Fundraising, too, is falling short. I’m seeing several reports that suggest the Democrats are falling behind in every fundraising metric. Many in the party blame DNC Chair Ken Martin. Some 60-65% of registered Democrats say their party leaders need to go, so expect the knives to be out for Martin between now and the midterms.
It’s early yet, so we have no substantial data from which to draw, but the effect of all this on the voter registrations cannot be looking good for Democrats. So, that's a question. Another question: will we be seeing more violence in support of the left between now and the midterms?
