Can Trump Hatred Trump Democrat Schism?
Despite an early exodus from the Republican Party in response to the 2016 election of President Trump, the GOP base has kept fairly united. Not so with the Democratic Party. It is in the throes of a major schism – pitting the old guard against the newly empowered radical left. Under normal circumstances, this would doom a political party in terms of elections. But Democrats have a counterbalance. It is abject hatred for Trump. They are betting that Trump Derangement Syndrome will trump outrageous and unpopular policies.
The fractures within the Democratic Party run deep and are on vivid display in recent primaries and candidate selections. In Maine, voters handed the Democratic Senate nomination to Graham Platner, a progressive oyster farmer and military veteran who ran as a radical left-wing anti-establishment populist.
Platner took the Democrat Senate nomination by default by forcing out Maine’s more moderate Governor Janet Mills, despite a barrage of unflattering revelations about his past. His victory signals the rising influence of the radical left, which prioritizes bold economic populism, Medicare for All, and class war on billionaires.
Platner exposed the deep division in the party. He won the endorsement of senators Bernie Sander and Elizabeth Warren, Congressman Ro Khanna and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. They kicked principle into the gutter in favor or power – the possible control of the Senate. Others, such as Senator John Fetterman and Massachusetts Congressman Jake Auchincloss called on Platner to drop out of the race.,
Platner’s success reflects a broader pattern. The Democratic Party’s old guard – those pragmatic moderates who once dominated the party machinery – finds itself increasingly sidelined by a energized cohort demanding transformative change. This is not a mere policy disagreement. It is a battle for the soul of the party, with the radicals viewing compromise as capitulation and the establishment seeing ideological purity as electoral suicide.
The divisions in the Democratic Party emerged in California’s congressional races. In various districts, progressive challengers clashed with entrenched incumbents and establishment-backed candidates. Redistricting and generational tensions amplified these fights, as younger, more left-leaning Democrats pushed aggressive agendas on housing, healthcare, and wealth redistribution, often against the preferences of veteran members wary of alienating swing voters or business interests. These contests highlighted the party’s inability to present a cohesive front, with endorsements and resources split along ideological lines.
Across the country, primaries have featured battles between economic populists inspired by figures like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more centrist voices concerned about overreach on issues such as open borders, defunding law enforcement, and identity-driven woke policies. In safe blue seats, insurgents challenge veterans. In competitive districts, the party struggles to reconcile demands for socialism-lite with the need to appeal to working-class voters who have shown increasing skepticism toward progressive orthodoxies.
This schism is not superficial. It manifests in policy paralysis, public messaging confusion, and internal recriminations. The old guard clings to institutions and donor networks, while the radicals harness grassroots energy and social media mobilization. The result is a party that appears more interested in settling scores within its own ranks than in crafting a compelling vision for the American people.
Yet, Democrats believe they possess a unifying force potent enough to paper over these cracks — their visceral, all-consuming hatred for Donald Trump. Time and again, they have attempted to rally the troops by portraying Trump as an existential threat – a dictator in waiting, even a Nazi and a danger to democracy itself. This strategy worked to some degree in the past, driving turnout and suppressing internal dissent. The question now is whether Democrats can gin up enough hatred to patch over the party’s internal divisions.
In the end, the Democratic Party’s reliance on anti-Trump animus reveals a profound weakness. A political movement defined by what it opposes, rather than what it proposes, risks exhaustion. As the 2026 midterms approach, voters will judge not just the intensity of Democratic hatred, but the substance of their alternatives. If the schism persists – and the hatred proves insufficient to mask it – the party may find itself more divided in defeat than it ever was in opposition.”
So, there ‘tis.
We’re just following suit a little bit later and younger than you with an Progressive/Moderate shift versus your shift to Trumpism/Conservatism and perhaps with some vigor in reaction to your shift. It’s picking up steam now muchly in response to you. Yes, there’s a changing of the guard, and yes, the old guard moderates are falling by the wayside now as we have lost to you and the younger folks want to chart a new way forward in competition with you. Trump has nothing to do with it except to modify the speed of change. A similar shift happened during Clinton where he shifted to moderate actually incorporating Republican planks to gobble up some right-leaning voters.
Our time has been coming for a long, long, time. We’ve seen some erosion, but held the line until recently. The Squad came in, the squad was ineffective and put in place by Pelosi. All that happened is AOC got Bernie’s nod and a soapbox. Mamdani is our best example so far of a smart, savvy, intelligent, pragmatic progressive, but too early to say programs match the rhetoric or are successful. Sure as heck the grocery store will probably fail. But he has set the stage for what really works for Progressives. Not sure Platner is anywhere near that stature.
TDS exists in your mind as a defense mechanism against the frequent criticism of the words and actions of the Felon King. You use it to hide the incredible character flaws you accept to get your policies passed while overlooking when character and policies merge. Most of what the Felon King does, he gets from others, like the entire script he reads from called Project 2025. You live in a win/lose world with love/hate driving you to succeed mostly by making others fail. Destroy, tear down in favor to building, supporting, listening. Attack, attack, beat up, win, you manage your politics and government like your cage match. Almost every major case your DOJ pursues is against Democrats. The few that aren’t are for your party’s Trump dissenters. Put em down and then curb stomp them for effect is how you roll. Where the rubber meets the road, in court, you lose a lot of these. Too many. Waste of taxpayer dollars.
You branding Platner as the radical left is laughable. “Radical left-wing, anti-establishment populist” is a funny belief for an oyster farmer serviceman turned politician. His rise is not about the rising influence of the radical left; it’s about progressive ideas coming to the forefront of the Democratic Party. Thanks to you, they work.
You say “They kicked principle into the gutter in favor or power – the possible control of the Senate.” I say not true, but who are you, of anyone, to talk. You elected a sexual abusing felon to the highest office in the land. And you, of all people should have known better. Platner was not convicted much less indicted or had civil suits even against him. Your vote was indicted and convicted, criminal and civil cases, plus two impeachments. Who are you to talk about the very standard you created. Unlike your guy, Platner apologized for his shortcomings, said he has changed, blamed PTSD-but not as his crutch, and asked for redemption. Think he got it. Your guy blamed the other side and said he never did anything wrong. And you want to tell us about principle?
Janet Mills was forced into the race by Schummer, she bowed out, was not forced out.
Yes, us moderates feel sidelined, don’t think we are yet, but seems heading that way. The pace has really picked up given the moderates failure to stand up to Trump and through the do-nothing Congress. It is literally in response to your lack of even remotely listening to us and us not being able to make our voices heard. We will see in November which way the wind blows and in January we will know as the rubber meets the road. Sometimes rhetoric modifies upon meeting reality. Can you say Section 702 and all those fiery liberals that voted for it and feisty conservatives that voted against it over time.
What I expect for 2028 is that an unknown-to-the-national-stage great uniter will rise from these ashes of the party you helped us burn down in 2024 that will be left of moderate, right of progressive, a bold new path to face the ashes of the party Trump built of personality, not programs, and where there is only one Trump. Everyone else you have is a wannabee. Should be interesting times.
Dunger you’re rooting against America again. None of those candidates should be allowed to serve in office. But with stupid Dunger types we are in danger of ruining the country. Now we know what the nickname “danger “ is all about. But I somehow think that the blue wave will be smaller than expected. America isn’t a leftist country. Yet.
Uncle Tom; I spell my name D A N G E R most of the time. You can do it too, son, at least if you aspire to be a gentleman, treat others with the respect all people deserve, and graduated high school at least, so we know you can spell. Otherwise, you must be who you seem to be and you can only lift yourself up by beating others down, personally attacking those different than you just because they are different and you are weak as well as ineffective to be able to articulate an intelligent response on the issues. Your recent post is a prime example. You toss around “rooting against America,” call me a nasty name from behind your PC, say I am the very ruination of the nation, a leftist —- all of your usual and oft repeated low-brow lies without a shred of factuaL basis.
Again, I am what most would call a “capitalist pig;” again, I ran the P&L for a mega million dollar portfolio serving all of America, and especially the large Fortune 100 and 500 corporations. I guarantee you used my stuff and odds are you bought it. Again, my family has served the nation in every major war since the Civil, and no, I did not serve, but I do support. My family has shed blood for your America, our America, and we left souls behind on two Continents. Yet for the over a dozen that served, we were lucky.
Your comments on my patriotism are laughable to me, but a outlandish slander on my family and heritage. We arrived before the Revolution, our second wave was just after the civil, our third wave came during the great migration of the early 1900’s, and one little Italian guy came in for his second time, post WWII having returned home to stay behind the lines for Mom and like five sisters. I am sure that was a rough tour. Let me sum it all up in language you best understand: fuck your slanderous lies and kiss my second-generation Slovakian immigrant ass, you redneck piece of white trash. My Irish side has even a better idea of what you can do.
On this comment, you seem off-base, again, to say: “(bad taste deleted) you’re rooting against America again” merely because I am a Democrat and do not kneel to your Felon King, like you, again. You then seem to be on drugs to say: “None of those candidates should be allowed to serve in office” when I mentioned Mills, who is not a running candidate and never will be, and Platner, who I did not endorse but understand the phenomena. The others are in office idiot; Pelosi is retiring, the others are not running, they are not candidates, you are just acting like a rabid partisan dog attacking anything moving. You don’t even know why.
For 40 years I have listened to you fools talking of the dangers of ruining the country. Apparently, you have been proven by history to be stupid, and wrong. Your fear of the blue wave, is yours. I never even said there is a blue wave coming, that’s your peccadillo, although I do expect to take the House unless you cheat. It has little to do with the left and everything to do with the right being wrong. In November of 2024, I said congrats and “two years.” I noted you had a huge win but the vote was split and, like 2020, you had to listen, to compromise, with those who did not vote your way. You did not and in November of 2026, we will see what that reaps. You say a “smaller blue wave than expected,” again. I never said there would be a blue wave; that concept is yours. Totally yours. Live in fear, it becomes you. Be a loser, you seem to like it.
Now, I need to bugger off and get back to Tarp Watch on the 24×7 MSNOW Tarpcam. It’s a moving experience :>)
I spell my name: D A N G E R and only whiney assholes get that wrong. (again).
Frank Danger… You sure get upset when folks play with your name …. and yet you do that more than anyone. It is called hypocrisy …. or clinically, projection..