By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – August 24, 2025

They keep falling for the same play.

The Democratic Party is adrift.

Its approval rating is hitting all-time lows, and it’s hemorrhaging registered voters.

Part of the problem is that the Democratic Party is beholden to its fringe base, which demands fealty to notions such as “men are women,” “no one is illegal,” and “from the river to the sea.” (The GOP has a similar issue with its fringe base; the key difference, however, is that Republican radicals don’t seem as congenitally predisposed toward staking out the losing side of 80/20 issues.)

Another problem for the Democratic Party, one more serious than fringe capture, is that it’s led by midwits who …

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