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P<\/span>rimary season is just about over in advance of the 2026 midterms, and it looks like the old-time party faithful on the Democrat side are awfully disappointed with how things sit.<\/p>\n

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PJ Media\u2019s Matt Margolis noted that the big midterm wave they\u2019ve been insisting was coming is\u2026 not inevitable.<\/p>\n

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On the surface, it looks like Democrats should be able to win easily. Aside from precedent, Donald Trump\u2019s polling gives them even more room to work with. Yet recent surveys suggest Democrats are underperforming badly enough that\u00a0the wave they were counting on\u00a0might not materialize.<\/p>\n

That underperformance could cost them control of the House.<\/p>\n

If Republicans hold the House this November, the reasons will be obvious: a socialist insurgency reshaping the party from within, and a singular obsession with opposing Trump that has crowded out everything else voters actually care about.<\/p>\n

The evidence is already sitting in the polling.<\/p>\n

On the generic congressional ballot, Republicans are either tied with Democrats or ahead by three to four points, nowhere near the margin Democrats need to flip the House. A recent Washington Post\/Ipsos\u00a0poll put Democrats up just 48 percent to 45 percent on that same generic ballot question. Asked which party they agree with more on the issues that matter to them, voters split 41 percent Republican to 40 percent Democrat. Asked which party they trust more to handle the economy, the gap widened: 39 percent for Republicans to 35 percent for Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Along with that rather underwhelming showing thus far comes what comes off as pre-recriminations. For example, here\u2019s Van Jones\u2026<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I\u2019m rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education,\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/foPRXip7fb<\/p>\n

\u2014 Van Jones (@VanJones68) July 18, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Bill Maher, who admittedly has been griping about the state of the Democrat Party for some time now\u2026<\/p>\n

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Liberal comedian Bill Maher says he\u2019s \u201cout\u201d on the Democrat party:<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats are cowardly\u2026 their party is being taken over now. Every day I hear about a new radical\u2026when we\u2019re cheering for the intifada, I\u2019m out.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/pXyOI22HJk<\/p>\n

\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 19, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Not to mention James Carville, who\u2019s too old and too crazy to be relevant anymore, but his screaming about where that party is keeps getting louder\u2026<\/p>\n

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James Carville\u2019s freakout over Democrat Socialists is reaching fever pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people are so fcking stupid, I don\u2019t know what to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

James is not at all enjoying the monster his party has been busy creating. pic.twitter.com\/c0q57rIHdW<\/p>\n

\u2014 Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 11, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And then there\u2019s this guy, who was a somebody in the Clinton administration\u2026<\/p>\n

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I am a lifelong Democrat. I served on President Clinton\u2019s National Security Council and in the State Department under Madeleine Albright. I am also a lifelong human rights and civil rights advocate.<\/p>\n

But every Democrat and every American should recognize that the DSA represents a\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jamie Metzl (@JamieMetzl) July 18, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I could show you lots of other examples of the old-school Democrats coming out of the woodwork to sound the alarm about the Democratic Socialists of America turning out enough radicals to win low-turnout party primaries around the country \u2014 and tubing the chances of that massive wave election they\u2019ve all but guaranteed themselves.\u00a0(RELATED: Where Are the Bill Kristols and Michael Steeles on the Democrat Side Today?)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen to talk radio or the conservative commentariat, and what you get is a lot of the same thing \u2014 omigosh, it\u2019s so terrible that the Hard Left is winning elections!<\/p>\n

All I want to do is laugh at this. But I\u2019ll offer the reader a little more than that.<\/p>\n

First, if I were to start to observe this at 50,000 feet up, what I would say is you\u2019re seeing a theory I\u2019ve been writing about for four or five years now and described explicitly in my book The\u00a0 Revivalist Manifesto<\/em> come to fruition. Namely, that we\u2019re in a new era of American politics, having just in the past few years vacated the one which began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s victory in the 1932 election and the passage of the New Deal. We\u2019re no longer volleying back and forth about the methods by which social goods agreed upon by both sides are distributed. The days of William F. Buckley and Daniel Patrick Moynihan having polite conversations over cocktails in tony salons are long gone. That was the Third Era. Now we\u2019re in the Fourth Era, and the next consensus in American politics has not been fully set.<\/p>\n

And I would further say that the Buckleys and Moynihans are no longer in position to reset the political consensus. I would argue that Buckley himself would reject, on ideological grounds, the Republican establishment which had so badly faltered when Donald Trump came along to replace it. Whether he would reject John Cornyn or Bill Cassidy, as Republican voters have, is a debatable, if purely academic, question: Cornyn and Cassidy, and lots of others of their ilk, are rapidly receding out of political prominence and that\u2019s largely a good thing.\u00a0(RELATED: <\/strong>Bye, Bill<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

But on the Democrat side, the Moynihans are similarly vanishing. A perfect example is the incredible shrinking Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, who is in the middle of open warfare with the unhinged Liz Warren over the future of the Democrats\u2019 Senate caucus. Warren seems to be winning the majority of the battles in that war, though it isn\u2019t particularly likely that\u2019s going to hold up in November given the rather exotic nature of the people she has endorsed.<\/p>\n

Not that Moynihan would be particularly impressed with Schumer, who can\u2019t cease to dumb down American politics with expressions of hyperpartisanship almost anybody could see were dishonest and unproductive. I could give dozens of examples \u2014 a latest one from last week appeared in Friday\u2019s Five Quick Things.\u00a0(RELATED: Five Quick Things: The Increasing Performative Stupidity of Our Friends on the Left)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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But the main point I would make is that if the Joneses, Metzls and Schumers of the world are lamenting the rise of outright anti-American communists as the active ingredient in their party, it\u2019s a bit late in the game.\u00a0(RELATED: Yes, They\u2019re Communists, and Yes, They\u2019re Lying About It. For Now.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why didn\u2019t somebody put a stop to this, after all?<\/p>\n

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Dressed like Mao and talking about how much he hates the majority of Democrats as an invited guest of @CollegeDems. Our party having a normal one. pic.twitter.com\/y1QDuF7I9Q<\/p>\n

\u2014 Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 19, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hasan Piker was born in New Jersey, which is too bad. If he\u2019d been born in Turkey like his parents were, Piker would be an excellent candidate for denaturalization and deportation under the 1954 Communist Control Act. What\u2019s clear about Piker is that he hates this country as founded, and furthermore he hates the party he\u2019s exhorting his followers to seize control of. A quote from that rant, given as it was with air supplied by lungs wrapped in a Mao costume\u2026<\/p>\n

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No more to Trumpism. But no more to the Democrats who compromise, who conciliate, and who betray us. (Applause) No more to the fascist reactionaries, but no more to the Democrats who will collaborate and cooperate with the fascists, who will fund ICE, who will fund Israel, who will help poison the planet, who will stiff workers, and help bosses. We don\u2019t need those Democrats anymore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Democrats knew who Hasan Piker was a long time before anybody in the GOP did. Why didn\u2019t they squelch him the way it was demanded that the Right do to Nick Fuentes?<\/p>\n

Who turns out to be a Democrat, too, by the way. Wasn\u2019t it funny how that turned out?<\/p>\n

They\u2019re terrified of people like this\u2026<\/p>\n