DNC Summer Meeting: Chairman’s Remarks Spark Controversy

You almost have to wonder if the Democratic Party is secretly trying to lose. Because if they aren’t, then boy, they sure are doing a convincing impression of a political death spiral.

Let’s start with the numbers. In just four years, Democrats have bled more than two million registered voters across the 30 states that actually track registration. Republicans? We’ve gained 2.4 million. That’s not a rounding error — that’s a seismic shift. Combine that with their approval rating scraping the bottom of the barrel — 35-year lows according to the Wall Street Journal, and one poll dropping them to a jaw-dropping 19 percent — and you’ve got a party that should be in full-on panic mode.

But instead of course-correcting, they’re doubling down on everything that got them here.

Case in point: their big summer strategy meeting. You’d think, given the polling, given the hemorrhaging of voters, they’d open with a laser-focused plan to fix the economy, tackle crime, or maybe — just maybe — talk about the border crisis Americans keep screaming about. But nope. They kicked things off with a “land acknowledgment.” Because nothing says “we hear you” to struggling families like a symbolic lecture about indigenous territory before diving into more Trump-bashing.

It only gets worse.

DNC Chair Ken Martin fired up the crowd with what he clearly thought was a tough-guy pep talk: “I’m sick and tired of this Democrat Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight!” The crowd cheered, but let’s pause. Since when have Democrats been the ones “playing by the rules”? They’ve spent years bending, twisting, and flat-out rewriting them — from censorship to lawfare to pushing illegal aliens into the voting pool. If that’s what pencils look like, I’d hate to see their knives.

But here’s the kicker: they still don’t get why voters are leaving. They think their problem is messaging, when the real problem is their policies. They obsess over Trump, scream about fascism, and cry about “democracy in danger,” but when Americans look at their communities, what they actually see is skyrocketing crime, collapsing schools, and grocery bills that look like mortgage payments.