Democratic response to Trump is almost as irritating as Trump himself

I'm an unhappy Democrat. I have lots of company. Currently I'm stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place. I can't stand Trump and what he's doing. I also can't stand the Democratic Party and what it's doing.

My irritation with the party I've been a member of since I was old enough to vote is manifesting in various ways.

Whenever I get a text message from a Democratic politician asking for money to support some quixotic liberal cause, I quickly press "delete and report spam." If the text is from Kamala Harris or Hillary Clinton, I press even more rapidly. 

After being a loyal listener of MSNBC on my car's satellite radio, now I listen to CNN much more frequently. CNN gives me more actual news than MSNBC, which largely has devolved into a "woe is us, Trump is so bad" network. 

Driving home this afternoon, I could barely stand to listen to an earnest MSNBC commentator talking about how Trump's use of the national guard in Washington D.C. is an attack on black people because so many live in our nation's capital. 

Aside from the fact that I disagree that this is Trump's motivation for federalizing the D.C. police force, that MSNBC analysis ignored the fact that crime is a big concern in black communities and Trump made significant gains among minority groups in the 2024 election, partly because they agreed with his stance on crime and illegal immigration. 

I'm tired of being a member of a politically correct party. I'd much rather be a member of a politically incorrect party that can actually win national elections. At the moment that is the Republican party, and there's no way I'll become a Republican.

So the Democratic party is going to need to change its ways to bring me back into its fold as an enthusiastic member. Currently Governor Gavin Newsom of California is the only Democatic politician who doesn't turn me off in one way or another. 

Newsom is a fighter. Most Democrats are talkers. Newsom is all in on gerrymandering the heck out of California in order to fight back against Texas doing the same thing after Trump ordered that he wanted the Lone Star state to make five additional congressional districts elect Republicans.

Meanwhile, I hear Democrats debate whether the party should sink to the level of Republicans rather than staking out the politically moral high ground.

I don't give a crap about the Democratic party being morally pure. I want the Democratic party to win national elections, no matter if this requires lying, cheating, and stealing — which has been working well for Trump and the Republican party.

It still galls me that Hillary Clinton felt that she was entitled to have her own email server when she was Obama's Secretary of State rather than suffer the inconvenience of having to use a government phone. That bonehead mistake likely is the reason she lost to Trump in 2016, along with Clinton feeling that she was entitled to the electoral votes of the midwest Blue Wall states, which crumbled into dust after Clinton failed to campaign in those states.

And I'll never forgive Joe Biden for breaking his commitment to be a one-term president, setting the stage for a new generation of Democatic leadership, because he came to feel that he was entitled to run for another term even though it was clear that Biden was too damn old and senile to run again.

So now we have Trump as president, because Clinton and Biden didn't do what was necessary to win the presidency, choosing instead to do what was convenient for them.

Here's some excerpts from a story, "Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, poll finds." No big surprise. I heartily agree with the results. 

Many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective,” according to a poll that finds considerable pessimism within Democratic ranks. Republicans are more complimentary of their party, although a small but significant share describe the GOP as “greedy” or say it is generally “bad.”

…Respondents were asked to share the first word or phrase that came to mind when they thought of the Republican and Democratic parties. Answers were then sorted into broad categories, including negative and positive attributes. Overall, U.S. adults held a dim view of both parties, with about 4 in 10 using negative attributes, including words such as “dishonest” or “stupid.”

But nearly nine months after Republican Donald Trump won a second presidential term, Democrats appear to be harboring more resentment about the state of their party than do Republicans. Democrats were likelier to describe their own party negatively than Republicans. Republicans were about twice as likely to describe their own party positively.

…“They’re spineless,” Cathia Krehbiel, a 48-year-old Democrat from Indianola, Iowa, said of her party.

She believes the party’s response to the Trump administration has been “scattershot.”

“I just feel like there’s so much recently that’s just going abhorrently wrong,” Krehbiel said. “And they speak up a little bit and they roll right over.”