Democrats are Nearing Extinction as a National Political Party

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted and Published on December 14, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris

An Editorial Opinion

If the National Democratic Party serves up another round of presidential campaigns in 2028 like the ones offered to voters by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2024, it will become extinct as a national political party.  

Democrats have four years to get it right, or the national party will experience certain death from an extinction-level political event.

There is one resounding message in Kamala Harris’s humiliating loss to Donald Trump -- America is moving away from the National Democratic Party.  Rightly or wrongly, a majority of the voters view the Party as a shitshow that is run by the Clintons and Obamas, and they view these Democratic icons as grifters.

The Clintons and Obamas tried to sell Joe Biden to voters when they knew Biden was in a state of increasing senility.  They repeatedly lied to the American public about Biden’s deteriorating mental state.

After Biden dropped out of the presidential race, Democrats created a record of achievement for Kamala Harris that was nothing but a mirage. Party insiders knew Harris had no record of accomplishment that could withstand heightened media scrutiny. 

The Harris campaign fleeced $1.5 billion from donors by touting public polling conducted by external groups that looked promising for Harris. Meanwhile, Harris's campaign team failed to tell donors about confidential internal polling that consistently showed her trailing Donald Trump.

Harris's campaign blew through $1.5 billion in 15 weeks with nothing to show for it other than the enrichment of Kamala Harris's friends, cronies, and cherrypicked celebrities who had zero influence with voters. 

MSNBC commentator and perennial grifter Al Sharpton took $500,000 from the Harris campaign for his National Action Network, which he did not disclose to MSNBC or his viewers. Afterwards, Sharpton conducted a nationally televised powderpuff interview with Harris that impressed no one.

Podcaster Roland Martin took $350,000 (allegedly for advertising) and conducted a similar softball interview with Harris. Martin complained that he should have gotten a lot more money from her campaign.

Harris spent $900,000 to put her face on The Sphere in Las Vegas.  This Vegas landmark played a 90-second Harris campaign ad for a week for an audience of uninterested streetwalkers, foreign sighteseers, and drunk partygoers. 

The Kamala Harris shitshow had a cataclysmic effect on the National Democratic Party. First, it caused the Party to lose control of the White House and U.S. Senate. Second, it cost the Party a realistic opportunity to flip the U.S. House of Representatives. Third, it cost the Party the ability to stop the incoming Senate from confirming future Trump-nominated, MAGA-oriented, Justices for the Supreme Court and judges for lower federal courts.

What’s on the Horizon for the National Democratic Party?

Apparently, Democrats yearn for more of the same misery.

Rather than staring into the abyss and learning from Kamala Harris's campaign debacle, Democrats are promising more of the same. In fact, Harris insists she is not going anywhere. Harris has instructed her advisers and allies to keep her options open.  Close friends say Harris will run again in 2028.

Mega-donor John Morgan, founder of the national personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan, believes the way Kamala Harris mismanaged $1.5 billion in campaign money “disqualifies her forever.”  Morgan, who partnered with famed civil rights attorney Ben Crump in 2017 to launch Ben Crump Law, PLLC, recently said, “If you can't run a campaign, you can't run America.... The same thing is going to follow Harris for the rest of her career.  She cannot be trusted with the money.”

Today, there is a "knife fight" within the National Democratic Party to see who will control its future.   The battle lines have been drawn between West Coast liberals, Bernie Sanders-socialists, and moderate technocrats in the Midwest, all of whom insist the Party has completely lost touch with the average American voter.

All factions seem to agree on another key point:  The Party's current show horses (i.e., the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, Kamala Harris, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) must remove themselves from the national spotlight, or the Party will die.  Their time on the national political scene has come and gone. While these show horses appeal to certain segments within the National Democratic Party, a majority of voters in the 2024 presidential election found them to be repulsive.

Democrats have four years to get it right.  They can bitch and moan about Donald Trump, or they can find and support an attractive presidential candidate with the right campaign messages for 2028.

Today, Donald Trump is the most powerful man on planet Earth. Trump controls the White House, Congress, Supreme Court, Department of Justice, all federal agencies, Wall Street, legacy media, the largest social media platforms, our NATO allies, MAGA World, the most powerful military force the world has ever known, the international monetary system, America's space force, and a majority of American voters. Trump's best buddy is Elon Musk, the richest man in the world.

Bitching about Donald Trump may make many Democratic voters feel good, but it is an exercise in futility. Preparing for 2028 should be the action agenda for Democrats over the next four years.

If Democrats recycle the same tired political faces from the past, with the same rejected political messaging, they will face defeat again in 2028.  Then, there will be no coming back from the abyss.  The National Democratic Party will become as irrelevant on the national scene in Washington as its state and local affiliates have become in “Red States.”