A sure-fire sign that your political party is out of touch and awful is when people stop giving money to it. Without money, there is nothing any party can do, from outreach and running ads to simply paying people to show up to work (there are a lot of “true believers” out there, but even they have limits on what they’ll do for free), the word is the Democratic National Committee may need to borrow money to cover essential bills in a few months. Let me just say this: I love it, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.
But does it mean the party is falling apart and could go bankrupt? Yes, actually. Though it’s not likely.
While it has not happened in a very long time in this country, political parties come and go—they collapse and reform as something else. There is no reason it couldn’t happen to the Democrats or Republicans in the future—it’s just that the Democrats are there right now.
The one question I have is whether the party is not just about whether or not it will go broke and collapse; it is about why it is happening.
I honestly don’t know if people have kept their wallets shut because the party has gone too crazy or if their donor base doesn’t think the party has gone crazy enough. Their donor base, after all, is largely progressive, wealthy suburban women who revel in being the belle of the garden party by having a “trans” kid or some an illegal alien maid they pretend is “like family.” For them, the party hasn’t gone crazy enough because they base their existence on being able to correct people over gender and pronouns.
Think of a room full of Karens.
Have they stopped giving? We don’t know. It could be the other, old school Democrats looking around a room full of people they don’t recognize and can’t relate to. How can you give to a political party full of people who not only pretend to have no clue what a man or a woman is, but also fight harder to continue to mutilate the genitals of children than they fight a terrorist state like Iran?
It has to be odd to be a member of a party that stands up to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents by cheering violence against them, while forming a human chain around anyone in the country illegally, no matter how heinous the crimes they’ve committed are. It’s not a growth industry to protect child rapists over children simply because your donors want their grass cut cheaper, yet that’s where they are.
It could also be that Democrat donors are just not as stupid as the party heads think they are.
While it seems unlikely, and they are plenty stupid no matter what, maybe their base is sick of the attempted manipulation the liberal establishment used to try to pry open their wallets? When you get an email highlighting a “HILLARY CLINTON ANNOUNCEMENT” (their capitalizing, as they type like a teenage girl with a crush) that declares they need your money “Because Hillary Clinton delivered a STUNNING call to action for grassroots supporters everywhere to rise up and DEFEND our House Democrats.” What was this “STUNNING” message? “Our work isn’t done – not while Mike Johnson holds the Speaker’s Gavel.”
Are you stunned?
That email asked for 22,918 donations, another asks for 23,418 donations, and others asked for various other random numbers of donations simply to set a “goal” no one will ever know if it was met (or will never be met because it’s irrelevant) because if someone dumb thinks they’re part of achieving something they’re more likely to act.
But the manipulation isn’t working anymore for the Democratic National Committee because the purpose of the manipulation – the election of Democrats for the advancement of a left-wing agenda – is less appealing now than it has ever been. “You can’t polish a turd,” what Democrats want to impose on the country is a big, steaming pile of just that. Fewer and fewer people are buying it anymore.
While the world would be better off if the DNC were no more, my only fear is that whatever comes next will be worse. The pendulum swings in each direction, and right now, it is in ours. God help us with whatever comes next, for the other side is crazier when that swing shifts in the other direction.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.