Despite all the current polling and the constant comments of the professional analyst class, the Democrats have the biggest problems going into the 2026 election. People know they have unpopular values. Their big government socialist models of taxing, spending and bureaucracy don’t work. The Democrats’ key institutions have long histories of performance failure. And the dominance of the hard left in the Democratic Party forces Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., into painfully tone-deaf positions. It all represents a huge burden, weakening the likelihood of a major Democratic victory this fall. --- Consider some of the burdens the Democrats will be carrying as they campaign this summer and fall. --(1) --As America’s New Majority Project polling showed, Americans are deeply opposed to tax increases (77% oppose tax increases for the middle class specifically). Yet every single Democrat in the House and Senate voted against tax cuts (and in favor of the largest tax increase in history). This simple, verifiable fact will loom large in September and October.--(2)--Americans are deeply opposed to letting males in girls’ locker rooms — or crowding out women in sports (66%). Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to government taking control of children without involving the parents (73%). For some reason, transgenderism is a major value in the Democratic Party, and Democrats are overwhelmingly tied to policies and values that Americans reject by about 4:1. --(3)--Democrats feel ideologically and psychologically compelled to favor protecting illegal immigrants over controlling the border. They favor criminals over strengthening the police. And they support more open borders over the unique success the Trump administration has had in controlling the borders.--(4)--This lack of patriotic solidarity shows itself in votes involving Venezuela, Iran and even the sinking of boats carrying drugs into America. With the exception of Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman, elected Democrats are virtually unanimous in putting partisanship above patriotism and seeking to undermine President Donald Trump overseas rather than help America’s position.--(5) --The current fight over funding the Department of Homeland Security is a case study in Democrats’ tone-deafness about the concerns of the American people. To some Democratic leftwing strategist isolated in Washington or New York, it may seem clever and courageous to cut off funding for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to put pressure on Trump.--(6) --Separately, for 94 years, the Democrats have been the party of big government, bureaucracy and interest groups who get their money from government. As government has grown larger, the opportunities for fraud and theft have grown greater. Minnesota represents this kind of performance failure that will weaken the Democrats. One estimate suggests that $400 billion a year is stolen from the federal government, adding up to more than $4 trillion over the next decade.--(7) --The Minnesota scandal certainly qualifies ($9 billion to $16 billion) but the mechanics of theft were simple enough that most Americans understand it. The more investigators dig into Democrat Gov. Tim Walz’s administration and its refusal to listen to whistleblowers — and the more government appears complicit with the corruption — the greater the vulnerabilities for Democrats. The fact that Walz was the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee just adds to the Democrats’ vulnerability as the party of favoritism and corruption.--(8) --Read here - https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/newt-gingrich-democrats-could-get-alarming-wake-up-call-2026-election
