“The Democrats have found themselves on the wrong side of normal,” former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus insightfully noted in a recent panel discussion on ABC’s “This Week.”

Further unpacking the Democrats’ situation months after Donald Trump’s and the Republicans’ decisive election victory, Priebus observed, “In spite of all the challenges that Donald Trump had, court cases, all the ups, the American people said, ‘I identify more with Donald Trump than I do with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. They’re on the wrong side of all these cultural issues. Until they get that straight … progressivism on the left is dead.”

It’s hard to argue that Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t completely discombobulated right now. While they sit on sizable minorities in both chambers of Congress, their response to Trump and his aggressive actions to reform Washington are anything but organized or effective.

The response they have typically counted on when crying wolf over Trump and the Republicans has fallen on deaf ears. It would appear that the majority of the country is finally hip to their games and is no longer willing to play along.

When they cry “constitutional crisis” over Elon Musk’s leadership of DOGE, the country just shrugs and laughs at their silly antics. Indeed, the majority of the country that voted for Trump effectively has responded with, This is exactly what we voted for. He promised to drain The Swamp, and that is exactly what he is doing.

Thus, frustration has been building among Democrats over their lackluster leadership.

In the House, lawmakers are grumbling over Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. They remember the good old days of The Resistance™ following Trump’s election in 2016. Then, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was able to whip Democrats in line to serve as a constant thorn in the side of Trump and the Republicans. They want a return to that fighting spirit, but what they are getting from the easygoing Jeffries is anything but.

In fact, he is singing a bipartisan tune. Republicans “control the House, the Senate, and the presidency,” he recently observed. “It’s their government. What leverage do we have? We are going to try to find bipartisan common ground on any issue.”

Despite his disgruntled political colleagues, Jeffries sees that the reality of the situation is not in the Democrats’ favor. Not only did Trump win convincingly and decisively, allowing him to claim a mandate from the American people, but over his first four weeks, he’s enjoying the highest approval rating he’s ever had in office. People like what they see.

The real problem for the Democrats, as Priebus noted, is that they are on the wrong side of normal. Democrats married themselves to a radical leftist agenda that has proven to be a massive turnoff to the majority of Americans. Furthermore, Trump has wisely staked out broadly popular and sensible policy positions; he is a populist, after all, and this has hamstrung the Democrats because their go-to strategy of opposing everything Trump stands for because “Orange man bad” now only serves to further distance themselves from everyday Americans.

The truth is that the Democrats have become increasingly unpopular because they have become the party of radicals and extremists. Furthermore, their dishonesty and corrupt incestuous relationship with the Washington bureaucratic state has been exposed thanks to DOGE in ways they likely never believed possible.

To put it bluntly, Americans aren’t buying what Democrats are selling. And so long as Democrats continue trying to sell their radical, leftist, woke ideals, such as DEI racism, climate change cultism, and nonsensical transgenderism, they will find themselves on the losing side of public opinion.