Here’s great news for Christmas: The Democrat Party is in turmoil!
 
Politico reports that a left-wing organization conducted an election post mortem with three focus groups to try to learn more about why voters rejected the Democrat Party.
 
The effort concentrated on three groups of voters: young men in battleground states who switched from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024; voters in battleground states who switched from Biden in 2020 but didn’t vote at all in 2024; and blue state voters who previously voted for Democrats, third-party candidates, or didn’t vote in 2020 but voted for Trump in 2024.
 
The voters’ feedback was scathing. Asked to describe Kamala Harris, the most common responses were “inauthentic,” “very dishonest,” and “did not seem competent.”
 
More importantly, these voters strongly suggested that there is no quick fix for what ails the left. The problem isn’t mere messaging. Instead, the party’s radical policies are a huge problem. As one Georgia voter put it:
 
“I think what the Democratic elites and their politicians believe is often very different from what the average Democratic voter is. The elites that run the Democratic Party — I think they’re way too obsessed with appealing to very far-left social progressivism that’s very popular on college campuses.”
 
One issue played a big role in turning these voters against the Democrats: transgender insanity. One voter said she opposed Harris’s view that “it’s okay for children to change their body parts.”
 
Without any prompting, several focus group participants mentioned Trump’s powerful ad that ends with, “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”
 
Democrats and their left-wing allies still remain in a powerful position. They dominate the media, popular culture, and our universities. While we have the Supreme Court, we’re 50/50 on the lower courts. While we will have the White House and the Senate, the division in the GOP ranks gives Democrats veto power in the House of Representatives.
 
That said, there are deep divisions among the Democrat grassroots. The activist base is all in on this woke leftist insanity, but they aren’t the majority of the party. And many rational Democrats, including people like Sen. Joe Manchin and former Democrat fundraiser Lindy Li, have lost their patience with all the leftist nonsense.
 
 
 
A Big Turning Point
 
President-elect Donald Trump addressed Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest event Sunday. He spoke about a lot of topics, but one in particular stood out, especially given other news from the day before.
 
As you may know, the Biden administration beat a hasty retreat from transgender ideology in response to the growing public backlash, which contributed to the Democrats’ drubbing at the ballot box.
 
Sunday, it was Trump’s turn to make headlines on the transgender issue. Here’s what he told the AmericaFest audience:
 
“With a stroke of my pen on day one, we’re going to stop the transgender lunacy. And I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military, and out of our elementary schools, and middle schools, and high schools.
 
"And we will keep men out of women’s sports… Under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. Doesn’t sound too complicated, does it?”
 
This marks a huge turning point from the insanity of the Biden/Harris regime. It will drive the activist base of the Democrat Party nuts and further inflame their growing divisions. As we noted above, the Democrats’ extremism on this issue in particular is driving normal people away.
 
Trump is right to go straight at the things that divide the left. Every day was a nightmare under Biden/Harris. But we can’t underestimate the potential here if Republicans at every level will demonstrate the same courage as Donald Trump in taking on the left’s gender lunacy and its war on normalcy.
 
 
 
Mercy For Murderers
 
Well, Joe did it again. He abused his powers as president to commute the sentences of 93% of federal death row inmates. Sunday, there were 40 criminals convicted of the most heinous crimes on death row in federal prisons. Today, there are just three.
 
Thanks to Joe Biden, the American people will pay to house, feed, and provide healthcare to these 37 thugs for the rest of their lives.
 
Biden commuted the death sentences of Ricardo Sanchez, Jr., and Daniel Troya. Sanchez and Troya were convicted of murdering an entire family, including two children aged 4 and 3.
 
Biden also commuted the death sentence of Thomas Sanders, who murdered a young mother and her 12 year-old daughter.
 
Another recipient of Biden’s mercy was Kaboni Savage, who is appropriately named. Savage showed no mercy at all when he killed 12 people. Savage killed six people in one incident when he ordered the firebombing of the home of a former associate. Four children, including an infant, died horribly as they were burned alive.
 
Joe Biden never hesitates to remind us of his Catholic faith. He has talked about believing in the “fundamental dignity of every human life.” He has said, “I’m a practicing Catholic. I’m not big on abortion.”
 
But here he is letting mass murderers escape the death penalty while his party spent $500 million trying to win the White House on a mountain of aborted babies. Biden has a very twisted idea about the dignity and sanctity of life. He demonstrates mercy for murderers and has none for innocent babies.