I remember back in 2008, when James Carville essentially predicted the death of the Republican Party. He declared this after the election of Barack “Baby Black Jesus” Obama. It didn’t take long for that star to fade and Democrats returned to Earth.
Today, we ReTrumplicans face a similar but different situation. Like Democrats back then, we too have a champion, namely Donald Trump. However, the difference is our champion is actually competent.
Chris Cuomo admits that Democrats are catering to Socialists.
“Democrats openly play to socialism now… This is more demonic than Democratic.” pic.twitter.com/wludMKsjG2
— JOSH DUNLAP (@JDunlap1974) June 23, 2025
I say with certainty that President Trump has set Republicans on a course where they can win elections for at least a decade. And if he’s successful in providing fair elections, then you could make that prediction two decades, at least.
Democrats, on the other hand, are in triage. The party is bleeding out. They lost 2.1 million registered voters over the 2020–2024 period, as Republicans gained 2.4 million. That’s not a scratch, as that wound hit an artery. Add to this the Democrats’ fundraising woes. They are $65 million down to Republicans at this stage of the midterms, when historically they’re the ones swimming in cash.
Big donors are abandoning them. Their small-dollar pipeline through ActBlue is sputtering after staff walkouts and resignations. And if Democrats are honest with themselves, they know they don’t even have the small donors they brag about anymore. Those “grassroots” millions are a myth.
But the most devastating realization isn’t coming from Republicans like me. It’s coming from inside the house—from Democrats themselves.
Chris Cuomo’s Confession
Take Chris Cuomo. In a surprisingly candid moment with Benny Johnson, Cuomo laid it out plainly: “The Democratic Party is dead.”
This wasn’t just partisan posturing or a conservative sound bite—it was Cuomo, a lifelong Democrat, reflecting on his father’s legacy and admitting the party no longer resembles what it once was.
Cuomo reminisced about his father Mario Cuomo, a staunch Democrat, and how the party of his youth fought its battles during the Reagan years. That Democratic Party, Cuomo said, was about protecting everyday folks while keeping government within its limits. It was about fairness in capitalism, not socialism. It was about offering opportunity through the free market, with a safety net in education and essential public services.
“No Democrat then,” Cuomo stressed, “would have pushed for open borders or the destructive policies we see today.”
That’s not me talking—that’s Cuomo. He grew up immersed in the Democratic machine, and even he can no longer recognize it.
The Party of Kennedy, Gone Forever
Cuomo isn’t wrong. I suspect most so-called “Kennedy Democrats” would find today’s Democratic Party unrecognizable. The party of JFK—a party that at least talked about unity, patriotism, and middle-class strength—has been replaced by a Frankenstein coalition of radicals obsessed with race, gender ideology, and borderless globalism.
Ask yourself: would Kennedy have stood on a debate stage and promised to pay the healthcare bills of illegal aliens? Would Mario Cuomo have pushed for men in women’s locker rooms? Would FDR have told working-class Americans that their jobs and energy security must be sacrificed to appease climate activists sipping oat-milk lattes in San Francisco?
Of course not.
And that’s why Cuomo’s words sting so deeply for Democrats. This isn’t about policy quibbles—it’s about an existential transformation. Their party has lost its soul, and their voters know it.
The Numbers Don’t Lie
Voters are voting with their feet, or more accurately, with their registration cards.
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Between 2020 and 2024, Democrats lost 2.1 million registered voters in the 30 states that track affiliation. Republicans gained 2.4 million in the same period. That’s a net swing of almost 4.5 million voters.
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In battleground states like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada, and Arizona, the Democratic advantage has shriveled to almost nothing.
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In North Carolina alone, Democrats’ registration lead has been cut by two-thirds.
This isn’t a Republican talking point—it’s raw data. And Democrats know it.
Financial Collapse
It’s not just voters leaving—it’s donors.
The RNC sits on over $80 million cash-on-hand. The DNC? Barely $15 million. As I indicated earlier, that’s a funding gap of more than $65 million heading into a crucial election year. And historically, Democrats are the ones with the war chest.
ActBlue, the Democrats’ fundraising juggernaut, is in meltdown. At least seven senior officials have resigned. Unions are openly accusing leadership of an “alarming pattern” of dysfunction. That’s not just a hiccup—that’s a full-blown collapse in the infrastructure that kept the Democratic Party’s lights on (Reddit summary of reporting).
Democrats Themselves Sound the Alarm
Here’s the critical point: Republicans don’t have to convince America that Democrats are finished. Democrats are saying it themselves. Cuomo isn’t alone.
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Former Obama adviser David Axelrod has repeatedly warned Democrats that they are out of touch with working-class voters.
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Democratic strategists whisper off-the-record to Politico and The Hill that the coalition is fractured beyond repair.
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Poll after poll shows younger voters drifting away, Black and Hispanic voters rethinking their loyalties, and independents flatly rejecting progressive dogma.
In other words: the funeral dirge isn’t being hummed by Republicans—it’s being sung by Democrats who finally see what they’ve become.
What Comes Next?
The Democratic Party cannot continue to hemorrhage voters, lose money, and alienate moderates while chasing ideological purity. Something has to give. Either they reinvent themselves—or they disappear.
Could we see marquee “Blue Dog” Democrats bolt to Trump’s coalition? It’s possible. We already see millions of working-class voters doing just that. The party of identity politics and climate fantasies doesn’t resonate with a machinist in Ohio or a teacher in North Carolina.
The more likely outcome? Democrats sink further into irrelevance, propped up only by legacy media and coastal elites until even those lifelines dry up.
The Death They Admit
The bottom line is this: I’m not the only one saying the Democratic Party is dead. Chris Cuomo said it, and he had the guts to say it out loud.
That makes all the difference. Because when your enemies declare your weakness, you can brush it off as propaganda. But when your own people pronounce you dead? That’s the truth.
The Democrats of Mario Cuomo and John F. Kennedy are gone. Today’s Democrats are a hollow shell, run by radicals, abandoned by voters, deserted by donors, and mocked even by their own.
The Democratic Party is dead. And the only people surprised by that fact are Democrats themselves.
