To appreciate the effect of Democrats’ cannibalistic situation, just look at the Senators who've already announced they won’t seek Re-Election
WASHINGTON, DC (Texas Insider Report) — Continuing Democrat divisions from Washington, D.C.’s recent funding fight have not only laid bare how badly the party is divided, but now less than a week after the inter-party funding battle, its shown that their party is disintegrating. And the Democrat Party's fissures run the gamit – from between the House & the Senate, to between the already fractured Democrat Base and their Elected Leaders, to between establishmentarians and ideologues, and between generations.
The fissures are getting worse by the day – and to add gasoline to the already raging fire, Democrats know it is Donald Trump's actions that are making their fissures worse. And he's only getting started.
For instance, the latest twist in this most recent D.C. funding fight is that it was Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans united in an effort to pass a "Continuing Resolution" to keep the government open – and with the shoe suddenly on the other foot, it was Democrats who found themselves corned into a position of appearing to want to possibly close it.
Through Donald Trump's and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency DOGE effort, Republicans have been targeting the government on an agency-by-agency, piecemeal basis. And their findings through the DOGE investigations have put Democrats and liberals on their heels.
Their argument in this funding fight was to keep the government operating so that DOGE could continue doing what it has been doing. And DOGE's findings have been indescribably harmful to Democrats and liberal advocates of continuing Big Government.
Democrats opposed it for the opposite reason: If Republicans intend to cherry-pick parts of government for shutdown, they reasoned, we should force a complete shutdown.
Only one Democrat dared buck his party’s Bolshevik wing in the House. The fight then went to the Senate, where the Democrat minority’s ability to filibuster was thought to have given Democrats a more realistic chance to stop the Republicans’ effort to keep government open.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was initially willing to shut down the government and blame it on Republicans… until he wasn’t. He and eight other Democrats (plus Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine) voted to break their party’s filibuster and support the Republicans’ funding bill to keep government functioning.
In the aftermath, all hell has broken loose among Democrats.
When asked whether new Democrat leadership was needed in the Senate, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded with only, “Next question.”
When asked again whether he still had confidence in Sen. Schumer, Jeffries again evaded, answering sbrutly with “Next question.”
Other House Democrats weren’t so reticent.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whom livid Democrats are now urging to mount a primary challenge to Mr. Schumer for his seat in 2028, labeled Schumer’s reversal “a tremendous mistake.”
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urged Senate Democrats to vote against Schumer’s position – while firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said, “he’s absolutely wrong.”
When asked whether new Democrat leadership was needed in the Senate, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded with only, “Next question.”
When asked again whether he still had confidence in Sen. Schumer, Jeffries again evaded, answering sbrutly with “Next question.”
Other House Democrats weren’t so reticent.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whom livid Democrats are now urging to mount a primary challenge to Mr. Schumer for his seat in 2028, labeled Schumer’s reversal “a tremendous mistake.”
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urged Senate Democrats to vote against Schumer’s position – while firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said, “he’s absolutely wrong.”
As former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill (D-MA) once famously said, “The House Republicans are not the enemy – they’re the opposition. The Senate is the enemy.”
But today’s Democrat splits go far beyond that.
Jeet Heer of The Nation called for Schumer’s immediate resignation. Ditto Indivisible, “one of the nation’s largest grassroots progressive organizations.”
Left-wing activists are protesting outside Schumer’s home.
Even MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend announced on air that she was leaving the Democrat Party. Former MSNBC personality Toure Neblett announced during a CNN interview that he was considering doing the same thing.
Jeet Heer of The Nation called for Schumer’s immediate resignation. Ditto Indivisible, “one of the nation’s largest grassroots progressive organizations.”
Left-wing activists are protesting outside Schumer’s home.
Even MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend announced on air that she was leaving the Democrat Party. Former MSNBC personality Toure Neblett announced during a CNN interview that he was considering doing the same thing.
Democrats’ fight also splits along generational lines.
Even before last week's spending fight and the falllout that's resulted began, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been challenged by a former staffer of Ocasio-Cortez. At the time, Saikat Chakrabarti said,
“I respect what Nancy Pelosi has accomplished in her career, but we are living in a totally different America than the one she knew when she entered politics 45 years ago.”
Regarding Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who voted for the funding bill, said, “I hope you can relay how little I care about her views on this.”
Regarding Fetterman’s criticism of a fiery House committee exchange, Ocasio-Cortez accused him of not standing up to bullying.
Sen. Fetterman responded on CNN, saying “Of course, that’s absurd.”
Regarding Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who voted for the funding bill, said, “I hope you can relay how little I care about her views on this.”
Regarding Fetterman’s criticism of a fiery House committee exchange, Ocasio-Cortez accused him of not standing up to bullying.
Sen. Fetterman responded on CNN, saying “Of course, that’s absurd.”
The intraparty Democrat turmoil has been simmering since Trump overwhelmed Democrat Kamala Harris last November. While Trump won a somewhat narrow, but decisive victory nationwide, outside the most liberal states of California, New York, Massachusetts and Washington – that is, in 46 states that make up 80% of electoral votes – he won 53.3% to 46.7%.
Democrats have struggled ever since to find a message, a messenger, or any sense of unity.
What they’ve found instead is fury, disunity, disorganization, and impotence – despite Republicans’ narrow House and Senate majorities in Congress.
In contrast to 2017 – when Trump’s upset victory pulled Democrats together as a unified opposition – Democrats’ only current unity comes from attacking each other. Unable to successfully attack, let alone stop Trump and his popular agenda, Democrats are lashing out at everyone available – namely, themselves.
What they’ve found instead is fury, disunity, disorganization, and impotence – despite Republicans’ narrow House and Senate majorities in Congress.
In contrast to 2017 – when Trump’s upset victory pulled Democrats together as a unified opposition – Democrats’ only current unity comes from attacking each other. Unable to successfully attack, let alone stop Trump and his popular agenda, Democrats are lashing out at everyone available – namely, themselves.
The beneficiary of Democrats’ self-inflicted wounds is, of course, Republicans and Donald Trump, who is often described as being favored by the weakness of his opponents.
Already strong on paper – and now backed by both House and Senate majorities, as well as the Supreme Court – Trump is being made to look even more insurmountable by his weakened, divided opposition. He has never benefited from such dynamics more than he does now.
What’s more, Democrats’ attacks on their establishment, Congressional and older generation party leaders risks erosion of the fragile firewall between a Democrat Party that may still pass as somewhat reasonable – and one defined increasing by its rising leftist firebrand stars (AOC & Crocket's) self-immolation.
To appreciate the effect of Democrats’ cannibalistic cabal, just look at the senators who have announced so far that they won’t seek reelection in 2026.
Expect more retirements to come – particularly in the House – as it becomes increasingly clear that Democrat candidates cannot run and win on their party's base of increasingly leftist policy priorities.
To appreciate the effect of Democrats’ cannibalistic cabal, just look at the senators who have announced so far that they won’t seek reelection in 2026.
Expect more retirements to come – particularly in the House – as it becomes increasingly clear that Democrat candidates cannot run and win on their party's base of increasingly leftist policy priorities.
As Democrats try harder by the day to attack President Trump and Elon Musk, the more Trump and Musk win. The more Trump wins, the more Democrats defect, turn on each other, or quit.
In the 2018 mid-term rebound to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential victory, the elections ushered in a bevy of members from the Democrats’ far left wing. Today, that far left wing is their party.
Because of it, Trump is feasting on them – and Democrats are now feeding on themselves,
