Current Events > Pollsters reporting there is a legit chance of Democratic Tea Party Revolt

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Historic precedent suggests it would be extremely unusual for this kind of dissatisfaction to persist without any major changes in the party, especially because these voters dont have anywhere else to go. Third parties continue to see their vote shares decline, and polarization between the two major parties continues to rise, meaning that the odds of these dissatisfied Democrats voting for non-Democratic candidates are extremely low.

That ratchets up pressure in the 2026 primary election season. Political science literature suggests that partisans angry enough to have an opinion on their party leadership are also the likeliest to show up and vote for Democrats anyway so it is not clear that the party will incur a turnout penalty as a result.
Instead, these numbers open the door to a potentially bruising string of primaries in both the House and Senate. There are 13 Democratic-held Senate seats up for reelection next year many of them involving veteran senators in the bluest states raising the prospect of a stream of younger, insurgent candidates more closely aligned with the party base, similar to what the GOP has contended with over the past 15 years.

In other words, there is a chance that an army of AOC's showing up in 2026 Primary.

Yeah infighting and splintering sure will stop Trump.

I should have read OPs post more carefully before responding.

Ummm, sounds good to me.
Taking action is objectively better than laying back and thinking of England.

At the risk of sounding like a snarky asshole, it sure as hell worked for the Republicans.

Seems like a proven strategy to me. People actually respond to division and anger, nobody gives a toss about love and unity.

The opposite worked for Republicans

so unfair are you saying more left wing progressive cannidates shouldnt be allowed to run in primaries for senate seats next year

No offense, but are we living in the same timeline?

Look at who is in office? Look at who has all the political power, look at the country's trajectory, etc.

The opposite worked for Republicans

Trump wanted to splinter the party by making a MAGA party of cultists. But he was aggressively talked out of it and instead they rallied the rest of the party into being a cult.

If Trump HAD succeeded in creating a MAGA party alongside Democrats and Republicans, Democrats would sweep almost all elections

I'm saying to quote Black Stone Cherry, you can't win a war fighting with your brother. If we're fighting ourselves more than the fascists, then we are aiding fascists.

We're basically performing the Red Wedding while the Whitewalkers are at our doorstep.

"So are you saying you want to eat rusty nails and shove copies of Final Fantasy X on PS2 up your ass?"

No, nobody said that. Get that strawman shit out of here.

I'm saying to quote Black Stone Cherry, you can't win a war fighting with your brother. If we're fighting ourselves more than the fascists, then we are aiding fascists.

We're basically performing the Red Wedding while the Whitewalkers are at our doorstep.

Yes solely because Trump DIDN'T splinter the Republican party.

If you have Republicans vs Democrats 1 and Democrats A then Republicans will win every time.

If Trump HAD created the MAGA party, do you really think it would have beaten Dems and Republicans at anything on any major level? Congress and mayors and Governors would be Dem dominant

We've literally just seen this in the UK where the conservative party wasn't seen as far right enough so they introduced the Reform party. Reform syhponed 15% of the votes nationally and allowed Labour (Moderate right wing party) to get a dominant win despite most of the population being well on the right.

If Reform didn't exist, Conservatives would have won comfortably.

You're calling for Dems to do the same thing.

I'm saying the Democrats can't win if they split the party and should be fighting fascists, not each other.

Anything else is you putting words in my mouth.

Trump said he's wiping the blue states off the map before midterm elections so it's not like this matters.

I mostly agree with this

But I would argue that so many people refusing to vote and "Both Sides!" ism is a large cause of this

If voter turnout was 90/95%, the candidates would be less shit.

An army of AOCs? Yes please.

By the time they'd get together, there is a good chance the blue states will be staring at nukes heading their way from Trump.

I'm saying the Democrats can't win if they split the party and should be fighting fascists, not each other.

Anything else is you putting words in my mouth.

More like, if the candidates were less shit, the voter turnout would be higher. If shitty candidates resulted in high turnout, why would the quality of candidates increase? It's more likely that they'd just keep trotting out the same kind of candidate, wouldn't you agree?

Did people forget how UR is?

My fear is that the Dem leadership desire to maintain their power so strongly that they will work with Trump to shut this down.

The opposite worked for Republicans

Trump wanted to splinter the party by making a MAGA party of cultists. But he was aggressively talked out of it and instead they rallied the rest of the party into being a cult.

If Trump HAD succeeded in creating a MAGA party alongside Democrats and Republicans, Democrats would sweep almost all elections

It must be understood that the Democratic Party as currently constituted and as it currently operates is toxic. And it has been since at least 2016. They keep assuming that the fear caused by rising fascism will be enough to hand them the win despite that, and they've been catastrophically wrong twice now.

Good, it's about time.

"So are you saying you want to eat rusty nails and shove copies of Final Fantasy X on PS2 up your ass?"

No, nobody said that. Get that strawman shit out of here.

I'm saying to quote Black Stone Cherry, you can't win a war fighting with your brother. If we're fighting ourselves more than the fascists, then we are aiding fascists.

We're basically performing the Red Wedding while the Whitewalkers are at our doorstep.

Yes solely because Trump DIDN'T splinter the Republican party.

If you have Republicans vs Democrats 1 and Democrats A then Republicans will win every time.

If Trump HAD created the MAGA party, do you really think it would have beaten Dems and Republicans at anything on any major level? Congress and mayors and Governors would be Dem dominant

We've literally just seen this in the UK where the conservative party wasn't seen as far right enough so they introduced the Reform party. Reform syhponed 15% of the votes nationally and allowed Labour (Moderate right wing party) to get a dominant win despite most of the population being well on the right.

If Reform didn't exist, Conservatives would have won comfortably.

You're calling for Dems to do the same thing.

Good, it's about time.

My fear is that the Dem leadership desire to maintain their power so strongly that they will work with Trump to shut this down.

Yeah infighting and splintering sure will stop Trump.

Jesus fucking Christ we are so fucking doomed. Fascists are taking over and not only are we not fighting them, we're fighting other non fascists

u guys have been here for 20 years how do u not know who UnfairRepresent is

Yeah infighting and splintering sure will stop Trump.

Jesus fucking Christ we are so fucking doomed. Fascists are taking over and not only are we not fighting them, we're fighting other non fascists

At this point we may as well rename it Trumpland and replace the dollar with Trumpbucks.

I'm saying the Democrats can't win if they split the party and should be fighting fascists, not each other.

Anything else is you putting words in my mouth.