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The shutdown exposes 3 critical weaknesses for Democrats
3 Oct 2025 ~~ By Liz Peekenate Minority leader Chuck Schumer says that there’s only one party that wants to shut the government down. He’s right: it’s only Democrats who won’t allow the Senate a few more weeks at current spending levels to agree on a new budget.
The shutdown highlights three weaknesses undermining the Democrat Party as we head toward next year’s midterm elections.
First, the left wing of the party is running the show. Schumer is terrified of being primaried by New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC); his obstinance is a matter of survival, not conscience.
Second, President Trump has pushed Democrats to burrow into their far-left rabbit holes by occupying the all-powerful center.
Third, Democrats are pushing endlessly to spend more money; voters think that’s a mistake.
Schumer, battered by angry Democrats after he worked with the Republicans in March to keep the government running, learned his lesson. He was accused of “surrendering” to Republicans by Democrats furious at the impotence of their party. After he cast that fateful vote, many on the left pushed for progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to challenge Schumer in the 2028 Senate primary.This is not an idle threat. In the fury that followed the March face-off over spending, polling by left-leaning Data for Progress found that “Democratic voters nationwide want him to fight harder against President Donald Trump and the Republican agenda.”
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Democrats’ leftward lunge may have endeared the party to progressive billionaires, but it’s unlikely to improve the party’s image or win back the White House in 2028. Progressives are notoriously anti-police and anti-ICE; they favor open borders and extending benefits to non-citizens.
That is not where the country is. Trump was elected to close the border, crack down on crime, boost domestic energy production, strengthen our military and reverse woke measures that undermine traditional American values like meritocracy and individualism. He has been doing all of those things, causing hysteria on the left.
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A survey from the right-leaning CATO Institute earlier this year showed Americans estimate that 59 cents of every dollar spent by the federal government is wasted. That’s why 89 percent “support an audit and evaluation of all federal government spending to identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.” Additionally, CATO reported that “62 percent support cutting the number of federal employees to reduce spending.”
Those common-sense Americans may get their wish. Trump has warned Democrats that he may take advantage of the current shutdown to terminate a sizeable number of federal employees. Just think: Ocasio-Cortez may have set in motion the biggest downsizing of the federal government in history. Now that would be a reason to cheer the shutdown. 
Commentary:
Additionally, Democrats have absolutely no sense of humor. Amy Klobuchar saying, “That’s not funny!” at the hilarious Trump’s memes of Dollar Store Obama in mustache and sombrero.
Democrats are thrashing about, destroying themselves. Both wings are nothing without the other and they can’t even compromise amongst themselves, let alone with Republicans. Then the fact that DSA Democrats have swung further Left as portrayed by Mamdani's bid for Mayor in NYC.
Why would Democrats truly believe they could succeed in forcing Trump and the GOP to make taxpayers provide free healthcare to illegal aliens.
In my section of the woods, the government is it's fifth day of shut down and the sky overhead is a beautiful clear blue—not a cloud in the sky.
Proving the sky is not falling. A pleasing note to the Henny Penny's of the Left...
