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Column: Regardless of infighting, Democrats can nonetheless unite round one widespread objective
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Column: Regardless of infighting, Democrats can nonetheless unite round one widespread objective

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Last updated: October 21, 2025 11:26 pm
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The one factor the events can agree on is that Donald Trump is the central situation of our time.

Let’s begin with a current headline: “It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Nonetheless Working Towards Trump.”

“After a yr of soul-searching and introspection by Democrats about what they need to stand for after dropping the White Home and Senate in 2024,” Shane Goldmacher of the New York Instances writes, “the occasion is basically coalescing behind the identical message that has united it for the previous decade: stopping Donald J. Trump.”

Now, I confess to having missed an excessive amount of soul-searching and introspection amongst Democrats, however I’m reminded of a really totally different search that occurred 20 years in the past: the seek for “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq.

When you may assume I’m going for some bizarre metaphor evaluating President Trump to a WMD, that’s not my level.

For these too younger to recollect, the George W. Bush administration targeted on Saddam Hussein’s WMD program as the main — some would say sole — justification for toppling the Iraqi dictator.

This turned extra controversial after U.S. forces failed to search out the WMDs the Bush administration, and others, mentioned had been there. For opponents of the warfare, this become the chorus that Bush had “lied America into warfare.”

This was all the time unfair. Then-Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz, in a now forgotten however as soon as very controversial interview with Self-importance Truthful, defined why the administration targeted on WMDs. “[W]e settled on one situation, weapons of mass destruction,” Wolfowitz mentioned, “as a result of it was the one motive everybody may agree on.”

It could seem to be a stretch — in all probability as a result of it’s — however the parallel got here to thoughts as a result of Trump performs the same dynamic contained in the Democratic Get together.

Some segments of the occasion, personified by Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, are flirting with socialism or social democracy. Others try to carve out a extra centrist, Invoice Clinton-style, lane. Some hate Israel. Others defend it. Some need to open the federal government. Others need to maintain the shutdown going. Some help the so-called “abundance agenda,” which seeks to curb authorities purple tape and activist-driven NIMBYism, whereas others oppose it as a rollback of hard-won environmental and labor protections.

However the one factor all of them can agree on: They don’t like Trump.

There are different causes for specializing in the president. “I fear that Donald Trump is like crack cocaine for our occasion,” Democratic pollster Celinda Lake advised The Instances. “Trump could be very seductive as a result of whenever you put up an advert that’s anti-Trump, you get plenty of small-dollar contributions, you get plenty of activists saying, ‘Nice job!’”

Lake and different Democrats fear that focusing a lot on Trump is distracting the occasion from fashioning a extra optimistic agenda. They’re proper. Democrats are about as unpopular as they’ve ever been. That is partly as a result of diehards are mad at their very own occasion for not being more durable in its “resistance” to Trump (therefore the shutdown). Different Democrats consider the occasion is tooleft wing and are merely abandoning it.

For example, within the final 5 years, practically twice as many Pennsylvania Democrats switched their registration to the GOP as the opposite approach round. It must be no shock that opposition to Trump unifies the Democrats who haven’t left for the Republican Get together.

Democrats hope that within the quick time period, opposition to Trump could also be sufficient to win the upcoming off-year gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey and, maybe, within the coming midterms.

In any case, Trump is unpopular too. His general approval is simply 37%, based on the newest AP-NORC ballot. The Economist has him at 40% approving of his second time period, with 55% disapproving. Individuals give him low scores on the financial system and, now, immigration as properly.

Nonetheless, there’s scant motive to hope for a “blue wave” in subsequent yr’s midterms. Throughout the identical interval in his first time period, Democrats had a 9-point benefit on the generic congressional poll. Now, it’s 1.6 factors. Loads rides on the place the financial system might be a yr from now.

Nonetheless, Trump isn’t only a unifying situation for Democrats. He’s a unifying situation for Republicans as properly, which is one motive extra folks than ever are figuring out as independents. More and more, calling your self a Republican means being a Trump supporter for a lot the identical motive that calling your self a Democrat means being a Trump opponent: It’s the one factor the GOP can agree on.

What this implies for the longer term is unclear, save for one factor: As soon as Trump is now not president, and even as soon as he’s a lame duck, each events are going to have an enormous struggle making an attempt to determine what they stand for.

X: @JonahDispatch

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