A new Quinnipiac poll shows 31% of voters have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, while 43% have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party.

That comes on the heels of a New York Times poll last month which found that while voters say the economy, inflation and immigration are their top issues, they believed Democrats were most concerned with abortion, LGBTQ rights and climate change.

Can they get back in the JFK prosperity game of lifting all boats?

Yes, if they start talking about growth. In 1990, after Democrats lost three straight presidential races, centrist like Robert Rubin started the Democratic Leadership Council to move the party away from the kind of crazy leftists who run the party today. The strategy worked. Bill Clinton won two straight presidential elections as a free trade, budget cutting, and welfare reform Democrat.

Oh how we wish that kind of organization existed today.

Alas, they still don’t get it. On Saturday the DNC elected as new chair Ken Martin, a progressive warrior from Minnesota, who in 2020 called for higher taxes on the rich, and for putting Trump “on trial for treason.”

The three vice-chairs elected along with Martin are equally extreme. Two of them – Vice Chairs David Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta – support packing the U.S. Supreme Court with four new members.  Kenyatta called this the only way to overturn “the illegitimate 6-3 supermajority on this Supreme Court.”

Hogg, a 24-year-old climate leftist has called for defunding the police and abolishing federal immigration agencies.

Where’s the growth?