We have said many times that we lament the death of the moderate Democrats. The takeover of the Democratic Party by the radical left makes BOTH parties worse and is bad for America.

Democrats are paying a high price for their left turn excursion. Polls now show only 33% of voters approve of the Democratic Party. But even worse news for the Democrats is the collapse in Party voter registration. As The New York Times reports: “The stampede away from the Democratic Party is occurring in battleground states, the bluest states and the reddest states” – i.e., everywhere.

Only 30 states ask people if they wish to register by party, but Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one of them between the 2020 and 2024 elections — a swing of some 4.5 million voters.  In 2018, Democrats accounted for 34% of new voter registrations, while only 20% registered Republicans. Now the GOP is in the lead.

Of the states with party registration, four are presidential battleground states — Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

All of them saw steep declines in registered Democrats, especially among young and Latino voters.

We hope the Democrats rediscover their JFK or even Bill Clinton centrist positions make a comeback, but at the moment, the message of wealth redistribution rather than wealth creation, radical climate change policies, and make America look like Illinois and California isn’t cutting it.