Democrats have had a lot of trouble since President Donald Trump returned to office. All of the doom and gloom they predicted hasn’t panned out. The recession they insisted was inevitable didn’t happen. The economic collapse that tariffs would drive? Nothing there either. Egg prices? They went down. Inflation? Finally under control. The stock market has hit new records, and economic confidence is swinging dramatically in a positive direction.
Naturally, voters are tuning out the negative spin from the Democrats. In April, only 36% of voters rated the economy as “Excellent” or “Good”; by July, that number soared to 47%, a stunning 23-point net shift in three months. The doom-and-gloom chorus from mainstream networks keeps playing, but Americans simply don’t believe the Left’s warnings anymore because they're living the results.
How would you rate the US Economy?
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) July 25, 2025
April
🟢 Excellent/Good: 36% (-27)
🟤 Not so good/Poor: 63%
JULY
🟢 Excellent/Good: 47% (-4)
🟤 Not so good/Poor: 51%
Net 23 point positive swing
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Fabrizio (R)/Impact (D) for WSJ
Nothing is working out for Democrats, and they continue to alienate voters with their relentless fearmongering, cultural overreach, and obsession with identity politics. Instead of course-correcting, they’ve doubled down on failed narratives: clinging to January 6 hysteria, pushing radical gender ideology in schools, and demonizing half the country as “threats to democracy.” Voters are tuning them out, and the more they flail, the worse it gets.
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Pew Research has dropped numbers so bleak for Democrats that alarm bells should be blaring at DNC headquarters. One of the most astonishing findings is that young men, a group Democrats have long taken for granted, are decisively breaking away. According to the latest survey, a staggering 52% of Gen Z men now identify as Republican: an 18-point lead over Democrats, who draw just 34%. The party's relentless efforts to shame and sideline men, to dismiss their concerns as relics of the past, have decisively backfired.
New - Gen Z Party poll (Man)
— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) July 24, 2025
🔴 Republican - 52% (+18)
🔵 Democrats 34%
Pew research
This isn’t a fluke or a one-off. The broader picture shows an unprecedented shift in party identification among young voters in general. For voters aged 18–29, Democrats now cling to a shrinking six-point lead, 49% to 43%. These are historically Democrat-leaning groups. When the narrative starts to crumble here, it’s a political earthquake, and the aftershocks will last for years.
Disaggregated, the gap is even more devastating for the Left: Gen Z men have gone R+18, while women stick with Democrats by D+21, a historically small advantage for the Democrats.
Pew research: % of voters aged 18-29 who politically identify as...
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) July 24, 2025
Democrat: 49%
Republican: 43%
🔴 Men: R+18
🔵 Women: D+21 pic.twitter.com/osWw27KR5l
The long arc of party affiliation tells the same tale. In 2008, the year Barack Obama was elected, Democrats enjoyed a comfortable 51-39% edge, holding steady for a decade. However, by 2022, that lead had shrunk to two points. Now, for the first time since Ronald Reagan, more Americans identify as Republican or lean GOP: 46% versus 45%. The fundamentals have shifted, and Democrats are fighting for their electoral lives against a resurgent Republican Party.
Pew Research - Party Affiliation trends (with indie leaners)
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) July 24, 2025
🔵 2008: Dem 51-39%
🔵 2012: Dem 48-44%
🔵 2016: Dem 48-44%
🔵 2018: Dem 50-42%
🔵 2020: Dem 49-43%
🔵 2022: Dem 47-45%
🔴 2024: GOP 47-46%
🔴 2025: GOP 46-45%
Meanwhile, fundraising numbers are so lopsided that Democrat strategists must be sweating bullets about 2026 and beyond. The Republican war chest overflows while the Left faces a donor drought. It’s a glaring sign that even the party’s most loyal financial backers see the writing on the wall: Americans are rejecting a globalist, divisive agenda and looking for leaders who prioritize national strength, border security, and economic sanity.
Democrats need to face the facts: If they refuse to change course, to stop smearing half the population and start addressing what matters, the American electorate will continue to walk away. If ever there was a time for realignment in American politics, this is it, and Democrats are nowhere near ready for the reckoning coming their way.
