The Struggle inside the Democrat Party is Not Matched by a struggle inside the GOP

For more details, read my earlier post:

https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/06/democrats-are-jaundiced-cowards.html

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Republicans, for the most part, are hardline extremist rightwingers who comfort all manner of extremist and terrorist hard-right organizations and movements, including Trump's MAGA. I have yet to hear one traditional establishment Republican repudiate this racist white supremacist vermin in their midst.

In contrast, in poll after poll Democrats appear to Americans like a weak, cowardly and "go-along" movement rather than a strong political party that is capable of standing up to the far-right extremist lurch into which Trump has taken the GOP.

Now that there are some progressives in the Democrat Party who are challenging the morose centrist spineless Democrat establishment and are scoring big victories in the primaries, the fossilized Democrat dinosaurs are flailing about. They want the Democrat Party to remain the poor cousin of the GOP, approving of its right-wing ideology while challenging it only on personal charm criteria.

Why would anyone vote Democrat these days if Democrats have no ideological foundations. Traditional Democrats react to the right-wing policies of the MAGA-GOP cabal, but never challenge it on its ideological underpinnings. When younger, more educated Democrats challenge this status quo, they are tagged as extremists by both the traditionalist Democrats and the Republican party (whose traditionalists have been ejected by the right-wing extremists of MAGA and its affiliated neo-Nazi militias and organizations).

If Democrats intend to win, they must confront that disequilibrium and, even for the sake of political tactical posturing, they must welcome their own progressives and Democratic socialists into the fold and use them as a counterweight to an extremist hard-right Republican party. There are no moderates or centrists left in the Republican party of Donald Trump. So the belief by traditionalist centrist Democrats that they can sway a radicalized American electorate away from Trump's extremism with a centrist position is misplaced. The electorate is tired and exhausted; it is ready to stand to Trump forcefully. The Democratic Socialist victories show that the electorate needs leaders to fight Trump on ideological grounds, not just on policies.