The polls that have shown the President’s approval rating sinking to the low 40 per cent range – the worst 100-day performance by any US leader since Gerald Ford in 1974 – also show Democrats in Congress with even lower degrees of public confidence in their governing capacities.
Donald Trump has the worst 100-day performance by any US leader since Gerald Ford (Photo: Reuters)
Democrats are suffering because most of their supporters deem the party’s response to Trump insufficient, and not commensurate with the threat he poses to the country’s future. After spending the best part of 2024 insisting that “democracy is on the ballot”, and that the US system of government could not survive a second Trump administration, for the most part Democrats have licked their wounds and sat on their hands in the months since the President’s victory.
The dangers of heeding that advice are now plain to see. A growing number of voters tell pollsters that the party is failing in its civic duty to identify a path out of Trump’s America, to corral public protests, and to demonstrably lead the way.
Some younger Democrats have had enough, and are taking early steps that could lead to a generational shift in the party’s leadership and also its policy positions. Prime among them is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 35-year-old left-wing firebrand from New York, known ubiquitously as “AOC”. Together with Senator Bernie Sanders, the old socialist warhorse from Vermont, she has campaigned before packed crowds in several Republican states, insisting that the party needs to connect with disaffected voters who backed Trump last November and whose support is now in play.
Cory Booker addresses the Senate. He broke the record for the longest continuous speech (Photo: Senate Television via AP)
In a video webcast hosted by political journalist Tara Palmeri, Carville this week accused Hogg of “jackassery of the highest level”. He accused Hogg of wasting money that could be better spent targeting Republicans, and complained that “there’s no nuance to it, it’s flat-out wrong”.
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey may be the new presidential aspirant to watch. His record-breaking 25-hour speech on the Senate floor last month held the Trump administration to account for many of its excesses, but he also apologised to Americans for the “terrible mistakes” Democrats have made since inauguration day.
As Harris’s numbers tumbled, Booker’s support soared among likely voters in the party’s still-distant primaries. But his actions proved beyond doubt that the party is craving leadership, and its supporters are rewarding Democrats with the courage to act, rather than wait for Carville’s vision of a crumbling Trump administration to deliver them America on a plate.
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