The National Democratic Party is Leaderless, Rudderless

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted and Published on May 27, 2926

President Donald Trump (left), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (center), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

An Editorial Opinion

President Donald Trump's approval rating has plummeted to 37% -- a second-term low -- as voters reject his decision to go to war with Iran and express deepening anxiety about the economy, according to a New York Times/Siena poll of 1,507 registered voters nationwide from May 11 to 15, 2026. The margin of error in the poll is +/-2.8%

Yet, even as Trump's standing among registered voters erodes, the Democratic Party faces its own brand crisis. Just 26 percent of voters say they are satisfied with Democrats. That’s 11 points lower than Trump's approval rating and a clear rejection of the Chuck Schumer/Hakeem Jeffries Democratic Party leadership team.

Only 20% of voters approve of the way Democrats in Congress are handling their job, while 72% disapprove, nearing the all-time low of 18% approval and 73% disapproval in December 2025, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released May 20.

I am an independent voter who is registered to vote in California. I will vote tomorrow in our state elections by placing my ballot in a secure drop-box at my neighborhood grocery store. Election day is June 2, 2026.

Since 2001, I have watched the Republican Party morph into a toxic cesspool of Gen Z racists, old-South Confederate racists, corporate grifters, law enforcement obstructionists, and low-life political whores who protect elite Epstein-class pedophiles while spending taxpayer dollars like the world is going to end tomorrow.

During the same period, I have seen Democrats transmogrify into weak, disorganize, leaderless, rudderless, wannabe power brokers who have no vision, no purpose-driven political mission, and no courage. In Today's era of MAGA hardball politics, Democrats are completely useless as agents for positive change..

I don’t know what will happen during the midterm elections in November or the 2028 race for the White House. There is nobody on the Republican or Democratic political scene that I find attractive today.

Democrats must change their ways or they will become as extinct as dinosaurs. They need a strong national leader right now who is knowledgeable about domestic, economic, and foreign policy matters. Above all, they need a national leader with big “balls.” 

I can’t stomach another weak homecoming king or queen-type of candidate like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who wants to be President of the United States solely for the prestige and perks of the job.