The anti-social political party is trying its hand at social media, and it’s going about as well as you’d expect.
Democrats seem to finally realize that their platform and brand needs a renovation — no, more like an entire razing and rebuilding from the ground up — especially if they want to stop hemorrhaging young voters, who’ve shifted in droves to the Republican Party. Although they’ve had the right idea in recent weeks, bypassing establishment media outlets and delivering their message straight to Gen Z on social media, Democrats are still serving up what amounts to a rotten heap of messaging garbage. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)
It’s as if they spent so long being fake that they no longer know how to be authentic.
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s first joint address to Congress, 22 Democratic senators picked up tiny microphones, filmed themselves in awkward close-ups reciting the same stale script, and somehow expected the message to resonate with Americans. It was certainly a unified message, and perhaps too unified, to the point where they all sounded like AI chatbots programmed by a cadre of other, bot-like, milquetoast Democrats.
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“You see that idiocy right there? You talk about something — people being tone-deaf — why the h*ll would 22 Democratic senators be literally echoing the same thing and think that would resonate… pic.twitter.com/L5vI09HZvX
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) March 5, 2025
But unlike her Senate colleagues, Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett posted a more creative social video pre-speech, which featured her dancing through a congressional building. Hats off to her for showing a pulse. Nevertheless, it was equally as cringe and contrived. (RELATED: Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Spectacular Trainwreck May Come Back To Haunt Democrats)
Well…the State of the DisUnion will begin shortly. I’m gonna be in attendance. 😒 DO NOT WATCH! pic.twitter.com/R4KEolh7E3
— Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@RepJasmine) March 5, 2025
Democratic Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the purple-haired swamp creature who has been ruining my home state since before I was born, had the brilliant idea of dropping as many Gen Z slang words as possible in the hope that for every one slang word used in her TikTok video, 10,000 Zoomers would having a coming to moment and register as Democrats for the next election cycle.
REP. ROSA DELAURO: Yo, this is the ranking rizzler on Appropriations, serving CT-3. It’s time to enter your dark academia Congress era. Alright besties, House Appropriations is the money moves in Congress. We’re not chasing the bag, we are the bag. Democrats are making life… pic.twitter.com/J9DQquLuJQ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 7, 2025
Meanwhile, Democratic California Sen. Adam Schiff tried to inspire Americans by delivering the most uninspiring message in the most uninspiring, soupy tone imaginable. “Screw you and the horse you rode in on,” he said of Trump and Elon Musk, barely mustering the enthusiasm of an accountant mid-tax season. Schiff was so stiff he could’ve downed a fifth of Jack Daniel’s and snorted a line of Adderall beforehand and still come off as a bloodless puppet.
Adam Schiff posts bizarre “Message to Donald Trump” video:
“Elon Musk and Donald Trump, they call me a criminal. They call me a traitor. Their MAGA minions online come after me to try to create fear. I’ll tell you my response” —
“Screw you and the horse you rode in on!” pic.twitter.com/IhLeXdEGuA
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 7, 2025
The crowning achievement of Democrats’ new push on social media was a viral ‘pick your fight’ TikTok meme, featuring several congresswomen making fools of themselves, including Crockett and Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Because, of course. The only thing that stands out in the video is the location where AOC filmed her cheesy bit, which, with its zebra-patterned decor, resembles a cocaine-chic New York City club from the 1980s. Is it AOC’s apartment? I’m dying to know.
Republicans are finished pic.twitter.com/jrwIVk58za
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 6, 2025
As far as I can tell, the only Democrat who has successfully pivoted to social media in the second Trump era is — and I begrudgingly admit — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who on Thursday hosted conservative activist Charlie Kirk on his new podcast. The slippery political eel that he is, in a matter of months, Newsom went from “Trump-proofing” his state and posing as a hardcore, liberal ‘Resistance’ leader to common-sense normie who wants to chop it up with MAGA, exchange ideas, and bridge the ever-widening political divide. (RELATED: Charlie Kirk Confronts Newsom Over Barring Parents From Knowing Child Identifies As Trans)
Republicans are flooding the zone with content, policy, and messaging — every. single. day.
We can’t just sit back or “play dead”. Time to flip the script. pic.twitter.com/JFQ2MQcwRV
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) March 6, 2025
Ultimately, the schizophrenic messaging among Democrats points to a much larger problem: the party has no platform, no strategy to take on Trump in Congress, and no coherent identity. It’s a two-faced mishmash, with clownish left-wing lawmakers going TikTok viral on the one side and more dull, establishment Dems, save for Newsom, pretending to be the party of normalcy but quietly embracing, and acting on, a radical ideology.
To make it all worse, Democrats — again, with Newsom as the exception — have about as much charisma as a week-old corpse. Even if they built a better and more popular agenda, they have no messengers to sell it in a captivating yet definitively not cringe way.
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