The policy chops on this guy. Too bad there isn't a guy with 50 years of foreign policy experience, the trust of world leaders, and the vision to lead a coalition against Russian aggression we could call on to handle this. But a bunch of not smart people pushed him out.

Trump blasts Putin as "absolutely crazy" as Russia targets Ukraine with massive wave of drones and missiles - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-war-trump-putin-crazy-kyiv-missile-drone-attack/

This explains a lot.

"In a 2024 Harris poll, fifty-nine per cent of respondents said that billionaires are making society more unfair, and a nearly identical number said that they hoped to become billionaires themselves"

Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder | The New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/donald-trumps-politics-of-plunder

The media carpet bombed us with stories about high grocery prices under Biden as evidence the economy was weak but stuff like this passes through the news cycle like a fart in the wind under Trump.

#ItIsNotTheMessaging

U.S. beef prices reach record highs as cattle industry struggles to keep costs down - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-beef-prices-record-highs-cattle-industry-struggles-to-keep-costs-down/

Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency under Trump is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated and screw over people with medical debt.

Both parties aren’t the same today either.

CFPB's medical debt rule could be thrown out under its new leadership : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/nx-s1-5406799/cfpbs-medical-debt-credit-report-lawsuit

Personally, I don't think it's possible for the Democratic Party to effectively disavow every online crank and stupid editorial that gets published that the right uses to damage the party's brand, primarily when most of that stuff is published just for the reason of getting the reaction it gets. It's just an endless vicious cycle.

If people are looking for a reason to hate Democrats, they'll find it regardless.

The rest of us need to be better microphones for the good things Democrats do.