The direction of the Democrat Party is the talk of the 2026 midterms. Will it go farther left or somehow moderate? The simple answer is that Democrat Party will move even farther left.
As the nation considers this question, it is a mistake to look at the current Democrat Party in a vacuum. We should not be focused on individual candidates. The focus should be on the trend.
What is happening in the modern Democrat Party is the natural progression of parties on the left.
Consider this: In 1887, President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, vetoed a drought relief bill stating that “Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.”
Clevelands message was stark. Government was not our brothers keeper.
A half century later, however, the times and the Democrat Party changed dramatically, with government support of the people at the center of their policies. The first major step toward occurred when Democrats used taxpayer dollars to provide government jobs under Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelts New Deal.
A decade later, when passing the Employment Act of 1946, the Democrat Congress declared: “that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the federal government to use all practicable meansâ¦to promote maximum employment.”
The second major step came during the 1960s with the Democrats’ passage of Great Society legislation, which changed Democrats focus from jobs to welfare. Since then, the size of the welfare state has exploded. All the while, the Democrats have convinced voters they could vote themselves rich.
Here is why there will be no turning back from that for the Democrat Party.
Government is the largest industry in America today â by far. Tech is less than 10% of the economy. Government spending, local, state and federal, is around 35% of the economy.
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Our governments are also the largest employers in the United States. One third of all those government employees are unionized. Their bounty of union dues is then used to make campaign contributions to Democrats. Indeed, over 95% of government union contributions go to Democrats.
The Democrats know that unions seek to grow their ranks, which would result in even larger amounts of political donations for Democrats. The Democrat Party is not going to bite that hand that feeds them. As a result, the Democrats will remain the party of ever larger government employment.
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As I wrote recently, the political parties have lost control over campaign spending. We live in the age of the super PACs, which includes union PACs.
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