Yesterday's DNC Meeting Proves Democrats Still Don't Get It

Democrats aren’t setting the stage for a movement. They’re letting Trump set the terms of the debate — again.

Yesterday, DNC chair Ken Martin stood before the party faithful this week and declared: “In this big tent party of ours, we are unified towards a single goal, to stop Donald Trump and put this country back on track.”

First off, that’s two goals, not one. But more importantly, buried in that statement is the assumption that’s killing the Democratic Party: that America was “on track” before Trump arrived. That misreading of reality explains why Democrats keep losing elections they should be winning and bleeding voters they should keeping.

According to the BLS, as a group, the bottom 80% of American households spend 105% of their income on basic necessities—housing, healthcare, education, transportation, childcare, food. Not luxuries. Not entertainment. Just staying alive. That missing 5% gets made up with credit cards, payday loans, or going without. This is the “track” Democrats want to get back to?

The country hasn’t been on track for decades. People are drowning in debt, rationing insulin, watching their communities crumble. Trump didn’t create these conditions—he exploited them. Democrats helped create them, then acted shocked when voters rejected the system.

Trump won because he acknowledged this reality. He told voters the system was rigged, their lives were getting harder, and someone was to blame. His solutions were cruel and wrong, but at least he admitted there was a problem. Democrats keep insisting everything was fine until Trump came along. Voters know better.