Republicans are helping Democrats campaign for the midterms.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/republicans-are-helping-democrats.html

With sixteen months to go before voters go back to the polls to cast ballots in what will be a referendum on Trump's second term, there are some signs showing that Democrats might wind up doing better than the poll numbers we are seeing at the moment would indicate. Frankly, the poll numbers indicate that the American electorate is ignorant and unaware of what Congress is doing, and they are also frustrated by what they see as a lack of anyone actually doing anything except spending an inordinate amount of time raising money for their own campaign. Congress is not popular right now.

And for that matter, neither is the President, who is getting the worst polling numbers any President has received at this point in their term. If these polls are accurate, once again that's a big "if", we are able to say that two-thirds of American voters are now against him. And I'd say that's a good guess, given the fact that we don't know everything we think we do about the 2024 election, and by observing what has been happening around the country with regard to resistance.

Let me clarify one thing for the sake of this discussion. "Resistance to Trump," and "the Democratic Party" are not synonymous. Yes, there are a lot of grass roots Democrats who are helping form the base of those who are resisting this convicted felon demagogue who sits in the White House now, but the movement has gone beyond the Democratic party's ability to control it, or to provide a political foundation for it. It is based on opposition to the things this President is doing to undermine and destroy the Constitution and the democracy that established and ordained it.

The other party has handed us the biggest political favor they could have done, in getting a lot of publicity for a bill of which the vast majority of Americans, something like 2/3 of them, don't like and believe is a mistake. Democrats cannot affort the luxury of sitting back and protecting their own jobs and turf, but must, instead, make bold, risky moves to protect our Democratic government and keep it going.

[msongs]

1. repubs are ok with what he is doing, they just dont like HIM nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. The other party is busy doing things that most Americans don't like . . .

We need to hang those issues around their necks and make them pay dearly for hurting all of us.

At the same time, we must wrest control from them so that we can begin to fix the atrocities they've inflicted on us.

[J_William_Ryan]

3. '"Resistance to Trump," and "the Democratic Party" are not synonymous.'

The problem is opposition to Trump – and disapproval of Trump – may not translate into votes for Democrats – indeed, that Republicans will likely retain control of the Senate is evidence of that.

Republican voter suppression and disenfranchisement will continue to facilitate the tyranny of Republican minority rule.

[lees1975]

4. I tend to think that opposition and disapproval of Trump is the best shot Democrats have at raising vote totals.

That's been a major factor in special elections up to this point.