Writer and analyst Michael Shellenberger appeared on the Jesse Watters show on Friday night and suggested that the growing rift between various factions of Democrats could spell the end for the party.
They were speaking of the ballroom, but Shellenberger took it to another level, taking in the big picture.
He correctly noted that the Democrats don’t stand for anything anymore. All they do is react negatively to anything Trump says or does.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
WATTERS: So as Trump kind of rewrites the rules for trade, for industrial policy, new technology, A.I., immigration policy, the Democrats have a choice, you’re saying, and basically, where do they stand here in the fork in the road?
SHELLENBERGER: Yes, I think that’s right. I mean, this is the big story, and it’s a huge story, really, right? Because we know who the Republican Party is. We know what its agenda is, but the Democrats mean — I mean, the base is still stuck with the party of 2024, the party of woke, radical progressivism, but that has alienated most of the country.
So you really only have like 30 to 35 percent of the country that’s on board with that Democratic Party agenda. That agenda alienates swing voters, as we saw in the elections. So I think it’s going to be a huge Civil War within the Democratic Party over where it goes. Does it become more like Gavin Newsom, or does it become more like Zohran Mamdani and AOC and Bernie Sanders?
I expect some difficult, dark times ahead for the Democrats. You’ve got a party in power that really knows what it is. It knows its vision and values. The American people know what it is. The Democrats are just sort of stuck constantly responding to everything that Trump does in a reactionary way, because there’s no inner core. There is there’s no deep sense of self, there’s no true north, there’s no moral compass, and someone’s going to have to provide that for the Democrats or I think it could be the end of the party.
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JUST IN: Journalist Michael Shellenberger says the Democratic Party is “STUCK” and the first SHOT in the “Civil War” was JUST FIRED @Shellenberger: “I think that could be the END of the party.” pic.twitter.com/c8xVBUa9xG
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) October 25, 2025
The thing about this rift on the left is that it has been building for years. The left just keeps pushing people away anyone who doesn’t agree with them on absolutely everything. They are just isolating themselves politically.
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