It’s official: the Democratic Party hasn’t been this unpopular since the early ’90s.
According to a new poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 63% of Americans now hold a negative view of the Democrats—an eye-popping figure that sets a new low-water mark for the party in over three decades. And it’s not just swing voters or Republicans doing the damage. Even Democrats themselves are turning on their own leadership.
A full 35% of Democrat respondents used words like “weak,” “ineffective,” or just “generally bad” to describe their own party. Only 23% offered anything positive.
By contrast, Republicans scored far better with their own base. The poll shows that 41% of GOP voters offered positive attributes like “pro-America,” “common sense,” and “conservative.” Only 19% had something negative to say about the Republican Party.
That contrast is part of what makes this poll so damning: it’s not just partisan mudslinging—it’s a real identity crisis on the left.
BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere broke it down on his show Stu Does America, highlighting the self-inflicted wounds Democrats have sustained over the last decade. He pointed to Gallup data showing that the party has shifted dramatically leftward, with the percentage of Democrat voters identifying as “very liberal” jumping from 48% to 55%. Meanwhile, those who consider themselves conservative or even moderately left have dwindled to just 9%.
In other words, the Democrats have become a party of extremists—and the base is noticing.
Burguiere explained that the issues Democrat voters now consider “most important” reflect that shift: immigration policies favoring open borders, radical climate priorities, and fringe international issues like Palestinian statehood. “These aren’t common-sense priorities,” he said. “They’re niche causes pushed by academic elites and activist donors.”
This, he argued, is why Democrats are struggling with their own identity. “Basically, Democrats don’t really like their party right now,” Burguiere concluded. “And that’s a big deal, because it provides a real opportunity for Republicans to do real good.”
The takeaway? Democrats are hemorrhaging credibility across the political spectrum. And as the party continues to chase woke ideology at the expense of working-class Americans, that credibility isn’t coming back anytime soon.
The numbers back it up: even their own voters are saying what the rest of America already knows. The Democrats are out of touch, out of gas, and increasingly out of time.