
Originally published March 28, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.
By Joshua Bontrager, Political & Cultural Correspondent
“Democrats spent the last four years prosecuting Trump, unleashing a wave of illegal criminals on American cities, jacking up the cost of living, and telling you an 82-year-old clearly in the throes of dementia was fine. Now they sit at 27% approval and set Teslas on fire.” –Eric Matheny
“Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years – and they fear things could actually get worse… The 2024 election was at least as much a repudiation of Democrats as it was a victory for Trump.” –Axios
“For exaltation comes neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south. But God is the Judge: He puts down one, and exalts another.” –Psalm 75:6-7
INTRODUCTION
The once-seemingly invincible Democratic Party, the cult that thought it could permanently turn America into a Communist totalitarian hellscape and face no consequences, stands at its weakest point in decades.
President Donald Trump is more popular than he was on the day of his landslide November 5 victory, while only 27% to 29% of voters hold “very positive” views of the Democratic Party.
44% of Americans say the country is “headed in the right direction,” the highest since 2004.
Democratic pollster David Shor laments that young people, once assumed to be the future of the DNC, are “becoming potentially the most conservative generation that we’ve experienced maybe in 50 to 60 years.”
Rather than “moderating,” Marxist Democrats are doubling down on their deeply unpopular support for Hamas, open borders, DEI, men in women’s sports, and government fraud while instigating violence against Trump, Elon Musk, and Tesla and relying on rogue judges to thwart Trump’s mandate.
The Whig Party wielded substantial power from the 1830s to the early 1850s, only to fracture over the issue of slavery, causing a massive political realignment and enabling the rise of the Republican Party. Will today’s DNC suffer the same fate? Are they destined the go the route of the Dodo bird, which went extinct about 200 years before the Whigs did?
This article will outline the Democratic Party’s continuing collapse as (1) funding evaporates, (2) media dominance fades, and (3) Democrats engage in a bitter internal conflict for the party’s future. We will also explore what these trends mean for the future of the DNC, the GOP, and a deeply broken America.
A. FUNDING: IS THE DNC A CRIMINAL MONEY LAUNDERING OPERATION?
“The Harris campaign slogan, ‘Defending Democracy,’ was more about defending an entrenched way of life for the DC crowd. It should have been: ‘Vote for us! We are defending grift and fraud!’” –Ed Dowd
For years, American patriots were forced to fund their country’s destruction, as billions for leftist candidates and projects were robbed from hard-working Americans via taxation or the government’s inflationary money creation.
- USAID DISMANTLED – One of Elon Musk’s first DOGE targets was USAID, the $50 billion slush fund that bankrolls regime change, global perversion, and leftist initiatives.
One individual with sources in the Democratic Party called the shuttering of USAID “worse than 9/11 for Democrats,” noting, “USAID is and always has been the primary source of funding for their influence peddling schemes and for their indirect sources of income.”
USAID was only the beginning, as Musk and President Trump targeted a host of other leftist initiatives and NGOs. EPA head Lee Zeldin terminated $20 billion of climate grants to eight recipients. This figure was only a fraction of the $369 billion climate fund that Deep Stater John Podesta was tasked with distributing to leftist groups in September 2022.
James Howard Kunstler assessed, “The Dems game has been revealed. The revenue stream for their national wrecking operations is suddenly cut off, and it’s game-over… You funnel vast amounts of U.S. taxpayer dollars into Non-Governmental Organizations, NGOs, spin off more NGOs below them, and add extra layers of subsidiary NGOs, and all of them pay their staffs of Dem Party foot-soldiers for do-nothing jobs – leaving plenty of time for riots and real-estate investing – a splendid racket that worked for years to support the insane antics of the Woke-Jacobin revolution. (And you paid for it.)”
- ACT BLUE IMPLODES – Over the past twenty years, ActBlue has raised over $16 billion for Democrats, funding national, state, and local candidates. Now, prominent ActBlue officials are fleeing the sinking ship.
On March 5, The New York Times reported, “ActBlue, the online fund-raising organization that powers Democratic candidates, has plunged into turmoil, with at least seven senior officials resigning late last month and a remaining lawyer suggesting he faced internal retaliation. The departures from ActBlue…come as the group is under investigation by congressional Republicans.”
Two unions representing ActBlue employees have demanded an investigation into the organization.
Since 2023, Republicans have warned that ActBlue could be accepting fraudulent donations, including illegal “smurfing” donations – large dollar contributions broken into smaller amounts – from China, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) recently called for the FBI to investigate the platform over “suspicious transactions.”
Attorney Rogan O’Handley detailed, “The big tell was when Kamala, the most unpopular VP in history, threw a coup, kicked out Biden, and raised more money on ActBlue in one day than any other candidate in history. Even more than Trump after he was indicted and shot. That’s when America woke up and said, ‘Ok, they’re money laundering.’”
Additionally, The Hill reports that DNC mega-donors are pulling back, waiting for a coherent party strategy before restarting donations.
- FUNDING SUMMARY – Its disproportional cash advantage has allowed Democrats to foist their extreme candidates and programs on the American people. Money woes will make bankrolling candidates, disseminating propaganda, and funding ballot harvesting/voter fraud much more difficult.

B. MEDIA: IS DNC PROPAGANDA DEAD?
“We’re losing. You dominate the media. We are toast.” – California Gov. Gavin Newsom
- AMERICANS REJECT MSM PROPAGANDA – For years, Democrats relied on a combination of taxpayer-funded mainstream media dominance and censorship of alternatives to control the narrative. That control began to slip with Russiagate, COVID-19, the rigged 2020 election, the Biden administration, and Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter (X), as more Americans questioned the “accepted narrative.”
The re-election of Donald Trump was a rejection, not just of Kamala Harris’ Marxism, but also of the mainstream media that covered up Harris and Biden’s flawed policies and personalities.
Like the Democratic Party, mainstream media trust has sunk lower since November 5. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has lost nearly 1/4 of her viewers, while MSNBC’s Joy Reid became officially unemployed.
- TRUMP TAKES ON THE MSM – Consider the following salvos in Trump’s renewed war on “fake news”:
- President Trump’s executive order, Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship, is weakening the censorship cartel.
- Trump received $15 million in a defamation settlement with ABC.
- Trump canceled government agency contracts with The New York Times, The Associated Press, Politico, and other MSM propaganda
- Trump moved MSM outlets, including NPR, NBC News, Politico, and CNN, out of the Pentagon, replacing them with conservative outlets.
- The Federal Communications Commission is investigating taxpayer-funded PBS and NPR, while Trump has suggested defunding both groups.
- The White House restored 440 reporters whose credentials were revoked by the Biden regime and opened the briefing room to “independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators.”
- Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the White House will now select the press pool instead of the left-wing White House Correspondents’ Association.
- Trump’s swift action has effectively overwhelmed the ability of mainstream media to control the news cycle.
Auron MacIntyre said Americans are “slowly discovering that the reason leftist media outlets don’t go bankrupt is that they are just funded by tax dollars.”
- THE BOTTOM LINE – A new study from Media Matters assessed that the “right” is dominating the left in the media landscape by a 5-1 ratio. Charlie Kirk reacted, “The left has forgotten how to compete, and their ideas are further and further out of step with the mainstream. They only know how to deliver scolding, activist-drenched lectures – but the public is tuning them out.”
- MEDIA SUMMARY – As censorship, mainstream media influence, and taxpayer funding diminish, the DNC will find it increasingly difficult to peddle its authoritarian policies and candidates.
- LEADERSHIP: IS THE DNC IS AT WAR WITH ITSELF?
“If I was a Democrat, I wouldn’t even speak for the party right now because the party is in shambles. The party is in disarray. The party has no leadership. The party has no messaging… They don’t have any direction.” – Charlamagne tha God
C. AMERICA’S FRENCH REVOLUTION – Beginning with the George Floyd riots of 2020, the already-Marxist Democratic Party fully empowered its radical wing. Left-wing activists learned that burning down buildings, rioting in the streets, assaulting police officers, and threatening Supreme Court justices carried no consequences for morally superior “victims.”
For four years, Barack Obama used Joe Biden as a puppet to ram through the unpopular Jacobin-style French Revolution that he could not fully complete during his two terms. Providentially, Americans rejected the Communism of Obama, Biden, and Harris at the ballot box. However, a violent minority believe the revolutionaries failed because they didn’t go far enough.
- A “TEA PARTY-STYLE REVOLT” – “Democrats are on the verge of a Tea Party-style, intra-party revolt” that could fuel multiple Senate and House primaries in 2026, reports Politico.
The younger, more unhinged wing of the DNC erupted after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) joined President Trump and Republicans to keep the government open. The 74-year-old is a more calculating revolutionary than the unrestrained true believers, and he is increasingly perceived by these younger radicals as being “out of touch.”
Some Democrats called for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to primary challenge Schumer. Former Obama advisor Van Jones said, “I’ve never seen this level of volcanic anger at a Democrat, ever.”
- WHICH DIRECTION? – According to a CNN poll, 57% of Democratic voters say the party should focus on stopping Trump rather than working with Republicans, while 52% say the party is heading in the wrong direction.
Over 30% of Democrats said, “None,” when asked to name the party leader. The next highest was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at 10%, Kamala Harris at 9%, and Bernie Sanders at 8%.
The more cunning Democrats, such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who recently interviewed Charlie Kirk on the first episode of his podcast, are pretending to walk back their extreme views.
But the uncompromising Jacobins want Democrats to double down on supporting Hamas, DEI, men in women’s sports, open borders, child mutilation, violent resistance, and stopping Trump by any means.
- THE VIOLENT RESISTANCE – Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) – the current lunatic faces of the anti-Trump “resistance” – are unlikely to garner more than 35-40% support. But…they could inflame thousands of their crazed followers to severely destabilize America.
Crockett has called for Elon Musk to be “taken down.”
A recent Sanders-AOC “Fight Oligarchy” rally was packed with mostly professional protestors, paid for by ActBlue and USAID. Crazed lunatics at the rally called for Trump to be tortured and murdered, with one saying, “The only good fascist is a dead fascist.”
Tesla dealerships, charging stations, and individual Tesla owners have been targeted with Molotov cocktails, vandalism, and threats.
Never Trumper Rick Wilson penned an essay titled, “Kill Tesla, Save the Country.” Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel claimed, “When you pull out a chainsaw to celebrate firing thousands of people, they get mad.”
Swift accountability from the Trump administration will cause some agitators to count the cost of violence.
- LEADERSHIP SUMMARY – The civil war between the openly pro-terror wing of the Democratic Party and the less powerful Machiavellian Marxist wing will further expose the DNC for the death cult that it is, driving away voters and further damaging its electoral prospects.
PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS
“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.” –I Timothy 2:1-4
The DNC faces an existential crisis of diminishing funding, media, and leadership. What does this implosion mean for the future?
First, the Republican Party has a historic opportunity to cement Trump’s counter-revolution…if Trump and American patriots can force RINOs with a vested interest in thwarting change to assist.
Second, the DNC is likely to remain impotent, barring a massive economic crisis or war. Former Clinton advisor Mark Penn predicts, “Unless there is a major reset, I expect they [Democrats] will have an unexpected wipeout in next year’s midterm elections.”
Trump’s deportations and election integrity initiatives will make it harder for Democrats to win. If trends continue, by 2030, mass migration from blue to red states will cost Democrats 10-12 Congressional seats and allow Republicans to win the Presidency without Wisconsin, Michigan, or Pennsylvania.
Third, violence, assassination, and chaos from foreign and domestic actors, including from thousands of violent illegals and potential terrorists who have yet to be deported, still threaten America.
Fourth, the progressive “tech bros” are supporting Trump while promoting the replacement of American workers with immigrants, a surveillance state control grid, and Brave New World-style family re-engineering. Together with central bankers, they will seek to capitalize on greater government “efficiency” to advance their own authoritarian, anti-human agenda.
Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon warns the tech bros will “destroy not just this country,” but “the world,” unless they are stopped. One of them, billionaire investor Marc Andreessen, previously stated, “We believe Artificial Intelligence is our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone – we are literally making sand think.”
Last, the political shift cannot remedy America’s greatest continuing need: genuine repentance and faith in Christ that leads to transformed hearts, marriages, families, and communities.
Before the 2024 election, millions of Americans earnestly asked God to have mercy on a nation that had turned its back on God and stared down the abyss of absolute tyranny. God mercifully answered these prayers.
The same prayer and faithful action demonstrated in 2024 are required to reverse decades of Marxist/progressive policies, and over 100 years of destructive anti-God, anti-human ideologies.
We must pray that the Americans who have awakened to establishment lies regarding Russiagate, COVID-19, rigged elections, BLM, vaccines, immigration invasion, transgenderism, and the DNC, will awaken to the greatest (and first) lie ever told: the lie that humans can become like God, direct their own lives, and control their own destiny without Him (Genesis 3).
Since Creation, this lie has deceived and destroyed millions by appealing to man’s pride and fleshly desires. It leads to eternal separation from God and destruction in Hell, the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:14). “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12).
Recently, MAHA warrior and former Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running mate Nicole Shanahan shared how she came to Christ during the 2024 campaign. She is telling her story because “people are very spiritually lost right now, people that I know.”
The Trump administration will continue to be a blessing to America, but only Jesus can save the country. May more Americans trust in Christ, like Shanahan, and find lasting, eternal freedom from sin and death.
FURTHER RESEARCH:
The Democratic Party Is Collapsing – David Catron
Looking for Unicorns: The Search for a “Joe Rogan of the Left” – Selwyn Duke
Don’t Stop Praying! – Gary H. Kah
The Near-Death Experience that Led Nicole Shanahan to Christ – Relatable