As we gear up for the midterm elections, the political predictions are all over the map.  Democrats are ecstatic, expecting big gains in Congressional elections.  They are banking on President Trump’s supposed unpopularity to carry them to victory.  It might not be so easy, however.

First of all, you have to ask, “Unpopularity as compared to what?”  The groups betting on Trump’s unpopularity are viewing the field through a distorted lens.  Because they only interact with other Leftists, their estimation of the level of the President’s  unpopularity can’t be trusted.  Since they only speak to other Trump haters, they’ve concluded he’s highly unpopular. Moreover, whatever Trump’s approval rating is, the Democrats, as a group, have a lower rating.

The Democrats are suffering from their own unpopularity problem, due to their loony policies.  The increasingly scarce moderate elements in the Democrat Party have been sounding the alarm, trying to convince the Democrat powers that be that the Party has strayed too far to the Left.

The group, Third Way, a haven for moderate Democrats and Never Trumpers, is warning Democrats that if they move too far to the Left, even if they succeed in 2026, their Party will be unable to elect a president in 2028.  The advice Third Way is giving to Democrats shows how far from the mainstream Democrats have wandered over the years.  “Be plainspoken, not lofty or academic. Don’t live online, but be authentic on social media.  Loosen up, and be patriotic without fear that something like the American flag or Pledge of Allegiance has been co-opted by conservatives.”

Really?  Don’t fear the flag or the Pledge of Allegiance has been co-opted by conservatives?  Here’s a bulletin.  The flag and the Pledge don’t belong only to conservatives.  They belong to all Americans.  If Democrats actually fear their own flag, what does that tell you about them?

The problem for Democrats isn’t that conservatives have co-opted the Pledge, it’s that Democrats don’t believe a word of it.  The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a Baptist minister in 1892, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World.  You can stop right there.  Democrats hate Columbus because they blame him for bringing capitalism to the New World.

Then there are the words of the Pledge, which is a promise of loyalty to the United States.  “One nation under God?”  Democrats don’t believe in God.  “Indivisible?”  The Democrats exist solely to divide the entire country.  “With liberty and justice for all?”  Hardly.  Democrats seek to cancel liberty, and they confuse justice with revenge.

Rather than embrace the Pledge of Allegiance, Democrats instead would rewrite it.  “We pledge contempt for the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic which we despise, without reference to God, divisible into preferred identity groups, with tyranny and injustice for all who dare to dissent.”

Third Way tells the Democrats to be authentic.  “Voters in general are just crying out for authenticity.”  But it’s like that old joke, “Just be yourself.  Okay, but what if you’re an asshole?”  The Democrats’ problem is they have proven themselves to be authentic – authentic crazed socialists.

But don’t take my word for it.

CNN’s data analyst Harry Enten presented data recently that show a whopping 58% of voters say the Democrat Party is too liberal.  At the same time, a third of all Democrats think of themselves as Democrat socialists.  And that number rises to 42% for Democrats under 35.

The percentage of Democrats who say they are “very liberal” has quadrupled over the past 25 years.  According to a recent CNN poll, one in three Democrats surveyed now identifies as a Democrat “socialist.” That number rises to 42 percent among Democrats who are younger than 35. Meanwhile, the percent of Democrats who say they are “very liberal” has quadrupled over the past 25 years.

The nonprofit group, Welcome, consulted hundreds of thousands of voters over six months and found that 70% of voters think the Democrat Party is “out of touch.” Most voters, the group found, believe the party over-prioritizes issues like “protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” and “fighting climate change” while not caring about “securing the border” or “lowering the rate of crime.”

Need more proof?  Let’s hear from an authentic card carrying ultra-liberal.  Retired House member Barney Frank is one of the Democrats who’s concerned with the sharp leftward turn of his Party.  In Frank’s estimation, his and other Democrats efforts to focus the Party on the noble goal of opposing inequality enabled its extreme far-Left members to use the Party as a platform for social change the public wasn’t ready for, such as transgender politics and defunding the police.

Make no mistake.  Barney Frank hasn’t become more conservative.  His only objection is that the current crop of Democrats may prove themselves to be too crazy to get elected.  Frank isn’t calling on Democrats to be authentic.  The last thing he wants is for Democrats actually to tell the voters what they believe.  His prescription is from the same old Democrat playbook.  Pretend to be moderate and patriotic just long enough to fool enough voters to get elected.

And Barney Frank isn’t against all the crazy shit his Party has been pushing of late.  He just says the public “isn’t ready” for such changes.  This sounds a lot like the Communist Party line, which for years, has claimed America wasn’t “ready” for the revolution.  The problem is the Squad members, and their socialist fellow travelers are ready right now.  They’re only complaint is that the far Left crap hasn’t gone as far Left as they would like.

The wild card in this scenario is the influence of a biased media.  If the media outlets actually told the public the truth, Democrats would be roundly rejected in November.  But they avoid the truth in favor of spewing the far-Left Party line.

The other night, I had dinner with a group of people in a restaurant that had a TV, playing MS Now in the background.  The story was about the IRS making a 7 figure settlement with President Trump for the agency’s deliberate release of Trump family tax records, and Trump’s announcement that the money would be used to compensate the hundreds of people who’s lives Democrats ruined with lawfare weaponization of the justice system.

The MS Now story – “Trump launches a thug fund, proving that he doesn’t support the police.”  Any American who relies on this Shit Show network for news is having his, or more likely, her mind warped, if it wasn’t warped already.

Republicans will have to work hard to get their message out.  And that message should be, “We may not be perfect, but those bastards are bat shit crazy.”