Like those Japanese soldiers still fighting WWII in the Philippine jungles some 30 years after the official surrender, many prominent Democrats can’t accept that the election is over, and they lost.
So, this comes as shock news from Politico, of all places:
California voters are less keen on fighting Donald Trump than their state’s political elite.
We keep hearing about this growing, grassroots, totally authentic, organic opposition to Trump and his policies: enough to pack town halls from coast to coast.
Politico reports on this unusual poll where:
The results suggest a disconnect between the policymaking class and voters in an overwhelmingly blue state where Trump made broad inroads in 2024 amid widespread frustrations over crime and a prohibitively high cost of living.
I suspect similar polls conducted in other blue states would produce similar results. Some details from California:
Forty-three percent of registered voters said leaders were “too confrontational” — a sentiment largely driven by Republicans and independents — compared to a third who found them “too passive.”
For those interested in the methodology:
The survey was conducted on the TrueDot.ai platform from April 1-14 among 1,025 California registered voters and 718 influencers.
I further suspect that the largest pockets of “resistance” can be found among two groups. The first would include politicians positioning themselves for intra-party races in 2026 or 2028 (or even in between). The second group includes staffers who have seen their ranks thin with election losses and an unforeseen crackdown on taxpayer funding for political nonprofits. It must be a particularly weak job market for left-wing political hacks.
But they persist in resistance. It’s all they know.
