One of the most pathetic centrist liberal tendencies is their habit of praising their opponents. Throughout the last 20 years of American political history, the Democratic Party has been tossing meatball pitches at the Republicans, while Republicans have been sending hardball after hardball back at them with giddy abandon.
To this end, the 2024 election saw the Democrats promoting endorsements from the likes of Dick Cheney, apparently part of a quest to convince Republicans that they should vote for Kamala Harris (we all know how well that worked out).
It’s time to conclude that the liberal philosophy of progress through reasoned and respectful debate just doesn’t apply in a world in which the Trump administration is executing innocent civilians in the street.
Anyhow, we can now add another log onto this dispiriting centrist dumpster fire. In a new interview with Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama confessed that “he’s worried about the Republican Party”. Obama went on to explain that “I’d love a Republican Party that was conservative in some ways, believed in rule of law and judicial independence and science, and wasn’t constantly tapping into our worst impulses.”
So… not the Republican Party in any way at all? Obama’s nonsense was given short shrift by rising political star Hasan Piker, who emphasized that the goal shouldn’t be the reformation of the GOP, but its annihilation:
"NO, I WANT NO REPUBLICAN PARTY!" –@hasanthehun is frustrated with Obama's stupid comments on Colbert's show. Obama wants a "strong republican party" meanwhile his own party is in SHAMBLES pic.twitter.com/ZbhDfBkJ5I
— adri ♡ (@socialistadri) May 6, 2026
“Oh, ‘I want a strong Republican Party’. No, I want NO Republican Party. Okay, I’m going to be very honest with you. I want an ineffective, feckless weak – kind of like the Democratic Party is currently – I want the Republican Party to be like that.
I want a Republican Party that is utterly dominated and humiliated in broad daylight – that people are embarrassed to say that they’re voting for a Republican. That is the reality that I want!”
“I want a Republican Party that is utterly dominated and humiliated”
The Democratic leadership should pay attention to Piker, because he’s absolutely right. The objective for Democrats shouldn’t be to find some kind of cross-party consensus, but to mirror the Republicans’ aggression, anger, and a willingness to fight dirty.
Sadly, expecting senior Democrats to do that – or, frankly, to do literally anything whatsoever – is delusional. They will almost certainly crush Trump in the November midterms, but this isn’t because they’re inspiring voters with their bold policies and forward-thinking message; it’s because voters simply want to punish the president.
Democrats even have a ready-made roadmap to effective tactics in the form of Zohran Mamdani’s crushing victory over centrist pervert Andrew Cuomo in the New York mayoral election – though they are doing everything in their power to pretend that didn’t happen. Heck, there’s even serious discussion about running Kamala Harris for the presidency again!
Even I can’t imagine they’re deluded enough to run Harris in 2028, so what’ll actually happen is that the Democrats will probably return to power with some bland centrist, who’ll do nothing, annoy everyone, get booted out, and then we’ll get some horrible Trump 2.0 mutant the GOP spews up as president four years later.
Published: May 7, 2026 06:54 am