{"id":2501708,"date":"2025-10-22T06:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-keep-trying-to-offer-an-alternative-thats-their-problem\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:28:49","slug":"dems-keep-trying-to-offer-an-alternative-thats-their-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-keep-trying-to-offer-an-alternative-thats-their-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Keep Trying To Offer An &#8216;Alternative.&#8217; That&#8217;s Their Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-keep-trying-to-offer-an-alternative-thats-their-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2501708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the ongoing struggle within the Democratic Party to present a convincing and positive option to former President Donald Trump&#8217;s agenda. Prominent Democratic strategists, including Doug Schoen, Carly Cooperman, and pollster Celinda Lake, acknowledge the party&#8217;s failure to articulate an attractive path forward. The piece critiques the democrats&#8217; inability to offer concrete solutions on key issues such as border security, crime, energy production, foreign policy, and military priorities. It contrasts these with the Biden administration&#8217;s record, implying that the alternatives proposed during his tenure were ineffective and unpopular. The author argues that some problems have straightforward solutions and that the Democrats&#8217; insistence on framing issues with complex alternatives risks the safety and financial well-being of Americans. Ultimately, the article suggests Democrats should focus less on crafting alternatives for policies that work and instead adopt a more pragmatic, pro-American approach.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hKfVFFekdtg\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill\/YouTube<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/22\/democrats-keep-trying-to-offer-an-alternative-to-trump-thats-their-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Democrats%20Keep%20Trying%20To%20Offer%20An%20%E2%80%98Alternative%E2%80%99%20To%20Trump.%20That%E2%80%99s%20Their%20Problem&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/22\/democrats-keep-trying-to-offer-an-alternative-to-trump-thats-their-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Democrats%20Keep%20Trying%20To%20Offer%20An%20%E2%80%98Alternative%E2%80%99%20To%20Trump.%20That%E2%80%99s%20Their%20Problem&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/22\/democrats-keep-trying-to-offer-an-alternative-to-trump-thats-their-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/22\/democrats-keep-trying-to-offer-an-alternative-to-trump-thats-their-problem\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Democrats%20Keep%20Trying%20To%20Offer%20An%20%E2%80%98Alternative%E2%80%99%20To%20Trump.%20That%E2%80%99s%20Their%20Problem&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/22\/democrats-keep-trying-to-offer-an-alternative-to-trump-thats-their-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Two recent articles have a couple quotes from prominent Democrat strategists that inadvertently capture the filthy rut the party continues to roll around in. They even use the same word.<\/p>\n<p>In The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/5561227-democrats-lack-agenda-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Monday<\/a>, campaign strategists Doug Schoen and Carly Cooperman declared that &ldquo;the heart of Democrats&rsquo; dilemma is an inability to articulate their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-withdraws-name-from-key-swing-state-ballot-who-will-it-actually-benefit\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. Withdraws Name from Key Swing State Ballot; Who Will It Actually Benefit?\">path forward&#038;rdquo<\/a>; and a failure at &ldquo;communicating their own credible and attractive alternative&rdquo; to President Trump&rsquo;s agenda. Over in The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/19\/us\/politics\/democratic-campaign-ads-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one day before<\/a>, pollster Celinda Lake almost identically said, &ldquo;The biggest thing the Democrats need to do is not the negative but the positive. We have to offer an alternative.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1344605822\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sounds like a plan! So what&rsquo;s the &ldquo;alternative&rdquo; to securing the southern border, cracking down on inner-city crime, and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >promoting affordable energy production<\/a>? What&rsquo;s the alternative to using real U.S. muscle to force a peace deal in the Middle East? What&rsquo;s the alternative to insisting foreign leaders open their markets to American-made products, lest they pay penalties? (And in the meantime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/11\/g-s1-81934\/trump-tariffs-record-revenue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they certainly are paying<\/a>.) What&rsquo;s the alternative to a military that prioritizes fighting capability over &ldquo;diversity,&rdquo; &ldquo;equity,&rdquo; and &ldquo;inclusion&rdquo;?<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve seen what the alternative to all of that looks like. It was called the Biden years. Or, if you made less than $250,000 per year, you might have more commonly known it as &ldquo;Is this hell?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s an idea for Democrats though: Not everything needs an alternative. A lot of problems, maybe most of them, have one practical solution. To pretend otherwise is to play with real people&rsquo;s money, their safety, and that of their families. It turns out it&rsquo;s not very popular to do that.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also not popular to pretend that problems aren&rsquo;t problems. Recall all of 2024 when Democrat leaders, plus their very helpful friends in the dying media, swore that crime, prices, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-recruiting-gop-senators-for-amnesty-deal\/\" title=\"... Recruiting GOP Senators for Amnesty Deal\">illegal border crossings<\/a> were &ldquo;down.&rdquo; That was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/23\/how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-getting-poorer-under-bidens-economy-is-all-in-your-head\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a lie<\/a> or, if we feel like being generous, it was misleading. Whatever you want to call it, it didn&rsquo;t work for Democrats. They lost, and the party remains historically unpopular. Yes, even after calling every attempt by the president to fix those very problems &ldquo;fascist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats can keep spinning their wheels, trying to concoct an &ldquo;alternative&rdquo; solution to a problem that only has one. Or they could not and just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Traitors-Democrat-Partys-Collapse-Anti-American\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1XMOJGRZUR1NX&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PCDmPMX86i4dQNWyP1JRfveINMx0lrsKnLmtjp0EJUvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.6Zg5xld97nKaMojjctWcXIGkthfdDoBmEIlNP7DzToU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=traitors+the+democrat+party%27s+collapse&amp;qid=1761071612&amp;sprefix=traitors+the+democrat+party%27s+collapse%2Caps%2C130&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">be pro-American for a change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party&rsquo;s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 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