Rich Baris: Democrats Didn't Beat Republicans—republicans Beat Themselves
Nov 7, 2026
The Peoples Pundit says Democrats stayed disciplined while the GOP inflicted its own political damage.
"Democrats didn't land a finger on us!"
Now he warns Democrats face a new challenge: satisfying their increasingly socialist base without alienating the voters who handed them power.
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I think all of us know that our best hope is if they go crazy,
and that's who they are.
I was very impressed with how disciplined they have
been over the last two years.
All of these wounds that have been inflicted
on Republicans have been self-inflicted wounds.
Democrats didn't land a finger on us, and that's just the truth.
This was a self-implosion.
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This is what we kind of need them to do.
And they're going to have to, and I'm going to tell you why.
One of the most concerning things I've seen in the polling over
the last two years is the percentage of voters
who identify as Democratic Socialists and Socialists.
And yes, some of that is just out of economic desperation.
But there's something else to it.
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Democrats each year get more and more fanatical.
And they were nice and quiet because it wasn't an accident.
The left-wing me.
I wrote a big autopsy for them after 24 and told them, you're crazy.
Dial down the crazy.
You beat yourselves because you're nuts.
Just be quiet and let Donald Trump and Republicans
do damage to themselves. And they listened to him.
And now they're going to have to react to
what their base wants while trying to juggle why
the rest of the country and the defector vote
voted for them, which is not what the base wants. So good luck.
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