Well, what did you think was going to happen? After years of fueling inflation, waving millions of illegal immigrants across the border, weaponizing the justice system against political rivals, debanking conservatives, and threatening Americans with job loss over the COVID jab, Democrats are suddenly shocked to discover voters don’t like them anymore.
According to a fresh analysis from The New York Times, the Democratic Party has lost about 2.1 million registered voters over the last four years in the 30 states (plus Washington, D.C.) that allow voters to declare a party affiliation. The GOP, meanwhile, picked up 2.4 million new registered voters over the same period. Translation: while Democrats were busy lecturing voters about pronouns and “equity,” Republicans were actually gaining ground.
The trend isn’t slowing. In both 2024 and 2025, more new voters registered as Republicans than as Democrats. And the hemorrhaging is hitting the Democrats’ most prized demographics. In 2020, nearly 49% of men who newly registered with a party chose the Democrats. By 2024, that number cratered to 39%. Young voters? Same story. Turns out when you saddle people with record rents, groceries that cost double, and a collapsing job market, they stop caring about climate virtue-signaling.
As Michael Pruser of Decision Desk HQ told the NYT, “I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ but there seems to be no end to this. This is month after month, year after year.” In other words, the Democrats have no cavalry coming to save them.
Here’s where things stand today: compared to Election Day 2024, there are now 160,000 fewer registered Democrats and 200,000 more registered Republicans in the U.S., according to data from the nonpartisan firm L2. Sure, Democrats still technically hold a registration edge nationwide, but the trajectory is clear — and ugly.
NYT: Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot.
🔴 Republicans: +2.4M
🔵 Democrats: -2.1Mhttps://t.co/PkGX9ST7pW pic.twitter.com/yHkRv2OUa0— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) August 20, 2025
Voter perception is just as brutal. A July 25 Wall Street Journal poll found 63% of voters view Democrats unfavorably, the party’s worst showing since 1990. Even Democrat strategists admit 2024 was nothing short of a brand collapse. “It would be naïve to call 2024 anything other than a reckoning on the Democratic brand,” said Tory Gavito, president of Way to Win.
And it’s not just voters turning away — donors are too. The Democratic National Committee reported having only $15 million on hand at the end of June, the lowest in five years. That’s what happens when you call yourself the “party of the people” but act like the party of Davos.
Even the DNC chair, Ken Martin, is being forced to admit the obvious. In a February memo, he conceded voters now see Democrats as the “party of the elites” while Republicans have become the “party of the working class.” When your own chairman says the quiet part out loud, it’s bad.
President Trump swept every swing state in 2024. Republicans hold both chambers of Congress. The money is drying up, and the base is shrinking. Some Democrats, of course, are still pretending 2026 will be their comeback. But as Pruser warned bluntly, “It’s going to get worse … before it gets better.”
And that’s exactly what happens when you govern against your own people — sooner or later, they stop letting you.
