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The Rich Zeoli Show

Monologue: Democrats Are in Trouble. Even the New York Times Agrees

The Rich Zeoli Show

Audacy

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In a series of articles published over the weekend, The New York Times examined the Democrat Party’s continued struggles appealing to the American electorate. Shane Goldmacher writes that Democrats “are still searching for the path forward”—noting that the party spent $20 million studying their “erosion” of support with “young men” specifically. In another article, Goldmacher—alongside June Kim and Christine Zhang—evaluate “how Donald Trump has remade America’s political landscape.” They document that 435 counties across the country became more “Democratic” from 2012 and 2024—however, 2,678 counties became more “Republican.” Further complicating matters is the 2030 census which is expected to cause comfortably blue states to lose electoral votes as citizens move to red states. You can read the articles here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/democratic-party-voters.html. And here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-politics-democrats.html.

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0:00.0

The New York Times had a piece.

0:02.5

This is amazing.

0:03.5

I mean, they're spending like $20 million or something crazy like that.

0:08.0

And they're staying in all these luxury hotels.

0:10.0

And they're bringing in the biggest minds in the Democrat Party.

0:14.1

I don't know who these people are because they clearly have not done a good job to try to figure out what went wrong and what's going wrong.

0:23.1

And they had over, ready for this out, 250 different focus groups across the country.

0:29.5

And they asked the focus group participants to describe the parties based on animals.

0:35.9

Okay, animals.

0:37.3

So when asked about the Democrat Party, the words that they used, the words that came to

0:42.7

mind were things like tortoise, sloth.

0:47.1

And when describing Republicans, the animals that came to mind were apex predators like lions, tigers, sharks.

0:58.2

And there's a lot there.

0:59.8

First of all, it's a little bit weird that we're using animal analogies.

1:03.8

But I kept thinking of, you know, years ago, when you were dating, you go on your first date,

1:10.3

maybe in somebody like, or maybe you do one of those, those I get to know you exercises at a corporate retreat and somebody said to you, if you could be any animal, what would you be?

1:18.5

And everybody's just like, well, I'd be a bald eagle so I could see everything, or I'd be, I'd be a lion, you know, so I'd be king of the juggle. Nobody ever says I'd be a sloth or I'd be a tortoise or I'd be a little woodchuck or something.

1:33.4

But that's the way people are describing Democrats with all those things.

1:38.1

I was also thinking about, you know, if you take the kids to the boardwalk, a Memorial Day or Memorial Day weekend, and they're playing games and they get to win a prize,

1:46.1

they usually want like the lion, the tiger, like we made a Lion King movie.

1:50.3

We didn't make a Sloth King movie.

1:52.2

And there was a movie years ago called Zootopia.

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