Column By Mike Bibb
“The Democratic Party is back. That’s not hyperbole. Did you see the election results? The American people are sending a message, a message to Trump and to his crowd. The fact is that we had a great night in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, New York City, Georgia, Mississippi — even in Mississippi.”
— Former President Joe Biden speaking at the Ben Nelson Gala, Omaha, Nebraska, Nov. 7, 2025.
It might be a bit premature for Joe Biden to declare “The Democrat Party is back” for at least three reasons: 1. Democrat candidates won in primarily Democrat areas of the country. 2. Apparently, the Democratic Party is now being led by Socialists, and an avowed Socialist/Communist Mayor in New York City, and a similar one in Seattle. 3. How would Joe know the party is back? He doesn’t even know where he is half the time.
Which is probably the reason Kamala Harris suddenly replaced him during last year’s Presidential Election. His debate collapse against Donald Trump was the final straw. Dems quickly yanked him and shoved in Kamala—more desperation than wisdom.
As a result, Joe’s claim that the party is back might be an exaggeration. In my opinion, remnants of the old Democrat Party have finally left the building — not with a bang but a whimper.
Their recent holdout on approving a continuing budget resolution, tackling the financial disaster of ObamaCare (aka Affordable Care Act), and the subsequent 43-day partial government shutdown is evidence of their unwillingness to cooperate in resolving major issues.
However, after 50 years in Washington, old habits are hard to break. Joe continues to think he’s relevant in Democratic politics. That, somehow, his views and influence carry as much weight as before.
Joe may still believe this nonsense — no one else does. Joe’s relevancy is about as influential as the tragedy of the Plains Buffalo.
Heck, he, or his handlers, no longer have access to the Auto-Pen, so the authority he legitimately had flew away from the Capitol when he did.
No more scams to run and no more b.s. to feed the folks, other than what mainstream news is obligingly willing to broadcast.
Actually, it will probably take several years to repair the damage Joe and his administration have inflicted upon the country. From the quagmire of the COVID-19 mismanagement fracas, to record setting economic inflation, to his inexplicable “Open Borders” calimity, to his administration denying the border was open, to stumbling into the Russia/Ukraine tussle, to fabricating false accusations and indictments against a former President, to sending a couple of dozen armed FBI agents into TTrump’sFlorida home looking for alleged unauthorized documents, to attempting to ruin Trump financially, to having Biden’s health issues concealed by his medical staff, to pardoning members of his family and thousands of others of past and future criminal activities are just a sampling of the near total ineptness of his time in office and the unbelievable disjointed incompetency of his cabinet.
His single term was an absolute mess from the very beginning to his embarrassing failure to be renominated by his own party. At the end, Joe was wandering around, shaking hands with invisible people, and being helped off-stage by his wife and other assistants.
He was lost in his own confusion.
It’s gotten so bad that members of his team have invoked the 5th Amendment, refusing to answer Congressional questions. A few have been recently indicted, while others are under DOJ investigation.
Seems nearly every other week, another felonious activity is revealed.
In effect, much of the phony-baloney his administration was accusing Trump of doing, the Dems were doing themselves.
If Joe is not historically recorded as the worst President in United States history, then he must be in the top three. Films and documented accounts of his disastrous White House occupancy will long remain after his bumbling tenure as Chief Executive fades from memory.
There will always be a Joe Biden type around, and, like a bout of recurring stomach cramps, inevitably, another one will eventually scratch their way to the top of Washington’s elite circle of political hucksters.
It took Joe five decades, but he made it — then lost it — then forgot it.
Now, his pathetic leadership antics are in full view. The shoe’s on the other foot, and it’s not as much fun as when Democrats were blaming Trump for everything gone wrong in the universe.
Still do.
So, for Joe to piously proclaim he was a Washington success story stretches the laws of probability about as far as they can be pushed.
Nevertheless, many Democrats will march in lockstep to whatever party officials and a compliant media tell them. Recent elections in the Deep Blue Northeast and California are a sampling.
Conversely, so is the exodus of people leaving these areas because they’re tired of the lies, government foul-ups, misstatements, cost of living, and taxes.
Sometimes, referred to as “The U-Haul factor” — a business evaluation of the number of U-Haul moving vans leaving a location, substantially exceeding the number of vans entering the same vicinity.
If people can escape the torment, why wouldn’t they?
Which, coincidentally, could be one of the reasons Phoenix-based U-Haul Company has recently opened an ample, multi-million-dollar storage and assembly facility in the Gila Valley, Graham County, Arizona (Safford area).
California is just next door — and so are the thousands of folks who are waving the middle-finger salute and hollering “Adios. Hasta la vista, baby. Enjoy your misery. We’re outta here!”
The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author.
