By: Jarvis Johnson
Donald Trump’s approval numbers are in. They are, as one might expect, abysmal—record-breaking in their disgrace. And yet, here we are again, not only staring down the shadow of the 45th president, but shackled once more to his return as the 47th. The man has managed to fail twice and still find himself, astonishingly, the most trusted figure in American politics.
This country, you see, has never been afraid of a lie—only the truth.
Despite a public record heavy with deceit, a looming economy ripe for collapse, global unrest trembling at our door, and a government filled with politicians that prefer antics over action and volume over vision—Trump still commands a strange and terrifying kind of faith. Even as scandal stains every corner of his political house- hold—yes, even a crypto scheme reportedly enriching his family by half a billion dollars— the people turn to him, not away.
He holds at 41% ap- proval. The Democrats? A meager, spiritless 29%. One is left to ask: What has gone so wrong? Where is the vi- sion? Where, for God’s sake, is the soul of the Democratic Party?
It is not enough to say that the Republicans are cruel—cruelty has never needed a defense in America. What we must ask is why the opposition to that cruelty is so weak, so scattered, so afraid to name itself.
The Democratic Party has become a house haunted by timidity— responding, always, to the latest provocation, as if chasing the ghost of its own purpose. Its leaders offer no plan, no script, and no road- map. And if the people do not know what you stand for, they will not stand for you.
Democrats support base is slowly but very noticeably eroding. From 2020 to 2024 Dems lost an astonishing 11% across the board.
Who, now, is the base of this party? In 2024, the numbers speak for itself. 83% of Black voters cast their ballot Kamala Harris, while 51% Hispanic and 47% white did so respectively One would think the Democratic Party would embrace the agenda of its most staunch supporters. But yet—ask any of them what the party stands for, and you will hear gibberish about is- sues that only matter to a very small percentage of its base.
Black voters, in particular, have been the most faithful, the most enduring. Since the marches, the assassinations, the bullet and the baton—we have voted.
We have lifted up a party that too often lowers its eyes when we speak. We are told we have won, and yet lynching laws still breathe on dusty law books. Our children are still hunted in the streets by those paid to protect. Reparations remain a political myth, not a moral imperative. HBCUs beg for the crumbs of budgets that should have built their futures long ago.
This betrayal is not new—but that does not make it any less unbearable.
And let us be clear: the blame is not only with those who sit in power, but also with those we send there—our own. The days of assimilation and yielding are over. Black elected officials must create The Black Agenda(for US and by US) They must carry out This agenda clearly, without apology, and in unity. Our issues can no longer make way to whatever new issue aris- es without first address- ing ours! But Without The Black Agenda it is easy for those in power to overlook the needs of our community by being willfully ignorant and simply saying they didn’t know what our ask was.
We deserve to know what we are fighting for, or simply not
