Recent regional elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special-election races.
Now, energized left-wing politicos remind the nation daily that every incumbent president, except three over the last century, has suffered substantial midterm losses in Congress.
Polls show President Donald Trump suffering an average 11-point negative unfavorability rating.
So Democrats promise to soon stop all new legislation and end Trump and his counterrevolution itself.
But the left will never offer any alternative agenda on the economy, the border, crime or foreign policy.
The new Democrat-Socialist Party doesn't view the Biden disaster of 2021-2024 as a result of his puppeteers' toxic policies of open borders, 21% aggregate inflation, dead-end green energy subsidies, DEI mandates, trans fixations and an appeasement-based foreign policy that led to wars abroad and emboldened China.
Instead, they now blame those catastrophic years on former President Joe Biden's own enfeebled state -- as if he were merely a hapless, debilitated messenger for their otherwise superb radical message.
So absent a positive agenda, Democrats will simply run all their state and federal campaigns as if Trump, their satanic monster, is on every ballot.
Their Trump obsessions result in three now well-worn strategies.
The first, of course, is still more chaos in America's streets.
The left believes the unending 2020 riots cost Trump an election.
Ever since, they have sought to concoct a nihilist replay -- whether the Tesla hysterias, the perpetual threats of government shutdowns, tough-guy talk of open insurrection or the current, performance-art, anti-ICE violence in Minneapolis.
They concede that most Americans still support Trump's closed borders and legal-only immigration policies, but hope they'll want a return to "normalcy" even more.
The more violence, invective and sheer craziness the left can instill -- storming church services, ramming ICE vehicles, taking over the streets, boasting of armed resistance -- the more they believe voters will blame not them, the instigators, but Trump, the target of their insurrectionary madness.
In Democrats' blinkered reckoning, voters would prefer 10,000 illegal aliens methodically and daily swarming the border than seeing Minneapolis in utter neo-Confederate revolt.
Second, Democrats seize on every Trump art-of-the-deal excess or coarse putdown.
Democrats grant that voters sincerely like Trump's secure border, the new trade agreements that correct past asymmetries, a rearming NATO, a defanged Iran, and the end to Maduro's Venezuelan thugocracy -- but not his messy art-of-the-deal means to achieve those desirable ends.
They scream that Trump talked crazily of making Canada a 51st state, not that it was finally shocked into promising to pay what it owed in NATO contributions, securing its side of the border and addressing its massive trade imbalance with the United States.
So, Trump needs to avoid the very melodramas the left wants to exploit, which detract from his own undeniable accomplishments and the Democrats' previous disastrous record.
Third, Democrats still rely on their ossified partnerships with the media, academia and popular culture to mouth the old talking points.
That's why we're told ad nauseam that Trump caused the "affordability" crisis.
Or Trump is still Russian leader Vladimir Putin's puppet.
Behind this stale Democrat boilerplate lies a deep fear that the Nietzschean Trump, just as he beat all their lawfare ambushes, will also do the impossible and avoid losing Congress in November.
No one can now stop massive deregulation, new tax cuts and incentives, recalibrated tariffs, unprecedented foreign investment, record energy development and emerging technologies.
All that's needed before the midterms is more focus on the current GDP boom, lower inflation and increased purchasing power -- all in contrast to Biden's economic disaster.
Voters still support closed borders and deportations of criminals and the millions who swarmed in under Biden.
The best way to remind them of a secure border is to concentrate on partnering with red and purple states and local law enforcement for the next few months.
Each week, the thousands of systematically deported criminals in these jurisdictions will contrast with the thousands of violent offenders sanctuaried and protected in failed blue states.
And without the smokescreen of the ICE psychodramas, a lot of Democrat fears -- the vast Somali fraud in Minnesota, the even greater welfare scandals emerging in California, and the antics and verbiage of hard-left luminaries like Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and herky-jerky Gavin Newsom, who turned California's natural paradise into a man-made purgatory -- could yet derail the party's best-laid midterm plans.