# Why is everyone taking Democratic wins in '26 and '28 for granted? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [April 30, 2026, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656 "2026-04-30T02:03:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/61 "2026-05-05T13:36:00Z")
Who are the pro anti-Semitism Democrats? ---
**Author:** ![Mikestone8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Mikestone8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikestone8)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/62 "2026-05-06T07:57:54Z")
It looks god for the Dems as of now, but my big worry is what they’ll _do_ with the victories. If the next Administration is dominated by their liberal wing, could we see an attempt to bring back affirmative action or even (Gordelpus) busing? If so their victory could be _very_ short-lived. . ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/63 "2026-05-06T12:15:24Z")
> [@Mikestone8](#): > > busing? If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow! ---
**Author:** ![Mikestone8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Mikestone8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikestone8)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/64 "2026-05-06T14:31:45Z")
Sorry - could you clarify? Where exactly does Mao come into it? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/65 "2026-05-06T14:45:37Z")
Working in a little Beatles, there. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/66 "2026-05-06T14:46:55Z")
Not sure if this is a whoosh or not but - [Revolution - The Beatles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw&list=RDBGLGzRXY5Bw&start_radio=1) (Warning this is a link to YouTube video) The relevant lyric is at 2:35 into the song. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/67 "2026-05-06T15:04:33Z")
“Busing” is so 1979. I pushed the conversation further back yet, to 1969 (yes, it’s from “Come Together”). ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/68 "2026-05-06T15:43:04Z")
We could push it back to 1954 so the brown can walk vs board a bus to get they’re fill of education. ---
**Author:** ![Mikestone8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Mikestone8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikestone8)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/69 "2026-05-09T15:31:06Z")
Do you have a title for this song? I’ve been googling but can’t find it. Incidentally, if the Brown in the song refers to the plaintiffs in the 1954 Supreme Court decision, then it has the matter upside down. Their daughter was \*already\* being bused – purely because of her colour - to a black school because her local neighbourhood school was whites-only. The Browns quite rightly objected to this and the justices quite rightly upheld them. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown\_v.\_Board\_of\_Education](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v.%5C_Board_of_Education) So far so good. A clear-cut victory for individual freedom. However, in later years this was perverted into a \*defeat\* for it, with children getting bused out of their neighbourhoods, without their parents’ consent, again on account of their colour, to achieve some sort of racial quota or other. Needless to say this ran into massive opposition, and in the end, Supreme Court or no Supreme Court, busing went the way of Prohibition. Once again, individual freedom had won. ---
**Author:** ![knavette57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knavette57/32/3871_2.png) [@knavette57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knavette57)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/70 "2026-05-09T16:26:44Z")
On the Bulwark yesterday, (Sarah and Sam Stein, I think) theorized that the Dems might have lost 9-10 seats due to TN & LA& VA swallowing up the blue areas into red ones. That is a big deal, although Sarah thought it might be only 4 house seats that were lost. Yet…yet, those 3 states are not the only ones, and plenty of people are angry, we just have to vote like we never have before. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656/71 "2026-05-22T01:19:57Z")
I think what they’re getting at is that Democrat officials in local politics do stuff like refusing to prosecute crimes below some certain dollar value. Why? Because they’re typically nonviolent crimes and something about not wanting to make someone’s life worse for such a minor crime. > **[Dallas district attorney John Cruezot not prosecuting minor crimes](https://www.texastribune.org/2019/05/21/dallas-district-attorney-john-cruezot-not-prosecuting-minor-crimes/)** > > Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot ignited a firestorm of controversy when he announced he wouldn't prosecute some low-level crimes, including certain theft offenses. But he's among many prosecutors turning their focus away from nonviolent... And of course the rest of the Democratic party is silent while the Republicans make a huge deal out of it. It’s not a good look. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-everyone-taking-democratic-wins-in-26-and-28-for-granted/1029656.md?page=3)