Democrats face new low Congressional Approval: Support sinks to 21%

At a time when Democrats are overwhelmed and searching for an effective way to respond to President Donald Trump, the American people are not liking what the party is selling.

Twenty-one percent of voters approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job, which is an all-time low, while 68 percent of voters disapprove. In fact, a plurality of Democratic voters disapprove of how Democrats in Congress are handling their job.

This is a sobering statistic for a Democratic Party that has never been this unpopular in the last 30 years. In the midst of not just a defeat to Donald Trump, but a decisive one, the Democratic Party still does not know the direction it wants to go, and whether to ditch its support of some policies widely unpopular with the American people.

For example, 57% of voters support President Trump’s executive order recognizing only two sexes, male and female, in the United States, while 38% oppose it. The Democrats have long been on the 38% side.

And it should be noted that this is a Quinnipiac poll, which has a long history of overestimating Democrats and left leaning causes in their polls. The Democrats also know that they need to change their playbook from 2017, the beginning of Donald Trump’s first term.

Resistance to everything Trump does will become grating, and likely turn off a country that agrees with a good amount of what the Trump administration is doing. But at the same time, if the Democrats let too many actions from the Trump administration go without protesting, they will anger their far left base.

Democratic leaders are trying to find that delicate balance. But the balance of how much and what to protest is ancillary to the problem the Democrats have of figuring out what they stand for.

There is a long way to go in Trump’s term, sure to be filled with ups and downs for both the President and the opposition Democrats. But right now, Americans do not approve of the Democratic Party.