Ro Khanna just committed the ultimate Democrat sin: telling the truth about his own party. In an astonishingly rare moment of honesty, the California congressman admitted that the Democratic Party has no real plan to counter President Donald Trump’s administration. Instead, their strategy boils down to hoping Republicans “self-destruct” so they can stumble back into power by default.
Appearing on The Young Turks, Khanna responded to a blunt question from Cenk Uygur, who asked whether Democrats actually have a coherent strategy beyond screaming at Trump voters. Khanna’s answer was damning: they don’t. He laid out the party’s entire game plan—whine about spending cuts, fearmonger about Medicaid and bird flu, and hope that public outrage carries them through the next election cycle.
Here’s the problem, Khanna admitted: that might work for 2026, but it doesn’t change the fact that the Democrats still have no real vision to fix the problems that led so many Americans to vote for Trump in the first place. He warned that Democrats can’t just rely on Republicans imploding—they actually need a governing majority and an agenda that resonates with working-class Americans. And right now? They don’t have it.
Khanna pointed out something Democrats refuse to admit: many people who voted for Trump weren’t just “angry,” they were rightfully angry—sick of a system that ignores them, sick of politicians who pander to corporate elites, and sick of a party that prioritizes open borders and identity politics over real solutions for the working class.
This is exactly why Trump is surging in the polls and why Democrats are panicking. Biden’s disastrous economy, the border crisis, and the collapse of Democratic leadership have made Trump’s policies look better every day. And what is the left’s response? Nothing. Their plan is to let Trump govern, hope he somehow fails, and then run on empty slogans about “saving democracy” while offering no real solutions.
Khanna, to his credit, at least acknowledges the problem, but his party isn’t listening. Instead, they’re doubling down on MAGA fearmongering, Trump Derangement Syndrome, and bizarre conspiracy theories about Elon Musk. They’re hoping that will be enough to scrape by in 2026 or 2028, but Americans have wised up.
If Democrats truly had a winning vision, they wouldn’t have needed Big Tech censorship, media collusion, and pandemic-era mail-in voting to drag Biden across the finish line in 2020. Now, with Trump delivering on his promises—securing the border, cutting government waste, standing up to foreign adversaries—the contrast is undeniable.
Khanna is right about one thing: Democrats are floundering. The question is, how long will voters keep falling for it?
