THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS DEAD

The Democratic Party Is Dead. Long Live the Republic.

The Democratic Party is dead.

Not in name, perhaps, but in purpose, will, and the strength needed to meet this moment in history. May it rest in peace.

Let us be clear: I was never a card-carrying Democrat. Like many Americans, I often voted with the party because it was the only viable alternative to the accelerating madness of the right. But now, that binary choice has collapsed. The Democratic Party, faced with the gravest threat to American democracy in a century, blinked. And in blinking, it failed us all.

We warned them. Project 2025 was not a policy paper. It was a declaration of war on the American government as we know it. It outlined in chilling detail the dismantling of the civil service, the replacement of professionals with loyalists, the conversion of justice into vengeance, and the death of objective truth. And what did the Democrats do? They issued statements, hosted panels, and begged for donations.

Words. Always words. Never action.

And when Donald Trump, a weak man with dangerous ambitions, seized power through a corrupted system and brute force, what did they do? They shrugged as if this were still politics, as usual. As if compromise, decorum, and “bipartisanship” still had currency in a world where fascism is ascendant, and elections are performative theater.

Democracy is dead. That’s not a metaphor. That’s a diagnosis.

We said it months ago, and we wrote a book warning about it. And now, in the ashes, we are watching new leadership emerge, not from within the hollowed-out Democratic National Committee but from the unlikeliest places.

Liz Cheney, once a fixture of the Republican establishment, now stands taller than the entire Democratic leadership combined. She sees the danger, speaks the truth, and calls for a new, bold resistance. She is not waiting for permission. She is not interested in navigating old party loyalties. She is acting openly, clearly, and unapologetically.

Bruce Springsteen, too, speaks the language of the new resistance. He has always been the voice of the working class. Still, now he is becoming something more: a moral beacon calling for courage, sacrifice, and the revival of American decency in a time when institutions have lost their backbone.

These are not traditional politicians. That’s why they may succeed where the Democrats have failed.

Because what we need now is not another party that begs for votes and capitulates to tyranny in the name of “respecting norms.” We need a Labor Party, a new force rooted in working-class values, moral clarity, and the bold action necessary to rebuild a republic worth defending.

The Labor Party is not about left or right. It’s about survival.

It’s about organizing not around personalities or dynasties but around principles: workers’ rights, universal dignity, fair wages, public ownership of essential services, protection of voting rights, and the absolute rejection of authoritarian rule in all its forms.

The Democratic Party had its chance. It failed. It refused to take the threat seriously. It ignored calls for coordinated action and strategic legal resistance to create a new constitutional safeguard. And it indeed ignored our proposal to stop Trump’s takeover before it began.

Now, it is up to the rest of us, the unaligned, the principled, the patriots without a party, to act.

There is a new movement forming. It won’t be led by the same consultants, funded by hedge funds, or confined to the same tired playbook. It will be led by people like Cheney and Springsteen, unexpected allies in the fight for freedom, and built by millions ready to move beyond mourning and into action.

The fight ahead will not be won with tweets, petitions, or polished speeches. It will be won with organizing, strikes, refusal to cooperate with illegitimate authority, and courage.

The Democratic Party is over.

The Labor Party, whatever name it takes, is just beginning.

William James Spriggs