Michael Baharaeen

Michael Baharaeen is chief political analyst at The Liberal Patriot substack.

Can Gavin Newsom bring young men back to the Democrats?

Michael Baharaeen

11 Nov 2025

Democrats’ anti-Trump strategy is running out of road

Michael Baharaeen

20 Oct 2025

Federal shutdown won’t help Democrats’ midterm prospects

Michael Baharaeen

03 Oct 2025

Democrats’ Leftward drift threatens midterm hopes

Michael Baharaeen

17 Sep 2025

Why are Democrats still ignoring voters’ crime fears?

Michael Baharaeen

12 Sep 2025

Democratic voter registration slump is a warning for 2026

Michael Baharaeen

20 Aug 2025

Gavin Newsom won’t become president by copying Trump

Michael Baharaeen

15 Aug 2025

Is Trump losing the Latino vote?

Michael Baharaeen

07 Aug 2025

Cory Booker’s Resistance politics won’t rebuild Obama coalition

Michael Baharaeen

30 Jul 2025

Why is the DNC autopsy avoiding the main cause of death?

Michael Baharaeen

21 Jul 2025

New Democratic group tells party to drop purity tests

Michael Baharaeen

13 Jul 2025

Medicaid cuts would make Republicans vulnerable

Michael Baharaeen

21 Jun 2025

Democrats still don’t know how to win back men

Michael Baharaeen

26 May 2025

Top Democrats distance themselves from progressive past

Michael Baharaeen

15 May 2025

Trump is losing ground — and still beating Democrats

Michael Baharaeen

08 May 2025

To win midterms, Democrats must confront 2024 failures

Michael Baharaeen

23 Apr 2025

Kamala Harris has learnt no lessons from 2024 defeat

Michael Baharaeen

09 Apr 2025

Leaderless Democrats still lack a coherent message

Michael Baharaeen

13 Mar 2025

How Democrats should take on Trump

Michael Baharaeen

23 Feb 2025

Democrats will struggle to recover from record unpopularity

Michael Baharaeen

31 Jan 2025

The Democrats have an opportunity to start over

Michael Baharaeen

16 Nov 2024

Will the Democrats ever win back the working class?

Michael Baharaeen

06 Nov 2024

Kamala Harris’s empty platitudes have come back to bite her

Michael Baharaeen

29 Oct 2024

Are Hispanic voters the new swing bloc?

Michael Baharaeen

14 Oct 2024

VP debate proves neoliberal consensus is dead

Michael Baharaeen

02 Oct 2024

Teamsters herald end of Democrats’ blue-collar dominance

Michael Baharaeen

19 Sep 2024

Voters may not buy Kamala Harris’s centrist pivot

Michael Baharaeen

11 Sep 2024

Kamala Harris is trying to be an economic populist

Michael Baharaeen

23 Aug 2024

Trump’s anti-strike remarks jeopardise blue-collar gains

Michael Baharaeen

15 Aug 2024

Is Tim Walz too progressive for Middle America?

Michael Baharaeen

06 Aug 2024

Kamala Harris ignores the Blue Wall at her peril

Michael Baharaeen

25 Jul 2024