Del Beccaro: Five reasons the Democrat Party will only keep making a hard left turn

Originally published at Foxnews.com

The direction of the Democrat Party is the talk of the 2026 midterms. Will it go farther left or somehow moderate? The simple answer is that the Democrat Party will move even further left.

As the nation considers this question, it is a mistake to look at the current Democrat Party in a vacuum. We should not be focused on individual candidates. The focus should be on the trend.

What is happening in the modern Democrat Party is the natural progression of parties on the left.

Consider this: In 1887, President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, vetoed a drought relief bill stating that “Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.”

Cleveland’s message was stark. Government was not our brother’s keeper.

A half century later, however, the times and the Democrat Party changed dramatically, with government support of the people at the center of their policies. The first major step toward occurred when Democrats used taxpayer dollars to provide government jobs under Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal.

A decade later, when passing the Employment Act of 1946, the Democratic Congress declared: “that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the federal government to use all practicable means…to promote maximum employment.”

The second major step came during the 1960s with the Democrats’ passage of Great Society legislation, which changed Democrats’ focus from jobs to welfare. Since then, the size of the welfare state has exploded. All the while, the Democrats have convinced voters they could vote themselves rich.

Here is why there will be no turning back from that for the Democrat Party.