Donald Trump has changed his approach to Washington and is causing the Democrats to destroy themselves.
During Donald Trump’s first term as president, he wanted to be liked. Sure, he had his mean tweets and could attack a perceived enemy. But he also would call a lefty reporter and talk by phone, with the hope that the latter would write a glowing report in the New York Times about the 45th president.
After the 2020 elections and whatever shenanigans of mail-in ballots and now questionable voting machines, Donald Trump entered the wilderness. For two years, as those around Joe Biden destroyed the country, they left him alone. As soon as Trump made it clear that he planned to run for president again, they started a full-court press against him: multiple lawsuits, a raid on his home, attempts to remove him from ballots, and of course personal attacks, some with guns and bullets. Fool me once, shame on you. Full me twice, shame on me. Donald Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral College and returned to Washington a changed man. He and his appointees have moved quickly over 200 days to change Washington and America. He has wisely chosen 80/20 issues where most Americans, independent of political affiliation, agree with the president’s positions. A closed border, guys out of girls’ locker rooms, a better world economic playing field and most recently a federal takeover of crime-infested Washington.
The Democrats, obsessed in hating Trump and his pro-America supporters, have decided to simply become the anti-Trump. Just as the Starship Enterprise needed matter and antimatter to run, so the Democrats have decided rather than choose policies that Americans like, they will go for positions that set them diametrically across from Donald Trump. Thus, they praise illegal alien criminals and demand that they be brought back to the U.S. They demand an open border when illegal aliens hurt American jobs and wages. Many of them support Hamas in spite of its violent and diabolical actions which they would gladly visit on its Western supporters. Whatever Trump supports, the Democrats are opposed. To say that they have lost their mind is to presuppose that there was a mind there in the first place.
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The latest great feat of the Donald is to get the Democrats to support crime in the nation’s capital. They have taken two approaches: the first is to claim that there is no great crime there, so that Trump’s federal takeover of the city is the act of a dictator. The other approach is to admit that there may be a wee bit of crime but certainly Trump’s actions in federalizing the police force and bringing in the National Guard are totally unnecessary. Donald Trump has succeeded in getting the Democratic Party to demand unfettered carjackings, murders, muggings, and mayhem in not only Washington but other big cities that might be in line for the Trump Treatment. Keep your hands off of our crime! On each issue addressed to date, one would have expected that maybe the Democrats would read the room and realize that people who have daughters want them to be free of guys in the bathroom or that people whose loved ones were killed by illegal aliens would wildly support their ejections. But the Democrats are on a Kamikaze suicide mission and their tunnel vision does not let them see what other Americans want.
In a surprise twist, discussion of Trump’s moves in Washington received support from a CNN anchor who said that her colleagues had been mugged near the station's offices. If this was Soviet Pravda, she would have found herself the new nature editor for Siberia. The goal of the program was to say that really Washington is not suffering from crime. But unfortunately much of urban America is suffering from murder, beatings, theft including shoplifting, drugs, homelessness, smash-and-grab, and wilding by masses of youths. As those involved in the antisocial behavior are nearly all Democrats, leaders of big cities have not seen any reason to seriously deal with these problems. The former mayor of Chicago had several dozen cops on her home protection detail while bands of mostly black youths would terrorize shops and citizens in the downtown area. President Trump criticized cash-free bail that literally puts criminals back on the street to harm others again. Democrats cannot read the room on immigration, trade, jobs, national security and also personal security. The number of liberals who would rather be mugged at gunpoint but keep the rules favoring criminals is drastically decreasing. People want to feel safe in their towns and cities. They don’t want squatters taking their houses, and they want to return to find their car where they left it, still locked and undamaged. Is that so much to ask for in 2025? The Democrats don’t get that. They think that criminal rights trump citizen rights because of racism and reasons. Another own goal for the party that once represented workers, farmers, and the average Joe.
Some Democrats understand that there is a need to appear normal. The problem they have is that if they come off as too normal, then they will lose the zany part of the party that is only growing larger and more powerful. One could not nominate or elect a socialist to be mayor of New York if a big chunk of the party was not already beyond far left. So Gretchen Whitmer or Gavin Newsom will be in a pickle should they come out to support Israel, a position that was not very controversial all that long ago. If they say that if elected they will continue to send weapons to the Jewish state, the Hamas/Bernie Sanders wing will lose its mind. If they align their positions with the lunatics, then the remaining sane Democrats might just stay home or conclude like many others that the Republicans are actually the party of firing neurons. I have heard more than once members of the Hamas wing of the party say that they did not vote for Kamala Harris because she was too pro-Israel. Harris lost to Trump. Going further left will mean better results?
California is the ultimate guide to a world run by Democrats. $7 gas. Lousy roads. Terrible schools. Serious water problems due solely to intentional mismanagement. Rampant outdoor drug use and homelessness. Destruction of great cities. Waste of natural resources. Overrun with illegal immigrants. High state taxes. Everything that could be lousy in government can be found in the state blessed with incredible natural beauty. And Gavin Newsom would love to make all of the U.S. one big California. He’s not dumb but he also has a limited number of songs in his repertoire. If he runs for president and tries to become a border hawk or demand lower taxes, his competition will be able to point to his state and the millions who have left it to show that the emperor has no surfboard.
The smart play for Democrats would have been to join Donald Trump on the 80/20 bandwagon and then as elections approach claim that they are simply nicer than the Republicans. But their hatred of Trump and his MAGA movement does not let them support what the American people want. Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton invented the Russian lie specifically because they refused to believe that Americans would want Trump over what they had to offer. The current crop of Democrats will never learn. Amen.
Editor's Note: President Trump is leading America into the "Golden Age" as Democrats try desperately to stop it.
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