Monday, April 21, 2025

MAGA Agenda In Existential Peril- Democrats Winning Even After Losing

 

I feel like I have to say something here that I do not relish saying, and something that may cause me to lose the goodwill of many. The Trump administration, not even 100 days in, is very close to being stillborn/defeated/cancelled/extinguished. I say this for two reasons. First, the 677 or so federal district court judges are hell-bent on stopping Trump’s agenda in its tracks and reversing it if and as they can. Many of these judges were installed by Barack Obama and are actual Marxists. There is no way that Trump will get all 677 to find/rule unanimously in his favor on any issue, domestic or foreign. But if that doesn’t happen, it is game over for the popularly elected president. True, the Supreme Court of the United States recently ruled that Judge Boasberg does not have jurisdiction as regards Trump deporting dangerous illegal aliens and terrorists, but this just prompted Boasberg to order the DOJ to report the dates and times of future operations to deport dangerous aliens. Which brings me to reason number two: the overwhelming majority of Republicans are invertebrates. Where is the congressional GOP caucus now? On the beach somewhere? At home rearranging their sock drawers? Sitting around the table, telling their relatives how they won the last election?

If the ‘Republican’ congress doesn’t act—now—to rein in judges like Boasberg, as they are tasked with doing, Trump is neutered, the will of the people dismissed, and the MAGA movement rendered impotent. Elections will cease to have any meaning. One party rule will prevail. And the United States will die. Permanently. As in forever. Can Trump, Musk, DOGE, and the likes of Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio, as talented and courageous as they are, defeat the massive and entrenched Deep State and overcome the judicial tyranny? I am not holding my breath.

Many people have been asking why Democrats have been acting so dumb lately, choosing the wrong side of nearly every issue. Why are they going against the will of the vast majority of the American people, especially on issues like deporting criminal aliens? It seems perplexing, preposterous, even insane-- particularly in light of the 2024 election results.

All these Democrats aren’t dumb. Most aren’t stupid. They aren’t ignoramuses that simply cannot grasp the will of the majority. The truth is far worse than that. They know they have everything sewn up, all the boxes checked, their ‘I’s dotted and their ‘t’s crossed. They own the institutions. They own the judges. And they are aware of Republicans’ long history of not fighting back. Republicans have been nothing if not timid, obsequious, toady. One might think at some point they’d get tired of that reputation and start fighting back. But apparently not.

There are many things folks don’t fully understand. One of them is this: Trump and the MAGA movement are repudiations of the old, country club Republicans. Sure, Democrats are polling poorly now, but establishment Republicans still won’t take advantage of that fact. And, if political history teaches us anything, it is that fortunes can change in a hurry. Without Trump (and his acolytes), there is no viable Republican Party.

Honestly, I don’t know how President Trump keeps it together. The opposing political party incessantly tries to obstruct his policies, put him in jail on bogus charges, or perhaps even outright kill him. And the bulk of his own party will not step up to help him when it counts.

Many of today’s Democrats are Marxists. Many are just evil. Yet it is the majority of today’s Republicans that will ultimately be responsible if the Trump administration is unsuccessful-- and government of, by, and for the people vanishes from the Earth.

There should be a special place in hell set aside just for them.

I hope and pray my skepticism turns out to be unfounded. But a little over four years ago, I wrote a piece I called “The Setting Sun,” which addressed, rather presciently as it turns out, many of the issues we are witnessing today. Unfortunately, it has aged all too well.

 

 

 

 

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