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Trump’s Democratic ‘Allies’

Former Clinton strategist James Carville has reinvented himself at age 80 as a sage Democrat podcaster. His predictions—remember, a victorious Kamala Harris?—are usually wrong. He enjoys engaging in public duels with celebrities to gain online clicks and media appearances.

Yet sometimes he appears judicious in his effort to return his party to the Clinton glory days of 1992-2000, before the takeover of the party by the lunatic left. That said, he too has become part of the new left nihilism he supposedly despises.

Most recently, Dr. Carville diagnosed Donald Trump as suffering from tertiary syphilis. Carville’s “proof” was his identification of a bruise on Trump’s much-used shaking hand, along with his supposed brain dementia. As confirmation, Carville described Trump as a “fat f—ing slob” with a “beached whale body.” So, a once top Democratic strategist has gone from his 1992 iconic campaign reminder, “It’s the economy, stupid,” to smearing Trump as a fat slob with syphilis. Carville’s descent sums up his entire party.

Meanwhile, the congressional Democratic opposition finds itself loudly and proudly standing with only 20-30 percent of the American people on matters from biological males competing in female sports to an open border. For years, Democrats claimed the lack of “comprehensive immigration reform” prevented them from securing the border and stopping a 10-12 million influx of illegal aliens. And then they went quiet when Trump, without any new legislation, simply enforced existing immigration statutes and nearly eliminated all illegal entries.

Defeated candidate Kamala Harris is still trying to reassure donors that she did not know how she blew millions of dollars in last-minute 2024 campaign gifts by paying off the likes of Oprah, Al Sharpton, and Cardi B for interviews and endorsements while flying young staffers around the country on rented private jets.

The Democratic Congress under Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffries demonstrates their opposition to Trump by cutting videos in which party luminaries promise to stop the “sh-t.” Fellow Democratic congresswomen rivaled them with a worse ad in which they dressed in macho kickboxing attire and clumsily gyrated as if they were punching out their conservative opponents.

At Trump’s first congressional address, most Democrats did not stand when a young survivor of a brain tumor was honored by receiving an honorary Secret Service membership. Instead, many of them displayed hand-held, bingo-like-placards attacking Elon Musk as a thief. Democratic Women’s Caucus members wore pink uniforms, while septuagenarian Rep. Al Green shook his cane, screaming like a lunatic at Trump at the dais. He had to be forcibly escorted out of the joint session of Congress, which otherwise was already frequently interrupted by Democratic heckling and jeering.

What is going on?

Like a drug user who knows his addiction is killing him but cannot quit, the Democratic Party privately understands that the majority of the American people do not buy into their transgender, open border/illegal alien, reckless spending, fanatical green advocacies, and diversity/equity/inclusion racial essentialism.

Yet, they continue their destructive fixations in fear of their own hardcore base. And who are these radicals that run the party?

Some are the students who hit the streets and disrupt campuses to protest for the terrorists of Hamas, or the edgier and even crazier who approve of violent acts, such as youth between 18-29 who poll in favor of Luigi Mangione’s recent assassination of a United Health executive.

And then there are the various racial caucuses who no longer make much attempt to hide their overt racial obsessions and separatism. There is also a growing overt anti-Semitism among many of the DEI crowd who seem to think their own minority status shields them from repercussions. The various public sector and teacher unions are babied. Both can rally money and protests, but otherwise cannot improve dismal schools or incompetent bureaucracies.

So, the current Democratic Party is completely unaware of the irony that to stop Trump, they must become far more unpopular than Trump. We are witnessing the most radical counter-revolution in the last 100 years, as the Trump administration attempts to slash government spending and the federal bureaucracies. It insists on reciprocal tariffs with friendly, neutral, and hostile nations alike. It will vastly expand energy production, end once and for all illegal immigration, fire the DEI industry and its overt racism, reboot public health policies, redirect the Pentagon, and, in general, reexamine almost every entrenched left-wing government institution and policy of the last 50 years.

Normally no party would even attempt such needed but radical changes in a country that in the last three elections split nearly 50/50. To conduct such a rare counterrevolution, a president by nature would have to become controversial and make enemies as he battled opposition in Congress, the courts, the media, and the street. And Trump does all that. Yet in less than 60 days, he has done more to reverse the radical left-wing agenda than even Ronald Reagan did in eight years. And so far, he is continuing on course.

How and why? Part of his audacity is found in the unique personage of Trump, who enjoys controversy. He is a private sector builder who hates delay and obfuscation. He sees his political modus operandi as no different than building a Manhattan high-rise, whose success is predicated on cutting deals, bulldozing obdurate opponents, and delivering a superior product that eventually the public appreciates despite the controversies surrounding its construction and implementation.

But part of Trump’s success is also the gift of the new Democrat Party. It is so foul-mouthed, so embarrassingly infantile and exhibitionist, and so out of touch with the wishes of the American people that at least for now it makes Trump’s counter-revolution seem normal and long overdue—especially after the four-year catastrophe of the nihilist Biden administration.

Rather than agree on anything with Trump, the Democrats will automatically oppose everything he does, even if that means pushing issues that 70 percent of the people don’t want, or play-acting like 1960s spoiled college protestors, or shielding violent illegal aliens, or mouthing now-tired Trump-is-Hitler-Mussolini-Stalin boilerplate.

In a sane world, the Democrat opposition would do two things.

One, for each of Trump’s initiatives that it opposes, it would publish a comprehensive counter agenda, hoping to side with the majority of the people. And when it rarely more or less agreed with Trump, or felt he was on the right side of public opinion, sane Democrats would then offer bipartisan support in hopes of helping the nation, as well as stealing Trump’s thunder by taking credit for popular reforms.

Instead, it is doing neither. Like a spoiled teenager who sticks out his tongue when his allowance is cut, the Democratic Party and its appendages in the media are now screaming profanities, now crying and whining in despair, and now coming up with all sorts of bizarre conspiracies that Musk is a felonious thief, that Trump is a syphilitic, and that the only way to get their way is to destroy all prior protocols of congressional civility.

Again, the irony is that by doing all that and more, they are gifting to Trump a despised alternative to almost everything he is doing. The more their polls fall, the more Democrats believe that they did not act quite juvenilely, obnoxiously, and foully enough.

In sum, if Trump succeeds with his historic counter-revolution, his new anti-New Deal, it will be due in no small part to those who hate him and thereby reveal themselves to be innately hateful.

And Democrats almost daily apparently want the American people to witness their venom—and thereby to be revolted by them.

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About Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004, and is the 2023 Giles O'Malley Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and the Bradley Prize in 2008. Hanson is also a farmer (growing almonds on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author of the just released New York Times best seller, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation, published by Basic Books on May 7, 2024, as well as the recent  The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, The Case for Trump, and The Dying Citizen.

Photo: WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters from the Resolute Desk after signing an executive order to appoint the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in the Oval Office at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump also signed a memorandum ordering an immediate assessment of aviation safety and ordering an elevation of what he called “competence” over “D.E.I.” (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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  1. A brief summation of VDH’s article would be that PDJT is blessed in his choice of enemies.

    And may those enemies continue unimpeded in their vain and futile resistance.

  2. Public discontent with the Democrat Party seems all around us. And as I watch this car crash, I have been looking at some concrete indicators that it is more than just discontent, instead there are actual events occurring that show how far the Party has fallen.

    Recently in the news was the announcement that Disney ™ has shut down 538 and laid off all employees. 538, best known as the creation of Nate Silver, is also known as the go to site to find polling that highly favored Democrats and was especially hard on Donald Trump. Both 538 and Real Clear Politics offered an average of polling data used to identify both trends and outliers. 538 used a different algorithm that, almost always, skewed public perception in the Democrats’ favor. No more—it’s gone now.

    A curious series of events also emerged with the exposure by DOGE of how federal funds were disbursed that apparently were used to launder federal monies back to Democrat coffers, certain individuals, and far left leaning NGO’s. One might want to take a moment and find how funds were shuttled back to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse through an organization in which his wife worked.

    Much has been written how some monies were used to finance Legacy Media outlets. But another such event is the Collapse of Act Blue. Act Blue is the Democrat version of Win Red----an organization dedicated to fundraising and disbursement of funds to political candidates and PACS. It appears many of the USAID funds went to NGOs that were then disbursed to Act Blue. In other words, federal monies were used to finance Democrat election operations.

    Some six of Act Blue’s leadership team have suddenly resigned as these revelations have come to light. There is also a memo circulating around that addresses that a certain whistleblower within the organization must be protected. Just where Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice is on all of this is unknown, but hints of federal investigations of Democrat money laundering keep popping up. I hope the smoke is strong indication of a fire.

    Lastly, I’ll address the situation of Stacey Abrams. It seems that one of Ms. Abrams organizations received $2 billion dollars of federal monies in a Green Scheme to “give away” energy friendly electrical appliances. This was done at the last minute as Joe Biden was shoveling money out the door as fast as he could. What might have Ms. Abrams in legal hot water regards the accounting on the appliance disbursement. There isn’t any. Again, there is no indication–yet—that the DoJ is taking a deeper look, but how can one ignore such low hanging fruit.

    At some point, all lies are exposed. But we seem to be now living in a cornucopia of exposure. I’m counting on the Trump Team to make all of this VERY public before mid-term season is upon us. I, for one, want Trump’s last two years in office to be even more productive than these first two years.

    Quick edit-----
    Act Blue’s woes aren’t confined to the USAID money laundering scheme. Its other methods of washing cash are also coming to light. Much of it is covered in an excellent article by David Catron in The American Spectator. You can read it here:
    ActBlue Probes May Shut Down DNC Money Laundry - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

  3. Avatar for task task says:

    There are other issues.

    If you wanted to buy a Tesla would you reconsider because you might be targeted? And it doesn’t stop there. They are an extremely violent tribe and what they do is not restricted to just targeting property.

    Their mentality has influenced the judiciary and what is happening in Israel is also happening in America. Unless the Executive figures out a way to restore the equality of all three branches of government and overcomes judicial review as established by John Marshall in the Marbury v Madison Decision America’s Courts will be where the insanity described in this article will be played out. Justices such as Barrett are smart enough to hide her anti-constitutional prejudices in her minimalist opinions. She is afraid and weak. She has too many exposure points to be a SCOTUS justice and the progressive left knows how to leverage them.

  4. Avatar for task task says:

    Act Blue is about as bad as it gets. This is an Obama residue. It is similar to what was once used to control banks and mortgages as well as getting out illegal votes.

  5. Low hanging fruit, indeed. However, Republicans are legendary for whiffing at high hanging curve balls that–if it were any other party/batter–would be hammered out of the park. Time will tell if the current batter/AG will do any better.

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