Treacherous and malicious as it was, the Democrats‘ coordinated and strategic 2016 campaign to portray President Donald Trump as an agent of Russia proved to be a resounding success.
Initiated by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, the effort quickly drew in high-ranking Obama administration officials, the federal agencies they led, Democratic leaders in both houses of Congress, and, of course, the legacy media. We would later learn that former CIA Director John Brennan had briefed former President Barack Obama on the plan during a July 2016 Oval Office meeting.
Though the saga ended with a whimper in March 2019 when special counsel Robert Mueller’s deeply partisan team of Democrats came up empty-handed, it had already cast a long shadow of illegitimacy over Trump’s first term. And Trump’s pushback against these venomous attacks was framed as further evidence that he was unhinged.
But as time wore on, and the collective case of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” among his critics deepened, their assaults grew less tactical and disciplined, and more reactive and desperate.
As we know, Trump’s November victory left Democrats reeling. They’d used every tool in their arsenal, including lawfare, in a relentless effort to prevent it. Yet there he stood on Jan. 20, sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
No longer the political outsider, naive to the entrenched resistance of the administrative state, Trump was back, and he was armed with full knowledge of the hoaxes, smears, and sabotage Democrats had deployed against him for nearly a decade. In their eyes, that made him even more dangerous.
Leaderless, divided, and increasingly out of touch with everyday Americans, Democrats now lurch from crisis to crisis. Their once unified, precision-driven offensives have deteriorated into a chaotic, reactive scramble — a reckless, seat-of-the-pants struggle to remain relevant.
The party is currently up in arms over the due process rights of so-called “Maryland father” Kilmar Abrego Garcia. While Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) was en route to El Salvador last week to fight for Abrego Garcia’s immediate return to the United States, newly released documents revealed that Abrego Garcia’s wife twice sought restraining orders against him, and that two judges identified him as a member of the notorious MS-13 gang.
Additional reports indicated that in 2022, Abrego Garcia was stopped on a Tennessee highway while transporting eight undocumented immigrants from Houston, Texas, to Maryland. Officers became suspicious of human smuggling when the passengers provided Abrego Garcia’s address as their own. The officers also saw that none of them had luggage. Although the FBI was notified, they directed authorities to release Abrego Garcia.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that the van Abrego Garcia was driving belonged to Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, an undocumented migrant who was convicted of human smuggling in 2020.
Moreover, according to court documents obtained by FOX45 News, in August 2018, Edwin Ramos, who said he is the father of Jennifer Vasquez Sura’s (Abrego Garcia’s wife) two youngest children, requested an emergency custody hearing. He said in the filing that he was concerned about his children’s safety because Vasquez Sura “is dating a gang member.” Although the documents did not state Abrego Garcia’s name, Vasquez Sura was pregnant with his child, and the two lived together. The report said the case was eventually dismissed due to a jurisdictional issue.
The new revelations forced Democrats to shift their messaging. They are now arguing that Abrego Garcia’s background is beside the point. Their fight is centered on due process and the rule of law. They warned that if he could be abruptly seized on the street and deported to a prison in El Salvador, it could happen to any one of us.
This week, four House Democrats — Reps. Robert Garcia (D-CA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), and Maxine Dexter (D-OR) — traveled to El Salvador to fight for Abrego Garcia’s freedom.
While their grandstanding may please their base, it doesn’t play well with the vast majority of Americans who want to see the illegal immigrants who poured into the U.S. during the Biden years deported.
As many have noted, granting complete due process to every illegal immigrant in the U.S. would stretch deportation proceedings out across decades, which, I suspect, is precisely the point.
They violated our laws to enter the country, and now they insist on invoking our legal system to remain here. Trump emphasized this hypocrisy in a Truth Social post this week. Former President Joe Biden, he said, allowed “Millions of Criminals into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted, with no Legal authority to do so, yet I, in order to make up for this assault to our Nation, am expected to go through a lengthy Legal process, separately, for each and every Criminal Alien.”
Cherie Currie, lead singer of the 1970s punk rock band the Runaways (which included a young Joan Jett), walked away from the Democratic Party last fall and became an outspoken member of the MAGA movement.
After watching the Democrats’ pathetic posturing over Abrego Garcia, she’d had enough and took to X to voice her opinion. I think she speaks for many Americans disgusted by the party’s resistance.
ELITE UNIVERSITIES SHOULD STOP DIGGING THEMSELVES INTO A HOLE
The Democrats missed the message of the 2024 election. Rather than pivoting back to the center modestly, they’ve veered further to the left. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) emergence as a leading candidate for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination says it all.
Out of fresh ideas, lacking a clear leader, and bound together only by their opposition to Trump, the party has lost its sense of direction. Once a dominant force in American politics, the Democrats have devolved into an incoherent coalition of embittered activists.