January 21, 2025

Donald Trump is our president and Democrats have no idea what to do

Democrats are in freefall.

As of Monday, Donald J. Trump is officially the 47th president of the United States. He starts his second term in the Oval Office with a bang – rolling out dozens of executive orders fulfilling promises made to American voters — and more popular than he has ever been.

Democrats have no idea how to respond. Their party is currently earning its lowest approval ratings ever, for good reason. It is guilty of perpetrating the greatest political scandal of our lifetimes — pretending President Joe Biden was OK to run for another four years. Their efforts to brand Donald Trump a threat to Democracy were a bust and their leadership is in disarray. They deserve every minute they serve in political purgatory.

A former communications director for Kamala Harris says Democrats “got to burn down our image.” He’s right.

The party’s trials will not end soon. As Trump takes office, he and his team will shine a spotlight on Democrats’ dishonest efforts to bar him from public office, from bogus lawsuits aiming to put him in jail to the Russiagate hoax. The country wants accountability for those trying to censor right-wing voices and for hiding evidence of Biden family corruption.

In issuing pardons to some of the miscreants, like Anthony Fauci and Liz Cheney, Biden acknowledges their complicity. By extending pardons also to numerous Biden family members, Joe is all but admitting they aided and abetted the influence-peddling and pay-to-play activities led by Hunter Biden. What a shameful exit, reinforcing Biden’s standing as one of the most unpopular presidents of all time.

Democrats now must rebuild their trust with the American people. They have lost favor (and elections) because they don’t know what they stand for or who they represent. Joe Biden in his farewell address talked about a mysterious “oligarchy” of “extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy,” but most think that’s the crowd who threw a billion dollars into Kamala Harris’ campaign, only to see her lose.

Gallup reports that for the third year in a row, slightly more Americans identify as Republicans (or GOP-leaning Independents) than Democrats; they note that before 2022, “Republicans only had a slight edge once before, in 1991.” That is a significant heads-up.

The slide in Democrat popularity has occurred mainly amongst Hispanics, young adults, lower-income Americans, those without a college degree, Catholics, and Black Americans. In short, Democrats are losing ground with the very groups they have relied on to win elections for several decades. Increasingly, the people supporting Democrats are college grads and people with above-average incomes – the limousine liberal set.

Democrats are coming unglued even as the leadership is fracturing. Squabbling between long-time party leaders like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi is embarrassing; one of Nancy Pelosi’s daughters recently likened Joe’s wife Jill Biden to Shakespeare’s heartless and ambitious Lady MacBeth. That stings.

The Pelosi-Biden split is not just about personalities. It is also about the enormous Democrat-led conspiracy that allowed Joe Biden to become president in 2020 and that pushed for him to serve a second term, despite his obvious mental deterioration. Voters saw through the carefully-managed stagecraft that sought to hide Joe’s impairment. Even half-way through his term a majority of the country thought he was too old to run.

Incredibly, Joe Biden still thinks he could have beaten Donald Trump, proving that he has been kept in the dark by the people who surround him. This detachment from reality showed up as early as 2021, when Biden and his wife participated in a Christmas Eve call-in show. A caller naughtily told the Bidens, “Merry Christmas and Let’s Go Brandon,” a popular and wide-spread slam against the president at the time. Biden, clueless, repeated the phrase, chuckling and saying, “Let’s Go Brandon, I agree”, showing how out of touch he was.

The information bubble may have protected Biden from mean tweets or negative polling, but it also allowed his political team to end-run the president and manage White House policy. We may never know the extent to which Ron Klain, Biden’s first Chief of Staff, or ex-Obama apparatchiks like Susan Rice and Jeff Zients were in charge of policy.

House Speaker Mike Johnson recently described a meeting in which he pressed Biden on why he had paused new permits for LNG exports, only to have the president deny taking such a measure. Johnson believed the president “genuinely didn’t know what he had signed” and left the White House worried the nation is in “serious trouble.”

Signs of Democrat weakness are everywhere. On the cusp of Trump’s inauguration, their efforts to repulse his cabinet nominees look to be failing; their nasty personal attacks on Pete Hegseth, set to lead the Department of Defense, and Pam Bondi, likely to become our next attorney general, looked petty and mean-spirited rather than consequential. Equally distasteful has been the slew of last-minute lawsuits and executive actions issued from the White House, many of which set roadblocks before the incoming Trump administration.

Even the liberal media is floundering, with many leading organizations, including the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, evidently reconsidering their role as Democrat propagandists. Only the New York Times remains resolute in its opposition to the incoming president, but then they have crossword puzzles and recipes to keep them afloat.

Democrats need to decide who’s in charge. The progressive wing of the party, which favored open borders and men playing in women’s sports, will attempt to reassert its power. Within minutes of Trump’s swearing in, left-wing groups sued to stop the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from shrinking the federal government and making it more effective.

DOGE might be Trump’s most popular initiative; trying to shut it down could, with other “resistance” moves, keep Democrats in the wilderness for a good long time. Fingers crossed.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-donald-trump-our-president-democrats-have-no-idea-what-do

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Liz Peek

2 hours ago

My Morning Rant:
I am alternately peeved and sympathetic with Chip Roy, Ralph Norman and the others who torpedoed Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. But after reading the fine print this morning and realizing that reforms to Medicaid don’t kick in until 2029 !!!! I am disgusted. I get that states need some time to adjust to a change in rules regarding Medicaid eligibility – maybe a year or 18 months — but do they really need four years? No, they do not. The extended timeframe is an obvious play to put political repercussions off until after the midterms. Legislators from swing districts fear losing their seats because able-bodied adults lose their free ride. They want to put off any change as long as possible.
On the other hand, those vulnerable legislators will almost certainly get canned if the 2017 tax cuts don’t get extended and Trump’s agenda crashes. We need both to get the bill passed, and to make it tougher.
The conservatives calling for bigger spending cuts are completely correct. Just ask Moody’s, which in recent days downgraded U.S. debt. Imagine, the United States of America has lost its triple-A status. (The other two major ratings agencies had already made this downgrade.) This would be a wake-up call except that most of our country is asleep, lulled into a false sense of complacency by hours spent on Tik-Tok or watching the NFL. We all need downtime, for sure, but we also need to pay attention to what’s happening with our country’s fiscal outlook. It isn’t good. Even the Fed, no friend to the Trump administration or to fiscal austerity, has announced it will cut staff and overhead. Of course, why the Fed has a headcount of 24,000 is a mystery. How can they employ so many people and still get it wrong most of the time? This is the group that never spoke out against Biden’s reckless spending; it’s quite the switch.
Simply put, the country endorsed a huge surge in government spending to compensate for the wrong-headed directives during Covid that shut down schools, businesses and churches. The government under Trump wanted to keep Americans employed and the economy ready to rebound, which it did. Biden kept the spending at max level, refusing to let a crisis go to waste. Democrats in Congress and the Fed went along, spurring the highest inflation in decades.
Now we have to go back to the trend-line pre-Covid spending; the bill on the table doesn’t do that. Republicans must do better if they want to keep the majority. … See MoreSee Less

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Nailed it

We need a balanced budget amendment! Deficit spending needs to end!

Just sick of BOTH parties. Neither are there for the Working Americans. BOTH parties responsible for the theft going on. Repubs should have read the bills that gave away money..

Honestly you should be somewhere in Trumps administration Liz.. Just sayin

Convention of States is looking better everyday.

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What happened to DOGE???
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DOGE isn’t meeting its goals — you can thank the political establishment

DOGE chief has been thwarted at every turn — by judges, Democrats and their media allies, even Republicans.

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The Uniparty doesn't want their gravy train turned over.

Democrats are Americas virus.

3 days ago

My Morning Rant:
John Hawley, Senator from Missouri, is out with a blistering attack on Republicans in Congress who want to “cut” Medicaid spending. He declares those in favor of Medicaid reforms contained in the House bill “a noisy contingent of corporatist Republicans — call it the party’s Wall Street wing” who are not on board with working-class Americans and who want to “build our big, beautiful bill around slashing health insurance for the working poor”. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/josh-hawley-dont-cut-medicaid.html
What rot. Working Americans of all classes are sick and tired of an ever-growing amount of their hard-earned taxes going to fund those who are not working. This is not a Wall Street issue- it’s a fairness issue. Though some groups say most Medicaid recipients are working, that is not true. A study by AEI showed that “In December 2022, 44 percent of non-disabled working age Medicaid recipients without children worked at least 80 hours” per month, compared to 72% not receiving Medicaid. Focusing on “prime working ages of 25 to 54, the share working at least 80 hours was 51 percent among Medicaid recipients and 84 percent among non-Medicaid recipients.” So why would 49% not be working?
Here’s the problem: the Medicaid changes that GOP legislators want to make don’t target “the working poor”, they target able-bodied men and women who are not working, and who historically would not have qualified for Medicaid benefits. Only when Obama rescinded the work requirements for Medicaid did the program blow up entirely and become the drain on the fiscal purse that we see today. As he states in his op-ed, Hawley’s problem is this: “Today [Medicaid] serves over 70 million Americans, including well over one million residents of Missouri, the state I represent.” Hawley, who was elected last fall by a 14-point margin, fears he’ll lose ground with those million recipients if he embraces fiscal common sense. Or maybe he fears losing the support of healthcare professionals, who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign. www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/josh-hawley/summary?cid=N00041620
Our country has seen a long-term decline in able-bodied men working. The labor participation rate for that group is 89.1% which sounds high until you realize that it was 97.1% in 1960. That’s a huge slide, with troubling implications for U.S. productivity. If you believe, as I do, that work is healthy, it is also bad news for the individuals who are, at least in some cases, gaming the system.
Instead of railing about sincere efforts to reform an out-of-control entitlement, why doesn’t Hawley turn his attentions to improving job opportunities and training in his state? Or attracting more employers? And, where are his ideas for cutting federal spending, which is too high and which is hurting our nation? Some $50 billion in Medicaid outlays funds fraud or constitutes “improper payments.” What is Hawley doing to confront that?
Maybe I would be more impressed with his arguments but for his having published his screed in the New York Times- is that the most efficient way to speak to working-class Americans? Bernie Sanders probably thinks so, and so does Josh Hawley. … See MoreSee Less

Sen. Josh Hawley – Campaign Finance Summary

Fundraising profile for Sen. Josh Hawley – Missouri

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We have to end the idea that working for McDonalds at the counter is the end game career wise. It’s what you do in high school and college to pay your bills. If you want to be in that industry, you need to think manager then owner as that is the career.

Uniparty in action. They are there to Take money, not help The People.

Donald Trump is our president and Democrats have no idea what to do

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