Category: Political Strategy

the Schumer shutdown going be very short? Not too short, I hope!

The Schumer Shutdown might be running out of steam faster than Democrats expected. While Chuck Schumer and his colleagues in the Senate manufactured this government shutdown in the hope of getting free healthcare for illegals, cracks are starting to show in their united front. Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) just became the latest Democrat to break ranks, and maybe… just maybe… his voice could signal a turning point in this Democrat-created crisis.

… Golden may be one voice, but it’s a sign that Democrats aren’t as united as they are presenting themselves to be. To make matters worse for them, the media seems to be very much aware that the shutdown is the Democrats’ fault, which complicates their messaging.

We want Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought to have a little time to work his magic!

much like to believe it. But I am quite skeptical of things that seem too good to be true. Oh, logic and morality demand that it be true, I am just sadly skeptical. I guess all I can say is that I very much hope so. But I’m pretty sure that I’m not that lucky.

Things certainly do not look good for the Dems at the moment. Yesterday, Scott wrote a post about an article in The New York Times that must have them snorting Prilosec over at the DNC. According to the Times, Democrats are “hemorrhaging voters” right now. There are 30 states that track partisan voter registration, and the Dems ceded ground to the Republicans in every single one of them between the 2020 and 2024 elections. 

… Once Trump is out of office, there is the possibility that the Democrats will become slightly less incoherent (that’s as nicely as I can put that). Yes, they’re going to have a lot of pieces to pick up and put back together, but they might be able to begin a turnaround after Trump heads back to Florida in January of 2029.

But the issue is that even in the case of the Democrat party collapsing from its own weight, one has to worry about what will come next. Out of the asp’s den comes a cockatrice and all that…

Most likely, the Democrat party will follow the current strategy: They will de facto become a new, extreme Left party, but retain the same name as to fool the rubes and give themselves some ability to claim legitimacy and “fly under the radar.” They are already FAR different than they were 40 years ago! THAT plan is well underway and has been for decades.

Democrat opposition to anything Trump is for is a losing strategy in the medium- and long-term. In the last 40 years or so, Democrats have focussed almost exclusively on the short-term, and now the “bills” are starting to come due.

But now, a superficial, googley-eyed Trump opposition (though the Trump hatred runs deep) is becoming more and more counter-productive for Democrats. Their policy of “If Trump is for it, I am against it!” is rapidly losing steam. It’s quickly getting so that it’s only kooks and white-knuckled rigid partisans who still think that way.

The latest 80-20 issue that the Democrats chose the wrong side of is, of course, crime. Americans’ concern about crime is analogous to their concern about illegal immigration. It isn’t just a problem in and of itself–it is a big one, of course, for many reasons–but also a sign of societal decline that scares Americans to the core.

… Democrats could pick and choose their fights, and crime is an obvious one to side with Trump rather than oppose him. Trump only laid a trap in the sense that he did something sensible and the Democrats cannot stand agreeing with him. 

… But they cannot do that, and that is their fault. They have decided that calling Trump a dictator is their main tactic, which means they must oppose him in everything. This has nothing to do with policy and is extraordinarily bad politics, but they are caught in a trap of their own making. 

Now is the time to press the sword in to the hilt. Look, Democrats are going to focus on Democrat things, all of which are aimed at them gaining and maintaining power. But Trump needs to couch these current events in terms of his accomplishments and the huge benefits these policies have brought to regular Americans.

It’s very important that right now we do not let the Democrats drive the bus again. They totally screwed it up last time, and they would do the same thing again if at all possible. They would focus on impeaching Donald Trump, rather than on making sure that you are doing well financially, and that the economy is good. DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN!

The stakes are high: If the Democrats win in 2026, Trump will spend his final two years facing subpoenas and harassment from AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Ilhan Omar, and the rest of the radicals. There’ll be (more) impeachments, (more) show trials, (more) lawfare, and (more) congressional interference.

but there seems to be nothing legally useful in the Epstein files. There is certainly no information that is problematic for Donald Trump. We know that for an absolute fact.

Think about it for just a moment. Do you think that the Biden administration would have hesitated for even a second to use incriminating information in files that they had to derail the candidacy of Donald Trump if they could have? Of course they would have!

You kind of have to be a moron to think that team Biden (or the Hillary campaign the first time Trump ran against her) would have kept quiet all these years if Trump had been implicated by that evidence? Don’t make me laugh!

As much as I hate to admit it, it is time for those of us who are conservative to move on from this issue. There is just nothing good down that road. There is no actionable intelligence to get, the evidence has been despoiled, and the miscreants have gotten away. And that is indeed quite disappointing. It is indeed a poke in the eye of Lady Justice.

But as disappointing as that is, it really does not serve our interests to keep on this issue. There are much, much bigger fish to fry. We don’t need to be derailed by a fruitless snipe hunt that derails us from fixing the spending problems and the lack of financial wisdom and flat out graft by government officials.

darn good discussion about iconography. Watch it!

just occurring to you now? Tell me, what was your first clue?

Democrats are having a lot of revelations lately. The big one was maybe we shouldn’t have lied about President Biden’s competence for four years. But the latest one is maybe we moved too far left on immigration. The problem is that even having recognized this was a mistake it’s not clear the party can backtrack now. There are some progressives who are fully committed to the idea that border control is racism and they aren’t willing to give it up.

I honestly don’t know how they can backtrack at this point. It seems like the die has been cast.

So what comes next? For the moment, Democrats are stuck. Their base wants total resistance to Trump on this front, if not outright violence. They have no way to tone this down at this moment. They are stuck being against border control for the next three years.

Cotton. Let’s see how it works out for them…