If you happened to be downtown Saturday afternoon, you likely saw “democracy” in action. It wasn’t a pretty sight.
All across the country, at more than 1,200 protests organized by Democrat activists, you saw the angry, aging, Trump-deranged representatives of an out-of-power political party whose standing with the American people has never been lower. And you saw them protesting … what, exactly?
“Hands Off!” they cried, but when asked specifically about what this violation entailed, they weren’t terribly specific — only that Donald Trump and Elon Musk were the gropers.
Hands off our national debt, which is now approaching an unfathomable $37,000,000,000,000? Hands off a federal government that has become increasingly bloated and unaccountable to the American people? Hands off those poor, misunderstood MS-13 and Tren de Aragua rapists and murderers whom Joe Biden invited into our country and whom Donald Trump is trying to return from whence they came?
“They’re taking everything they can get their hands on,” the organizers said beforehand, “our health care, our data, our jobs, our services — and daring the world to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.”
It’s interesting that these agitators think the time to act is now rather than, oh, say, four years ago. Remember: These are the same people who uttered not a peep when, as left-leaning journos Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes now confess, Biden’s aides were leading him around with fluorescent tape on the floor at private residences, setting up his teleprompter even for throwaway remarks to small groups, and calling in the makeup artist to make him look less corpse-like for one-to-one meetings with foreign dignitaries.
Biden “went to a small fundraiser. Fluorescent tape on the floor to guide him where needs to go…”
“A small place, and it’s like, fluorescent tape on the floor, pointing him wear to go. In a house.”
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It’s hard to decide what was the scarier and more outrageous prospect: that a clearly dementing commander-in-chief was in charge of our nation’s finances and its nuclear arsenal or that some anonymous and unelected staffers were calling the shots instead.
Saturday, though, the more family-friendly signs called for locking up Trump and deporting DOGE Director Elon Musk and for “disappearing” “Hog Homan,” Donald Trump’s border czar, for the apparent crime of enforcing our nation’s immigration laws.
“We will not be silenced,” railed an indignant union boss, Everett B. Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees. “We will not bow down. We’ll stand up and say, ‘Hands off our union.’ We’ll stand up and say, ‘Hands off our contract.’ We’ll stand up and say, ‘Hands off our democracy, hands off our freedom.’”
Here, we should draw a distinction between the private-sector unions whom Trump is bent on helping with his reciprocal tariffs and the bloated and utterly unaccountable public-sector unions who sit on both sides of the collective-bargaining table and stick the American taxpayer with the bill.
Some of the Demo-goguery fell back on the old standards, the usual suspects, such as the GOP’s desire to abolish Social Security. No serious person believes this, of course, but no one ever accused these Trump-deranged Democrats of being serious people.
When asked about these tired old calumnies, the White House communications team told the Appropriated Press, “President Trump’s position is clear: He will always protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for eligible beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the Democrats’ stance is giving Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare benefits to illegal aliens, which will bankrupt these programs and crush American seniors.”
As for those downtrodden Democrats: What are their solutions?
Answer: They have no solutions — only disingenuous and historically amnesiac attacks. As Victor Davis Hanson put it recently: “On matters of trade, immigration, and foreign policy, we are witnessing a counter-revolutionary effort to erase the madness of the Biden revolutionary years. Then unnamed and largely unknown radicals, under the veneer of a waxen effigy president, hijacked the country and imposed upon it the most radical and nihilist agenda in the past century.”
Meanwhile, this increasingly aging Democrat Party continues to thrash about and do self-harm as it polls at depths never before plumbed. A recent CNN poll has the once-proud party’s favorability at 29%, while an NBC News poll has it at 27%.
But, yes, by all means: Let’s lock up Donald Trump.
