Democrats lost the last election because the American people wanted change. Change in immigration. Change in crime. Change in woke policies. Change in the economy. Change in foreign policy. Change in the size and expense of government. Change in the power of the unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy. Change in the ever increasing National Debt. Change in endless wars. The people wanted change in just about everything government does.
Those sentiments were inherent in the polls that showed the vast majority of American believe the things were going in the wrong direction – a direction set by the left-wing policies of the those who were in charge. And that meant the Democratic Party – and some elements of the Washington establishment Republican Party. They wanted change so badly that they would elect a person who promised real change – a disrupter of the status quo – even a person with character flaws and a pugnacious personality.
President Trump offered that change in 2016 – and brought about some of it during his first four years as President. No sooner were the votes tabulated in 2016 than Democrats and their left-wing media cohorts launched the Trump resistance movement. They were fighting for the status quo.
When they did not kill Trump off politically with the 2020 elecction — and he talked about throwing his MAGA hat in the ring in 2024, the anti-Trump coalition when into high gear (actually went crazy) in their attempts to stop him with court cases and with absurdly extreme demonization and nutty end-of-the-word narratives.
Despite all the crap they threw at him – or because of it – Trump won a very impressive victory. And what are Democrats doing about it? Doubling down. They are peddling the same old failed arguments and defending he same old left-wing policies that made a Donald Trump possible – inevitable.
In terms of immigration, they are actively opposing efforts to curtail illegal border crossing and deportation – even the hardened criminals, gangbangers and drug cartellians. They are blocking efforts by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest and deport those guilty of violent crimes and those ordered deported by immigration judges. They continue to defend sanctuary policies. Even in the fact of obvious success of Trump’s deportation orders, Democrats fight for the old status quo – open borders.
Democrats remain the party of radical left-wing woke policies. They claim it is a right for individuals to defy science and biology and change genders by self-proclamation – or have no gender at all. They claim that biological men – with the equipment to prove it –have a right to use exclusive women’s facilities as long as they self-identify as women. They even claim that such men can play in Women’s sports – outperforming the girls in every category. Despite the fact that more than 75 percent of Americans disagree, Democrats continue to defend their old policies — their status quo.
The American people have a common sense about children – those under the legal age of consent – especially the youngest of them. We do not allow them to sign contracts, drive cars, buy cigarettes, consume alcohol, get married, engage in sex, or be exposed to things seen as “adult” in nature. And where any exceptions can be made, it must be with the consent of parents.
Conversely, Democrats not only put government woke policies ahead of parental rights and responsibilities, but they also give the youngest children presumed rights over the responsibilities of parents. In the cockamamie world of liberal logic, parents can be held legally culpable if their child becomes a mass killer but are to have no influence – or information – if their child wants to self-identify as the opposite gender – and no authority if their child wants to undergo radical sex-change surgery.
Progressive policies work against the notion of “age appropriateness” for children. That is where we run into books inappropriate for elementary school libraries and curriculum – or Drag Queen shows with unavoidable sexual implications.
Progressives also support nonsensical pronoun rules imposed on children and adults. If you have noticed, many applications requiring biographical information now have provisions for a wide variety of self-described gender options. Trump has put an end to a lot of this cultural nonsense with his two-gender Executive Order and no men in women’s sports Executive Order. Democrats and those on the far left are pushing back, hoping to restore the old status quo.
Nowhere are Democrats and their left-wing allies more intent on protecting the status quo than in the role of the federal government – specifically the role played by the bureaucracy. Once described legitimately as modestly paid “public servants” the federal bureaucracy has grown into a massive fourth branch of government – and arguably the most powerful branch.
The power of the bureaucracy – and those on the left who enable it — are seen in the deficits and debt. Excessive spending hallmark of bureaucratic governance. It is the status quo that democrats are hellbent to defend at any cost.
The existential difference between conservative constitutional governance and progressive big government is who sets the rules. Is it we the people or an ensconced elitist class in Washington? In all issues, the status quo has been the devolution toward authoritarianism. And today’s democrats are fighting for that status quo. It would appear that the American people are opting to disrupt that status quo – and for all his faults and shortcomings, Trump has emerged as the disrupter of choice.
In November of 2024, Mother Jones ran an article with this headline: “Democrats Need to Stop Defending a Broken Democratic System.” It correctly observed that, “Too often, their (Democrats) message of preserving American democracy reinforced a failed status quo.
Enter the disrupter.
So, there ‘tis.