
<p>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.</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>When they did not kill Trump off politically with the 2020 elecction &#8212; 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.</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>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 &#8211;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 &#8212; their status quo.</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>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. ;</p>



<p>The power of the bureaucracy – and those on the left who enable it &#8212; 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.  ; ;</p>



<p>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 <a>has emerged as the disrupter of choice. ;</a></p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>Enter the disrupter.</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

Democrats fighting for … the status quo
