Let’s Remember the Democrats’ Lies |

 The American Spectator

"I know Trump never misses an opportunity to point out that Joe Biden spent his days sleeping through official events and had no idea what he was signing or saying. And that’s fine. But I do miss hearing him remind people that Democrats lied about the end of democracy. As far as I know, there is still a separation of powers, there are still elections, and citizens still vote freely. And, for the moment, it doesn’t seem that Trump is throwing opposition leaders into gas chambers.

"There’s something funny about the way the Democratic Party has evolved. It has become a party empty of ideas and stuffed with slogans. Sometimes those slogans are highly effective during election campaigns, but after the election, if they lose, they dissolve like rain into the sea because they have no ideological identity whatsoever beyond the woke catchphrases they repeat like monkeys, along with four or five ideas that seem randomly generated by a monkey at a keyboard with ChatGPT’s help. You know the script: Trump is a dictator, Republicans are fascists, and give peace a chance.

"In the end, it all amounted to nothing, which is why it’s so easy for people to forget. But not for me. They lied to everyone when they claimed Trump would destroy the most important democracy in the Western world. They lied, and so did their European social democratic allies, who repeated that nonsense in every forum while trying — unsuccessfully — to influence the vote." . . .More...

Kamala Harris’ Dangerous Brainstorm

. . . "They are not merely bad ideas, they constitute a clear and present danger to the republic. Indeed, they suggest that the Democratic Party can’t be trusted with real power until it is divested of the radical leftists who now control its agenda. All of the braying about “our democracy” notwithstanding, it could hardly be more obvious that the Democrats want to eliminate the constitutional foundations of the Republic so they can establish one-party rule. This is why Harris speculates about what we “need to do” about the Electoral College. She and her fellow travelers believe that it impedes genuine democracy, but obviously don’t grasp the consequences of dumping it." . . .More...

Part I: The Politicization of the Federal Courts During the Second Trump Presidency

 American Greatness   

The ideological concentration of injunctions in five jurisdictions is not accidental. Activist legal organizations deliberately file in districts where they know sympathetic Obama or Biden appointees sit. The ACLU, SPLC-affiliated groups, and the network of progressive legal nonprofits have essentially mapped the federal judiciary for political opportunity, identifying which judges will reliably deliver the results their donors demand. 

"Many rank-and-file Republicans and political commentators have expressed shock at the unprecedented lawfare being employed by the Democrat Party and its political allies against President Trump during his second term. Over 700 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration, and the number of executive orders impeded/blocked by Democrat/left-wing activist judges currently exceeds 200 (full and partial).

"This is Part I of a two-part series that examines the politicization of the federal judiciary by the Democrat left and the crisis it presents for our constitutional republic.

A Constitutional Crisis Unlike Any Before

"When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, carrying one of the most decisive electoral mandates in modern American history—winning the popular vote, the Electoral College, and commanding congressional majorities—the American people had spoken with clarity. They voted for border security, executive accountability, bureaucratic reform, and a rollback of the radical progressive agenda that had reshaped federal policy during the Biden years.

"What greeted that mandate was not the loyal opposition of a democratic republic but something increasingly difficult to characterize as anything other than a judicial insurrection: a coordinated, systematic campaign by Democrat-appointed federal judges to nullify the results of a free election through the mechanisms of the courtroom. The scale, speed, audacity, and ideological uniformity of the resistance was—and remains—without precedent in American constitutional history.

"This analysis examines that resistance from a traditionalist constitutional conservative perspective: one grounded in the original understanding of the separation of powers, the proper role of Article III courts, the democratic legitimacy of the executive branch, and the republican principle that elections must mean something." . . .

Case Studies in Judicial Overreach:

1. Judge James Boasberg and the Alien Enemies Act Contempt Trap
2. Judge Brian Murphy and the Vaccine Schedule Takeover
3. Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Immigration Court Reform
4. The Forum Shopping Ecosystem

"Concluding Thoughts:  Part I ends here. Part II will cover Democrat lawfare coordination, the Democrats’ deployment of foreign judges and the associated cultural disconnect, the issue of democratic (small d) legitimacy, the Sotomayor problem, and remedies for the problem."Full article...

Kamala Harris’ Dangerous Brainstorm; If it weren’t for bad ideas our former Vice President wouldn’t have any ideas at all.

 The American Spectator  

"As constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley writes in The Hill: “The American Constitution was a rejection of the “bad ideas” that politicians (called demagogues in Ancient Greece) have historically used to marshal the power of the mob.” And there can be little doubt that Harris and the Democrats want a “mobocracy.'”

"For a sense of how bereft the Democrats are of credible leaders and sensible policy ideas all one has to do is listen to the remarks of former Vice President Kamala Harris on the Win with Black Women podcast. She proposed a “no bad ideas brainstorm” in which Democrats would discuss “What we need to do, and think about doing, around the Electoral College … expanding the Supreme Court … statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.” Harris, whom most polls of Democrat voters show as the front-runner for their party’s 2028 presidential nomination, said this as if she were offering fresh ideas. They are, in reality, shopworn tropes that can be heard every time a far left Democrat gets in front of a microphone.

"They are not merely bad ideas, they constitute a clear and present danger to the republic. Indeed, they suggest that the Democratic Party can’t be trusted with real power until it is divested of the radical leftists who now control its agenda. All of the braying about “our democracy” notwithstanding, it could hardly be more obvious that the Democrats want to eliminate the constitutional foundations of the Republic so they can establish one-party rule. This is why Harris speculates about what we “need to do” about the Electoral College. She and her fellow travelers believe that it impedes genuine democracy, but obviously don’t grasp the consequences of dumping it. As historian Allen C. Guelzo writes at National Affairs:

Abolishing the Electoral College now might satisfy an irritated yearning for direct democracy, but it would also mean dismantling federalism. After that, there would be no sense in having a Senate (which, after all, represents the interests of the states), and eventually, no sense in even having states, except as administrative departments of the central government. We structure everything in our political system around a federation that divides power between states and the federal government … abolishing the Electoral College would point toward doing away with the entire federal system.

"Just as Harris and her ilk don’t understand the damage that would be caused by getting rid of the Electoral College, they are completely clueless about the consequences of meddling with the Supreme Court." . . . More...

Are there really 'no bad ideas' when it comes to 'saving our democracy'? - Eric Utter   . . . "As for the notion that there are no bad ideas? How about “Let’s kill all the Jews” or “Islam is totally compatible with a free, democratic republic?” Or even, “I’ve only had 10 rum and cokes, I think I’ll take a nice drive in my car?” And let’s be honest, Kamala doesn’t have brainstorms, she has perhaps a mild squall or minor dust-up on occasion, maybe even a moderate gust of wind, but no brainstorms.

"So, Democrats, just continue to call conservatives Nazis. Keep trying to imprison all your political opponents. An assassination or two might be needed here and there to, you know, “save our democracy.” (The problem is that Democrats actually think the country is their democracy, and that no one else has a right to govern it.)

"Kamala may still have her mind set on Running for President Under the Influence (RPUI), but it is hard to see any current likely Democrat heading a ticket the equal of Vance-Rubio or vice-versa. As sure as water is wet, Democrats will resort to their time-tested tactics of slander, libel, lies, gas-lighting, projection, and cheating." . . .

UPDATE:  Kennedy Has the Last Laugh on Kamala's 'Bad Ideas' and Cassidy's Collapse

. . . "Kennedy said Harris was "pandering to the loon wing of her party.”  

“Nobody has ever accused the vice president of being a policy maven. Um, sometimes she, I don’t know, she acts like she has a billy goat brain and a mockingbird mouth, and that’s a dangerous combination.

"My personal opinion is, for what it’s worth, is that, uh, she’s done, you know? She’s a smoked turkey. She had her, had her chance, and had her shot, and she missed it.

"I don’t think she’ll be the Democratic nominee. I would love for her to be the Democratic nominee. And if it looks like she gets any momentum, I will happily contribute to her campaign because she would be our dream candidate. But I think she's a smoked turkey, frankly." 

"Yes, please, put Harris forward — she's the living embodiment of how bad their "ideas" are." .

Are there really 'no bad ideas' when it comes to 'saving our democracy'?

 Eric Utter - American Thinker   

"So, Democrats, just continue to call conservatives Nazis. Keep trying to imprison all your political opponents. An assassination or two might be needed here and there to, you know, “save our democracy.'”

"Former Vice President Kamala (hic!) Harris recently opined that there are “no bad ideas” when it comes to brainstorming ways to reinvigorate the Democrat party.

"During a May 13th livestream on something called the "Win with Black Women" podcast, Hic! Harris suggested that the Democrat party prepare an "expanded playbook" of ideas to help it retake power after the 2026 midterm elections.

"Harris opined:

"And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College. We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court. We invite a conversation about multi-member districts."

"The old sot suggested that, when Democrats retake the Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee should quickly establish rules to "penalize people for lying" for Supreme Court justices and nominees.

"It is always hilarious when Democrats speak of their dislike for lying … and always a lie. They are to prevarication as Kamala is to drinking, as retrievers are to … retrieving things. They can’t help themselves.

"The Tipsy One added,

“Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. These are the things I think that we've got to do.”

"She concluded by saying of Democrats:

"We gotta fight fire with fire. We gotta be ruthless, too."

"Democrats start fires. (They don’t always put them out, as clearly demonstrated in Los Angeles County last year.) And Democrats have always been ruthless, whether they were plantation owners or, more recently, possessed by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) and the rabid desire to dispense, by any means necessary, with those with whom they disagree.

"As for the notion that there are no bad ideas? How about “Let’s kill all the Jews” or “Islam is totally compatible with a free, democratic republic?” Or even, “I’ve only had 10 rum and cokes, I think I’ll take a nice drive in my car?” And let’s be honest, Kamala doesn’t have brainstorms, she has perhaps a mild squall or minor dust-up on occasion, maybe even a moderate gust of wind, but no brainstorms." . . .More...

Why many stopped calling them "Democratic", preferring the more soulless "Democrat"

 Why everyone hates the Democrats right now, explained in 3 charts  

"If there’s one thing a large majority of Americans have consistently agreed on this year, it’s that the Democratic Party sucks." . . .

Democrats Spit on Democracy, Midterm Voters Should be Scared

Kamala Harris Dials Up Democrats' Radical Assault on Rules of American Democracy   . . . "I've written often about the mounting radicalism of progressive plans to bulldoze central props of our constitutional order. . . " Then the paywall...

This Podcast Interview Only Reminds Us How Lucky We Are That Trump Beat Kamala Harris   

"Yeah, this is the mother lode of bad ideas. Also, as someone pointed out, this woman lost the popular vote to Donald Trump, so this Electoral College thing is a bit funny. She lost all seven swing states too, with 89 percent of all counties shifting toward the right in the last election. Lady, the nation heard you and rejected your candidacy outright."

They get crazier with every word - Silvio Canto, Jr.  About Jamelle Bouie, late of MSNBC:    . . . "So why is it always about race for Jamelle’s side?  I don’t know, but maybe it’s because they have nothing else to offer except telling black voters that only a black Democrat is capable of representing them.  And worse than that, they want The Supreme Court to guarantee that a black Democrat is going to have a seat in Congress.

"Memo to Jamelle:  You are out of touch with reality.  I guess that’s why I feel optimistic about the November elections, because Jamelle is not the only one saying these weird things on the other side." . . .

They get crazier with every word - American Thinker

It’s not about ICE. It’s about something much bigger.

Allan J. Feifer, American Thinker  

" . . .Democrats are doing nothing less than seeking the violent overthrow of our country. In law, we have the Doctrine of Clean Hands. Waltz and Frey certainly have plenty of dirt on their hands and can’t be part of any solution."

"Events in Minneapolis on Saturday lay bare a stark reality. The cabal of leftist politicians, Antifa, crazy women, and dedicated communists has decided to make a stand here, right now, in Minnesota. We are witnessing a boil in the process of bursting, and it won’t be pretty. Nowhere else in the country is ICE under attack as it is here. You must ask yourself: Why?

"Governor Waltz and Mayor Frey believe they can beat back the federal government and force ICE out of Minnesota. It is not simply a symbol or a heartfelt belief that all Minnesotans are neighbors; it’s much, much more. Listen to other Governors apparently reading from the same script as they demagogue ICE and the Border Patrol in lockstep with each other. Importantly, this isn’t just pushback against federal authority. After all, Obama deported more illegals than Trump without the pushback. There’s something more happening here.

"So, what’s going on? This is about acquiring permanent power.

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"Democrats believe they must have open borders and a steady stream of illegal aliens that can be bought off with freebies, special carve-outs, and, if that does not work, welfare and benefit fraud binds them to their Democrat benefactors. Once they are so enmeshed, the Democrats’ diabolical trap springs shut. The endgame is revealed as we see all the illogical subterfuge, lies, scams, and outright hatred of America was just a smokescreen for what they really have been planning for the last fifty years—total domination of the American political scene...forever.

"You must admit, that’s worth an awful lot for them, and you don’t have to look too closely either, as they tell us what they want to do openly once they achieve the power necessary to fulfill their wildest wishes:

• Permanent open borders
• An enlarged Supreme Court that will resemble a baseball roster more than the height of jurisprudence.
• Two more states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, that are guaranteed to be reliably Democrat.
• Destruction of the Electoral College
• Control of the census to ensure “their” people are always counted
• Control of the purse strings so they can reliably buy votes and destroy our economic system
• Place internationalism and globalism over American laws

"The list is endless and so disgusting that it’s difficult to contemplate." . . .  More...

Author, Businessman, Thinker, and Strategist. Read more about Allan, his background, and his ideas to create a better tomorrow.

Revealed: Training Materials and Communications for Minneapolis Anti-ICE protestors – RedState    All words are in the original. TD

"These training materials and the setup of this online system indicate that someone with some money is behind all this"

(4) Cam Higby 🇺🇸 on X: "🧵🚨 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them. BUCKLE UP ALL WILL BE REVEALED Each area of the city has a signal https://t.co/ATSHlCucWv" / X

Video (Foul language)

"Mr. Higby also presents what is claimed to be the entire training manual for these patrols.:

 Here is the entire TRAINING MANUAL for domestic terrorist patrols chasing ICE agents in Minneapolis. Keep in mind, this is the watered down opsec version.

MUST READ ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/rUMAJPOxUG

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) January 25, 2026

 "Both of these threads bear reading, but here are a few key points:

"Both of these threads bear reading, but here are a few key points:

These training materials and the setup of this online system indicate that someone with some money is behind all this. These materials mention "patrol training" and mention the use of the Signal chat system. Mr. Higby presents some rather sophisticated maps, with the city broken up into patrol zones, based loosely, they say, on city council districts. Is this intended to put pressure on local politicians? Or to involve them? 

The materials also mention a database of license plate numbers of known ICE vehicles.  There are several videos, including one in which an ordinary citizen is followed by protestors by mistake; it doesn't take a lot of imagination to know how badly wrong that could go. One slide presents the SALUTE acronym used by United States military forces for reporting observations of the enemy: Size/Strength, Actions/Activity, Location, Uniform, Time/Date, and Equipment. Are there former military behind some of this? Not necessarily; this SALUTE process isn't exactly top secret stuff, and it's a logical way to organize a report. But it reveals a level of preparation and organization that isn't commonly found in supposedly spontaneous protests.

This appears to be an organized, funded, and fairly sophisticated opposition.These materials mention "patrol training" and mention the use of the Signal chat system. Mr. Higby presents some rather sophisticated maps, with the city broken up into patrol zones, based loosely, they say, on city council districts. Is this intended to put pressure on local politicians? Or to involve them? 

"The materials also mention a database of license plate numbers of known ICE vehicles. "There are several videos, including one in which an ordinary citizen is followed by protestors by mistake; it doesn't take a lot of imagination to know how badly wrong that could go. One slide presents the SALUTE acronym used by United States military forces for reporting observations of the enemy: Size/Strength, Actions/Activity, Location, Uniform, Time/Date, and Equipment. Are there former military behind some of this? Not necessarily; this SALUTE process isn't exactly top secret stuff, and it's a logical way to organize a report. But it reveals a level of preparation and organization that isn't commonly found in supposedly spontaneous protests." . . .

"This appears to be an organized, funded, and fairly sophisticated opposition."

So very much more here

Bruce Springsteen’s Anti-American Anthem: Honoring the Rust Belt’s greatest sellout — and elitist suck-up.

The American Spectator   

. . . "“He isn’t the voice of American pride. He’s a salesman, a disingenuous one at that. He fooled a nation into cheering its own condemnation.” That’s well put. And I was among the young fools, cluelessly cheering the condemnation and making this working-class liberal a rich man in the process.

Springsteen by Bruno Munier

"It was July 1984, a very late weeknight. My buddy Mike and I closed up Perkins Restaurant in Butler, Pennsylvania, and left about 1 a.m. with a six-pack of Budweiser pounders for the old Kaufman’s department store in downtown Pittsburgh. There we joined a long line of fellow 1980s degenerates sleeping out all night on the sidewalk in quest of coveted Bruce Springsteen concert tickets.

"Perkins is a nice family restaurant chain. The restaurant where Mike and I worked — he as a junior manager and I as cook, dishwasher, and all-purpose grunt — flew a gigantic American flag on a high pole outside Clearview Mall. That flag always pleased patriotic Americans, of whom there were many in our hometown, including among classmates who had graduated from Butler High School the previous month.

"My friends and I weren’t political or ideological. We loved our country but knew little about politics. I couldn’t define a Republican or a Democrat. Like almost everyone in America, however, we liked Ronald Reagan. Even Walter Cronkite had marveled about Reagan, “I never thought I’d see anyone that well-liked ….  Nobody hates Reagan. It’s amazing.” That was evident when Reagan was reelected with nearly 60 percent of the vote, 49 of 50 states, and winning the Electoral College 525 to 13.

"We patriotic teens also liked Bruce Springsteen. Already an established pop-rock star, he had just reexploded on the music scene with a smash album, Born in the U.S.A. The album cover and Bruce himself were bedecked in red, white, and blue. The stars and stripes were his theme. Old Glory was front and center for every performance during Springsteen’s enormously successful year-long-plus tour that hit major cities in America (Pittsburgh twice, both the Civic Arena and Three Rivers Stadium) and around the world.

"When Springsteen, during those shows, belted out the title track to the album, the crowd went nuts with patriotic fervor, furiously waving small and large flags. It was a great American moment.

"Or so it seemed.

"Unfortunately, young people in that era had been conditioned through years of indiscernible lyrics to not listen carefully to the actual words of the often-fatuous ditties to which they hummed and tapped their toes and played air guitar. In days when you didn’t have phones to Google lyrics, you often had no idea what the hell rocker X, Y, or Z was saying. And if the lyrics were sung clearly enough to understand, we morons didn’t really think much about them.

"And there were few starker examples of that than Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.”

Mockery of the U.S.A.

"When one paused to actually listen to the words of this seemingly patriotic anthem — which capitalized big-time on the surge in patriotism of the Reagan 1980s — you realized that Bruce’s signature song was in reality a protest. Quite incredibly, given how it fooled everyone (our fault for being mindless dupes as much as Springsteen’s fault), the Boss’ famous track was a mockery of the American dream." . . .

How Obama doomed Democrats

 Don Surber

"Obama insisted on putting his party on the 20 side of 80/20 issues. Democrats are pro-criminals, pro-illegal aliens, pro-child mutilation and against anything and everything that Trump does."

"The New York Times is running a series of stories aimed at sparking Democrats after their second defeat by Donald Trump despite outspending him and owning all the media. NYT fears he’s the iceberg that hit their Titanic that for most of this century ran the country.

"NYT reported, “How the Electoral College Could Tilt Further From Democrats.

"The concern of the moment is over the 2030 Census which will reflect California’s loss of actual citizens to middle class flight and the deportation of the illegal aliens that Democrats use to fluff their population totals. They literally were replacing Americans with immigrants as they tried to maintain an Electoral College advantage that California does not deserve.

President Trump is deporting that plan." . . .

"Obama used his power to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to fight for their First Amendment right not to dispense artificial birth control to their employees.

"I’m not saying he is a pervert, but he used his power to finance the butchery of children in the name of transgendering.

"The first black president made life miserable for everyone by dividing us by race, sex and sex life.

"He used the FBI to spy on Donald Trump and likely many others as Susan Rice spent her time as the nation’s spy chief “unmasking”—that is identifying—Americans in what were supposed to be FBI recordings of foreign nationals.

"But Obama’s worst sin for Democrats was hanging on to power by becoming the first ex-president to live in DC to watch his moles in government work against his successor. For four years, he harassed President Trump with false investigations, phony baloney lawsuits and ludicrous impeachments.

"Under Biden, Obama had Trump’s home raided by his buddies in the FBI. Obama’s minions charges him with 91 counts of crimes that existed, as he said, “in the imagination.” . . . More.

Here’s why Democrats work so hard to defend criminals   . . . "Obama is an intelligent person who morphed Saul Alinsky, Marx, Critical Theory, and anarchy into a legitimate political movement.  Although it was successful in his personal ascension to power, this approach has not generally gained ground nationally.  (It is well received in the large urban cities with large minority populations.)  The movement toward radicalism includes a reduction in policing and punishment for crimes.  This results in chaos which threatens the local poor and minority population most giving them a sense of hopelessness and desperation.  This is critical to the theory.  Hence, these political leaders will resist any attempt to make our streets safer." . . .

What Made the Democratic Party Go Crazy?

Victor Davis Hanson   

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were the last Democrats to go through the motions of appealing to the middle class. But in retirement, they both cashed in, went global, and became multimillionaires by selling their name and brand—and so joined the madness. 

"The answer was not Trump alone.

"Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA movement “hijacked” the Republican Party.

"In characteristic projectionist fashion, the left is simply falsely attributing to their opposition the very hijacking that hit the Democratic Party.

"The Republicans are still the party of conservatism and traditionalism. But in the last decade, it adopted an expansionary middle-class agenda that has led to record party registration, its first popular presidential vote victory since 2004, and control of all three branches of government.

"The MAGA emphases also have accomplished what prior “moderate” Republican presidents and presidential candidates had sought but largely failed to achieve: making inroads with minorities and youth and substituting class commonalities for racial chauvinism.

" 'Thus, in 2024, 55 percent of Hispanic men and somewhere around 25 percent of black males voted for Trump—along with a +2 advantage for Trump among young men in general (18-29).

"In contrast, Joe Biden left office with below 40 percent popularity in many polls. His replacement, 2024 Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, despite a substantial advantage in funding and overwhelmingly biased, favorable media coverage, lost both the popular and Electoral College vote.

"Since the election, a variety of data points show a steady erosion in Democrat Party favorability (24 percent positive polling) and voter registration (for the first time in memory, Republicans are out-registering hemorrhaging Democrats in new voter affiliations).

"They are also on the losing end of a 40/60 split among voters on most issues—especially the border, energy, crime, transgenderism, and foreign policy—a truth that even the legacy media cannot disguise.

"The Democratic implosion does not necessarily mean they will not win back the House in the next election. Historically, it is difficult for even an unpopular out-party not to pick up lots of House and Senate seats in an administration’s first midterm. But if Democrats capture at least the House, the vote will not be for their party’s policies or politicians as much as a reflection of their ginned-up opposition to Trump, the messenger of a radical and controversial counterrevolutionary message.

"The Democratic project is bleeding out because it either does not address what the middle class is worried about, or it offers no solution to popular anger—namely over inflation, the out-of-control DEI commissariat, illegal immigration, crime, high energy prices and tyrannical Green New Deal policies, steep interest rates, unaffordable housing costs, and anemic foreign policies." . . .   More...

Who Has Been Busy Destroying Democracy?

 Victor Davis Hanson  

 'So, it is no surprise that the panicked Democrats bark at the shadows—given that they know their revolutionary, neo-socialist agenda is destroying them." . . .

“Destroying democracy”—the latest theme of the Left—can be defined in many different ways.

"How about attempting to destroy constitutional, ancient, and hallowed institutions simply to suit short-term political gains?
"So, who in 2020, and now once again, has boasted about packing the 156-year-old, nine-justice Supreme Court?
"Who talks frequently about destroying the 187-year-old Senate filibuster—though only when they hold a Senate majority?
"Who wants to bring in an insolvent left-wing Puerto Rico and redefine the 235-year-old District of Columbia—by altering the Constitution—as two new states solely to obtain four additional liberal senators?
"Who is trying to destroy the constitutionally mandated 235-year Electoral College by circumventing it with the surrogate National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?
"Does destroying democracy also entail weaponizing federal bureaucracies, turning them into rogue partisan arms of a president?
"So, who ordered the CIA to concoct bogus charges of “collusion” to  sabotage Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, the 2016-2017 transition, and the first 22 months of Trump’s first term?

"Who prompted a cabal of “51 former intelligence officials” to lie to the American people on the eve of the last debate of the 2020 election that the FBI-authenticated Hunter Biden laptop was instead the work of a “Russian intelligence operation?”

"Who ordered the FBI to connive and partner with social media conglomerates to censor accurate news deemed unhelpful to the 2020 Biden campaign?
"Who pulled off the greatest presidential coup in history by using surrogates in the shadows to run the cognitively debilitated Biden presidency, then by fiat canceled his reelection effort, and finally anointed as his replacement the new nominee Kamala Harris, who had never won a single primary delegate?
"Who ordered FBI SWAT teams to invade the home of a former president because of a classification dispute over 102 files out of some 13,000 stored there?
"Who tried to remove an ex-president and leader of his party from at least 25 state ballots to deprive millions of Americans of the opportunity to vote for or against him?" . . .Full article here...

Radicalism Rebranded: Is New York City’s ‘Mamdani Moment’ America’s Problem?

Kim Ezra Shienbaum - American Thinker

"Even foreign policy has been affected. Groups once universally condemned as terrorist organizations, like Hamas, have been rebranded in activist spaces as “resistance” movements, sheltering under the umbrella of Progressive intersectionality."

"Many Americans are asking how we reached a point where lawlessness, anti-Americanism, and open sympathy for terrorists are not only tolerated but celebrated—and where mayoral candidates who would once have been considered “fringe” can win primaries in major cities. The answer? Since the 1960s, the United States has undergone one of the most dramatic political rebrandings in modern history, particularly on the Left. The sixties radicals never disappeared. Their ideas, once considered extreme, have not only resurfaced, they’ve been rebranded.  Today, extremism is marketed to new generations as compassionate, inclusive, and enlightened, marching under the “progressive” banner and embraced by a growing bloc of post-9/11, college-educated voters.

"However, while the rhetoric has softened, the underlying ideology and its mission remain unchanged.  Indeed, the label “Progressive” is itself a branding triumph.  It wraps radical demands in the soft language of European-style social democracy.  But the resemblance is misleading.  Unlike Europe’s Social Democratic parties, which operate comfortably within free market economies and reject Marxist class conflict, the American progressive left is anti- capitalist and embraces identity-based Marxism, recasting social conflict in terms of race, ethnicity, and gender.  Today, that rebranding is no longer confined to universities or activist circles—it is shaping electoral outcomes.  The rise is not an aberration, but the culmination of a movement decades in the making.

The Radical Roots

"In the 1960s, radical groups like Students for a Democratic Society, the Weather Underground, and the Black Panthers openly called for dismantling America’s political and cultural framework.  Their rhetoric—violent, confrontational, and contemptuous of American identity—alienated the public.  The Left learned a crucial lesson: they could not win by storming the gates.  To succeed, they would need to exchange the vocabulary of revolution for the language of compassion, justice, and human rights.

The Rebranding Campaign

"Over decades, the Left refined its message. Words that once triggered alarm were replaced with language that sounded moral and inclusive.  This was more than semantics—it reframed the debate over what America is and should be.  Policies once seen as dangerous gained legitimacy by being rebranded as moral necessities.  Over the next several decades, the radicals and their ideological heirs shifted the battleground from the streets to the lecture hall, the newsroom, the school board meeting and now to City Hall." . . . More...

early and often America Would Be Better Off If Trump Won in 2020

  Intelligencer  

"A Trump win would have also meant no second Trump impeachment, then no federal criminal prosecution of Trump for his involvement in an attempted insurrection."

"When Donald Trump’s megabill passed the Senate, consummating nearly a half-year of aggressively reactionary policymaking by the 47th president, a colleague commented that “it’s like the Biden presidency never happened.” That’s true in the sense that between Trump’s executive orders and the megabill, it’s hard to find a single stone unmoved from where he found it when he took office in January. But on reflection, it might be quite literally true. The country, and even the Democratic Party, would very likely have been in better condition today had Trump been reelected in 2020 over Joe Biden.

"By that, I don’t mean Trump reversing his 2020 election defeat in Congress, the courts, or via the Capitol riot; I mean had he gained 77,000 more votes in four battleground states and hence won a majority in the Electoral College. Barring some lurid scandal, Democrats (with scattered dissents) would have accepted Trump’s victory as legitimate just as they did after his 2016 win, which similarly came with a national popular-vote deficit" . . .

Being affiliated with New York Magazine, author Kilgore is strongly anti-Trump.

Kamala Harris Reveals Her Possible Next Move, and You'll Be Rolling on the Floor Laughing

 RedState   

"We need to guard that spirit. We have to guard that spirit. Let it always inspire us. Let it always be the source of our optimism, which is that spirit that is so uniquely American. And let that then inspire us by helping us to be inspired to solve the problems that so many face." Kamala Harris

"What will Kamala Harris do next? That's been the question bouncing around since she suffered one of the most embarrassing presidential election defeats in modern history. 

"Despite having a billion dollars to spend over a three-month period, making her dollars go further than basically any other candidate in modern history, and having the press so in her corner that they laughably tried to remake her as a cultural icon, Harris still managed to not only lose, but lose in an electoral college landslide. In a sane world, the question wouldn't be what she does next. It'd be where she retires to while she collects lucrative checks from various corporate boards. 

"But this is 2025, and that means a Democrat never truly fails. They can only be failed, and that's left the former vice president searching for a new gig. Will she run for Governor of California? Will she bide her time to run for president again in 2028? Both seem like absurd options given how awful of a politician she is, but there's another option being weighed: Opening an institute of policy and ideas." . . .

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NYT: Kamala Harris, known for her deep knowledge and ability to articulate complex issues, is thinking about launching "an institute for policy and ideas."

Kamala Harris is a mean girl   . . ."GovTrack’s non-partisan report card rated Senator Kamala Harris as the furthest-left congressperson, even further left than self-avowed socialist, Senator Bernie Sanders. Harris continued her pro-abortion — and even pro-infanticide — rabidity while serving in the Senate, voting against the Born Alive Infant Survivors Protection Act, which simply required babies who survived abortion to be given medical care. The bill did not restrict abortion at all. Even so, Senator Harris voted “no.”

"There’s no other way to say it: Kamala Harris is mean. And like any mean girl, she enjoys calling those she doesn’t like “weird.” That’s her moniker for Trump and Vance — beloved fathers who, unlike Harris, have spent years building things bigger and better than political careers. Trump is a successful businessman and an adored grandfather. Vance is a veteran, entrepreneur, acclaimed author and family man whose story typifies the American Dream. Kamala Harris is a vengeful, power-hungry bully who calls normal “weird.' ” . . .