Tom Homan destroys Politico's Dasha Burns when she casts doubt on need for ICE to wear masks

‘Let Me Answer’: Tom Homan Steamrolls Reporter Who Casts Doubt On Need For ICE To Wear Masks

“The same people that are complaining about ICE wearing masks, have they ever said anything about BLM [Black Lives Matter] protesters wearing masks?”

"BURNS: "I think one of the things that's had a lot of folks up in arms is that ICE agents — unlike other law enforcement — have been masked to protect their identities. That's not something that we've really had on this scale in this country. Do you—"

HOMAN: "Well, we never had the scale of attacks on ICE we have now — up 700% attacks on ICE, doxing against ICE agents."

BURNS: "Well, you've had increased attacks on police officers as well in the wake of the defund the police movement, too. But they haven't put masks on."

HOMAN: "Name a police agency that has a 700% increase in assaults. Name one. You can't."

BURNS: "I haven't looked at that data, yeah."

HOMAN: "You won't find one. The attacks on ICE is unprecedented, 700% increased. And we're not even talking about the doxing of agents, their spouses and their children. So they're wearing masks to help give them some sort of protection."

"The same people that are complaining about ICE wearing masks, have they ever said anything about BLM protesters wearing masks?"

BURNS: "Well, I mean, that leads me to the question that like: do you have concerns that it—?"

HOMAN: "Let me answer though. Let me answer. Did they ever say anything about the masked protesters that became criminals on college campuses that threatened Jewish students and took over buildings, destroyed property? They were all wearing masks."

"Did anybody pass legislation saying they can't wear a mask during a protest? No."

"I support ICE wearing masks ... there needs to be some level of protection because the attacks is unprecedented."

"They're trying to make this country safe again — and they're being vilified for it and attacked for it."

"Zero tolerance on this."

@DailyCaller

Divine Justice? Schiff Criminal Referral Accuses Him of Same Thing Dems Prosecuted Trump For

 Western Journal  

"This karmically satisfying incident is poetic justice for Schiff, who has never been punished for shamelessly pushing the bogus Russian-collusion hoax."

 

"In a farcical irony, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California could face criminal prosecution for financial real-estate fraud — something Democrats had toothlessly accused President Donald Trump of doing.

"As a reminder, Trump was not criminally charged in the 2022 civil lawsuit filed by left-wing New York Attorney General Letitia James.

"In contrast, Schiff could be criminally prosecuted and faces a potential jail sentence of 20 years.

"William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, made the criminal referral in a May 27 letter to the Justice Department, but the allegations were made public this week.

"In his letter, Pulte said, Schiff “has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from 2003-2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property.” 

" In a nutshell, Schiff — a resident of California — is accused of falsely claiming his Maryland home was his primary residence in order to get a lower interest rate.

" 'Mr. Schiff appears to have falsified records in order to receive favorable loan terms, and also appears to have been aware of the financial benefits of a primary residence mortgage when compared to a secondary residence mortgage,” Pulte wrote in his criminal referral letter to the DOJ.

"In 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2013, Schiff refinanced his Maryland home and listed it as his “principal residence.”

"At the same time, he simultaneously listed his California condo as his primary residence in separate financing documents.

"If these allegations are true, Pulte said, it appears Schiff committed the following federal crimes:  

• Bank fraud.
• Making false statements to a financial institution.
• Wire fraud.
• Mail fraud.

More here...     Let me confess that this one was hard to believe but some hoaxes are hard to let go. This is from Miranda Devine, a lady known for crashing a hoax or two.   

I guess that this is, as Miss Devine points out, a reflection of where we get the news. It's hard for some to shut off that network with a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Who is also going to tell these Democrats that the reporter they've been reading won a Pulitzer for peddling something based on a lie?     

The party of ‘compassion and caring’ extends neither if you disagree with them.

American Spectator  

"I am not sure what will become of a party that, despite its declarations of compassion and caring, time and time again allows unfettered hunger for hatred to delude rational thinking." 

 "Just when I thought the lefties reached rock bottom, they resurface with creative catastrophes that I couldn’t have dreamed up in my most degenerate dreams.

"I’ve gotten used to dodging bullets fired from those I used to consider friendly acquaintances, if not friends, over the past few years, but recently, the posts and comments I’m reading on social media have left even me speechless. “She has gone full Heritage Foundation and doesn’t care,” someone I don’t really know commented on an article I wrote concerning women in politics. Considering Heritage is my employer, I can affirm this is a factual statement. However, the rest left my jaw agape. “But she will care when they take away her laptop and cut off her finger for reading and writing. Women who sell out women are vile.” Pardon me for a moment while I alert our HR department that half of our company is in jeopardy of losing limbs!

"Another former colleague posted an article on Facebook from some random internet site I’ve never heard of called “Raw Story,” which, I am sure, is known for its non-partisan, award-winning journalism. The title of the piece? “Evangelical church urges Trump admin to ‘execute’ LGBTQ Americans.” I chuckled to myself. No one of sound mind would take this headline seriously. But my Facebook friend’s comment on the piece was even more hysterical. “Like all the sane people in America told you. First they come for one group. Then it keeps getting bigger. As a person who had family and friends escape the holocaust. We are telling you. This is just the beginning. To those who voted for this, a big FU.” Remind me, please, how they are the sane ones.

"It takes a decent amount of self-control not to fire back at posts that are this stupid. Sometimes, I become particularly snarky and fire off a response like “OMG. I was just down on the White House front lawn and you should see the camps they are building for all the gays!” Other times, I have the urge to explain that two of Trump’s top cabinet officials are gay and that he is more liberal than conservative, particularly when it comes to social policy. However, I know any efforts to appeal to their rational mind will be futile. If they ever had one, Trump has killed it.

"Increasingly, I simply feel grateful that God pulled me out of the cesspool of progressive ideology that deludes the mind and corrupts the heart." . . .

"Newsom isn’t the boss. He’s not the guy who owns the plantation. He’s more like the overseer."

 Gavin Newsom Is Now the Simon Legree of Modern American Politics

"Until it happened in real life, the idea that California’s governor would have come out publicly in defense of child trafficking and forced labor on illegal drug farms in his state would have been relegated to the dustbin of the absurd.

"But of course, the absurd is real life in Gavin Newsom’s California…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media Thursday to bash a federal immigration raid on a large cannabis farm in Southern California, where agents clashed with protesters and sprayed tear gas.

“Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum,” Newsom wrote on X in response to a video from KTLA of protesters and apparent targets of the raid running from tear gas sprayed by officers in Camarillo, Calif.

Trump administration officials hit back at the governor’s comment.

“Why are there children working at a marijuana facility, Gavin?” the account for the Department of Homeland Security replied.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said 10 minors in the country illegally were found at the facility, which he said is “now under investigation for child labor violations.”

“This is Newsom’s California,” Scott wrote. 

"And when the absurd rears its head, it’s rightly ridiculed by the sane"

. . ."The President of Glass House Farms, the cannabis farm that federal immigration authorities raided in California on Thursday despite protests, has donated thousands to Democrats in California.Co-founder, president, and board director Graham Farrar, who self-identifies on social media as residing in Santa Barbara, California, has made numerous political donations to the Santa Barbara County Democratic Central Committee’s federal political action committee and Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., according to Federal Election Commission records.According to California public campaign finance records, he also donated $10,000 to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2018, and his most recent public political donation was to California Democratic Assemblymember Gregg Hart in July 2023."

…

“ 'The rhetoric does not match the reality,” Ingoglia told Politico. That's the Democrat party in a nutshell, right there." RedState

 "We've noted before that today’s Democrats are operating with a mental deficit. A new poll further confirms they are a broken people. While it’s good for a cheap laugh, because they are often smug, condescending and hateful to those who disagree with them, their fragile psychological state poses a threat to the republic."

Is There No Cure For Democrats’ Derangement?  . . ."In other words, there was nothing to investigate, because the entire rancid stew was concocted to drive Trump from the presidency. “President Obama” and then-CIA Director John Brennan “knew before the FBI opened up on that information that this was a dirty trick by Hillary Clinton,” says John Solomon, chief executive and editor in chief of Just the News.

"Much of the blame for the Democrats’ belief in the myth goes to the press, which put its full faith in the fraudulent story and convinced tens of millions of readers, viewers and listeners that Trump was, if not a Russian agent, a collaborator with Moscow in a plan to ensure his election. Two legacy outlets, the New York Times and Washington Post even shared a Pulitzer Prize for covering a lie as if it were the truth. They won’t return the prize and the craven Pulitzer board won’t rescind it.

"Of course the Democrats chose then as they choose now to believe a big lie. It’s consistent with their dark personality qualities, their “high narcissistic and psychopathic traits,” their penchant for always looking for “opportunities for positive self-presentation and displays of moral superiority, to gain social status, to dominate others, and to engage in social conflicts and aggression to satisfy their need for thrill seeking.”

"Democrats even admit they need help – 45% of those who say they’re liberals believe they have poor mental health. Only only one in five say their mental health is excellent and just one in four say it is very good." . . .

A Spectre Is Haunting the Democrats: The Spectre of Communism   . . ."That sounds quite similar to accusations Democrats have hurled at Republicans over the years: “How dare you question my patriotism,” and all that. As the Democrats’ policies grew progressively more anti-American, the gang of hacks, DEI hires, and grifters that once proudly styled itself as the Party of Jefferson and Jackson did everything it could to make people think pointing out that increasingly obvious fact was both ridiculous and offensive. And so, ever fewer people have dared to do so, even as it became even more obvious that hating America and having a taste for Marxism went with being a Democrat like arrogance and self-righteousness went with being Barack Obama." . . .  Robert Spencer

Why the left, from normal Dems to Antifa, have lost their collective minds 

..."Jeffries harangued Congress for eight hours; New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker went on for 25 — both to no effect. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hit the rally trail in private jets to rail about oligarchs, omitting that the ultra-rich are not only mostly leftists but also the funders of the Democratic Party.Sometimes the Democrats in Congress make bizarre videos, featuring profanity like f—k or s—t. On other occasions, they scream and interrupt Congress."

"Finally, the left is outraged that so far, the Trump counterrevolution is working.

"The economy is solid. The border is closed. Military recruitment has radically recovered.

"The budget bill has passed. The Iranian nuclear threat has lessened. NATO is strengthening. The Middle East has a chance for calm.

"Tariffs did not cause inflation. Deportations created more, not fewer, American jobs. Biological men will likely no longer be winning women’s athletic contests." . . .

How do we explain the left’s hatred of America and their undying affection for criminal illegals?

Patricia McCarthy  

"Trump’s re-election has turned the left into mind-numbed blithering idiots; protectors of all manner of criminal invaders – murderers, rapists, pedophiles, etc." 

"There can no longer be any doubt that the Democrat party not only hates America as founded, they mean to re-imagine our nation as a socialist/communist country it was never meant to be.  

"As many others have observed, the Democrat party has moved so far to the left, they are embracing socialist/communist Zorhan Mamdani, to take just one example.

"Our mis-educated youth has been so thoroughly indoctrinated for the last two generations, taught to hate the country that is the freest in the world, and to systematically undermine everything that has made America great over the last 249 years, they have no concept of how they have been misled. 

"They do not know what socialism is, what fascism is, nor do they have an inkling of what communism is about (100 million lives lost to it in the 20th century, with millions more driven into exile), and yet the young people of New York came out to vote for an Islamic communist without their having a shred of understanding of what communism is, what Islamo-fascism is.  

"If Mamdani wins, they will find out. 

"He is a fraud who will pretend to be whatever and whoever he thinks will gain him a position of power.

“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”  --Voltaire

"If there is anything that has been made clear of late, it is that the Democrat party has morphed into a Marxist organization that not only supports violence but encourages it with gusto.  

"They want to see blood spilled, preferably law enforcement blood but a martyr's blood would serve their purpose even more.  

"They are supporting the vicious, recruited and well-paid protesters who show up to attack ICE, the Border Patrol, local police and sheriffs." . . .  

Facts to ponder while most of the media peddles Democrat talking points to destroy Trump and Republicans and to elect Democrats  

"The Democrats are the ones who want to dictate what kind of cars, trucks, appliances, health care, and energy that people are allowed to use, not Trump. Trump wants to give freedom of choice to the people and private sector on all these things."

More wisdom from Melanie Phillips: Why the West Fell for the Palestinian Lie

Matan Hasidim  "Melanie Phillips is a British-Jewish author and journalist, known for her ideological journey from the liberal left to the conservative right. She is a frequent guest on international podcasts and media channels.

"To watch my full conversation with her, click here: • מלאני פיליפס: "המערב החילוני מתאבד אל מול ...  

"Among her books are "Londonistan" (2006), which warned of the Islamization of Britain, and "The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth and Power" (2010), on the dangers of secularism and the collapse of Western identity. Her latest book, "The Builder's Stone: How Christians & Jews Built the West", was published in 2025." #israelnews #israel #israelhamaswar

Nova survivor recounts her experience with Palestinians on Oct 7th:

Worst Outlet of the Week - Who Took Bottom Honors in the Latest Round of Dysfunctional Media?

 RedState

"It was an active time for the press, coming off the nation’s birthday. So much was swirling that the media did not know where to focus. There were continuing Texas flood accusations to be made, a recalibration of a communist running for the New York City mayoral post, more anxiety over the Epstein List, and the needed hysteria over ongoing deportation actions and the detention facility being opened in the Florida Everglades.

"All of this amounted to a severe lack of balanced thinking, the kind of thing we have come to expect from the press. In other words, it was a case of hysterical status quo. So amid all of the talk of activities in The Swamp, as well as teeth gnashing over what is going on in an actual swamp, let’s tug on the hip waders and begin trudging through the muck and mire that is our media complex and determine who took top (bottom) honors this week.

     THE CONTENDERS

The Bulwark – In one podcast, they claimed 93 percent of ILLEGAL immigrants were not criminals. With blatant wishcasting at play, Bill Kristol tried to position that Elon Musk’s bid to form a new political party would threaten the Republicans. Sam Stein had to take down his insults of EPA administrator Lee Zeldin being a contrails conspiracy nutter because he neglected to read Zeldin’s link he had posted, which debunked the theory. The site called for Democrats to boldly take over the dialogue regarding LGBπ issues and then shut off the replies on the column.

NBC News– Kristen Welker peppered Kristi Noem with accusations that detainees are being put in “cages”, something that is never a complaint when a Democrat is in the White House. Meanwhile, the network took it as gospel what those held in Alligator Alcatraz were describing about the conditions. In one report they tried to blame the ending of USAID as leading to a possible increase in pregnancies in another country (while ignoring the fact that needed aid money is handled by the State Department). As for those losing their jobs at State, Ken Delaninan arrived with a bat-crap sympathetic announcement – that it could impact our fight against climate change.

Washington Post – WaPo’s CEO delivered an our-way-or-the-highway command to the staff, telling them a buyout is their choice if they do not follow the new standards. The paper claimed relief aid was being blocked to California fire victims by President Trump, but then was hit with the statistics of FEMA’s efforts. They actually ran an op-ed from a genuine clown, stating his profession was insulted by having the president compared to them. 

CNN – Natasha Bertrand was back to shilling for intel activists by stating Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arbitrarily halted arms shipments to Ukraine, only to be dispelled by the facts that the DoD was reassessing the domestic needs ahead of shipments. Dana Bash continued her fractured focus on blaming Trump for the Texas flooding response. She claimed Republicans were incapable of politicizing the event as it was in a red state - as she continued to politicize it. She then brought on Bill Nye to blame the flooding on Trump’s opposition to climate change. Resident polling contrarian Harry Enten broke hearts at his own network by showing that the general public has not grown to accept climate change hysteria.

THE WINNER:  THE MIAMI HERALD:  With the Alligator Alcatraz development rolling out, the South Florida newspaper was not just on the case – it was positively obsessed.

"They were at the forefront of reports that the detainees were claiming the conditions were horrific, with mosquitoes the size of elephants and the food served containing maggots. (This, after just a day or so.) One new resident also said the facility is "about minus two degrees" – in Florida, in a Swamp… IN JULY.

"That this was all an example of the Telephone Game-level of reporting needed to be ignored, as it relied on third-hand accounts passed to them through family members.

"Along with detainees, unsurprisingly, Democrat lawmakers gave the location a 1-Star Yelp review." . . .

David Hitch

Gavin Newsom’s Donors Marijuana Farm Now Under Federal Investigation For Child Labor Violations After ICE Raid

 TFPP Wire

Gavin Newsom:  "Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields. Trump calls me “Newscum” — but he’s the real scum."

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

"Federal agents raided a prominent California cannabis farm linked to top Democratic donors, rescuing illegal unaccompanied minors allegedly working there. The fallout has exposed deep divides between state leaders and federal immigration enforcement.

Key Facts:

• Glass House Farms in Camarillo, CA was raided by federal authorities on Thursday.
• DHS confirmed nine unaccompanied illegal minors were rescued during the operation.
• The farm’s president, Graham Farrar, has donated thousands to Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
• Protesters clashed with federal agents; one suspect allegedly fired at law enforcement.
• Gov. Newsom condemned the raid and deflected when asked about the shooting incident.

The Rest of The Story:

Federal authorities executed immigration raids on Glass House Farms in Camarillo and Carpinteria, California, detaining illegal workers and rescuing nine unaccompanied minors.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin praised the operation, stating, “So glad our law enforcement could rescue another child.”

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott revealed the farm is now under investigation for child labor violations.

Military helicopters flew low over fields to flush out hidden individuals.

Protesters soon gathered, some clashing with agents who used tear gas and smoke bombs to maintain control.

An unidentified individual allegedly fired a pistol at federal officers.

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to that suspect’s conviction. . . . More...

Legal Insurrection: Dems Outraged Over Lawful ICE Raid, Silent on Child Labor at Illegal Weed Farm  . . . "So when Democrats learned that ICE agents had conducted a lawful immigration raid at Glass House Farms — an illegal cannabis grower near Camarillo, California — they went into a collective meltdown. Protestors tried to block military vehicles as they arrived at the site. They tried to jam the poles of their Mexican flags into the vehicle’s tires and smash their windows. They threw rocks and one demonstrator is caught on video firing a pistol at law enforcement agents. I wrote about the protest this morning here.

"But it didn’t stop there. Grandstanding Democratic politicians and pundits have spent the last 24 hours filling the airwaves with condemnations of the raids." . . .

UPDATE: Oops: Gavin Newsom's 'Strawberry Farmer' Turns Out to Be a Child Predator  

. . ."Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom stayed busy, of course, preening for the cameras as he readies his expected 2028 presidential run. He waxed poetic about the wonderful souls working on the farm and blasted the feds for trying to help clean up the disastrous mess that he helped create:" . . .

. . ."Gavin Newsom didn’t care about these people before, and he didn’t care that there was forced child labor going on at pot farms in his state. He only cares now because he hopes it will give him some sort of political edge. He has ushered in a massive decline in almost every area in what was formerly one of the great states in the union, and he wants to bring his dystopian vision to the rest of America." . . .

After a Week of Fumbles We Need to Ask: How Are Democrats at All Enamored of a Dunce Like Gavin Newsom?!    Behind a paywall, but TD wants you to know of this post, liking the tone of it.

Will John Brennan Ever Tell the Truth?

Victor Davis Hanson

"Brennan was at the center of three of the greatest scandals in recent history that may well have changed American history. His promotion of the fake Steele dossier sought to destroy the Trump campaign and sway the election in favor of Hillary Clinton." 

"When asked why the current Department of Justice might be investigating him, former CIA Director John Brennan answered, as was his wont, with a complete lie: “I am clueless about what it is exactly that they may be investigating me for.”

"Clueless? Hardly. Brennan knows full well that his fingerprints are on some of the greatest scandals of the last decade. These machinations have threatened the very integrity of our institutions and elections.

"He has a record of serially lying to Congress, the public, and the media, and doing so emphatically.

"In 2011, as the government’s chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan absurdly insisted that the Obama administration’s drone strikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border had not killed a single civilian noncombatant. Yet multiple sources proved the claim was clearly false. In truth, the number of innocents killed was likely somewhere between 50 and 70.

"In 2014, as director of the CIA, Brennan lied again, doubling down by denying that CIA operatives were hacking into U.S. Senate staffers’ computers.

" 'As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. . . . We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.”

"Here, too, he was caught lying and forced to apologize—but never charged with perjury.

"But Brennan’s biggest fabrications came in 2017 when, as an ex-CIA director, he testified before a congressional committee that he neither knew who had commissioned the now-infamous bogus Steele dossier nor whether the CIA had relied on it for its intelligence assessments.

"But Brennan knew well at the time that then NSA director Michael Rogers and James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, had both gone on record that the dossier did play a major role in the intelligence community’s interagency assessment. Indeed, the concocted dossier was delivered directly to President Obama. And John Brennan was one of its most ardent advocates, seeing in it a way to undermine the Trump campaign." . . .   More...

Soros machine hands Mamdani millions for his socialist quest for control of New York City

 Monica Showalter 

"Now the Soros plan is to take mayoralties, the better to finish off cities in ways district attorneys and secretaries of state cannot. Yet they present this boob as an independent. He's a puppet on some strings." . . .

"Al Takiya"

"Investigative reporter Paul Sperry has uncovered an interesting fact about leftist mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani:

BREAKING: Alex Soros has funneled $24 mil to the NYC mayoral campaign of Muslim Zohran Mamdani thru his fundraising arm Working Families,which means Soros' wife HUMA ABEDIN,whose parents are Muslim Brotherhood, "will control the mayor of NY," a lawyer investigating Abedin told me

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 12, 2025

"The New York Post reported something similar:

Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn’t exist, but it’s unlikely he’d be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.

...

... in less than a decade, Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation’s records show.

"So this freak is no maverick. He's not a fresh face, an independent voice, a new political concept. He's a creature of the tired old Soros project, a pawn, a foot soldier in the great Soros quest to dismantle rule of law and create chaos, just as the Soros catspaws have done in virtually all blue cities where Soros-backed district attorneys no longer prosecute crime, and in blue states where Soros-backed secretaries of states preside over elections filled with fraud and long, long delays in counting." . . . More here...

The Rise of the Islamo-Nazi Left in America 

 . . ."The head of the SS then addressed the fact that Germany and Islam had common enemies: “the Bolsheviks, England, America, all constantly driven by the Jew.” "The Nazis of yesteryear loved Islam, as do the European and American leftists of today who promote the same antisemitic, anti-Christian, Islamo-Nazi philosophy of Hitler and al-Husseini.  For example, modern-day Democrats turn a blind eye to the Muslim death penalty for gays and transexuals, as well as the Muslim groomers and rape gangs that terrorize girls and women." . . .

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.