The Tide Has Turned

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Victor Davis Hanson reports on how Democrats are poling at a “new Historic low.” Democrats, VDH notes in American Greatness, enjoyed a huge lead in fundraising, legacy media favoritism, and incumbency. In the 2024 election, however, Democrats lost the White House to Donald Trump.  

One wonders what they accomplished by following their prior two impeachments with attempts to de-ballot Trump. What powers that be could have thought that sending an FBI SWAT team to raid Trump’s home or waging five lawfare civil and criminal suits and issuing 91 felony indictments against him would win over the public?”

Was conducting a media barrage of Hitler-Trump invectives or lowering the bar of demonization that likely led to two assassination attempts of Trump a good way to win an election?

“Apparently not.” Democrats have now lost the presidency, the House, and the Senate. The Supreme Court is conservative, which effectively means they have no power to subpoena anyone; they cannot block any nomination. Furthermore, much of their old administrative state control is eroding.

All the main issues—the economy, energy, border security, illegal immigration, crime, DEI/woke, and foreign policy—poll against the Democrats. The more they shouted that biological men must be able to compete as transgendered females in women’s sports, the more that 80% of the public disagreed, women were turned off, and the absurd idea was exploded by Trump.

The power of the administrative state, the legacy network news, print media, and Silicon Valley’s social media and search engines, the billions that poured into the Biden and Harris campaign all went for naught.

The efforts of moderators to warp debates, of network news to edit out unfavorable Harris or Biden comments, of leftists to cancel, deplatform, ostracize, censor, and shadow ban their enemies have failed. More likely to succeed now are numerous lawsuits against leftwing media for chronic defamation and censorship.

Billions Spent for Naught 

Along with wealthy bi-coastal elites, the Democrat Party is still full of sane, hard-working middle-class voters. What should the Party do?

A stable Party might renounce political suicide and perhaps return to something akin to the Clinton efforts of 1992 and 1996, suggests VDH. The Democrat Party spent 12 years in the wilderness (1980-1992),” before regaining power for the next 16-24 years. Then along came Barack Obama and his 2^nd term to “go full radical Jacobin,” only to lose it.

The current self-destructive obsessions with DEI/woke racialism, bi-coastal talk-down elitism, boutique transgenderism, and nonstop America Leftism all came to fruition during the Biden years. A shameless conspiracy to use an enfeebled Joe Biden as a prop to masque an otherwise unpalatable radical, neo-socialist agenda ensured the MAGA counterrevolution.

Since election day, instead of postmortem autopsy and introspection, “Democrats have doubled down on their veritable collective self-destruction.”

How to Win Back Voters?

Does it seem like a good idea for Democratic governors and mayors to vie for bragging that they will be foremost in breaking the law by impeding the efforts of the federal immigration services to find and deport illegal aliens—for now, half a million criminals?

Other activists are tipping off criminal illegal-alien gang leaders to avoid US government efforts to apprehend such dangerous criminals. That’s Democrats’ path to win back voters? By ensuring that the felons of M-13, Norteños, Sureños, and Tren de Aragua can flee and put in danger fellow American police officers?

Elon Musk and his team of young tech standouts are exposing shocking waste and fraud. Also exposed is mostly insanity in the USAID’s $50 billion of foreign aid grants.

No Way to Win Back the White House

Why are Americans paying for overseas drag shows or gay and trans advocacy in a culturally imperialist fashion in traditional and conservative societies abroad? Why are we paying eight percent of the budget of the hardcore left-wing BBC? It sure doesn’t seem like a way to regain the White House.

Politico, Politico, the NYT, or the Wuhan gain-in-function virology lab and birthplace of COVID-19! Do any of these really need millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars? It’s preposterous for Democrats to think Americans will hate Elon Musk for exposing that the US government may well have handed the communist Chinese the necessary cash to birth a manufactured killer virus that took one million American lives?”

Does the Democrat Party think it is helping itself by screaming in Congress that Elon Musk, “who revolutionized space travel, the auto industry, and social media,” is a Nazi, a dictator for showing that Biden’s USAID under leftist Samantha Power was a clearing house to enrich and empower well-off leftist organizations that only weakened their own country abroad? They loathe Musk for crafting a risky rescue mission to save the lives of American astronauts virtually abandoned by the incompetent Biden government space program. Really?

For Democrat officials to scream that Musk has no right to ferret out fraud, VDH reminds readers, is to be “historically ignorant.” Musk’s position in the Trump administration is hardly new.

(Musk) was selected by the president with the same powers that such appointees enjoy that are by statute not required to be approved by the Senate. The DOGE head is as legitimate as the National Security Advisor, who likewise needs no confirmation but also serves at the wishes of an elected president and likewise can do nothing without his approval.

Do Democrats realize that they staged a French-style cultural, political, and economic revolution and tried to destroy their enemies by weaponizing government and the media? But now they have lost.

This current counter-revolution is a return to centrist normalcy and just beginning. It is deemed wild only by feral Democrats, whose high crimes and misdemeanors, and various conspiracy theories over the years of their madcap rule are now being revealed every day.