Trump hate is now the ONLY thing the Democratic – Latest News
Bruce Springsteen, 76 years younger, final week kicked off his new tour with a now-old ritual: histrionically denouncing President Donald Trump — the one thing all right-thinking people can agree on, proper?
“We are now, to many, America the reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation. That is this administration’s and this president’s legacy,” lectured The Boss.
Yet the Baby Boomer’s bluster brings up a essential query for the complete left, from institution Democrats to the wokest socialists: After Trump, what?
For now, the prez is their complete raison d’etre.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s each media look facilities on portray Trump as a would-be dictator — as a result of he desires to expel unlawful migrants, as a result of he favors voter ID, as a result of he desires to pay TSA brokers.
Having an agenda Dems dislike is so, so authoritarian.
Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom, for now the frontrunner in the ’28 Dem primaries, endlessly preens from his pulpit about Orange Man Bad — at the same time as he mounts a (deeply embarrassing) social-media strategy premised on imitating Trump’s voice and tone.
That identical focus persists down the line: Every actual White House contender, each main Democrat in Congress, each high-visibility prog politico acts as if Trump will probably be with us endlessly.
Why?
Because on each entrance that issues, Dems don’t have anything else.
They confronted a large repudiation in Trump’s 2024 victory: on immigration, on the economic system, on extremism on gender and race — but the wider get together hasn’t dropped any of its unpopular positions, however solely (principally) stopped speaking about them.
Democrats in Congress defunded DHS, creating weeks of chaos to symbolically punish ICE.
Dems’ “populist” Senate hopeful in Maine, Graham Platner, calls any skepticism about radical gender ideology an “invented culture-war scare.”
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu argues that “every single human has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter and those policies have been in place for a long time.”
Yes, the coalition that ushered Trump into workplace in 2024 is removed from steady.
His approval on key points — above all the economic system — has gone comfortable.
Recent information from the left-leaning Center for Working-Class Politics means that the less-white working-class blocs who trended towards Trump in the final election are trending away.
But not, the identical information show, back to the Democrats — and small surprise.
The get together has no financial plan past “tax the billionaires,” plus completely open borders to welcome a flood of unlawful labor that depresses low-skill wages.
That’s why Trump, who’ll by no means run again, stays the defining concern of the midterms for Democrats.
And if it really works in November, they’ll dig in deeper afterward: Rally ’spherical a third pointless impeachment, them possibly a fourth
So Trump will outline their 2028 efforts — with the GOP nominee absolutely painted as purely a puppet of the Mar-a-Lago Menace in deranged conspiracizing all through 2027.
Serious MAGA definition creep will probably be incoming as effectively. Everyone who doesn’t stand to the left of Hakeem Jeffries will get the label, from neocons to independent-thinking Democrats like Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman.
Get prepared for Vance is even worse! or Rubio’s the actual radical! and They make Trump look reasonable! too.
Yes, the GOP will face its own challenges building a post-Trump coalition, however not less than its factions will probably be rallying round what the get together ought to stand for.
Democrats will nonetheless be dashing to inform you what they’re towards, as a result of the solely thing they’re all for is vacuous Trump-hate.
