Trump has been stuffing his own pockets, using this second term in the White House, right out in the open. In spite of what the law says, and it's pretty clear, Trump accepted a $400 million bribe in the form of an luxury jet from Qatar. He's illegally involved in a cryptocurrency business directly connected to his Presidency and he has not relenquished control of any of his business enterprises, another violation of the law. We, the people, are represented by those laws, so he is flaunting his ability to do as he pleases in our faces. He has nothing but contempt for the American people, including the ignorant and stupid people who call themselves his MAGA supporters.
What would happen to any one of us, if we decided to blatantly flaunt the law?
So there's the message. Trump is giving tax cuts to billionaires, while the rest of us will have to pay for them while bearing the cost of his tarrifs in increased prices in the consumer goods we buy.
That's a pretty simple message. Let's see if the party leadership can get on board, avoid complications and win big in 2026 when the midterms come around, because they have convinced people they are the ones to win this.
There Are Some Examples to Follow
We don't have to reinvent the wheel here. Senator Bernie Sanders has consistently been promoting this message for his entire political career. His continuous stump speech addresses these issues in a clear and concise manner. He, along with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been out in front of this theme, and their message is certainly resonating with voters. Why not build a little bit of party unity here, since we are clearly on the same side, and take advantage of a lot of foundational ground work that has already been done by them?
I'm in favor of carrying this one step further than we've gone before. Make Senator Sanders the Senate Minority Leader. In terms of effectiveness, in getting things done, the prospect of that happening goes up significantly if Senator Sanders is in charge. Yeah, I know he's an independent, but he's far more effective at communicating this message, and he won't play the old school political games that imprison Schumer.
Yep, that would be a bold move, but Democrats need to start doing that a lot more often, not only to show that they're serious and not playing political games, but maybe to slap themselves across the face to wake up and smell the coffee, with a 26% job approval rating in Congress.
That's pretty convincing evidence that David Hogg's plan to try and get 20 new faces and names out there who are serious and won't hold back like so many are doing now will be successful in getting Democrats a majority in the midterm elections. Don't take that for granted, it will take work, but he's doing something about it when everyone else is playing status quo politics.
Why Does This Party Seem Determined to Hold Itself Back?
Be bold. Take some risks.
Don't underestimate what we're fighting against, which I think is a huge problem. Trump does not play politics. He's a demagogue. His rhetoric reflects commonly held misconceptions when it comes to politics, based on faulty impressions or outright lies. And it's not a matter of the truth being somewhere in the middle. I can't think of a better example of his attempt at pushing a false narrative than his insistence that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating the pets of people who lived there. He could not even come up with one example of such an incident, even by offering bribes to people who lived there to support his lie.
There shouldn't be any hesitation in challenging something like that. But, as far as my observation of that situation goes, Democrats completely missed the opportunity to march in there, pack out a high school football field and make the lies about Haitians look like lies about Haitians. But I don't recall seeing Senator Sherrod Brown, who was running for re-election, taking advantage of what could have been a gift that keeps on giving. He didn't even go to Springfield after all of that mess came out in the debate, and when the votes were counted, he lost to Republican Bernie Moreno. It might not have made a difference, but boy, was that a missed PR opportunity.
We could be rid of Citizens United, the Presidential immunity ruling, and we could have saved Roe with risky, but bold, action back in 2020, when we had control of both houses of Congress and the White House. We could have made sure Trump was in prison and never saw the inside of the White House again. But boldness carries political risk, and it was the party establishment that wanted to slow things down and not rock the boat. So Trump continued to escape justice.
We are at a point, just over 100 days into Trump's second term, where his overall approval rating as President, and his favorability rating has fallen into the toilet. We expected that, it happened last time. He cannot sustain support for a long time because he is so unstable and unpredictable, and he's not a competent leader. He's incapable of the kind of stability that is required for people to trust him. His assertions are lies, which means he promises to do things about something that doesn't exist. He's laid out his entire first term list of achievements in this "big, beautiful bill," so making that as unpopular as possible will have a long term electoral effect. It's the kind of messaging Democrats have been dreaming about, and now, here it is.
What will we do with it?
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