I say all the time that Democrats are in an ideological bubble that they refuse to escape from and that they've convinced themselves to be the party of "not-Trump" to the degree that they will automatically take the opposing position of whatever position he takes.
Moreover, they will do this to their own detriment. As CNN's Scott Jennings said, it's an 80/20 problem, as Trump will find issues that 80 percent of people will agree on and stand on that side of things, forcing Democrats to automatically take the 20 percent approval side. This is purposefully shooting themselves in the foot purely out of spite for one man.
(READ: The 80/20 Issue Bringing Democrats to Their Knees)
What's bizarre is that they keep doing it. As I write this, Democrats in congress are making a huge show of resisting DOGE and its audit of various government agencies. This is something that the American people largely approve of and even voted for.
The repeated phrase from Democrats right now is "no one elected Elon Musk," and while that's true, we did elect Donald Trump, who told us repeatedly he'd send Musk and DOGE into our government to clean it up. It was part of the promised package.
We voted for this.
Yet the Democrats continue to act as if no one did despite it being clear that their position is wildly unpopular. The left continues to pearl clutch and act as if their fellow Americans are as horrified as they are that our government is being stripped of its corruption and power.
For instance, on Tuesday, an op-ed was released from the Washington Post titled "Trump 2.0: The most damaging first two weeks in presidential history" with the drophead being "Trump’s second term is all about curtailing government’s power and reach."
If you had sent me this article from the future two years ago, I would have run into the street screaming like a mad man that everything was going to be okay.
Within the article, the author, Ruth Marcus, clutches her pearls at the speed and efficacy with which Trump is destroying the government from within:
The onslaught against government itself has been the most alarming. Some of it involves the operations of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” operating with unclear legal authority as a kind of roving strike force to terrorize the bureaucracy.
Over the weekend, DOGE operatives forced out a senior Treasury Department official and gained access to the government’s highly sensitive centralized payment system, potentially exposing vast amounts of personnel data. They executed a hostile takeover and the shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development, an agency that was established by Congress and that can’t be disappeared without congressional action. “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,” the unelected Musk asserted about an entity that provides humanitarian assistance abroad. Reuters reported that DOGE officials “have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees.” And, in an echo of Musk’s “fork in the road” email to Twitter employees after he bought the platform, federal workers have been encouraged to resign en masse, with an email offering inducements of questionable legality.
Yes, this was the plan. This is what America wanted. We want more of it.
The panic piece continues:
The reason to worry about this is not because of unfairness to federal employees, although there is that — it’s because of the debilitating, even dangerous, impact on government operations. Disruption is one thing in Silicon Valley, where the stakes are merely profit and loss. It is quite another when you are talking about a government charged with ensuring the safety of its citizens.
“What is happening right now,” Stier said, “is the destruction of the institution itself.”
I don't think I need to remind you how bad it was under the Biden administration, but this goes even further than that. The government hasn't had this kind of cleaning out for decades and decades. It was long overdue. After the Biden administration took advantage of the deep-seated corruption within our government and used it against the people, the people voted for what Stier said is "the destruction of the institution itself."
Only the institution he's talking about is our government overall. The destruction we're cheering on is the institution of bureaucracy and waste, which seems to be the thing Democrats want to defend tooth and nail. That is a 20 position.
Yet the left doesn't seem to understand this. It's like they don't want to. They have to hate Trump even if the cost is their own careers and reputations. Moreover, they do so with a bizarre confidence that the people are with them.
Honestly, if this stuff was all being said by a person in a straight jacket, rocking themselves in a padded room, it would make just as much sense at this point.
