Imagine watching a man experienced with fixing cars repair an engine with speed, efficiency, and competence, and seeing someone come up and proclaim that the man is actually destroying the car and that the only way to truly fix the vehicle is to smash the windows and flatten the tires.
Which they then proceed to do.
Because you're a normal person with a working brain, you'd understand right away that the person going "Street Fighter 2" on the car is crazy and probably should be kept away from your ride. They clearly can't be trusted, and besides, you already know a really great mechanic.
That's the Democrat PR problem in a nutshell right now.
As my colleague Rusty Weiss reported on Friday, Trump's popularity has been surging and for good reason:
The poll shows a consistent upward trend for the President since early June, when it sat at 47 percent.
Now, a significant number—55 percent—approve of the way Mr. Trump is performing, compared to 45 percent who disapprove. The President has never seen numbers like this previously.
"This is the highest approval figure we have ever shown for Donald Trump," said JL Partners co-founder James Johnson in a statement to the Daily Mail.
This record high reflects growing popularity in the President's anti-crime, anti-illegal immigration policies. The media, despite their best efforts, is unable to sway public perception of his performance.
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The thing is, this surge isn't surprising, at least to anyone with that aforementioned working brain... or Democrats, but I'm being redundant here.
As I've pointed out many times in the past, including on Thursday, Democrats have made themselves the anti-Trump party. This is a really stupid way to go about things, as the point of being a political party is to have a governing style based on an ideology. "I hate Trump" is not a style of governing; it's just reacting negatively to whatever a singular man does.
This puts them on the 20 end of every 80/20 issue, forcing them to denounce Trump and any good thing he does, even in the midst of it working.
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Take the crime in D.C., for example. Even as D.C. is experiencing an incredible reduction in crime, including murder, the Democrats cannot stop themselves from getting in front of every working camera they can find to denounce what Trump is doing as dictatorial.
Illegal aliens are being deported, jobs are opening up, crime is going down, and the Democrats are virtue signaling behind podiums about how they're going to do whatever they can to protect these people from the bad orange man.
Democrats are operating like they're still enjoying full control over the information highways. They lie with impunity, believing that the legacy media and internet gatekeepers will disseminate their message far and wide. This is an old, outdated playbook that the left can't seem to get past.
We, in the citizenry, have far more information outlets to choose from nowadays that make the legacy media look laggy and corrupt just at a glance. The Democrats see the same information going out that we do, and know where said information is being circulated, yet they continue to work in ways that just don't do it anymore.
Moreover, this is like the Wizard of Oz still operating after he's discovered. That little "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" moment doesn't just stop once they see no one's buying it; they literally keep shouting in the microphone, cranking and pulling levers as you watch them.
Naturally, this is going to make them look absolutely insane, and make the other guy look pretty great by comparison.
I can't repeat this enough: The Democrats' problem isn't Donald Trump, it's themselves. They cannot get out of their own way long enough to course correct and at least garner something a bit closer to sensible policy positions that actually make sense and - most importantly - don't wind up with anybody being dead.
This should be a pretty easy thing to understand, but the Democrats are just too fixated on Trump to see anything else, including how ridiculous their own decisions are.
And honestly... that's just fine. Perhaps they can keep this going until well after the 2028 election.
