“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” -William F. Buckley
With the re-election of President Donald Trump to a second, non-consecutive presidential term, Democrats have demonstrated an increased disconnect from the reality of the situation. Only a few weeks removed from the inauguration of President Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance - whose ascent to that office should be celebrated in its own right instead of slandered - it already has reached a fever pitch. The reality is that American voters resoundingly balked at continuing the extremist liberal agenda of the Biden administration under Kamala Harris - no doubt yet another potential extension of former President Barack Obama's administration - and which currently is in the process of being dismantled. The disconnect is a failure not only to accept this circumstance but also to comprehend why this is happening. Democrats seem to have the misguided delusion that the Trump administration - in tandem with a full Republican majority in Congress and a right-leaning Supreme Court - would keep intact and maintain the former's calamitous and destructive leftist policies, rather than swing the pendulum back under a conservative agenda for which it has been duly elected into office to implement.
Democrats as a political party have to reconcile that their ideology and worldview has been stymied by an electorate that rejected it. For the soul of the nation to heal from the wounds inflicted by those disastrous policies, it is beyond time for them to take their medicine. Sensitive to the devastation and loss caused by the latest California wildfires, they nonetheless are a prime example of leftist policies literally going up in smoke. While the situation is indeed man-made, it easily could have been avoided decades ago with proper standards of forest management and water collection that radical environmentalists and their monied politicos lobbied against. Like the nation as a whole, Californians hopefully will realize that it is the failure of their elected officials to enact those necessary climate-related policies - rather than defaulting to the usual boogeyman “climate change” hoax - and cast them out of office. Calls by Democrats to be included in the conversation about pertinent issues, many of their own making, is enlightening if not hypocritical; having had years to address these matters, they suddenly feign interest to undoubtedly hinder the effort.
Most people dislike having their worldview challenged, and politicians especially fear losing influence and power, so anyone attempting to is dismissed as either unhinged or unqualified. Of course, it is extremely difficult to even penetrate let alone expunge the brainwash after years of manipulation and propaganda. This is acutely evident as concerns Trump’s cabinet nominees, who have faced an onslaught of melodramatic hyperventilating from the bureaucratic swamp and underlying deep state that is terrified of full exposure and accountability. The reeking hypocrisy alone is insufferable. Moreover, Democrats clearly learned nothing from their election losses and even less its significance given their self-moralizing behavior and lack of introspection. This is highlighted by their recent leadership selections, the newest crop of laughable officeholders nauseatingly recycling and poised to double down on issues and policies that previously alienated voters and failed at the ballot box. More things change the more they stay the same - or, at least, that is how Washington operated before lawfare and assassination attempts. Now, Trump is determined to reverse the chaos propagated by the Biden administration.
Author and humorist E. B. White once wrote, “Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.” (The New Yorker, July 3, 1944) In that vein, Republicans have to continue the momentum and govern on campaign promises made during the election - a notion that oftentimes has evaded them once in the leadership role. Conservative by nature, they must stay on offense rather than default to their usual entrenched defensive posture to buttress the unrelenting efforts by out-of-touch Democrats to wrest back control. Fortunately, the unburdening already has commenced away from the continued decline that could have been under even more catastrophic leftist policies and toward the prosperity that can be over the ensuing years. Time is ripe not to squander this generational opportunity to harness and usher in a renewed American exceptionalism as a beacon of hope that will benefit the cause not only of the United States but also all mankind.
©2025 Steve Sagarra
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