How Trump thwarted Democrats

Don Surber Substack ^ | 11 Mar 2025 | Don Surber

[Rummyfan]

Democrats thought Trump’s second presidency would be a repeat of his first. They cornered him last time by triangulating lawsuits, the bureaucrats and RINOs to stymie a president they believed unworthy of the title.

Republicans in the Senate saddled the newbie with a Cabinet of Termites. He trusted them. Bigly yuge mistake.

Ha ha ha. 8 years later, the establishment has not changed its playbook. Football may be a game of inches, but politics is a game of adjustments. Trump adjusted.

First, he assembled a Cabinet of anti-Federalists. Many people overlook the fact that many Founding Fathers opposed the Constitution over fears of a central government that would overpower the states. Patrick Henry admonished the constitutional convention for not doing its job of simply fixing the Articles of Confederation but replacing it.

Henry said, “What right had they to say, We, the people? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great, consolidated, national government, of the people of all the states.”

He praised the conventioneers as the loyal Americans and patriotic comrades in arms, but he firmly stated, “The people gave them no power to use their name.”

237 years later, Henry not only was right but he was proven so roughly a century ago. Only now are we getting around to dismantling the behemoth FDR created and LBJ expanded.

[MinorityRepublican]

They are now a leaderless party with no direction being torn between the old guard and the leftist radicals.

Nancy Pelosi or AOC.

At least Pelosi is somewhat rational.

The current generation is incompetent. AOC is not ready for the "Major Leagues".

[onona]

Excellent Point Blitz

[minnesota_bound]

Trump went after the corrupt democrats and rinos money they were stealing like USAID and well all the other parts of the gov’t.

That knocked them for a loop.
Next step is to jail them all!

[Political Junkie Too]

I believe their "ground troops", the folks who actually did the ballot box stuffing, lost their motivation somewhere between the gas pump and the grocery checkout line.

I think the ground troops got their marching orders directly from Kamala Harris, and they couldn't figure out what she was telling them in time to get the ballot boxes stuffed.

-PJ