Posted on 11/15/2026 10:21:37 AM PST by DFG
Congressional Democrats have plainly ditched their affordability campaign in favor of political reprisals against the president, his cabinet — and you.
Rep. Robert Garcia’s cringey “LAWYER UP” post on X cut to the chase: Dem legislators are champing at the bit to go after President Trump and his team.
But a disturbing new threat from Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) shows they also have every intention of going even further and continuing an ugly Biden-era tradition.
Namely, legal and political harassment of private citizens for protected political speech and free-association action.
Blumenthal issued a demand that various companies that made donations for Trump’s White House renovation provide records related to their gifts.
Other Dems, like Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), have threatened to target people pardoned by Trump, firms that received tariff exemptions and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
That Blumenthal, who closed out 2025 as the leading congressional stock trader by dollar volume, should shriek about potential corruption is laughable.
Yet his letter carried an undertone of menace that was rightly called out by the Department of Justice, noting that “the First Amendment expressly prohibits Congress from infringing the speech and association rights of Americans. DOJ will defend against threats to those rights, period.”
It might be tempting to dismiss Blumenthal’s action as aimed at shady fat cats only.
Surely these millionaires and billionaires (as Sen. Bernie Sanders used to splutter before he was outed as a millionaire himself) must have done something.
Except that for the current Democratic Party, moves against the powerful only serve as the thin end of the wedge.
What these electeds seem to truly want is to punish — indeed, criminalize — any dissent from their politics as such.
The Biden administration provides a clear, albeit incomplete vision of this.
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The Dems are also talking about taxes already.
I’m shocked! Shocked I tell ya!
All this affordability is killing me.
But why not. The dems will have a majority in the Senate for a decade or more.
They just may wing up creating a 'right wing' Luigi or three.
That’s because their “affordability” campaign was a lie, like everything else they say and do.
Many people learned their lesson about this from BJ Clinton (acronym chosen intentionally) who ran on middle-class tax cuts and against Bush Sr.’s breach of his no-new-taxes pledge ...
... and without the slightest hint of humility pivoted instantly between November and January to gun control, universal healthcare, use of federal power to murder dissenters, and the biggest tax hike in (then) history.
Unfortunately that was 1992 and this is 2026 and many new voters are going to get a chance to get mugged by Democrat lies again.
IMO the entire Democrat party should’ve been disintegrated and its adherents hung en masse after the first Civil War; unfortunately the Dems successfully did what they’ve been using since as a political tool and assassinated Lincoln so that the replacement could spare them and put them back in power.
That opinion has nothing whatsoever to do with modern Americans (or most Americans of that time) living in southern States and entirely to do with the unchanging aims, goals, and methods of the Democrat party.
Biden style with a side order of Obama and Soros.
wy69
The Democrats aka DemoNcrats use the same election strategy to get elected. Promise to solve whatever is the most critical issue facing people and then after getting elected, resume their goal of destroying this republic and replacing it with the beloved Socialist/Communist Government of the USA and scrapping any further Federal Elections. Just look at what Spanberger did in Virginia.
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