The Democrats and their supporters brought their own demise upon themselves. They simply cannot stop themselves until they hit the wall.
It would be too simplistic to say that the world wars of the previous century started because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Hitler’s entry into Poland. There were many factors that developed over years and decades prior to those events; those two particular triggers ushered in the larger wars that were waiting to happen.
If one were to look way back just a few years ago and think about the move from Biden and DEI Democrats to Trump and MAGA Republicans, one might want to use one event as the trigger for a change that was waiting to happen. There is a Talmudic teaching “tafasta meroobah, lo tefasta kloom”: If you try to grab too much you end up with nothing. USA Today in 2022 named “Rachel" Levine, a guy pretending to be a lady with long hair and a skirt, one of its Women of the Year. The Babylon Bee did not miss a beat and declared Levine its Man of the Year, using the same photo as the newspaper used. The left should have left it alone. But the left can’t leave anything alone. Anyone who dares to question the Official Ideological Orthodoxy is attacked, deplatformed, sued, fired, harassed or otherwise punished. Twitter banned the Babylon Bee account for its chutzpah of pointing out that “Rachel” was still a man, however hard the Biden administration and its supporters wanted us to say otherwise. Elon Musk met the head of the Bee and for the first time publicly suggested that if one cannot make a joke, then maybe he should just buy Twitter. Some period of time and $44 billion later, Musk owned Twitter, now X.
Musk buying Twitter is in some ways the equivalent of the trigger events for the world wars. The key to the left’s program was having total control over all major social media and traditional news sources. Sure, there were websites like this one but as long as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the big news outlets could be given marching orders, the left’s ideological wall could not be breached. With Twitter now allowing people to express themselves, the left lost control of the story. The Biden administration could claim that the border was closed, and people on X could clearly show otherwise. The left could claim that “Equity” (the most abused word in the English language) was good. Others could show that people in academe, government, and business selected for DEI reasons often were incompetent and at times, criminal (like the guy over at the Department of Energy stealing suitcases with women’s clothes). Once X was in the hands of Musk, people could find out what was going on and they did not like what they saw.
The “take it to 11” approach on the left applied to everything it touched. If they had wanted to be reelected, they should have dealt with the border. Their best proposal, which they tried to make into law, would have made “only” 5,000 illegals entering a day legal. If they had not passed such massive spending bills, inflation would not have been so painful for the average American. If they had not been so hellbent on going green, they would have kept their eye on the price of gas, something that most Americans feel. But the left has no brakes, no off ramps. Everything, like banning jokes and leaving the border totally open, were the logical outcomes for them. They could not tamp down their program because they couldn’t think of a reason not to go over the top. Hollywood, one tentacle of the left, made every movie a DEI bonanza: white guys were always the bad guys, women weighing less than their clothes could throw linebackers around, and whatever minority was in the movie was the default hero. Like in Washington, the folks in tinsel town did not care what the people actually wanted. They had a program, and there was no way to deviate from it without fear of punishment from the home team. Pro sports players with Rockefeller-level bank accounts took a knee to show that they had contempt for the country that afforded them so much success and wealth. How much would they get paid playing ball in Tonga?
One of the key features of Donald Trump after four years as president and four years, if you will, in the wilderness, is his balanced approach to governing. With abortion, he could have gone for a national ban, but he said he believes that each state should make its own laws—and with that, abortion vanished as a winning subject for the Democrats. He has come down on the winning side of most “80-20” issues like removing illegal aliens, keeping sports sex segregated, and making the military lethal and not politically correct. He has strong political instincts and he rarely assumes a position that is not supported by a majority of American citizens. The Democrats, on the other hand, keep pulling joker cards: bring back the violent criminals sent out of the country; stop looking for fraud and waste in the federal budget; keep guys in women’s sports; do not develop America’s vast energy reserves and thus keep energy and food prices high.
Because the left is ideologically based, it cannot apply any brakes. Think about abortion. First it was illegal. Then it became legal but had many restrictions. Over time, it has come to be the default position of the Democratic Party to support abortion until the moment of birth. There are those on the left who wish to extend the option to after birth, in the event that there are any health defects. This trajectory is true for every topic: the border, DEI, trans mania, etc. The left simply goes for the final, extreme position and has no way to turn around and walk things back. Look at the hatred displayed at Elon Musk for the “sin” of uncovering $4 billion a day in waste, fraud, and self-dealing. How do you hate someone who is cleaning up your budget? The Democrats are against a border that is finally effectively closed; they wish to prevent deportations or in some cases get those deported back. They don’t want to know that most Americans are happy that their tax dollars will be better spent and are glad that illegal aliens are being shown the door. The Democrats have no mechanism to stop and turn around. Gavin Newsom is trying to move to the middle lane, but he has so much baggage from his time destroying San Francisco and California that his Houdini-act will be a hard sell.
The Democrats refuse to learn from their election losses from 2024 because there is nothing that they can do differently. They cannot move to the middle to support a controlled border, a leaner budget and better trade deals. Many in their party come off as lunatics when they stand with a murderous death cult (Hamas) or complain that Donald Trump is making an effort to end the Ukraine bloodbath. I don’t think that the Democrats planned to become extremists; not being rooted in religion or a solid political philosophy, that was their only possible outcome.