The greatest Democrat fear?
That it has so institutionalized excessive executive orders, ad hominem lawfare, lower-court usurpation, state nullification of federal law, and federal intervention in higher education, the energy industry, and the nation’s open spaces that their own legacies empowered Trump and now will boomerang upon themselves—as the public applauds the karma.
What VDH does here is something akin to comparing the the Venezuela currency to the Zimbabwe currency in order to argue that the Venezuela currency is good.
When judging something we should compare to a standard. I don’t trust people that argue that Jim is the best at the 100 yard dash because they compare well to that overweight eighty year old guy in your neighborhood.
That’s fair but the standard doesn’t have to be set by Rand Paul or Thomas Massie
I don’t know what standard these two are trying to set, but it may or may not align with mine.
Is the government becoming more or less of a threat to me, my family and friends? This threat can be due to increased government power and control or government functioning outside the constraints of the constitution. It is irrelevant to me whether this power and functioning is under the control of Ds or Rs.
Just to head of the argument that I already criticized, I will give a historical example. The Patriot Act was an expansion of government power, violates the constitution and was enacted by Rs only boomerang (using VDH’s terminology) against Trump when the secret courts were used to attack him and his associates.
The real problem is when we get to thinking the important thing is whether it boomerangs against politicians of some party without concern as to whether it harmed or threatened the people.
Recent examples I find threatening are numerous, but one of the ones that seems to boomerang against those concerned about kleptocracy or more appropriately the type of fascism where government and business collude. I thought the Rs had a concern about government picking winners and losers. Government ownership of business is at the very least picking winners.
I love the smell of deportations in the morning
🚨 EPIC! South Korea's president showed President Trump a "NEVER SURRENDER" shirt with 47's famous mugshot on it
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 29, 2025
This shelf is FILLED with "Trump" items
ICONIC. The world loves Trump!🔥🇺🇸🇰🇷 pic.twitter.com/tH8Uqkujgt
I don’t know about the world loves Trump but it is true that, as bin Laden observed, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”
In the NYC mayoral race, they seem to be drawn specifically to the strong horse’s HIND QUARTERS - the horse’s a$$.