“Process, process, process!” That's the 2025 Democrats' rally.
This fight cry can be used precisely in the final stand, “I remember the Alamo!” or “Deus Hoc Vult!”, “Come on, sons of b*****, do you want to live forever?”
Instead, as their party is in turmoil, the only thing Democratic leaders have offered is accusations that President Donald Trump and his White House are breaking the rules. This kind of politics may seem normal in a vacuum, but in real time, the shift is surprising. For 18 years, Democrats marched at Rockstep, first behind Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, then Hillary Clinton, and eventually Joe Biden.
Litigation and injunctions often achieve more than a political street theatre. The problem for Democrats is that their resistance is now fully unfolding the process.
During Obama's presidency, Democrats moved their agenda forward at a steady pace. Under Trump, they accelerated to a full sprint.
For five years, the country endured lockdowns, identity politics, cultural cancellations and corporate struggle sessions. The left unleashed a relentless moral crusade, pushing forward with movements like “refund the police” and praises things like George Floyd.
Now the crusades are stagnant. The banner has fallen. Instead, there remains a limitless ability to legal battles, bureaucratic conflicts and process.
Look at them
It causes serebre: They include whether the gang rape of illegal immigrants was associated with the Venezuelan government and where the judge told them to stop. They include a battle over who is in charge of useless foreign aid and a chart of the power of Congress over the executive bodies established by previous administrations.
When the president revived the ban on transgender military recruits, Democrats bathed in the capital with a rainbow and took him onto the streets – they sued. When the president met up with the governor of Maine to challenge the boys playing in women's sports, she replied, “I am complying with state and federal laws.”
“They don't have a positive message,” Charles Lipson, a professor at the University of Chicago's Faculty of Politics.
I told my wife Washington Examiner. “They don't have an effective messenger, and their usual channel of communication, the mainstream media, is taking away influence. So all they have left is the frustration and friendly courts of the Blue State.
This does not mean that these plays are ineffective. Litigation and injunctions often achieve more than a political street theatre.
The problem for Democrats is that their resistance is now fully unfolding the process. There will be no confrontation in the White House. There, their liberal icons defend the rights of men to defeat women in her chosen sport. Senators and representatives have not gathered on the streets for gang rape in Venezuela, where children have been separated from them by law enforcement.
Passion faded and replaced by legal maneuvering and procedural battles.
Remember: There was also a battle of the process in Trump 45. Tons of those! They just went with lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.) sobs on border fences, marching the streets, and with the ever-changing megaphone chants. There was a cause. There was #theresistance. The flags, garden signs and bumper stickers were everywhere.
Some Democrats have yet to realize that the revolution is on their heels. They are learning the hard way that when the vote sinks, the true faithful class shrinks faster than expected.
Most of their colleagues were willing to join the cause at its peak, but have since abandoned their bold progressive rhetoric. Now they rely on judges, parliament and other ambitious procedural tactics to protect them from political fallout.
Imagine the shock of someone like AOC. She went to Boston University in 2011 before traveling the country protesting at a funded left-wing camp, protesting to Congress along the wave peaks and coat of arms. Do you think she had to really assert the merits of her case? Has she ever been really challenged by her ideas?
It's no wonder that Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) is in her crosshairs. The focus on pragmatism and process (without fighting progressive entities and incredibly unpopular ideas) will be directly associated with those that include AOC and her allies (I-Vt.), such as Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Of course, Schumer is not alone, unlike government, for example. Gavin Newsom (California), Josh Shapiro (Pa.), or Senator John Fetterman (Pa.), he is a fair game as he is not running for presidency.
They have no positive messages. What Progressive is promoting is voting in the ditch. So for now, this is it. They fight them for details. They fight them for details. They fight in the middle. They fight them in the process.
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