"Constitutional Crisis" is a Talking Point

The talking point has gone out. Manufactured on the left's Slack channels and dutifully regurgitated by the American press corps, it is the semi-sane version of “coup,” but it is a talking point nonetheless. No, reporter, I don’t take you seriously when you claim this is a constitutional crisis. You’re just parroting the left's hive mind.

The left has an easier path into the newsrooms of America with editors and producers, many of whom lean left, shaping the daily narrative designed with a bias towards Democrats. Thus, within about twenty-four hours of prominent progressive pundits using the phrase, Kaitlyn Collins regurgitated it for them as news, the New York Times spilled ink over it, and it is off to the races.

But was it a constitutional crisis when Democrats and members of the press conspired to cover up the mental decline of the former President? Was it a constitutional crisis when he used the power of the pardon to benefit his son? What about pre-emptively pardoning members of his family? What about when it turned out he really had met with Hunter Biden’s clients after years of denying it, but now we got photographs? What about when his office conspired with the supposedly independent Attorney General to deny access to the Special Prosecutor’s audio that would have revealed his mental decline? What about when he pardoned the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who, by accepting the pardon, acknowledged the commission of crimes in office? The Supreme Court said acceptance of a pardon implies guilt of a crime.

“Constitutional crisis” is not a serious talking point. But they are seriously and stentoriously delivering it. It is the 2025 version of this from 2017-2018. Seriously journalists, you of all people need to watch this:

Again, we are at the beginning of the end, a turning point, and the walls are closing in again even as Trump is respecting the judicial process, which, at least on the spending issue, is going against him.

Here’s what this is really about, courtesy of Elon Musk:

The President is the physical embodiment of the executive power. Federal judges have blocked his ability to change the executive branch's websites, and offer retirement packages, fire, hire, layoff, and close or reshape parts of the executive branch.

To be sure, some of the orders are constitutional or most plausibly constitutional, e.g., the birthright citizenship issue. But many of the “constitutional crisis” progressive law professors want to argue it is legal for a judge to demand Trump not change a website that Joe Biden’s team set up. That is absurd on its face despite a partisan progressive turned life-tenured judge saying otherwise.

Of course, remember, many of the law professors, scholars, and talking heads the press corps relies on to insist there is a constitutional crisis are the same ones who insisted Colorado would win its case before the Supreme Court and bar Donald Trump from the ballot.

They lost 9-0.

But the press is relying on them again. At some point, the professors, scholars, and pundits who constantly get it wrong and keep getting invited back on air are proof the press doesn’t care about the truth, just a narrative to help the Democrats.

Meanwhile, President Trump has a 53% approval rating, and 70% of Americans think he is keeping his promises. That, for the left and press, is the fundamental constitutional crisis.

Democrats have spent years building up non-governmental organizations in orbit around the government from which they can flow in and out of government and through which they can direct taxpayer dollars to fund the Democrats.

Donald Trump shutting down the governmental agencies and stopping the flow of funds to Democrat-oriented NGOs is why the Democrats are angry. They set up a government by bureaucracy to make sure they could always get their way even when the voters rejected them.

Now, the voters have not only rejected them, but a majority of the public supports the President crushing the Democrats’ preferred method for holding on to power when out of power. Democrats cannot get over their rejection.

As the Democrats process their rejection, we’re rapidly heading toward boiled rabbit territory. Someone call Glenn Close.

In all seriousness, and I do mean I am serious and not trying to be hyperbolic when I say this, the press’s willingness to claim a “constitutional crisis” is going to get someone shot. The left is mentally fragile right now. They are experiencing sensory overload and despair from an election they were convinced they would win. And the press that has lectured Republicans about their shrill and dangerous rhetoric potentially provoking violence is now aiding and abetting the left’s assassination fantasies with this hysterical rhetoric that amounts to a well-coordinated talking point from the Slack channels of the left.

But hey! Assassination attempts make for great ratings and sell papers.