The Tide Always Turns

Before I begin, I wanted to recommend my friend Leland Vittert’s weekday email. You can subscribe here. It is the fifth box down, though all of NewsNation’s emails are great—better than much of the rest of the news industry these days.

But, in particular, my mind was already there before I saw Leland’s email yesterday. He noted, “There is a lesson there for President Trump and his supporters – all the winning in the world, all the owning the libs won't make a lick of difference if the economy turns sour and/or a major foreign crisis explodes.”

In fact, all the major Trump gains have been achieved through easily undoable executive orders. In our republic, there is no such thing as a permanent political majority. Democrats will come back into power. Just as Trump is using precedents set by Joe Biden, including on firing nonpartisan appointees, Democrats will use Trump’s whirlwind for their own to reverse him and extend their gains.

This is why Republicans in Congress must legislate, as best they can, to lock in Trump’s government reductions. It is easier to tear down quickly than to rebuild quickly. Federal judges might slow Trump, but much of their actions will be undone on appeal. Many of the things the judges might stop could get undone in a reconciliation package.

The party out of power always turns to its preferred judges to slow down the incumbent party. Republicans did it with Biden, getting Chevron killed, Roe killed, and so much more. Democrats will do it now but will meet less favorable appellate courts than Republicans have met.

Congress should consider eradicating last-minute Biden regulations through the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to kill regulations entered in the last months of an outgoing administration without a filibuster block. But they must do it quickly. They have something like sixty legislative days. There are plenty of energy regulations, etc., to cull. Once Congress kills these regulations, regulators cannot renew them.

While all of this is happening, the Democrats are losing their minds. I’m having difficulty respecting the intelligence of those who think we are going through a coup. Democrats have processed the voters’ rejection of Democrats as a rejection of democracy itself.

Slaughtering the federal bureaucracy is not a coup. Still, when that bureaucracy is made of entrenched progressive interests protecting progressive power, it feels like a coup to those on the losing side.

Unfortunately, Democrats and much of the political press are in such a bubble together that there are few sane voices left to penetrate the bubble.

The leftwing tech nerds have decided it is a coup. The Kara Swisher/Scott Galloway podcast has decided it is a coup. You may know nothing of any of these people, but the left has designated them “smart.” Therefore, they shape the opinions of not just progressive activists but also the editors and producers of the newscasts of America. Sherrilyn Iffil thinks “democracy is crumbling.” She’s the former president of the NAACP’s legal defense fund.

The New York Times is giving its pages to hysteria. The Atlantic is too.

The American Bar Association, which just three weeks ago proclaimed a presidential tweet had amended the Constitution, is now upset by what it claims are “wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself.” Again, the left runs these institutions. The institutions maintain the veneer of nonpartisan operation. The media then uses the institutions to attack the right with the left’s talking points originating from the captured institutions.

As an aside, this is why so many people are so conspiracy-minded these days. When the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Bar Association, and even major financial institutions were captured by the left, but the media still pretended that these groups were nonpartisan, people began to doubt all the experts, not just the press.

We are all catechized by that with which we surround ourselves, and the left and much of the press are surrounding themselves with doomsday prophets convinced the end is nigh. It is a “coup” because they say so. And because so much of the leftwing smart set says so, many of the editors and producers of your nightly newscasts will think so, too.

Republicans, in 2020, insisted the election was stolen. The press could alienate any Republican who thought so or enabled Trump. Look at NBC News, Chuck Todd, and Ronna McDaniel. Because she had been an enabler of Trump in and around January 6th, the RNC Chair could be dumped quickly.

However, look at how many who signed the letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop still have jobs in the press and make regular appearances on newscasts. Look at those who are, to this day, convinced that Russia stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton and are still welcome on news channels beyond the madhouse of MSNBC.

It is because the respectable people believed Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation, and respectable people believed Russia stole the election. And respectable people get on television. Coincidentally, respectable people are all progressives who hate Trump and think a coup is afoot.

It festers and metastasizes in leftwing brains and trickles down to the helpless masses. Don’t be surprised when the helpless masses of leftwing agitators turn violent in the belief that democracy did not happen, but a coup did.

I’ll leave you with this.

CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other outlets have regularly covered the fringe pastors of the right. Here’s one from CNN. Here’s one from the New York Times. The topic is similar in all the cases—how rightwing rhetoric is fomenting and festering hostility from the pulpit.

So here is a pastor, fueled by the coverage of DOGE and mis/disinformation about what DOGE is doing with social security numbers. Like other pastors, he misquotes the Bible to justify violence against the Trump Administration.

You know, and I know, that if he were white and talking about a Democrat, we’d get outraged coverage in the press. But because he is black, attacking the Trump Administration, and believes the same lies regurgitated in much of the press, don’t expect much.

That man needs a lot of prayer. So does his congregation.

And the festering rage on the left is why the Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress need to make damn sure that by the time the tide turns there is not much left in Washington that these Democrats can weaponize against those they think are complicit in a coup that is not real. The mentally ill, with rage and power, will be the real threat to democracy unless the GOP has gutted the power they could wield.