Will Dems Tear Down Trump's Ballroom?

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0:49And this idea that everything is suddenly going to be amazing and run smoothly the minute Trump is out of office is wishful thinking at best and extremely dangerous at worst. Because the closer Trump brings us to the breaking point, the smaller our window of opportunity for recovery becomes. The smaller that window gets, the longer recovery will ultimately take. The idea that I keep circling like a vulture recently is that Democrats are enamored and emboldened by the precedent set by our current president. And that they too cannot wait to do whatever they want when they get back into power now that Trump has normalized corruption to the point where nobody can even feel it anymore.

1:29That's what she said. Now, the East Wing is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. I can only see one passive-aggressive example of a Democrat getting on board with the idea that we should tear down this monstrosity of a building if and when it ever gets built by Trump, presuming the Democrats are the ones in charge next. Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat from Tennessee, said, quote, I don't think it would be a bad idea to tear it down, unquote, from an interview posted at NBC last November. It's basically just a maybe, not a strong idea by any means. An idea like this is what Gavin Newsom should be running on.

2:05Sure, he likes to complain that Trump tore down the East Wing, just to build this ridiculously disproportionate to the surrounding White House architecture ballroom by calling Trump a wrecking ball. It's a wrecking ball presidency. The symbolism of the East Wing. It's perfect symbolism. It is perfect symbolism, Governor. So why don't you capitalize on that energy and push it as far as it can go? Why are there no loud, prominent Democrats screaming from the mountaintops that they will restore what Trump has destroyed, starting with the White House first? It sure seems like the clearest messaging that I could imagine in a moment like this, when Trump is preoccupied with starting wars all over the globe, is to fix what he's already broken here at home.

2:47If the left could manage that message and manage it properly, they could possibly win over 10 or 20 percent of the right, who are now disenfranchised by their own commander-in-chief for bilking them out of their vote. Which is what happened when he ran on fixing the economy and no more foreign wars, just to trash the economy and start a bunch of foreign wars. I don't hear a peep out of Gavin Newsom about what we should do next in the post-Trump era. I don't hear a peep out of Chuck Schumer, or AOC, or Kamala Harris, or Cory Booker, or Akeem Jeffries, or anybody else out there on the left with a bully pulpit talking about what comes next specifically because of Trump.

3:28What do we do with what he's done to the office? What do we do with the new standards that he's set? What do we do with a country that has now become accustomed to this kind of chaos? You don't think the fallout from that is going to be massive? Now, they might be talking about it. It just doesn't come across my radar because their voices are weak and effective and full of nonsensical corporate jargon. But I think we all know that's not exactly the case because if they actually had an answer to Trump, you'd hear about it. You wouldn't have to go looking for it. And Trump would have never been re-elected in the first place.

3:58They don't have a plan for what comes next after Trump. They're either too cowardly to say it out loud, or they're quietly embracing it. Because make no mistake about it, we are already in the post-Trump era. And instead of rejecting what he's turned the office into, they are resurfacing, co-opting, and adapting to the degraded status of it and planning accordingly. Not fixing it, using it. Democrats are very good at acting busy while rarely accomplishing much. You know exactly the kind of people I'm talking about. You know the kind of folks who like to bury themselves in so much paperwork, rules, and procedure that by the time they're ready to act, they've lost the deadline and effectively managed to avoid any sort of accountability or risk in the convoluted process.

4:42The same thing happens in Washington. They like to file lawsuits and have big, long, drawn-out meetings that are so boring that anybody with two brain cells left to rub together checks out. They like to bang on pots and pans while yelling in the streets about no kings as if it accomplishes anything but adding to the very spectacle that they think they're fighting. And what exactly do all of these liberal actions, paved and greatest of intentions, best practices, and due diligence produce? Well, that's easy. It produces people like Donald Trump in the White House twice. But go right on ahead and keep doing the same things over and over again.

5:20Just don't expect any better results than this. Donald Trump is the toxic byproduct of identity politics going mainstream. Not the antithesis. A figure with no fixed identity of his own. Just a loud, obnoxious voice, a recognizable brand, and enough money to keep his head above water first and foremost. That's why he was a lifelong Democrat, until he realized it would be a lot easier to cash in on the presidency if he just played the role of a Republican instead. That's why the best conservatives never fell for his BS, in my not-so-humble opinion. And in today's idiocracy, that's more than enough to have me branded as a heretic liberal for the rest of my life, with a wide sample of conservatives.

6:02I don't care. Because it's jokers to the left and clowns to the right. And here we are, stuck in the middle with each other, wondering what the hell we should do next. And look, I know we're not the majority out there, but there are a lot of us. I know many of you listening are these people, and so am I. So let me ask us collectively, who is representing us right now exactly? The growing masses who think that both Republicans and Democrats are absolutely full of shit. Pardon my French. The Independent Party's non-existent, populated with a bunch of libertarians who sound like they're living inside of a think tank.

6:37But who represents that sane, silent middle majority? Those of us who just want to live and let live and work hard and raise a family and enjoy the rest of the short time we get on this planet. Those of us who make up every race and nationality and gender and culture who aren't even remotely interested in those data points as anything other than superficial. Those of us who strive to do the right thing when nobody's looking, when it counts the most, when the public has trusted you with their future and their children and their grandchildren's future. Shame on these blood-sucking politicians of every class who bilk the system and or enable those who do by turning a blind eye and burying their heads in procedure.

7:18The reason nothing gets done, the reason power only moves in one direction, the reason both sides keep adapting to worse behavior instead of rejecting it is because we've all stopped thinking like citizens and started thinking like teams. Identity politics turned every issue into a purity test, every criticism into a betrayal, and every abuse of power into something we tolerate as long as our side's doing it. That's how we got to Trump, twice. And that's why Trumpism doesn't exactly end when Trump does. So if you're waiting for the next administration to come in and clean this up to restore America or the East Wing, you're going to be waiting a long time.

7:53Because the only way out of this isn't political, it's psychological. Because it requires people to step outside of these identities they've been sold and start rejecting bad behavior across the board, not just when it's convenient. And until that happens, nothing changes. And that ballroom, whether it stands or gets torn down, if it's ever built at all, won't be the symbol of what was done to this country. It's going to be the symbol of what we allowed to have happen.