The 80/20 Conundrum
People elected me to do the job.
President Donald Trump
How can a group be on the wrong side of every issue important to the American people? I’m not referring to the radicalized TDS types you see marching in the streets, chanting, screaming F-bombs and attempting to sing (I use that term liberally because I’ve heard cats with more melodious voices). Those with Trump Derangement Syndrome are lost to reason.
Of course, I’m referring to the Democrat Party leadership. (By the way, it is not the “Democratic” Party because they have proven themselves as anything but democratic by canning Biden and replacing him with a faux black woman who never won a single primary).
A rational group would look at the results of the last election, reassess their positions rejected by the American people and present a plan to win back voters. Instead, Democrat leaders claim their problem is “messaging,” and even blame their own media for their sojourn in the political wilderness.
But this has been a pattern. The Democrats sided with Antifa, BLM, Hamas and Biden’s illegal invasion which they euphemistically labeled as “migration.” And most recently Democrats are championing the illegal alien from El Salvador who they euphemistically described as a “Maryland man.” Kilmar Garcia is arguably a member of MS-13, a human trafficker and wife beater. I don’t know the truth about Garcia, but two judges, witnesses, ICE and Tennessee highway patrol officers have certified the allegations about Garcia. It appears to me that this illegal alien has received more attention and judicial review than most J6 citizens.
Democrat Maryland Senator Van Hollen even went to El Salvador to, as we Southerners say, “visit” with Garcia. American taxpayers footed the bill for Van Hollen’s trip to “Margaritaville” which has inspired other Democrat Congressmen to travel to El Salvador and search for Garica who is now back in his country.
Why do the Democrats choose the 20% side of issues rather than the side which 80% of Americans favor? You wonder about a party that champions open borders, illegals, trans rights in women’s sports and bathrooms and even gender reassignment medications and surgery for children. None of these positions are supported by the majority of American citizens. In fact, 74% support removing illegal aliens who commit crimes and 56% support removing all undocumented immigrants who are by definition illegal aliens.
Perhaps these Democrat representatives don’t understand their responsibilities or American history. In 1787 the leaders of the newly liberated Colonies met in Philadelphia to write The Constitution. After a long summer of debate and political “sausage making,” a woman on the street asked Ben Franklin, “What type of government have you fashioned for us?” His terse and poignant reply was, “A republic Madam, if you can keep it.”
A republic is a system of government predicated on the rule of law. We elect representatives who are supposed to literally “represent” the interests of citizens. Was Van Hollen representing American citizens or the illegal alien Garcia? Or was he just promoting himself and the Democrat party of “resistance”?
History is a great teacher. During the Revolutionary War about a third of the Colonists (patriots) fought the British, a third sided with King George and a third tended their own interests. I thought about the latter as I watched interviews of people on the street over the Easter weekend who were so oblivious that they didn’t even know what Easter represented.
And just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse or perverse, the politically motivated SCOTUS called a halt to the deportation of illegal aliens. If you thought that the so-called justice system operates on the rule of law, you’d be wrong. In his descent of the SCOTUS ruling, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, “In the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order … Both the Executive and the Judicial have an obligation to follow the law.” University of Tennessee law professor Glen Reynolds echoed Alito’s scathing descent of SCOTUS in his April 24, 2025, New York Post op-ed. You should read it.
A judicial coup d’etat is underway in America and we are in deep doo-doo. The duly elected President of the United States is being prevented from doing his duty by unelected District Judges and now the Supremes. We are on the cusp of a Constitutional crisis where the judiciary is thwarting the will of the American people who elected President Trump to stop the invasion and deport illegals. Obama deported 3 million illegals. Where were the Democrats and the judges?
Is it possible to avoid corruption if you live and work in Washington DC? I think it is possible, but not probable. My parents taught me, and I later found it true, that if you hang out with the “wrong crowd,” you will come to accept and embrace that group-think. I wonder what would have happened to Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith if he had stayed in Washington. Glen Reynolds wonders about Chief Justice John Roberts who seems detached from John Q. Public and more concerned about what the Washington Post and Ivy League law professors think of him and SCOTUS.
Frankly, I don’t see how President Trump does it. They tried to lock him up and keep him off the ballot. He has survived impeachments and assination attempts. And he continues to battle the Washington establishment, Democrats and their corrupt media. And now he fights the Judicial system in its turf war with the Executive branch. President Trump does not need the favor of the Washington Post, Ivy League professors, Hollywood, the Washington establishment or its entrenched unelected bureaucracy. He fights for the American people and his grandkids.
Too often I get caught up in the world. But as I look out my study window I see hope in the magical, almost chartreuse, green of spring, and I thank God for another day of life.
So, I’ll end on a high note with recommendations of two short poems. Google Robert Frost’s “Nature’s First Green,” then William Wordsworth’s “My Heart Leaps Up.” And so will yours.
