All the left wants for Christmas is the end to Donald Trump and MAGA world. Unfortunately for the Trump-deranged among us, it will be exactly three years, one month, and 17 days until he leaves the White House for good. That’s a long time. In the meantime, after being sent out to pasture by the voters last year, the best these leftists can do is try to divide the right by arguing that the “great MAGA crack-up” has begun, that Trump’s Cabinet is a “clown car,” and that Trump’s advisers are akin to characters from the movie Animal House.
This is the joint narrative from long-standing left-wing platforms The New Republic, Salon, and MS NOW, formerly MSNBC. If nothing else, this far-left troika reveals the pulse of blue America. Leftists have explained away violence and even celebrated an assassination while they decry Trump’s border shutdown, ICE patrols rounding up criminal aliens, National Guard deployments, DOGE’s efforts to reduce ridiculous federal spending, and, well, come to think of it, almost any other project he has undertaken. In the absence of power to affect outcomes, they have resorted to pure bombast about the supposed failures of the president and are now setting their sights on the people he appointed.
It’s called wishful thinking, and it is something to behold. Trump supporters should know by now that leftists, stung by two losses to the man they despise with every fiber of their being, will do anything and everything in their power to convince voters that they made a grievous, catastrophic error by turning the 45th president into the 47th. And it is a relatively easy exercise when you are relegated to the peanut gallery, free to gaslight, distort, or corrupt the truth to your heart’s content. In abject frustration about being stripped of power, they were recently reduced to a display some have understandably called treasonous, advising members of the military to refuse orders from the commander-in-chief they deem unlawful, without specifying even a single order by Trump that would qualify as such.
Here We Go Again: ‘Threat to Democracy’
Once again, we are told that Trump is a “threat to democracy,” the mantra repeated endlessly by leftists for more than a decade. Only now, they are expanding their field of vision to encompass the people Trump appointed. Witness the Salon article entitled “Trump’s ‘Animal House’ is floundering” and subtitled “The president and his cast of characters are wreaking havoc on American democracy.” Referring to the shooting of two National Guard members in DC by an Afghan refugee, author Brian Karem turns reality on its head by declaring that Trump “bears responsibility for this violence because the guard was never needed in D.C.” Evidently, the author has not spent much time in the nation’s capital.
On MS NOW, former Joe Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki engages in more wishful thinking by broadly pronouncing that “Trump’s tariff policy is a disaster, all those deals the president promised haven’t come to fruition, prices are up, housing costs are up and health care costs are about to go way up for a lot of people.” In fact, the jury is still very much out on tariffs, some prices are up while others are down, deals are an ongoing and fluid enterprise, and housing costs exploded long before Trump returned to office. The health care crisis is a direct result of Obamacare, specifically its provisions kicking the can down the road and thus requiring constant and massive infusions of government funding. Psaki decries Trump’s “revenge tour,” ignoring the four frivolous indictments designed to disqualify him from the presidency. She concludes by labeling the president’s appointees “some of the most inept lackeys this country has ever seen.”
Doing his best to assemble all of the left’s grievances about Trump into one neat package, The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky penned an article entitled “There’s No Doubt About It: The Great MAGA Crack-Up Has Begun.” This takes wishful thinking to a new level, as it attempts to tell MAGA adherents about, well, themselves. He declares that “it’s finally begun to sink in on people that Trump and his entire administration are a bunch of raging ideologues or incompetents or both, peddling a fantasy version of their strength that people no longer buy.” Tomasky laughingly writes that it was Trump, not intransigent Democrats, who “kept the government shut down for 43 days” over Obamacare subsidies. He ridicules Trump’s attempts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine by saying that “Trump tried to sell Ukraine down the river to Putin,” that he “swindled” the voters last year, and puts a cherry on top of his screed with his global assertion that “Trump and his people are wrecking the country.”
MAGA, Golf, and MTG
How bad is the outlook on the left? Well, so bad that its adherents are now starting to attack Trump for playing too much golf, with The New Republic’s Karem even specifying, surely after exhaustive research, that “Nov. 26 was his 16th trip to Mar-a-Lago, the 29th day spent at his West Palm Beach golf course …” This is the same futile tactic many on the frustrated right resorted to after losing twice to Barack Obama.
Most laughable of all is the leftists’ sudden embrace of Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG). Since the congresswoman, long thought by the left to be a wing nut, had a falling out with the president and quit her job, choosing flight instead of fight, they suddenly did a 180 and embraced a woman previously considered “Ultra-MAGA.” MTG popped up on The View, whose progressive co-hosts acted like it was old home week, and on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where the Trump-bashing host suddenly presented as an earnest MTG fan. Any port in a storm, one supposes.
Let’s close with a reality check on all the wild claims by the left that the jig is up and Trump’s world is disintegrating. There have been three two-term presidents in the 21st century. At the same point in their presidencies, one year into their second terms, average public approval for Obama stood at 40%, with George W. Bush at 40.6%. Trump stands at 42.5%, two points better than both. And the numerous economic reforms included in the One Big Beautiful Bill will not take full effect until 2026. If the economy has not improved by November of next year, Trump and Republicans will pay the price on Election Day. But until then, the left’s oh-so-predictable hysteria about the president’s supposed decline is little more than wishful thinking.
