If Democrats Win, Trump Will Be Impeached Again

 Recent primary elections show the Democrat Party is split between the socialists and the establishment. This is a battle between the left and the far left.

Among leaders in today’s Democrat Party, moderates do not exist, except for Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). The old pro-capitalism and pro-middle-class Democrat Party leaders, represented by former Presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton, have vanished.  

After Clinton supported welfare reform, an illegal immigration crackdown, capital gains tax cuts, and budget discipline and delivered four years of surpluses, the next Democratic President, Barack Obama, gave the country racial division, pro-transgender policies, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and the disastrous Affordable Care Act.

After Obama, Democrats never looked back and kept moving to the left. The next Democrat President, Joe Biden, was more of a radical leftist than Obama. If, heaven forbid, a Democrat wins the White House in 2028, it will be another super-progressive President.

Amazingly, the members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) believe the establishment Democrat Party is too conservative. For them, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not progressive enough.

It will be interesting to see which faction of the Democrat Party prevails over the next two years. The DSA candidates have expressed support for abolishing the Electoral College, the U.S. Senate, prisons, police departments, borders, and the capitalist economic system. Establishment Democrats are horrified that these plans are being publicly discussed, for they know this agenda is appalling to average Americans.  

Republicans will be spending heavily between now and November 3rd to educate Americans on the dangers of the DSA policies. They will remind voters that socialism is a failed economic system that has delivered nothing but misery, death, and destruction worldwide.  

This may be enough for Republicans, aided by a net gain of seats from redistricting in several states, to maintain control of Congress in the midterm elections. However, if the economic situation, the war in Iran, or the massive media bias against Republicans helps the Democrats win control of Congress, get ready for one agenda item to unite these two intra-party factions: a third impeachment of President Donald Trump.

Almost all congressional Democrats suffer from a severe case of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” While they do not agree on the radical elements of the DSA agenda, Trump hatred unites Democrats.

For example, in an interview on Saturday on MS NOW, Democrat Rep. Robert Garcia (CA-42) discussed his concerns with Attorney General Todd Blanche’s “expansion of executive privilege.” According to Garcia, this move was designed “to essentially shield the president from really any conversations that he’s having with really anyone that he views as an advisor. And some are then claiming this executive privilege so that the public can’t get access to important government documents, conversations, memos.”

When asked by host Jacob Soboroff if “impeachment was on the table,” Garcia replied that “impeachment” is “always…on the table. But I think we should be clear that Donald Trump does commit impeachable offenses weekly.”

If Democrats could impeach Trump for a “perfect phone call” to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or a speech to supporters calling for them to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices” heard at the U.S. Capitol, then anything he does can lead to impeachment.  

In April 2026, Democrat Rep. John Larson (CT-1) filed 13 articles of impeachment against President Trump. He joined 70 other Democrats who had either called for Trump’s impeachment or for the 25th Amendment to be invoked. Despite his anti-Trump agenda, Larson lost his Democrat primary and will not return to Congress for a 15th term next year.

President Trump knows what will happen if Democrats take control of Congress. In a speech to Republican members of Congress in January 2026, the President said, “If we don’t win the midterms…they’ll find a reason to impeach me.”

Sharing the President’s viewpoint is Emma Doyle, the former Chief of Staff for the Office of Management and Budget in his first term. She said that Trump is “almost certainly going to be impeached” if Democrats take control of Congress.

If that occurs, the scenario will resemble what happened in Trump’s first term. First, there will be hearings, investigations, and harassment of the Trump White House.

Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu (CA-36), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, outlined the Democrat game plan. If they take control after the midterms, Democrats will investigate “ICE operations,” “potential stock trades by his family, and his use of the Justice Department against political opponents.”

He continued, “Impeachment is an indictment, and you…gather evidence and do hearings and interview witnesses, get documents. Part of what we’re doing separate from impeachment is (investigating) the massive corruption in the Trump administration.”

Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8) claims that Democrats have not “ruled anything out in terms of accountability,” including impeachment. However, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) predicts a rough next two years for President Trump. “He’s going to have the most miserable two years of his life in the last two years of his term…because I think November is going to be a disaster,” he said.

Cornyn is not alone, as the latest odds on the Kalshi prediction market for the President to be impeached before January 1, 2028, are 55 percent.

Of course, impeachment will not lead to a conviction because Democrats will not have the two-thirds Senate majority required. Thus, this impeachment talk is political theater designed to motivate a divided Democrat Party base.

Impeaching Trump does not improve the economy or make life more affordable for Americans. Democrats have no viable ideas to enhance the economy, and they don’t care about improving the lives of Americans. They just want power and are talking about impeachment to help them retake control of Congress.

Republicans should take advantage of this Democrat Party weakness and spend the next few weeks listening to Americans and promising to deliver real legislation that will address real problems. This is what Americans want, not another impeachment of Donald Trump. 

The Democratic Party’s Socialist Divide

person 1: All right. So, we had primaries. Speaking of lots of money spent, and I think in Michigan they had the largest amount spent on a primary ever, and that was about $80 million. And that primary was between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed. Apparently, Haley Stevens spent up to $70 million, and she lost.

It seems to—well, I was wondering your thoughts on that primary in particular. It seems to me it’s a bellwether for the problems in the Democratic Party, because they really split, the Democratic Party split over those two candidates.

person 2: If you look at the number of Michigan voters—Republican, independent, Democratic—those who voted for El-Sayed, it’s a very small number, relatively.

But they got organized for the midterms.

And it’s very funny because if you are a socialist-communist—and I’m not using that as a pejorative term, as when [New York City Mayor Zohran] Mamdani says that he wants to seize the means of production or take property from people if he finds they’re poor landlords, etc., etc. And the agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America is take over utilities, break up corporate agriculture, seize people’s property. So, it’s not a slur.

But the thing about all these people is, if you’re an activist like Hasan Piker or these other democratic socialists, then they come across as communist. However, if you’re running for office, you come off not even as a socialist. So, he was renouncing a lot of the things he was going to do. Oh, they’re just, I’m just gonna do this. And then when they take office, they are not even socialist—they’re communist.

And so, he will be, if he’s the elected senator, he will have a communist agenda.

The other thing is, we think these people are so charismatic and young. I listened today to [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], and they had clips of her on YouTube. When she went over to the Security Council, she was like a deer in the headlights. She couldn’t even explain U.S. foreign policy. She just says, well, and, uh, yes. She couldn’t talk.

And she’s not well-spoken. She’s not well-educated. She doesn’t have a lot of experience. I don’t see her as dynamic. I see her more like a Kamala Harris candidate.

And then everybody said Hasan Piker is the podcaster of the Left, and he’s brilliant, and he’s tough. And I watched seven or eight appearances where he’s not behind this microphone. And what he does is he takes his phone, his cellphone, and he just looks at it, and then he looks at the crowd, and he says, like, it’s like, you know. He looks like, like, and you know, he looks like, you know. And he like, he looks at, like, the phone, like, you know, talking. You know what I mean? Like, like.

And that’s what he does. He has a vocabulary of maybe 800 words, maybe 300 more than Kamala Harris. But I was just stunned at how poor he comes across when he’s not reading a script, and he can’t talk extemporaneously. He has to get his talking points.

And so, these are not a formidable group of people. They keep saying they’re so talented.

And when you saw the head of the democratic socialists with Shannon Bream, I felt sorry for her. Shannon Bream just said, these are basically communist positions. And you thought that she would try to, yep, yep, we’re with that. Yep, yep.

And there’s the other thing about them. They’re so arrogant. Here we are in—going to be the 238th year of the republic, and these people come over to this country, not as immigrants of the past who came legally. They were gracious. They wanted to assimilate, acculturate, integrate. They loved the system. They wanted to adapt to it.

Hasan Piker and El-Sayed and Mamdani and [Darializa Avila] Chevalier and [Melat] Kiros—they come over here either in the first or second generation, and then they start telling America what’s wrong with their system. We don’t like the Electoral College. We don’t like the nine-person court. We want two more states. We want to get rid of the Senate. We want to get rid of the presidency. This is a terrible system.

Why did you come over if it was so terrible? And why is it so wealthy? And Hasan, how did you get a $3 million home in West Hollywood? Why are you driving a Porsche? Mamdani, why did you leave your settler-colonial elitism as the 1% that controlled the money in Uganda and you come over here as a child? If it was such a terrible system, how did your parents get so much money in the United States? Ph.D.s? Come on.

And Ro Khanna now is doing the same thing. How did your father-in-law get $200 million? Why is your wife driving a $200,000 automobile?

So, my point is, they do very well, and they show nothing but ingratitude. And then they start lecturing Americans—and they’re Americans—what’s wrong with their country.

And it doesn’t go down well. It doesn’t. People—and they’re not formidable. They’re not educated. They’re arrogant, but they don’t know much about the country.

And I just don’t think they’re going to do well in a national election when independents—who poll about 20% in favor of socialism. Most of the independents are disaffected conservatives that bolted from the Republican Party, to tell you the truth. And they are not going to vote for a socialist, if they are honest that they’re socialists. But, you know, they may be like Joe Biden and just be a waxen effigy and then run as good old Joe Biden from Scranton and then outsource his whole agenda to socialists that destroyed the border and all that stuff they did.

person 1: Yes. And can I add something? They’re also violent. Like El-Sayed saying they’re only going to listen when the ogre’s head is on a pike. Or, I can’t say anything because these people might be worried about the ayatollah, who was a violent person.

person 2: I mean, yeah, he loved him. One of the reasons that he said that he wasn’t going to rejoice in his death, he admired somebody who killed 40,000 people.

It’s going to be very funny. I think everybody realizes, or should realize, what Marxists are. They like violence. They say they’re for the people and they want to empty—oh, we don’t, we’re going to abolish the prisons.

If you’re a homeless person and you go into one of Mamdani’s stores, and it’s 30% off, and you do what you do to a capitalist owner—you get your little trench coat and you open it and you start putting steaks in there—they’re going to go after you and they’re going to prosecute you.

And it’s not going to be, well, it’s less than $950, shoplifting. No, that’s a felony against the people. That’s how they’re going to look at it. You watch that.

They’re capitalists, is what I’m saying, that masquerade as communists. I only say that because they live like capitalists. They’re wealthy people. You know, you see Jane Fonda from her mansion today deploring poor people and homeless people in Los Angeles. They’re not, open up your mansion.

You know, when Stanford University and all these universities during [President Donald] Trump’s first term were saying Trump has cages and these people are coming across the border and they have nowhere to stay and he’s putting them in–those were the Obama detention cells that they used for a while.

And then you thought, well, wait a minute. There are a million and a half students—more than that—that are not in school right now in the summer. And Stanford and Harvard and Princeton, I bet they could house 20,000 people. And so, you should tell the undocumented or the homeless, your champions want you at the university. Then you could have internships during the summer. You could say, you know what? We have Stanford Law School. We have a lot of interns. Now, we chased out a federal judge and yelled that his daughter might be raped. We kind of messed up his hair a little bit, but we’re here to give you legal counsel.

Then the head of the medical school says, oh, don’t leave us out. We have a lot of residents, and they’re woke, and we’re going to come in and give you cradle-to-grave health care, at least that kind of health care, while you’re on our campus. And then we’re going to have the professors, well, since you’re here and you’re illegal, now you’ve got a room and you’ve got food and you’ve got health care and legal advice, we’re going to tutor you so you can take free classes.

They never do that. 

Is ‘Communist’ No Longer a Slur?

 It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “democratic socialists”—once they find power.

Indeed, the more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of socialist renegades are not really socialists, the more they act like—and even appear comfortable being called—communists.

With every new policy they propose, the socialists have been dropping the pretense that they are not Marxists.

How about declaring capitalism a failure?

All the socialists now do that—and even Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom has also started agreeing that “capitalism as we know it doesn’t work either.” Oddly, Newsom himself, a multimillionaire and a beneficiary of arch-capitalist Gordon Getty’s largesse, seems to have done quite well under capitalism.

Confiscating private property?

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims he will do just that if New York’s landlords, in his opinion, are poor custodians of their own property.

Dismantling the U.S. Constitution?

Almost all Democrats have long called for destroying the 238-year-old Electoral College. And now the socialists openly brag that, when they take over the Democratic Party and then the nation, they will, as good Bolsheviks, go much further: destroying the Senate, destroying the Pentagon, destroying prisons, destroying the police, and destroying our borders.

And they want to take over utilities, break up or absorb corporate agriculture, and own major industries. Apparently, socialists believe that with a snap of their fingers they can destroy key elements of the U.S. constitutional order. Would these “socialists” even resent their agenda being called “communist”?

They also seem to have taken their cue for such radical change from “mainstream” Democrats—for example, Kamala Harris. Now in her third vain bid for the presidency, she has adopted the doctrine of “if you can’t beat them, join them.” So Harris now promises that if she is elected, she will pack the court, admit two new blue states (to snag four liberal senators), end the filibuster, and junk the Electoral College. How she plans to amend the Constitution to that effect she never tells us.

Like all good Marxists, these “ends justify the means” leftists show an utter lack of principle: If two new red states wished to join the U.S., they would lecture us on the sanctity of a 50-state union. If they were a permanent Senate minority, they would, as in the past, honor the filibuster. If they had lost the popular vote in two recent elections but won the Electoral College, they would praise the wisdom of the Founders. If they had their Earl Warren-era majority again, they would laud the continuity of the 157-year-old nine-justice Supreme Court.

How about making “enemies of the people” lists and forcing sales of private property?

Mamdani just sent out a public list of nearly one million New York homeowners. He sent official warnings to 17,000 of these property owners that, if within four weeks they cannot prove that they have lived full-time in their own properties, the city will levy a huge surtax on them to drive home the point that no one should own an additional high-value home. Are show trials next for those who decline to reply?

In other words, Mamdani has flipped the American tradition of “innocent until proven guilty.” Instead, almost 20,000 New Yorkers are now automatically presumed guilty of being house-hoarding, capitalist leeches who owe the exploited classes tens of thousands of dollars a year in reparations, unless they—the newly presumed guilty—can prove themselves innocent.

Welcome to Mamdani’s revolutionary court.

Mamdani’s new surtax could add from $40,000 to $350,000 a year to tens of thousands of homeowners’ taxes—in addition to already-existing steep property taxes that often range from $5,000 to $150,000.

Most owners will do the math and see that the new aggregate tax payouts in just a few years could be more than the value of the home itself.

Why is Mamdani doing this?

The socialist mayor’s aim here seems twofold:

First, he wants to flush out and dox anyone owning two homes as a purported enemy of the people.

And so, Mamdani created a list of his targets, including their addresses, and published it. To the extent that many properties really were second homes, Mamdani has now made sure that all New Yorkers, including envious rubberneckers, would-be squatters, and hardened criminals, know exactly where they might target a sometimes-vacant home.

Second, he wants to force a massive fire sale of second homes that would crash home values in general and so redistribute now “affordable” houses to those whom Mamdani considers, as victims of capitalism, to be more deserving of these properties.

Recently, on cable news, the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Megan Romer, was asked a series of questions about her group’s published agenda. Far from denying its communist radicalism, she gleefully confirmed it all—from destroying the border to ending prisons, the military, and the police.

But it is in Spain, and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s corrupt and unpopular regime, where we see what one-eyed-jack socialists can do when they are finally in power, especially when they are hated and on their way out.

Sanchez has given amnesty to 600,000 illegal aliens. One result was that 60,000 Muslim men from North Africa in a single day recently swarmed Spain’s colonial outpost on the Moroccan coast at Ceuta, demanding amnesties and free subsidized passes into European Spain—while looting and vandalizing businesses and attacking Spaniards.

So, why do European socialists and American leftists, once elected, destroy borders, create conditions of mass chaos, and welcome in millions of illegal aliens—poor, often angry, and unassimilated—from the Third World?

Aside from their belief that the capitalists and their bourgeois hirelings deserve chaos, violence, and upheaval, they hate the fact that capitalism is too class-fluid to furnish a permanent exploited proletarian underclass.

And so they import a huge victim class, and virtue signal their purported moral superiority. Then they spend lavish social largesse upon the influx, and, in quid pro quo fashion, thus bind their imported underclass with their welfare-state assurances.

Mail-in and early ballots, no-ID voting, same-day registration, ballot harvesting and curing, and no final verdicts on Election Day were all leftist projects, all designed to enroll as many illegal voters as possible.

The Left has also learned from experience that the time between immigrant parents fleeing third-world hellholes to find safety, freedom, and prosperity in the U.S. and their children hating the very generous host that welcomed them—and demanding that America be radically transformed to resemble the catastrophe from which they or their parents fled—is often only about 20 years.

So if one enjoys watching the careers of Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or Mamdani, then one should certainly vote socialist to ensure that they are the new model for American elected officials.

It is the paradox of our age that anyone can flee Somalia, the West Bank, Puerto Rico, or Uganda and then win the global lottery by being accepted into America’s constitutional society and free-market economy—only to do their best to repay the generosity of their host by turning their new country into something unrecognizable to the prior 10 generations of Americans.

But then again, America might become quite similar to the mess they abandoned.

So far, the model holds true: Socialist candidates (as opposed to registered socialist activists) hide their communist-adjacent agendas during elections. But once in office and drunk with power, they find socialism too wishy-washy and go full communist. So, they destroy borders, institutions, names, dates, statues, norms, customs, and traditions to replicate the illiberalism and concomitant failures of a new Haiti, a West Bank, or a Morocco in the West.

In sum, to make a new socialist America, you must first destroy everything that made Americans and all that they hold dear.

What the Situation on the Ground in Iran Actually Looks Like

 

We’re hearing more and more every day about Iran and [President Donald] Trump as the midterms now are only about 90 days away. 

There’s kind of a narrative that is emerging, left and right, that we are bogged down. I’ve heard the word Vietnam evoked. Donald Trump may have contributed to that because, although in that 150 days, we’ve been operating in the Gulf, we’ve only bombed Iran about 50 or so days, and we’ve been discussing it for 100 days. 

So the narrative has emerged that Donald Trump promises to hit them hard, they back down, and they say they want talks. They do not want talks. They want to delay, delay, delay, delay. Donald Trump then sporadically hits them. They come back to the table. 

We have no idea who we’re dealing with because the Iranian Revolutionary Islamic Guard seems to be playing the bad cop, and the moderate elected—“moderate elected”–officials, seem to put a happy face on things, and they either have no power or authority, or they’re in league with the hardcore to give them time and run out the clock. 

So, what are the relative pressures? Everybody’s getting very angry over this on, off, on, off, on, and we’re concentrating too much on what Donald Trump says. 

We know what each side is doing. Donald Trump has 90 days before the midterms. If he should lose the midterms, his team is convinced, A, that there will be an impeachment circus for the next two years, and B, anybody around him will be hauled before Senate and House committees. 

But mostly in the House because I don’t think the Republicans will lose the Senate. 

And they will be inquired into, they will be researched, they will be berated, and it will cost them a fortune, and that will be a circus. 

And so, Donald Trump doesn’t want that. To avoid that, he has to have gas getting near $3 a gallon, the world price around $65 a barrel, the Strait of Hormuz open, and all that requires him either to have a new Iranian government or a debilitated Iranian government or a negotiated settlement. 

What is Iran trying to do? Iran is trying to talk, hit the Gulf, close the Strait, talk, repeat, wash, rinse, spin, wash, rinse, spin, drag it out, see Donald Trump lose the House, have the House Left and its new Islamicist socialist base cut off funds for [the Iran conflict], and then wait out the clock and get a democratic socialist type of president that would follow the Obama regimen and pretty much appease them and let them do what they want. 

So, what’s going on? What’s the big picture? I think we’re missing what’s actually happening every day. 

There is still an embargo on Iran. No tankers can come in with merchandise, food, material goods, industrial goods, and no Iranian oil is getting out. We have bombed now most of the rail links that go into the former Soviet Union and on into Russia and on into China. 

So, they are not getting imports, and they are not exporting. They may have some airlift capacity in regional airports where China or Russia are sending in material, but it won’t be much. 

But more importantly, they are debanked. Assets are frozen. The economic embargo continues. They are losing in revenue about $500 million per day, and that loss is geometrically increasing, not just arithmetically. 

In other words, as you start to damage their infrastructure, their bridges, and we have, their roads, and you start to inflict enormous damage on the military, and they draw scarce resources from the domestic economy to fix it, the people are getting more anguished and poorer and poorer, and the country is getting worse and worse. 

We don’t see that because of what? We don’t see that because there’s no ground troops. It’s not embedded. We don’t know what’s going on. 

So, while the Left keeps saying to all of us that time is running out for Donald Trump, we’re in a Vietnam quagmire, the war is lost, we need to just look at not what the Left says, not what the right says, not even what Donald Trump says, not what Iran says. 

Just look dispassionately and disinterestedly at two things. What is the actual state of affairs in Iran? 

We have tragically lost 18 soldiers and probably spent $40 billion. But at that cost in blood and treasure, we have debilitated, neutered, deindustrialized, and pretty much destroyed the military, industrial, and nuclear complex industry of the largest state, in terms of economics and population and area, if you combine all those factors together, in the Middle East, and the bully, and the most anti-American. 

And so, while the Left thinks time is running out, the actual data show us that Iran is running out of time. 

And I don’t know who will win this standoff, but Iran has less resources and less wherewithal to withstand this python-like squeezing of it than we do in inflicting it. We can do this forever. 

One final asterisk or footnote. Things have changed somewhat. Donald Trump and the Republicans don’t think the midterms are lost. 

If they thought the midterms were lost, then they would accelerate the bombing probably and say, “We have nothing left to lose. Let’s end the Iranian threat now.” 

But they don’t think it’s lost because of what? 

They have outraised—they, the Republicans—have a $400 million war chest that they will spread very generously throughout these 435 House races and the Senate races. The Democrats only have about a fourth of that. 

Redistricting, whether due to red-state legislatures that are in the majority or from Supreme Court rulings on racial gerrymandering, might give them another five to nine seats they otherwise would not pick up. That’s important. 

More importantly still, we don’t know what Iran is going to be like. If there is some kind of negotiation or if the Strait should remain open or if the price of oil falls, people’s anguish might turn to satisfaction that it’s sort of like the Venezuela or the Panama denouement. They worked, and they will forget the cost and look at the result. 

That could happen even before the midterms. 

But most importantly, finally, this is not a Democratic Party that is running candidates for office. 

There’s two things going on. 

No. 1, a socialist-esque, communist-esque, Islamicist core base movement has captured the Democratic Party. It’s not just Zohran Mamdani. It’s not just Ilhan Omar. It’s not just Rashida Tlaib. It’s not just [Darializa Avila] Chevalier. It’s not just Milat Kiros. I could go on and on. It’s not just Hasan Piker. 

These are the front-line soldiers. But it’s the fear of them that makes milquetoast Democrats go left in fear they’re going to be primaried. 

And the point of all of this is the publicity is not good for the Democrats. They either have to disown these crazy people or keep mum about it and quiet about it or endorse them. 

So, when Gavin Newsom says capitalism doesn’t work either, he’s a mainstream Democrat in the left-wing sense of the Democrat these days. When he says that, that means that almost every single Democrat is terrified of the socialists and will ape and mimic them to survive politically. 

And that is going to filter down to the American people. And they do not want to hear that message, and they will not like that message. 

And so here in the 11th hour of the midterms, when things look the most bleak, the Democratic Party has thrown, given, extended a life raft to Donald Trump. 

And two things then in finishing: Look at what’s happening on the ground in Iran. Who’s getting worse off every day, not what people say. And look at the midterms, not from what people say, but the actual conditions that are in flux right now. 

And we don’t know what’s going to happen, but it doesn’t necessarily mean the Republicans are either going to be stuck in Iran or not, and they will not necessarily be stuck with losing the House.

The Socialist Monster Awakens

 

Who caused unaffordability?

Fear about “affordability” supposedly fueled the new, strident socialism.

Yet annual inflation during former President Joe Biden’s four years averaged almost 5%. It peaked at over 9%, while prices for some key staples rose by 30% over his tenure—all to silence from the Left. (By contrast, annual inflation during Trump’s first term averaged 1.9%. In his second term, it averaged 2.6% in 2025—and may rise to 4.5% in 2026, given the war with Iran.)

The socialists were not just quiet during Biden’s four years; they were themselves responsible for the rampant Biden inflation. They had implemented an inflationary de facto third Obama term, ramming through the most radical and costly agenda in decades under the veneer of that cognitively challenged waxen effigy, good ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton.

So the current Jacobin takeover of the Democratic Party was not sparked by concerns about “affordability”—or at least not if by “affordability” we mean the middle-class struggle to buy a house, a car, or groceries.

Instead, the socialist moment was merely the logical culmination of years of boutique radicalism within the Democrat aristocracy—the ossified leadership of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Hakeem Jeffries, along with the aging Black Caucus, the incoherent Squad, the DEI crowd, the open-border zealots, and the radical greens.

The grandees of the party also normalized the crazy mobs of BLM and Antifa long ago.
Democrats as Dr. Frankenstein

Almost every weaponized scam and national hysteria in the last two decades was amplified and spread by mainstream Democrats: the farcical claim that the Wuhan-lab-hatched COVID-19 virus came from pangolins or bats; the Duke Lacrosse and Covington Kids hoaxes; the Jussie Smollett scam, the “Hands up, don’t shoot” lie; the deification of George Floyd, often portrayed with wings and a halo; Fauxcahontas Liz Warren, touted as the first Native American Harvard law professor (thanks to her grandfather’s high cheekbones); the radical diminution of in-person voting; the canonization of Trayvon Martin and Karmelo Anthony as blameless model children; and the mythology of a 1619 national founding.

Who allowed not just one, two, three, or four million border-jumpers into the country, but over ten million—illegal, unvetted, viewed as an assumed new political constituency, and instantaneously dependent on the welfare state?

Who gave us three, four, five, or even more genders and biological males showering with teenage girls or female prisoners? Who sloganeered about “defund the police” and “no cash bail”?

All this was about as radical as it gets.

The Democrat establishment’s unhinged hatred of Donald Trump mainstreamed radicalism even further and helped birth the socialist-cum-communist Frankensteinian monster that is now devouring its mad-scientist creators.

“By any means necessary” was a Democrat mantra over a decade ago. By 2016, the Democrat leadership and the Clinton campaign were hatching the Steele-dossier farce to warp an election.

In 2020, the Democrat deep state—Antony Blinken, Mike Morell, John Brennan, James Clapper, Leon Panetta, and others—had fabricated the farcical claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, a hoax that, this time around, likely did alter an election.

The Democrat establishment, working with its appendages in Silicon Valley, had censored news attesting to the authenticity of Hunter’s embarrassing laptop contents. (For an account of what the establishment was doing in 2020, read Molly Ball’s Time essay describing the “conspiracies” and “cabals” that worked behind the scenes to change voting rules and ensure a Biden victory through mail-in, no-ID balloting.)

Then came four unhinged years of lawfare: special counsel Jack Smith’s seizure of the communications of senators and congressmen, the Mar-a-Lago raid on Trump’s home, the effort to de-ballot Trump, and the five civil and criminal circuses that resulted in half a billion dollars in fines.

All those perversions of the legal system were accompanied by a host of mainstream Democrats, retired generals, politicos, and athletes shouting that Trump was a Nazi, a fascist, a Mussolini, a traitor, or a Putin asset. Meanwhile, a host of loudmouth actors, Democrat activists, and celebrities competed with each other about how best to kill him—whether by shooting, stabbing, poisoning, beheading, burning him alive, or blowing him up.

Trump supporters were libeled over the years by establishment Democrats as irredeemables, deplorables, chumps, dregs, and garbage.

Even an establishment figure like Rosa Brooks, a former Obama-appointed Pentagon lawyer, called for a military coup in Foreign Policy just 10 days after Trump first took office in 2017.

Three would-be assassins got close enough to killing Trump to draw return fire from the Secret Service—near-death encounters that elicited both unapologetic applause for the attempts and lamentations that the shooters had failed from the now truly deranged social-media Left. Murderers themselves were normalized as leftist icons, as seen in the canonization of Luigi Mangione and the glee that followed in many Democrat social media circles after the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Yet did the establishment Democrat apparat calm these waters? Or did it set them boiling?

It was Chuck Schumer who threatened conservative Supreme Court justices, screaming in front of a mob outside the court’s doors, “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Schumer sounded more like a pink-haired anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement street protester than a U.S. senator.

No surprise, then, that two years later a left-wing would-be assassin turned up at Kavanaugh’s home, along with crowds of enthusiastic protestors.

Does anyone recall Maxine Waters urging the public to bird-dog Trump administration officials and harass them whenever they were seen in public? “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out, and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

Does anyone also remember Nancy Pelosi, then-Democrat House Minority leader, greenlighting “uprisings” over ICE deportations? “I just don’t know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country. Maybe there will be.” So spoke the radical owner of two mansions, who entered Congress with little net worth and will leave it worth over $100 million. A Tip O’Neill she wasn’t.

Then there was soon-to-be Vice President Kamala Harris egging on the George Floyd demonstrations, which, weeks earlier, had already turned violent and indeed deadly (despite what the “fact-checkers” asserted):

“This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop. And everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. And that should be—everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not.”

After four months of rioting in 2020—which left 25 people dead and 1,500 law enforcement officers injured, inflicted $2 billion in damage, and saw a police precinct, a federal courthouse, and an iconic church set ablaze—who gave the perpetrators a pass, with 14,000 arrests followed by few convictions and fewer jailings?

What happened during the violence against ICE in 2025-26? Did the Democrat apparat at least pretend to deplore the violence, or did it instead egg it on?

And who, as sore losers in 2016 and 2024, normalized the idea of dismantling the constitutional order—first by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College and later by planning to pack the court, end the filibuster, and admit two new left-wing states?
The Frankenstein Monster Awakens

So the socialists and communists did not really hijack the party. Rather, these youthful radicals were spawned and nurtured by aged Democrats. They became irate over their impotence and loss of influence—and simply upgraded the methods and message of their elders.

The upper-middle-class Mamdanis, Pikers, and AOCs did not storm the party parapets but were invited in by a party that had already radicalized itself—amid its hatred of Trump, its growing estrangement from the majority of the American people, and its fury at becoming increasingly powerless without the White House, Congress, or the Supreme Court.

Socialists did not lower the bar for extremism; establishment Democrats had already destroyed that standard altogether.

Given all that, the Democratic Socialists of America scarcely had to be invented.

After a decade of establishment Democrats destroying norms and traditions, deliberately dividing us by race, seeking to eliminate life-giving fossil fuels, and trying to implement dangerous crackpot ideas like critical race theory, critical legal theory, no cash bail, and defunding the police, the only change is that the now-electrified socialist monsters have awakened. They have mocked their stagnant creators, reenergized the old messages, and simply sought to replace the messengers.

Gone or going soon were the old white people like Pelosi and Schumer—despite their pathetic efforts to appease the Jacobins. In their place arose a cohort of upper-middle-class, degreed but otherwise poorly educated white urbanites, furious that their empty university certificates, student debt, inflated sense of self, and precious titles and jobs—but low salaries—had not delivered the affluent lifestyles enjoyed by lawyers, doctors, stockbrokers, and other professionals in their urban circles who had real jobs.

The downwardly mobile whites who formed 85% of the official ranks of the Democratic Socialists of America were joined by first- and second-generation immigrants, many from failed socialist states.

These were ingrates who, once safe and prospering in America, learned that boutique radicalism and identity chauvinism won cultural acceptance and conferred DEI leverage in their blue-state urban circles—and so sought to dismantle the very host nation that had saved them.

For both groups, anger was fed by envy of others with more stuff and by furor at a Middle America that plowed ahead, ignoring both their supposed talents and their hyped plight. And the Democratic Party provided the radical model—which, in their youthful ignorance, the new socialists pledged to enhance and exceed.

No longer, they thought, would hardcore leftists have to hide their agendas for fear of losing elections. In their folly, they attributed Harris’s 2024 implosion not to her clumsy efforts to disown and disguise her radical past (including the most left-wing voting record in the Senate), but to her not being left-wing enough.

In other words, a milquetoast socialist had lost in 2024 not because she was too radical for America, but because she was not socialist—or indeed, communist—enough.

The crazed new socialists bragged that they could win by loudly and brazenly broadcasting the old agendas: open borders, mass amnesties, defunding the police, ending fossil fuels, attacking—and now seeking to destroy—the Senate and Supreme Court, and scapegoating whites and white “privilege.” To this old mainstream Democrat farrago, they added one new element: openly embracing anti-Zionism and indeed antisemitism.

America will soon see how this insanity works out.