Democrats Are Getting Tired of All the Winning

posted by Kurt Schlichter at Townhall 

It’s exhausting how exhausted the Democrats are from almost a month of non-stop losing. They’ve got nothing new. They’ve got no good moves. Their malicious compliance is petering out; their litigation strategy may get some fleeting wins in the district courts but are certain to lose when appealed. What’s left is rhetoric. They’re reopening up the whiny playbook from 2016 and running the old-school plays without regard to the fact that Donald Trump and the Trump 2.0 administration are playing an entirely different game. This time, we are going for the throat. We are going for their cash flow. It’s existential, baby, and they’ve got almost nothing left that they can use to fight back.

Unlike us, Democrats are getting tired of all Trump’s winning.

Elon Musk is digging into the crime scene, but he’s not the only one. Remember, Saul Alinsky taught that you personalize the enemy, and the personalized enemy du jour is Elon Musk. But that’s OK because the world’s richest and, arguably, smartest man is probably the least vulnerable man on Earth to this kind of personalized attack. They can turn the entire regime media on him all day and all night, but at the end of the day, he still owns Twitter and has about a quarter of a trillion dollars to play with. It’s not just that he doesn’t care. It’s that he doesn’t have to. He wouldn’t even notice they were attacking him if he didn’t choose to.

What do they have left in their quiver? The usual attack genres. One of my favorites is another Alinsky tactic – try to use our principles against us. Well, we’ve learned something about principles – we’ve learned to reject them as unequivocal constraints upon our self-defense. After all, what good are principles if observing them makes you a slave?

There’s also the perennial “You’re a bad Christian if you don’t submit to all the socialist nonsense I’m pushing” line of attack. Sometimes it comes from pseudo-Christians, leftists whose real religion is leftism and who wear the robes of the church as a skinsuit. That bizarrely butch Episcopalian woman who lectured Trump and Vance at the National Cathedral is the archetype. One look at her and you know why people are walking (sprinting) away from the mainline churches – who wants to be hectored by that prog harpy every Sunday? The other kind is the smug atheist who hates Christians but believes he can somehow leverage Christianity to compel us to do as he commands. It’s funny that they expect us to accept that our Savior is some sandal-wearing socialist in favor of open borders and castrating little boys to comply with the delusions of their Munchhausen mommies. The pseudo-Christians try to leverage their alleged theological education, while the atheists try to leverage their secular education to instruct us in these heresies. But they can only do that for so long before we stop listening, and that time is over. The liberal churches are empty, and the pinko atheists can go pound sand.

Another genre is arguments to the effect that we ought to be talking about something else instead of what we are talking about. We found that the left has been using the entire United States as a giant tax farm through the vehicle of USAID, and that’s pretty hard to defend on its own terms. Outside of a faculty lounge or Twitter, you’re not going to find a lot of people who think that working folks ought to have their money forcibly extracted to subsidize an Ecuadorian transgender mime troupe. So, they attempt to distract us by pointing out something else they claim we should be looking at instead of what we are looking at. “Oh yeah, well, why aren’t you talking about X instead of Y?” The proper response, and the one they’re getting, is to just ignore them. We don’t have to explain anything to them. In fact, getting us to explain is the point because that takes our eye off the ball. We’ve learned to ignore them, but they can still amuse us with their puny attempts to confuse and baffle us.

Another favorite is the rationalization of outrage. The United States government has given $8 million to Politico, a leftist news outlet that covers the United States government. Normal people understand that that’s a bad thing, something that should happen. But wait – there’s an explanation! You see, the government is not just giving them the money; the government is buying something. That means it’s OK. Except we’re not stupid. This kind of payola, where some overpriced item gets purchased for the over price, is simply a way to launder money. Apparently, we’re supposed to believe that Politico Pro, a $10,000-a-year subscription service, is so valuable that the federal government needs a multitude of such subscriptions or the government can’t function. The attractiveness of the idea of the government not being able to function aside, one wonders how our government managed to get along for centuries and, in fact, metastasized to its huge, bloated, Vindman-like bulk without the benefit of a multitude of ten grand payments to a leftist mouthpiece. Well, we’re not really wondering. We know the score, and so do the people crying about Elon Musk exposing it – that’s precisely why they are crying about it.

Another flex is that the waste Elon Musk is finding is so minuscule that it’s not worth spending time on. Of course, they’re simultaneously arguing that stopping these minuscule payments is going to trigger an apocalypse around the world, and all of Africa is going to get AIDS and no Third World child will ever eat again if we don’t keep promiscuously pouring money down this rat hole. As a lawyer, I have to admire their Janus-like ability to assert two utterly contrary arguments within the same argument and to do it without hesitation or shame. As an American citizen, I’m tired of all this crap.

There’s another genre where they’re reaching the bottom of the barrel and trying to scrape through it in which they raise the alarm that Elon Musk, a special government employee, will have access to our Social Security numbers and such. Yeah, it’d be pretty terrible if the government had access to our government-issued information. There’s a real risk that Elon Musk is going to open a Discover card account in your name and rack up charges until it exceeds its $7500 line of credit.

With these people, it’s always a question of whether they are stupid or whether they think the people they are talking to are stupid. After all, what they’re saying is stupid, and somebody has to be stupid in the conversation or it’s all pointless. But I’m beginning to believe that there might be a third possibility. There’s the possibility that they’re not even trying anymore. There’s the possibility that they don’t believe it, and they know that the people they’re saying it to won’t believe it, but they’ve got to say something to uphold the fantasy that they’re actively resisting Donald Trump and, thereby, the will of the American people who elected him. Maybe they are so exhausted by our relentless campaign to take our country back that they’re not even trying anymore. So, the answer is that they are stupid, or their supporters are stupid, and/or they are just out of ideas other than stupid ones – well, all the pieces fit. The Democrats truly are tired of all our winning.