Face it: the Democrats are wimps.
They are the Arnold Stang’s and Barney Fife’s, the schlemiels of modern politics.
This helps explain why Democrats have failed to attract the votes of young men and inspire leadership in the process. So, how did the weak image of top Democrats drive them towards Trump?
Part of this vapid image stems from the age of the top Democratic leaders, both male and female. But others have no passion, purpose, gravitas, or authority.
Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Corey Booker, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and many senators come to mind. They don’t have Trump’s flawed and sociopathic strong presence. Trump’s criminal record of stealing, tax evasion, molestation, groping, evading prosecution, and stealing millions without a formal degree and gaming the system, appeals to many Trump’s followers. This gangsta image makes Trump appear stronger and more criminal than Biden and Harris.
In 2025, Trump’s thug lifestyle is the definition of masculinity. No one on the Dem side even comes close to being a thug.
Being a successful politician involves many factors: personality, genetics, intelligence, body type, heritage, family connections, money, the ability to raise money, survivor bias, salesmanship, and an indefinable star quality that makes them stand out from the crowd.
Unfortunately, in politics and corporate leadership, sociopaths find their way to the top either through bullying, playing dirty tricks on their opponents, or eliminating their enemies. Trump does all of these things in a single day. His ability to talk forcefully, even if ignorant and uninformed, precedes what he says. It’s how he says it.
Democrats do not reward nonsense talk or outright lies. MAGA followers don’t even consider it. Democrats take the high road when it comes to opposing Republicans. Who can forget the wimpy and silly slogan, “When they go low, we go high,” uttered by Michelle Obama?
A Partial List of Democrat Wimpiness
Barack Obama Ignores His Reality
Barack Obama showed he was wildly out of touch when he ignored the message from a Tea Party meeting and others in 2009 that Republicans would block all legislation proposed by Obama.
According to The Guardian, at “a private dinner of House Republicans on inauguration day in 2009, in which they plotted a campaign of obstruction against newly installed president Barack Obama. During a lengthy discussion, the senior GOP members devised a plan to repeatedly block Obama over the coming four years to ensure he would not be re-elected.” The session lasted four hours, and during the meeting, the Republicans hatched a plan to take over the Senate and the House.
In return, Obama said he was willing to work with Republicans even when they said he was persona non grata on Capitol Hill. This is just one case that shows Dems never understood their enemy.
At that time, Republican John Boehner, the soon-to-be-elected Republican Speaker of the House, said his plans for Obama’s agenda: “We’re going to do everything—and I mean everything we can do—to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell summed up his plan to National Journal: “The most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
Obama insisted on meeting with Republicans to pass his programs, even when they publicly shunned him. When David Axelrod was informed of this meeting, he “condemned the revelation as ‘sad, appalling but not terribly surprising,'” according to the Guardian. “Sad and appalling? That’s the best they could say? Obama and Axelrod never knew their enemy.
Also, when it came to prosecuting white-collar criminals, Obama again showed his corporate preferences.
What would the Democratic Party look like today if the Obama administration, including his corporate Attorney General Eric Holder, had prosecuted the senior executives of the nation’s largest financial firms who caused the 2008 recession?
- Could those prosecutions have prevented the election of Donald Trump?
- Could those prosecutions have shown that justice is blind to criminals, regardless of their wealth, white-collar, or blue-collar status?
While the Democratic Party is now attempting to rebuild its energy level and reconnect with former constituents, these questions are more appropriate today than ever.
That’s because the events leading up to the global financial meltdown and the thousands of hours of televised hearings and media coverage from 2007 to 2009, made the 2008 recession the most covered financial event in history.
It was also the costliest. As a result of the 2008 fraud-led recession, American households collectively lost $19.2 trillion in their net worth and investment losses.
Obama certainly had the resources. He had the Justice Department (led by then-Attorney General Eric Holder), and all the appropriate financial regulatory agencies, including the SEC and the U.S Treasury (then led by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner). These and other federal agencies had authority over the institutions involved in the mortgage frauds.
If Obama had coordinated his resources, he could have captured the political attention of the entire nation. In the process, he would have sent a clear message that there was one standard and system of justice for white-collar executives and average Americans.
Instead, Obama, Holder, and others in his administration collectively moved to the sidelines and eventually to the security of their closed locker rooms. For them, they decided the game was over. This meant those highly compensated, financial executives would never be held responsible for causing the worst recession in U.S. history.
This was a devastating mistake for the following reasons.
- It was an irrecoverable opportunity for the Democrats to show there was a single justice system for rich and poor Americans.
- It was an opportunity to dust off the Democratic Party’s populist history and possibly steal some right-wing populist appeals that Donald Trump later used against the Democrats.
- It was time to restructure the financial system to make it more risk-averse, transparent, and accountable to regulators.
Instead, Obama and Holder did nothing.
Their conscious inaction fueled cynicism about the U.S. justice and financial systems, helped fuel Donald Trump’s fake populism, and degraded the Democratic Party. The impact of their failure to prosecute those who caused the 2008 recession is a reason why the Democratic Party has alienated many of its members and why it is floundering today.
The Out-of-Touch Biden, Who Said Trump Was “Unpresidential”
Of course, Joe. What did you expect?
That was one of the more naïve political statements made by any Democrat in the Trump era. It showed that the Democrats and Biden again never understood their enemy. Of course, Trump is unpresidential. He is a lifelong sociopath and convicted criminal, so how could he be “presidential” when he cannot even spell it? Biden’s major flaw is that he is not a man of his time.
Biden still believes in a Washington that progressed on political compromise, but the days of Tip O’Neil working with Ronald Reagan ended decades ago. The Congress Biden imagined would never elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Trump’s entire Cabinet, former associates who went to prison, George Santos, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert.
Biden could never adapt to the criminal Trump administration and the Federalist Society fascist agenda. When the Republicans go low, Democrats should have gone lower, but they don’t know how. It’s not in their political DNA. Dirty tricks are the realm of Richard Nixon, Dick Tuck, and Roger Stone, the CIA, FBI, and the Watergate burglary team.
The Feckless, Inert Merrick Garland
Merrick Garland is possibly the worst attorney general in modern American history. He was the weak link in the Justice Department’s prosecution of Donald Trump. Biden appointed Garland, and as his weak leadership became evident, especially in the trial of the
Insurrectionists and Trump, Biden should have replaced him. Instead, Biden did nothing.
Biden watched as the Justice Department mysteriously waited a few critical years to appoint Jack Smith as a Special Prosecutor against Trump. By the time Garland named Smith Special Prosecutor, it took him until August 2023 to gather the needed evidence, almost three years after the Trump-inspired insurrection.
Garland obviously cannot make quick decisions, or is so tangled in his institutionalized vision of the U.S. Justice Department that he could not prosecute a blatant criminal like Trump because he was a political leader. Garland wanted to be on the Supreme Court, so would he have applied a different judicial opinion to a wealthy defendant or a CEO of a large corporation?
Or was Garland a lousy manager because he also had no judicial backbone?
Biden’s big mistake is that he did not fire Garland years ago when Garland’s inert management style was evident in his delay in prosecuting Trump. Joe Biden did nothing because he is an institutionalist who looks backward for inspiration. Biden said he would never interfere with the Justice Department because he was under the false impression that Garland was a manager. (See the full story here.)
Senator Al Franken Removed by “Me Too” Fanatics
Former Minnesota Senator Franken, one of the best prospects for a presidential run, was in office at the height of political correctness, during the #MeToo movement’s peak, and the emerging case against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. (See the full story here.)
This ignited the public and called for close examinations of individual business operations, executive behavior, and a re-examination of human resources discrimination and sexual harassment policies. This corporate introspection extended from the main street to corporate heads and elected officials in many parts of the nation.
This re-examination excavated old social media posts, televised and radio interviews, anecdotes, and photos. It was both a witch hunt and a legitimate re-examination of how men and women interact in the workplace.
This witch-hunt was led by New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand, who was situationally ethical but focused on the short term. She was a temporary hero to the # MeToo people, but she deprived the Democrats of a rising star, a politician who outshone her in her time in the Senate.
Franken was a victim of this environment. As a public official, he was a visible target, a talented speaker, and someone with positive name recognition. As a comedian, he had a rich past pushing the boundaries of comedy and taste in comedy clubs and comedy tours, and as a Saturday Night Live cast member during what many regard as its best period.
In a May 2018 Vox article about the Franken case, Laura McGann wrote that “liberals have embraced #MeToo as an extension of their commitment to women’s equality. But practically, when the accused is one of their own, many liberals feel that turning on him (Franken) unfairly holds Democrats to a higher standard than Republicans. Democrats must resolve this dilemma to move forward on Franken and cases like his.”
When Franken resigned in December 2017, he was just 68 years old.
The Unfolding Biden Saga
The mental decline of Joe Biden was observed in the middle of 2022 by close aides, and now it looks like six key people closest to Biden avoided discussing the age issue to prevent presenting him–and the American people–with bad news.
What was bad news for Biden is now a horror story for the American people.
According to the New York Times, six key people protected Biden from criticism that he was dragging down the hopes of a Democratic presidential win if he did not drop out of the race.
The first layer of motives for each of these people was loyalty to Biden. The two family members had their motives, including personal gain, as in the case of Hunter Biden, a proven grifter of the family name. The other four people listed in the article have to assume the blame for one of the biggest cover-ups in modern presidential history.
This story is critical because the Times reporters uncovered the names of the people responsible for the cover-up.
In many DNC debacles, the names of those responsible are never revealed. For instance, voters still need an accounting of the $1.5 billion that Kamala Harris spent on her failed presidential bid. Where is that report? Democrats also need to produce a public report on how Hillary Clinton lost to Trump and how her campaign was mismanaged.
So, who is to blame? Certainly, the Biden inner circle. But also, the DNC, a vast, self-serving organization designed to protect incumbent Democrats, even when they have failed to do their jobs. The DNC uses its funds primarily for self-preservation. It opposes all reforms and is against Progressives and young people. The DNC is the enemy of the Democratic Party. (See the full story here.)
