The George Washington of His Time

Dems defeated, rudderless, with neither leadership nor ideas

It was a triumph of a speech, delivered with assurance, even bravado, by a man who had survived impeachment, criminal prosecution and an assassin’s bullet.

He said he believed God had spared his life that June day in Butler PA so that he could Make America Great Again. In the balcony was the American hostage he freed from Russia, Marc Fogel, on Day 22 of his new presidency. Sitting next to him was his 95-year-old mother Malphine Fogel, who met with President Trump before the Butler rally to plead for her son’s freedom. He pledged, if elected, to help her. Minutes later he went on stage for that fateful encounter with evil. He never forgot his promise.

Early in the speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Trump recapped his early accomplishments in these six weeks since his inauguration.

Now, for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction — in fact it’s an astonishing record, 27-point swing — the most ever. Likewise, small business optimism saw its single largest one-month gain ever recorded, a 41-point jump. Over the past six weeks, I have signed nearly 100 Executive Orders and taken more than 400 Executive Actions, a record to restore common sense, safety, optimism and wealth all across our wonderful land. The people elected me to do the job, and I am doing it. In fact, it has been stated by many that the first month of our presidency, it’s our presidency, is the most successful in the history of our nation. By many. And what makes it even more impressive, is that you know who number two is? George Washington. How about that!”

In personality, these two presidents, separated by nearly 250 years of history, have little in common. GW was stately in pursuit of power, leading quietly, inspiring by example. Trump has a megawatt persona, brazen and outspoken, caring little who he offends in the service of his objectives. What they share may be more important: rigorous standards, an insistence on excellence, and a willingness to tackle the impossible. GW invented the presidency, Trump rescued it from a cabal of elitists.

The extent of Trump’s achievement can best be seen in the behavior of his opponents. On the Democrat side of the aisle in the House of Representatives, they sat virtually immobile, unable to applaud a 13-year-old cancer survivor who wants to be a policeman, a mother who had lost her 12-year-old daughter to a vicious assault and murder by an illegal migrant, a young female volleyball player who suffered brain damage at the hands of a transgender opponent, a biological male, and a wife who lost her husband, Corey Comperatore, who died after throwing his body on top of hers, and those of their daughters, to protect them from the gunfire at Butler.

When Trump celebrated the apprehension of the terrorist who killed 13 US servicemen at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan in 2021, the Dems sat on their hands. When he enumerated the shocking examples of waste and fraud uncovered by Elon Musk and his DOGE geniuses, they were mute. When he outlined his success in stemming immigration at the southern border, and detailed his plans to rescue the US economy, they sneered. Only when he discussed the war between Ukraine and Russia — and the $350 billion Americans have already spent in its cause — did they applaud. Trump tolled them at once. “So you want to keep it going another 5 years?” he asked. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., nodded vigorously. “Yeah, Pocahontas says yes.”

As I watched them, I wondered if Trump Derangement Syndrome is fatal. Are we watching the demise of the Democrat Party? After the speech, a CBS/yougov.com poll found 76% approval for the speech. Who, I wondered, are the 23%?

As I wrote in an earlier blog — The Wrong Side of History — Dems have now aligned themselves with DEI racism, student loan forgiveness, pro-Hamas terrorism, abortion through all nine months, transgender grooming of children, leniency toward criminals, open borders and illegal immigration, government waste, fraud and abuse, and biological males in women’s sports. Oh, and no voter ID. But why?

A investigative reporter might suggest we follow the money — searching through campaign contributions and FEC filings to discern who is bankrolling these dubious policy turns. And no doubt the usual suspects, Soros and his ilk, would show up.

But I think it is more than money. In choosing to die on a hill of dubious causes — to openly show their disdain for America, to sneer at the nation’s evident surge of patriotism — the Dems seem to be experiencing a debilitating case of nostalgia. As former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a week ago, “We just have to win, that’s the bottom line. And then we can come back to who we are as a country. And we can do that without sidelining trans issues for political expediency.”

I think they miss the days when they could rewrite the rules and control the narrative with mandates and willing media duplicity. I think they discouraged American initiative and interests because they had sworn allegiance to another cause, called globalism. They were part of an elite oligarchy ruling a fractured world.

In isolating them, in mocking them, Trump has outsmarted the once brilliant Dem PR strategists. Far from dominating the political landscape, they are reduced to a small corner of the power grid in Washington D.C., flailing for leadership, gasping for air.

Meanwhile, Trump is attracting a new fan base of black, Hispanic and young voters, expanding the GOP tent. In moving the country to “common sense” policies, in pushing an agenda of empowerment and opportunity, of world peace and energy independence, of schools that teach and a military that deters, Trump has caused MAGA to trend — and rescued the country that George Washington bequeathed.