Kamala Harris and the left got their clocks cleaned in the 2024 election, but that doesn't mean they will rest in their despair. They have already started setting up an obstacle course for the second Trump presidency. While they have been deprived of the argument that Donald Trump's re-election was a fluke or that he lost the popular vote, as in 2016, rest assured they will concoct other ways to try to bring Trump low. How effective they will be is an open question, but you can bet the mortgage that they will not go quietly into the night.
Let’s start with a good laugh, and we’re not even referring to the plethora of viral videos by hysterical, unhinged progressives promising to remove men altogether from their lives. The most extreme and hilarious scheme following the election was created by a Harris campaign official, Jamal Simmons, claiming Joe Biden should step down and hand the presidency to Harris so she could become the first woman of color to reach the highest office in the land. For good measure, others proposed making Liz Cheney – a Harris surrogate and an enemy of Trump – vice president so she could wreak havoc with the process of certifying Trump’s victory as president of the Senate. As laughable as it sounds, the proposition made it all the way to CNN's Sunday show State of the Union.
Oh sure, Biden would be thrilled to go along with that after being stabbed in the front by his party’s power brokers. If you watched his post-election remarks, you probably noticed that Biden had a bounce in his step – as if to say I told you I was the only one who could beat Trump – not to mention the red pantsuit worn by Dr. Jill Biden on Election Day, a transparent swipe at Harris.
Now to more serious matters. If you think the legal warfare against Trump will end now that he is returning to the White House, think again. Judge Juan Merchan has essentially frozen the New York City case in which Trump was convicted on 34 counts, widely considered bogus at best, keeping open his option to let it sit in suspended animation ad infinitum. The infamous Letitia James, New York Attorney General, made feisty remarks shortly after Nov. 5, promising to continue her never-ending quest to put Trump behind bars: “I am not fearful of Donald Trump … We are ready to fight back again.” In response, Mike Davis, prospective Trump appointee for the Department of Justice, issued a stark counter-warning to James: “I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term, because listen here, sweetheart: We’re not messing around this time, and we will put your fat a-- in prison for conspiracy against rights.”
Trump-Proofing
The first blush of the left-wing’s efforts to obstruct the 47th president, “Trump-proofing” national and state legislatures, came from California Gov. Gavin Newsom. He called a special session of the Golden State legislature and posted a video warning Trump that he would “stand firm … If our American values and freedoms are attacked, we will not stand idly by.” Illinois’ billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker followed suit with bravado: “You come for my people, you come through me.” Particularly revealing was the fact that neither one specified the values and freedoms he believes Trump will attack. Maybe it’s just a coincidence that the most brash statements by high-ranking politicians in reaction to Trump’s victory were delivered by two men widely believed to be angling for the Oval Office in 2028. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is reportedly making plans, unspecified as of now, to similarly Trump-proof Congress and perhaps issue executive orders designed to force Trump into abolishing them when he takes office.
You may remember the bizarre, lurid women’s march and other events conducted by progressive extremists immediately following Trump’s 2017 inauguration when Madonna bellowed: “I thought an awful lot of blowing up the White House.” This time, a mass protest against the democratically elected president is scheduled to take place on Jan. 18, 2025, likely designed to stoke widespread violence two days before Trump is sworn in. Legacy media – which has gaslighted the public since Trump first came to power – is all but certain to amplify the event in order to exacerbate the nation’s deep divisions.
The media is already warning of Trump’s promised mass deportation of illegal immigrants, starting with those who have committed crimes. Though it is a policy supported by a majority of the American people, according to multiple polls, footage of illegals being seized under orders from new Border Czar Tom Homan and the Department of Homeland Security will undoubtedly appear prominently in the headlines and on TV.
Booby Traps for a Seasoned Trump
As we learned during Trump’s first term, there are few limits to what the left will do to destroy their archenemy. They won’t be able to impeach him unless they win back the House in 2026, but given the post-election outpouring of vitriol and undiluted hatred from the left, is it out of the realm of possibility that one or more states might even threaten to secede from the union in order to sow chaos? Would Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who bluntly said he would refuse to step down if Trump asked him to, raise interest rates just to spite Trump? Would the unelected and unaccountable permanent bureaucrats successfully reach into their bag of tricks to undermine Trump’s bold plan to fire thousands of them and replace them with political appointees?
The good news for the Trump team is that it will be a bit harder for leftists to soil the 47th president than it was when he became the 45th. When he arrived in the DC Swamp in 2017, Trump’s numerous sworn enemies and skeptics in his party were shell-shocked by his victory but comforted by the fact that he was a novice. He did not know his way around Washington and had established almost no relationships with those surrounding the seat of power. He had no transition team or firm blueprint for governance and was forced to rely on high-profile strategists recommended to him. He was rolled by Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and company and spent much of his first term responding to fabricated scandals.
This time around, the president-elect is a veteran of Washington politics, and he will surround himself with, among others, Tom Homan as Border Czar, Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, and Lee Zeldin at the Environmental Protection Agency, all hard-liners in lockstep with the president-elect and his strikingly bold agenda. Not to mention, Trump assembled a transition team in August of this year, allowing five months to plan the crucial first 100 days of his final term and beyond. And you can bet that it includes maneuvers for warding off the disturbed and reassembled “resistance” in its many forms.
