Mad As Hell/Mad As A Hatter

 

Friends, the lefties were out in force today, demanding that Trump and Musk keep their "hands off"...pretty much everything.  The demonstrations had no thematic focus, except for TDS, but that's hardly a problem.  TDS has become the central organizing principle of so many people's lives these days.  I reckon most of them are Democratic Party activists and/or geriatric white liberals who watch CNN or MSNBC all day.  Assuming they remain the "face" of the Dems and the resistance to Trump, we have little to worry about.  On the off chance that the economy tanks, however, you better believe that these wackos will be joined by plenty of centrists and swing voters, at least in the short term.  We would be foolish to dismiss the political relevance of these protests altogether, therefore.  The Left can and will become a bonafide threat to the GOP/conservative/Trump agenda, if we aren't careful.  We had a chance to strangle the legacy media by denying it access to the president, and by starving it of advertising dollars based on our irresistible political/cultural momentum.  We didn't do either.  Thus, the Left has been able to suck in more than enough political oxygen to keep its hopes alive.  In the near term, of course, they have precious little ability to accomplish anything in D.C., except by judicial obstructionism.  What they may be able to do, however, by battering away at Trump and Musk's popularity, is scare enough GOP Senators and Congressmen into defecting from Trumpism that further progress on DJT's agenda becomes impossible.  The best way we can prevent this from happening is to 1) deliver the goods on the policy front and keep the economy strong, and 2) discredit the "resistance" as a bunch of violent cranks.  It remains to be seen whether we succeed on either point.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz79ewg193ro 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/05/thousands-of-protesters-gather-for-hands-off-rallies-across-u-s/ 

Liberation Day?

 

Friends, the reciprocal tariffs we were promised have arrived, and, in the short term, the markets don't seem to like them much.  That was predictable.  Trump is upending the whole international trading system, which has long been based on, and taken for granted, American gullibility and stupidity, and such a sea change will certainly inconvenience and even terrify some.  The long-term impact of tariffs, and even whether many of these tariffs will endure for the long-term, is hard to predict.  What wasn't hard to predict is the panic that many Democrats and leftists are currently feeling, which mirrors their sense that America is but inches from totalitarianism.  My big fear is not that tariffs will wreck the economy, but that Trump haters will wreck the economy by selling all their stocks and refusing to purchase any consumer goods.  Their economic pessimism may be as delusional as their political predilections, but even delusions can become self-fulfilling prophecies.  In any case, I wouldn't lose hope just yet.  The U.S. economy, and the world economy, can boast a lot of fundamental strengths, and those fundamentals may yet carry the day.  And, if they don't, any recession may be brief or shallow.  There's no doubt, however, that Trump has taken a big risk by imposing these sweeping tariffs.  And I say that as someone who is broadly sympathetic to the idea of reciprocal tariffs, and who believes that we ought, as a nation, to have taken these steps a long time ago.  The simple fact is, though, that just because Trump is in the right does not mean that his gambit will work as intended, especially when so many powerful people are determined to make sure that it doesn't.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1g63x7q8o 

 

https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/the-day-trumps-tariff-threats-turned-into-a-harsh-reality-for-ceos-and-investors-f0e58ad3 

Split Decision

 

Friends, the GOP and the dastardly Dems fought each other to a draw last night, as the Dems won the big State Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, but Republicans won two House special elections in Florida, plus a referendum to require photo ID in future Wisconsin elections.  All in all, not a terrible showing.  The talking heads are trying to blame Elon Musk for the failure of Brad Schimel to win his Wisconsin race, but maybe he's just a bad candidate, or maybe he should have leaned into Musk's support instead of away from it, or maybe the Dems cheated more lavishly than ever.  Who knows.  Anyway, our House majority is now just a bit more robust than it was before, and that may be the biggest takeaway of all, because we need the House to produce some RESULTS...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/04/01/trump-challenged-democrats-win-wisconsin-republicans-slip-florida/82702615007/

In somewhat related news, the media is celebrating declining Tesla sales and blaming Musk for his political activism.  Well, it's true that many lefties are turning away from Tesla for essentially (asinine) political reasons, but isn't that proof that Elon is even more of a patriot than we thought he was?  I mean, he's losing money by taking on the Swamp, and yet he's still at it.  What a swell guy!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4zp3z1p3o

P.S.  Help is on the way, Elon, as I plan to buy at least 5 million Teslas in the second quarter.  Think I might need a bigger garage?

Generous To A Fault

 

Friends, Democrats and progressives have hearts of gold!  We know that because they keep telling us over and over.  But it's true: they're extremely generous when spending other people's money.  As it turns out, misplaced "compassion" is a defining characteristic of the Left, as I note in my most recent article.  It falls to us hard-hearted right-wingers to undo the damage that liberal altruism has inflicted on this country.

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholaswaddy/2025/04/01/killing-us-with-kindness-is-a-democratic-party-specialty-n2654759