It’s been a happy 4th of July weekend if you’re a Trump supporter but not so much if you’re a Democrat.
In the past couple of weeks, Donald Trump has pulled off win after win, leaving the Democrats twiddling their thumbs while contemplating their navels.
But you know, that’s not unique for the Dems since Trump was re-elected president.
On June 21, Trump rode Israel’s coattails and bombed Iran’s nuclear reactors with B-2 bombers flying non-stop, all the way from Missouri.
On Thursday of this past week, Trump flexed his iron grip on the GOP and got his signature domestic legislation, his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, passed.
Also this past week, the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 Index broke records and the Dow is within spitting distance of its own record high.
All that’s on top of gas prices declining, the number of jobs increasing and illegal immigration declining.
And for the Democrats? Let’s see.
On the bombing of Iran, they squawked about how he usurped Congress’ war-making power, but no one paid much attention to that. Few Democrats gave him credit for cratering Iran’s march toward nuclear missiles even though they all know the mullahs have American blood on their hands.
On the Big Beautiful Bill, the Democrat strategy, if you want to call it that, was for minority leader Hakeem Jeffries to speak from the House floor for almost nine hours.
The Democrats trashed the Trump tariffs, that they would implode the US economy, but that hasn’t happened.
On Friday, 249 years ago, the Declaration of Independence was signed and the founding fathers put the wheels in motion to eventually form a new nation.
The signers of the Declaration, guys like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, were indeed men who had a way with words, but they were also men with vision.
Right now, in 2025, the only vision visible in American politics is the Trump vision. The Democrats are circling their own carcasses, flying blind.
Can you point to any of them with a counter-Trump view of what America should be, needs to be? Oh I’m sorry, there is one Democrat. His name is Zohran Mamdani and he just won the Democrat primary for mayor of the City of New York.
He preaches that billionaires are bad, landlords are blood suckers and the police are racists. He says he gets why some people chant, globalize the intifada, as if that’s something we should all look forward to.
Well, that 33-year old Democrat socialist could very well become the next mayor of the nation’s largest and most important city.
Well done, Dems! They are bewildered and befuddled.
Rushing into to fill that vision void are radicals like Mamdani, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and their socialist cohorts, who dream of an America consisting of equity for all and free rides on the government’s gravy train.
Their down-with-America views are sadly reflected in a new Gallup poll that found only 36% of Democrats are “extremely or very proud” to be American.
Our founding fathers would be aghast at that shameful percentage.
Many Democrats yearn to know what their party stands for, not just who their party opposes. It’s self-defeating to just use Trump as your whipping boy when he’s wiping the floor with you.
But all is not unicorns and rainbows for the Republicans, either.
A Quantus poll among 1,000 registered voters just taken, found big dissatisfaction not only with the Democrats but also with the GOP. When asked which party best reflects American values, nearly a third said neither and amongst independent voters that number almost doubled.
The pollster said “It’s about a growing sense that the existing order is failing to represent the country as it truly is or wants to be.”
We’re not at the point of despair. We’ve lived through worse. Heck, the nation survived the Civil War. But we are at an inflection point. The Republicans have their king and the Democrats need to find their crown prince. They need to find someone with a vocabulary that resonates with centrist Americans and who stifles the radical rhetoric of the Mamdani’s and the AOC’s.
That should be a no-brainer but it doesn’t just require brains, it also requires balls.
This Friend Without Benefits programming note:
I guess Trump’s idea of making Canada the 51st state is still on the table, so I’m heading there to see for myself if all that land up north would be a good fit.
Not really, I’m just taking a week off 🙂
So next Sunday, you’ll have to carry on without my pearls of wisdom. There will be no edition of Friend Without Benefits.