During a meeting of Democrat lawmakers in Michigan, Rep. Debby Ringell (D) openly admitted that her party was using underhanded tactics to thwart President Donald Trump's agenda.
The Washtenaw County Democratic Party meeting, titled “Democratic Responses to Trump’s Attacks & Lessons Learned from 2024 MI House Races,” was posted online to showcase the plans made there.
Their plans didn't turn out exactly how they wanted, however, and Ringell had to try to shut down a young Black voter who applauded Trump for appointing Alice Marie Johnson as pardon czar, which he considered a meaningful step toward criminal justice reform.
“A couple points slash concerns to bring up. I think one thing that’s missing in this conversation,” the man asked Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit.”Trump appointed a new pardon czar. And it’s a Black woman, a real Black. And so I bring that up to bring up the point that the Republicans are kind of moving in on what is traditionally like a progressive concept, right? You know, giving people back there for very different reasons though, right? He’s trying to take care of the people that take care of him, whereas I don’t see very strong Democrat messaging on this point at all.”
Following the comment, a man tried to take the speaker's microphone, but the audience showed its disapproval to that plan.
Dingell then let the Democrat plan slip, or at least part of it.
“We need to make sure it’s in every one of those damn conservative, wherever they’re communicating, and we have to be the voices that are smart, targeted and effective, and fighting back. And the way we do it. We litigate. We legislate. We only need three votes, three Republican votes. I don’t know that we can ever get the person that’s closest to us, but he is chair of Ed and Labor, but we need to be targeting someone that may want to run for governor,” Dingell said.
Not only does Dingell want to see people protest Trump, but she wants her party to use the courts against him (which Democrats are already doing in full force). At the end of her comments, she mumbled, "I hope nobody taped that."
Democrats want to stop all the parts of Trump's agenda, even the ones their own people agree with and want to see.
Trump knows this--he addressed it when he spoke before the joint session of Congress back in February.
This is my fifth such speech to Congress, and, once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud," he said. "Nothing I can do. I could find a cure to the most devastating disease — a disease that would wipe out entire nations, or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded, and these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. They won’t do it no matter what."
It has gone beyond political differences at this point--they hate the man himself because he has been able to take away their power and is now dismantling through DOGE and budget cuts their gravy train of billions of dollars funneled to their supporters and patrons.
This is further undercutting their power, so Trump is effectively killing two birds with one stone.
He's saving money that would have been spent by the government and added to the deficit, at the same time he is destroying long-time leftist subsidies that have been within the government even when Republicans were in power and helped them have an unfair advantage in elections.
