It occurred to me this week, that despite the weak and confused democratic reaction to Trump’s excesses and hellbent pursuit of complete power and unrestrained greed, there is an underlying benefit of that reaction that I would call an inadvertent strategy.
The only coherent strategy the Democrats appear to have, if they have one at all, is to try and use whatever they can to try and win the House of Representatives, and perhaps even the Senate, in eighteen months’ time, when the mid-term elections are held. Trump himself is providing them with great opportunities to do this by his own actions; severely pissing off his MAGA base with the Epstein files fiasco and denying food stamps to people who can’t feed their families, for example.
In my opinion, it is absolutely important that the Democrats keep up the pressure, even if they are doing so based on a false premise; they seem to be assuming that Trump will permit elections to take place at the end of 2026. Unfortunately, every scenario Trump promotes on a daily basis, screams that he will not permit those elections: He has already publicly told his evangelical base that they won’t need to vote ever again. He will have consolidated such power into his hands by next year that he will decree the elections unnecessary. Wake up America, he is determined to retain the power he has already usurped from the people, and it will only get worse the longer he stays in office.
What on earth, then, do I mean by an inadvertent strategy, in the context of what the Democrats are presently doing?
I think that the harder the Democrats, or more likely the American people, push back on Trump’s policies, power-grabs, and schemes to make as much money as possible, the quicker he will be pushed into declaring himself omnipotent. His outrageously inflated, yet apparently very fragile, ego won’t allow him any sort of restraint in declaring himself emperor/king/dictator/national-savior-for-life. The harder we all push, the quicker that will happen. He will react by pushing his dictatorial agenda. That, hopefully, will produce a serious reaction in the electorate that will provoke, hopefully, his doom.
It will be extremely messy, regardless of the path to his demise, and so the quicker it happens, the sooner the United States can implement a major “course correction”, and we can get back to some sort of normalcy.
Basically speaking, this means using his foibles against himself. He secretly wants to be dictator-for-life, preferably tomorrow, and the best way to get rid of him is to encourage that dream as fervently as possible. The fact that his ego is so very fragile also gives us another effective path to provoking him into overstepping, and that is to use ridicule. He has clearly demonstrated that he cannot stand comments that belittle him in any way and, so, the harder we push in that direction the more irrational he will become and the quicker he will provoke his own demise.
I am making a basic assumption here that, admittedly, appears to be somewhat of a pipe-dream currently; that is, that the American people will eventually demand, forcefully, a course correction for their country, and get rid of him. They have done it several times in the country’s history, and I have every hope they will do it again. The question is, how long will it take them to do it.
I would predict that the longer they wait, the messier it will be, and the more people will suffer and die in the process. Act now to minimize the damage!
As I said above, I think the Democrats are pushing for a goal, based on the false assumption that they can do it through the ballot box but, in doing so, they may inadvertently achieve what they want – in other words, an inadvertent strategy!
