The Incredible Shrinking Democratic Party

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In 1957, it was fog and a pesticide that caused Grant Williams to rapidly get smaller in the screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s The Incredible Shrinking Man. By this time next week, the entire Democratic Party might be suffering the same fate, except it will be caused entirely by Trump Derangement Syndrome. 

Day 9 of the government shutdown, with another round of votes giving Democrats an exit path out of the box canyon in which they’ve taken up residence, is not expected to see much movement, largely because the pain from it hasn’t been felt by enough people, yet. By this time next Thursday, when thousands of military servicemembers and their families don’t get paid, but are still required to be deployed on active duty, there will be nowhere left for Chuck Schumer and his band of malcontents to go. 

The Democrats currently sport a 36% approval rating in the RealClearPolitics average of polling, which is an all-time low for them in the modern era. They can lie and spin all they want, but they’re shutting government down to force Republicans to restore funding and reimbursement for healthcare costs of illegal aliens. The country routinely polls that they are against that funding by a 3-1 ratio. Support for the military is as high as it’s been since 2001, with recruitment and retention hitting their goals earlier than usual, thanks to the words and work by both President Donald Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth. North of 80% of the country supports the military, and you don’t have to go too far in your sphere of influence to find something with a family member currently serving in uniform. Not paying them is going to be a horrible look by Democrats.

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With each passing day of this slow bleed out of the Democratic Party because of this shutdown, the polling is turning against them. Harry Enten on CNN reported that 65% of Americans want the Democrats to pass the clean C.R. already and be done with this foolishness. 

So why haven’t Democrats made any progress in swinging public opinion their way? Call it the Trump effect. Because they hate the President with a singular passion, they have allowed themselves to pick up the losing end of a dozen or so 80-20 issues, simply because Trump took the 80% side. Their only hope is that Resistance media picks up the PR ball and does the hard work for them. In the past, that’s worked quite effectively. In the age we’re living in, with podcasts, more TV outlets, conservative talk radio along with print media like we like to offer here at HotAir, Resistance media just doesn’t have the same juice they used to produce. On trustworthiness, Gallup has media down to 26%. The propaganda simply no longer works. 

Yesterday, New York moderate Republican Mike Lawler paid a visit in the halls of the Capitol to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. It got quite sparky. 

It really was stunning to see how small Jeffries was in this exchange with Lawler. And when I say small, i don’t mean in height. I mean in intellectual stature and seriousness. He represents perfectly a major American party that is shrinking in relevance and importance by the day. 

In years not long past, Mike Lawler, a fiscal conservative and social moderate, something vital to get elected in the Northeast of the country as a Republican, would not be too distantly removed on the ideological spectrum from the leader of the Democrats in the House, whomever that leader may be. If you put both of them on that political line, they’d be closer than Lawler would be to someone like Chip Roy on the far right of the House Caucus. Not any longer. 

Today’s Democrats are so far to the left that Lawler looks absolutely red-pilled by comparison. And if you get past the talking past each other part knowing cellphones were recording all this, Lawler kept zinging Jeffries on point after point. The Democratic leader really can’t debate. He either knows he doesn’t have the truth on his side, or he’s really not bright enough to present a cogent argument from the hard left. He’s a small-minded person who really isn’t good thinking on his feet. 

I bring all this up because just a couple hours after this exchange, Donald Trump showed the world just how small the Democrats truly are. They’re fighting to the political death over a shutdown in which they ultimately will cave sooner or later, while the President and his foreign policy team may just have pulled off the greatest peace deal of this century. 

While moderating a press conference featuring a panel of alternative media journos talking about the menace to society that is Antifa, Secretary of State Marco Rubio quietly walked into the room, over to where the President was sitting, slipped him a handwritten note, and bent over to whisper something in his ear. Everything else going on in that second stopped. 

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With that, Trump excused himself a moment or so later, and joined Vice-President Vance and Secretary Rubio back to the West Wing. An hour later, this message from the President. 

I know, I know, we’ve heard this before. Hamas can’t be trusted. Qatar can’t be trusted. It ain’t real until we see the hostages released. I’m right there with you. All the failed promises of peace in the past dictate a healthy dose of skepticism until we see the first phase actually carried out. And yet…

You have to admit that this time, it just feels different. First off, as to Qatar, whom nobody should trust, let me offer this. What they’ve done to purge the radical elements of al Jazeera in such a short period of time is nothing short of amazing, and even Never Trumpers are forced to admit that it’s a very positive development for the region, even before this deal was announced. 

Factor in this point, too. There’s something afoot in the streets of Tehran this week as well. It seems the iron grip the mullahcracy has had on women there is slipping, along with their burqas. Women by the thousands are walking around uncovered, and the regime is not enforcing strict Sharia law like it did before Donald Trump and the Israelis outed them as the paper tiger they’ve always been earlier this year. 

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Iranian officials claim the law is still applicable, but it doesn’t seem to be enforced right now. They’re trying out giving women the right to choose for themselves, a novel concept since the fall of the Shah in 1979. There is a wind of change sweeping the broader Middle East and Persia. 

The details of the deal signed by every Arab nation in the region, Israel, and now Hamas, is nothing short of a total surrender by the terrorist group. Releasing hostages, let alone all of them, was a non-starter. Holding onto the hostages was what fed the bravado of pro-Hamas protests around the world and with their sympathizers in the EU and United Nations. This deal can only be seen as defeat now for Hamas. Why? Because even in the Arab part of the Middle East, they’re tired of the terrorism. They finally accept that Israel is the region’s hegemon, isn’t out to get them, and it’s much better to become an ally of a military and economic powerhouse than to ultimately get destroyed trying to fight them. The strong horse in the region is Israel, and with the United States once again an active and staunch ally, the calculus in the region has changed. 

I, along with everyone interested in this momentous day in world history, will be studying the terms of the deal as they are released. But the fact alone that the United Nations is left out of the governing body of what Gaza becomes, and a new international board chaired by Donald Trump taking its place, is a huge selling point to me. 

The President is planning on flying to the region as soon as Friday, and has been invited to speak to Israeli’s Knesset on Sunday. There are also plans he might fly to Egypt as well. But this is the power of United States foreign policy on display as we haven’t seen it used in decades. Donald Trump is rising to the occasion on the world stage yet again. And the Democrats are…what are they going on about? Oh, right – healthcare for illegal aliens. The difference couldn’t be more stark between the two parties.

When news of the peace deal broke Wednesday afternoon, Resistance media was split almost in half. In some parts, there was reluctant praise that Trump was able to pull this off, and that this really was a very big deal. ABC News’ foreign correspondent Ian Pannell:

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Even NBC News’ White House correspondent, Yamiche Alcindor, who absolutely despises Donald Trump, had to admit the obvious. He pulled it off. 

One of the first elected Democrats to congratulate the President, Israel, and the families of the hostages was Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman. 

The rest of the Senate Democrats? Crickets. Imagine how small of a person you have to be to ignore this story entirely because you are too worried about what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might think. 

I gave you a couple examples of media stepping up and giving credit where credit is due. Here’s the other half of media in two bites. Chris Hayes on MSNBC:

It took him until three-quarters through his hour-long program Wednesday night before he even brought up the biggest story in the world, and then bitterly wondered how fate conspired against Biden’s proposal that failed along with the rest of his presidency. 

And over on CNN, Jake Tapper downplayed it as not a “peace deal”, because it’s not a two-state solution. Even Kaitlan Collins was stunned by the tack Jake was taking. 

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So while Democrats are entrenching over, *checks notes*, healthcare for illegal aliens, Donald Trump is explaining how this deal came about. 

On November 5th, the United States Supreme Court is going to hear oral arguments in a case as to whether Donald Trump’s use of emergency declarations to enact tariffs around the world is Constitutional or not. I know the Court is supposed to be immune to the politics of the world around them, but there have been several notable exceptions to that, especially during the John Roberts era as Chief Justice, a man I hold in high esteem, by the way. My eyes popped when I heard Trump say this.

If this deal does pan out, the hostages are released, and the Middle East gets the reset it’s needed for decades, you think the Court is going to have this clip in their frontal lobe while ruminating over the Constitutionality of Trump’s tariff actions? I didn’t say whether they should consider the geopolitics of it, mind you. I’m saying if past is prologue, the Court will be mindful of this, and will be reticent about whether or not they want to undo it all with a 5-4 decision, which is what it would be if Trump were overruled on merit. 

Look, the choice unfolding now is one party which is fronted by someone who is dominating the world stage, and simultaneously racking up one win after another domestically. The other party’s current stars include a Communist wanting to empty jails, hamstring cops, remove private property rights, and co-opt commerce in New York City; an honor code violator who wasn’t allowed to walk with her graduating class at the Naval Academy but still wants to be the governor of New Jersey; a Commonwealth of Virginia Attorney General candidate who fantasizes about putting two bullets in the head of a Republican for committing the offense of speaking fondly of a deceased Democratic colleague at a funeral, and wishing to killing his children for good measure; a gubernatorial candidate in Virginia who wants to make sure men presenting themselves as women still get access to women’s locker rooms and sports teams as a top priority. 

If all of that is too much to process, here’s a much simpler comparison. If you vote for someone aligned with Donald Trump and the Republican Party, you get to share in moments like this. This is what you’re voting for.

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The joy expressed by families of hostages in the tunnels of Gaza is immeasurable right now. And to get a call from the president of the United States to help celebrate? Priceless. 

Or, you could have the next wannabe governor of my Golden State of California, Katie Porter. 

Donald Trump is playing bigger by the week, and it’s only his first year back in office. The Democrats are getting smaller by the moment. Don’t get me wrong. They’ll still win elections here and there, but I’m confident that in 2026, and again in 2028, Americans will become tired of Democratic small ball.

Americans like winning, and that’s what Trump and the Republicans are doing. Winning is much more attractive than yelling at your staff to get out of your f’ing shot.

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