Anti-Trump Protests Are a Joke

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Okay, I'm annoyed. 

I get that Trump's opponents hate him. He is an existential threat to some people's grift, he shatters the comfortable illusions many people want to cling to, he has a manner that many find crass, and represents a populism that the educated classes despise. 

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But geez man, if you want ot tell us that you hate the guy, you have to up your game a bit. The protests against Trump are lame. 

Total cringe. Do better. 

Francis Collins, a man who helped organize the execrable COVID response, helped coordinate a smear campaign against Harvard, Standford, and Oxford epidemiologists by calling them "fringe epidemiologists," and who has admitted that it never occurred to him to consider the secondary effects of the recommendations he made, is now trying to be Pete Seeger or Joan Baez. 

Cringe. 

Their stupid social media campaigns are neither persuasive nor entertaining, and even their defenders in the media are making fun of them for flailing around and looking really stupid. 

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To what end? Good question. Getting eyeballs watching you look truly stupid is not the flex you think it is. 

An FBI official who was fired for defying a presidential order and for telling his agents to resist lawful orders, and when he is escorted out of the office he throws himself a PARADE. 

Stunning and brave. 

We've seen video after video of bureaucrats crying about having to answer an email--I guess answering emails is too big a hill to climb if you are a federal worker--and ordinary Americans are scratching their heads. Complaints about federal layoffs fall on deaf ears not because people are indifferent to the temporary suffering that these people face, but because nobody in the elite cared a whit when their policies stripped the jobs of ordinary Americans who were told to learn to code. 

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Leftists are smashing Teslas, shooting up Tesla showrooms, and calling for the execution of Elon Musk. None of this is well calculated to stir up sympathy for the cause. 

Democrats, if you want to make headway with the public, you have to do better. Alternating between cringe rallies, poorly attended press conferences, insulting dying teens at the State of the Union Address, and shouting at the president is not going to do the job for you. 

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Having over 20 Senators use the same script to ensure that America got that message that Democrats could say the word s**t is not a winning strategy either. Nor will doing dances in the halls of the Cannon Office Building. 

One of my all-time faves is this one. So relatable. 

It's all lame. Do better! Republicans need some competition. 

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Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | March 07, 2025
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