Trump’s Victories Send the Left Spiraling
While President Trump keeps on winning, the Democrats are getting increasingly nervous about their radicalized base.
Trump achieved another crucial political victory when he signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4th—the exact date he told congressional Republicans he wanted that legislation delivered to his desk. The president, along with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, was able to cobble together the needed votes among disparate Republican coalitions (all Democrats voted against it) that spanned from Lisa Murkowski to Ted Cruz, from the Problem Solvers Caucus to the House Freedom Caucus. This is in contrast to Congress during the first Trump administration, which took until late December 2017 to deliver the pathbreaking Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to the president.
While the OBBA adds to the national debt (even a debt-neutral bill was never going to be politically feasible), it opens a path to national greatness. The Big Beautiful Bill markedly increases funding for ICE and finishes the border wall, features a historic $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, makes Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, puts in common-sense work reforms in Medicaid, accelerates deregulation efforts, and much more. As the Center for Renewing America commented, “The passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill is a historic step forward in President Trump’s promise to make America great again.”
This might be politics 101, but it needs to be said: passing a bill of consequence that arguably features more wins than losses is a victory. If Trump had failed in his efforts, he would have virtually handed the Democrats the midterm elections, as taxes would have been raised on the middle class. At the New York Post, Daniel McCarthy astutely noted, “The result would be higher taxes and more spending.” Contrary to the libertarian mindset, voting no wouldn’t “keep deficits down anyway, since the bill’s failure would hasten the return of Democrats to power.”
After all, the Democrats will never deliver fiscal sanity, or sanity in virtually any other area of public policy. Responsibly cutting spending is simply not who they are. They’ll never do anything meaningful about the national debt. Instead, they’ll spend their time attacking Trump and his voters with the myriad political weapons and war chests they have at their disposal. And they’ll work hard to drag the country to yet unheard depths of moral depravity and godlessness.
Contrary to Elon Musk’s most recent bout of political utopianism, the rise of a third party that’s devoted to the single issue of fiscal responsibility is political naïveté at its worst. Third parties have never fared well in American political history. Instead of slowly gaining political power, a Musk-led “America Party” would likely shave off enough Republican votes to secure a Democratic victory at the presidential level in 2028 or 2032. American voters wouldn’t even have a shot to decide another Flight 93 election—every presidential election would be a Flight 175 election for the foreseeable future.
While the national debt—which currently stands at an astounding $37 trillion and counting—is a mounting problem (and won’t be solved without systematic entitlement reform), the more immediate problem Trump and congressional Republicans faced was staving off monumental tax hikes. And this at a time of inflation and considerable price increases on groceries and many other household goods.
The OBBA also does something modern Republicans have had a very difficult time doing: improving public infrastructure and other public services rather than thinking a tax cut is the answer to every political problem. The Act also creates “Trump accounts” that can help parents pay for their child’s college. It modernizes the archaic American air traffic controller system and funds the building of a Golden Dome missile defense system, which is especially needed in an age of drone warfare.
Given all of this, why is a tunnel vision focus on the national debt to the exclusion of all else considered the “principled” approach to politics? Rigidly holding to abstract principles no matter the circumstances is not a political virtue. Keeping yourself pristine from the perception of moral taint is, in fact, not politics—it is a morality play. Incremental steps are typically what’s called for in politics, especially in our current time, where we’re very far from the historic American baseline of low debt and low taxes.
Returning to Their Roots
The inability of the Democrats to stop President Trump, who has become the Republican Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has caused their base to travel down some increasingly dark roads.
A recent eye-opening report in Axios captures this. Entitled “Democrats told to ‘get shot’ for the anti-Trump resistance,” the story features quotes from nearly a dozen House Democrats who say that they’re getting calls from their voters to start committing acts of violence. One House Democrat admitted, “Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough…[that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.” “‘Some of [his voters] have suggested…what we really need to do is be willing to get shot’ when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies.”
The Left is returning to its historic solution to what seem to be intractable political problems: violence. From the anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinating William McKinley and the Communist Lee Harvey Oswald’s shooting of JFK to the two assassination attempts on President Trump, political violence almost seems to be woven into the Left’s DNA.
While the Right stocks up on guns and discusses possible scenarios of what would happen should civil order break down, the Left is far more willing to commit violence (or praising it as in the recent case of Luigi Mangione) as a means to achieve their political goals. This is the logical outcome of having nearly unlimited institutional control for decades. At its core, it’s part of their long-term war against God, nature, and civil society.
As former Vanity Fair columnist and author Bryan Burrough showed in vivid detail in Days of Rage, leftist revolutionaries in the ’60s and ’70s sowed violence, anarchy, and chaos across the United States. Groups that were offshoots of the New Left, like the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Black Liberation Army, committed bank robberies, kidnappings, and murder to overthrow the established, colonialist order. Working off of what Hillsdale Professor Kevin Slack termed a “Freudo-Marxist framework,” these radical groups “placed themselves within the context of a broader crusade for liberation from Western capitalism’s oppression and repression.” To that end, the Weather Underground bombed 25 locations, including “the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, the State Department, the California Attorney General’s office, and a New York City police station,” in just a single year.
The Resistance of 2025 is simply following in the footsteps of their political and philosophical forebears.
For example, last weekend, leftists attacked two federal facilities in Texas. At a border patrol station in McAllen on July 7, a man fired dozens of rounds at federal agents, injuring one officer, before being shot and killed.
On July 4 in Alvarado, a group of well-armed assailants from a North Texas Antifa cell ambushed an ICE detention center. They began by setting a trap, where they sent off fireworks and spray-painted pro-Antifa mantras to lure agents outside, where they could kill them. One local police officer was shot, but fortunately survived with treatable injuries. Ten individuals—it’s worth noting that at least two are trans—have been arrested so far and face a minimum of 10 years, and possibly up to life, in prison.
This is just the latest in a series of violent attacks against ICE agents. The 2025 Los Angeles riots began after rioters were incensed by ICE raids that targeted workplaces in the area. The rioters attacked the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A. and looted, set fires, and broke store windows in the surrounding city blocks. In 2019, Willem Von Spronsen attacked an ICE detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, becoming a martyr for the Left after he was killed by law enforcement officers.
As Trump’s opponents are getting more desperate, those on the Right should be ever-watchful. Political violence should have no place in civil life. While the Right cannot simply return fire with violence of their own, they should be mindful of the current situation and take steps to prevent their communities from devolving into chaos. Reestablishing order in a country that’s grown used to the unequal application of the law and pockets of anarcho-tyranny is an important but dangerous business.
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