There is really no surprise that we would have fires. We don’t elect people with great operational competence.
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong (LA Times owner)
Democrats hang onto the “darkest day” (January 6) because they believe it was their finest hour. Which is why they screamed “election denier” at Trump for four years, and persist with it as their post-election taking point. Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) went to the House dais last Monday, announced “the American people elected Donald Trump,” heard GOP cheers, and snarked: “It’s OK. There are no election deniers on our side of the aisle.”
Monday being January 6, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) repeated the talking point: “It was a peaceful day because we have no election deniers on our side of the aisle.” And for the dim-witted on Twitter-X, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) tripled down: “Now that the Electoral Count is done we can move on? No! Not with Trump normalizing election denial. The fight is just beginning” (emphasis mine).
And? America yawned; with half the country watching the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, and the other half trying to decipher Trump’s plans for Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Panama. And while cable news was gossiping about Kamala’s feelings at Jimmy Carter’s funeral, I was busy documenting the Democrat Party’s deniers in Washington and California.
CNN’s lone conservative pundit, Scott Jennings (R-KY), exposed the liberal hypocrisy, noting Democrats have not “accepted” a single Republican president as “legitimate” in the 21st Century. This was true in 2000, 2004 and 2016. And it will be true next Monday, when 13 members of the party with “no election deniers on our side of the aisle” boycott President Trump’s second inauguration.
If Democrats continue making their point rather than making the sale, they’ll keep losing elections, because the latest data from Statista shows 56% of voters believe January 6 was something other than an insurrection. History bears this out, because Biden’s victory was certified six hours after the rioters entered the Capitol, and only 23% of Americans “paid a lot of attention” to the January 6 hearings (source: Monmouth).
And right before Election Day, Monmouth found 92% of voters saying the January 6 Committee’s report had “no bearing on their opinion” of Trump, who went on to win 312 electoral votes, every swing state and the popular vote. And compared to 2020, the president-elect increased his percentage of the vote in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Good luck denying that fact.
Who are Democrats to name-call Donald Trump, whose approval rating is now 53% (source: Monmouth)? The Hill reports dismal voter-approval for every big name Democrat: President Biden (37%), Governor Newsom (27%), Representative Jeffries (27%), and Senator Schumer (28%). Poor Gavin Newsom, the would-be party spokesman. He’s going down in flames (figuratively and literally) and as California Democrats go, so does the party’s power in Washington.
Fact: without California’s electorate, Kamala Harris would have lost by 5.5 million votes, and Republicans would have a 39-seat majority in the House and 7-seat majority in the Senate. Fact: compared to 2020, Democrats won 1.8 million fewer California votes last November. Fact: for the fifth year in a row, California had the most outbound U-Hauls of all 50 states.
Everyone in America expects fire hydrants to burst forth with water; so, the non-stop video of the “uncontrollable” wildfires, firefighters bemoaning the “unforgivable” lack of water, and Democrats denying responsibility will not impress voters anywhere.
The Democrat fire chief (Crowley) denied responsibility by blaming the L.A mayor for cutting $17 million from the department’s budget, which “severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.”
The Democrat mayor (Bass) denied assistance from the New York Fire Department because California’s governor had “already accepted” help from Mexico’s fire crews.
The Democrat governor (Newsom) denied $101 million to seven “wildfire and forest resilience” programs in the 2024-2025 budget, and denied knowing why “a 117-million gallon water storage complex has stood empty in the heart of the Palisades for nearly a year.”
Gavin Newsom is in denial if he can’t do better than this tepid response to Donald Trump’s criticism: “I have a lot of thoughts, and I know what I want to say – I won‘t.” He told reporters politicization was not “appropriate” during an ongoing state of emergency. Talk about being in denial.
Because Newsom had scheduled a “special session” of his legislature to “Trump-proof” California. If not Democrats, who’s responsible for sixteen dead, 39,622 acres burned, and 14,000 buildings destroyed? Surely not the folks Trump-proofing their state but not fire-proofing Los Angeles. C’mon, man!
Look at the table above, which depicts a party in deep doo-doo. There is, in fact, only one way out. Behave like John Fetterman (D-PA), who doesn’t mention January 6 or deny Trump’s popularity in Pennsylvania. He’s meeting Trump’s cabinet picks and saying Trump has a mandate – and why is that? Because he wants to win re-election in 2028.