Democrats Tells Us Who They Are By What They Fight For
Life coaches like to quote Oprah: “How you spend your time defines who you are.”
We have to concede that it certainly says a lot about you and what you prioritize; what you value.
The political equivalent is: “What you fight for — what you focus on — tells us your priorities, your values.” What a political party (or candidate) chooses to fight for and what issues or causes they prioritize tell voters as much about — if not more — than any position on a given issue.
How are the Democrats defining what they value? Five months into Trump 2.0, Democrats have told us so much about who they are.
They tried to stop Trump from securing the border. They sued to stop him from deporting illegal immigrants — even those with criminal records. They tripped over themselves to fly to El Salvador, demanding to meet with the “Maryland man” (the Orwellian term given to Kilmar Garcia by Democrats and many in the legacy media) — the MS-13 member from El Salvador with protection-from-abuse orders filed against him and now charged with human trafficking. They’re defending the rioting in Los Angeles because they don’t like ICE arresting illegal immigrants and they “fear Trump.”
They not only speak out in favor of keeping men in women’s sports, they vote against all legislation to address this travesty of justice, morality, safety, and fairness. Moreover, Democratic Governors keep vetoing similar legislation. On social media, they mock, ridicule, and vilify female athletes who speak out — and their parents and coaches.
DOGE and the Trump administration have identified billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse of our tax dollars. This money taken out of our pockets forces taxes, interest rates and prices higher; and, often helps advance causes that most Americans oppose and even things that harm Americans and our allies. From Medicaid (taxpayer-funded medical coverage) for gender surgeries and single able-bodied people under 50 to Sesame Street for Iraqi television; from taxpayer funded studies on cow farts to funding USAID boondoggles, including many “agencies” controlled by Congress members’ families, donors, or foreign dictators and thugs.
There was not one time that Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, AOC or Cory Booker ever stepped forward and said: “that is outrageous; let’s work together to stop this immediately.” Never. They have not agreed on one program being eliminated, reduced or reformed — out of $7 trillion spent each year. Not one dollar. In fact, they go to court to force taxpayers to pay for programs that Trump tries to cancel.
Many universities have become unsafe for students, especially Jewish students. Some universities have had encampments with Hamas signs and Palestinian flags, where Israeli and American flags were burned. Protestors, agitators, and rioters wear masks, praise Hitler, and scrawl swastikas. Universities like Penn and Harvard did nothing, at best, or defended allowing it to happen. Harvard was warned. They did nothing.
Moreover, when it was revealed that Harvard had an unusually high number of Chinese nationals as students, some with direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party (“CCP”), Harvard did nothing. Trump warned them about losing federal grants. Nothing.
Harvard — getting millions and millions of our tax dollars, while having $50 billion in the bank — tolerated antisemitism and embraced CCP students. So, Trump took steps to end their grants and cancel CCP student visas.
Democrats? They defend Harvard, attack Trump and go to court to try to force Trump to send our tax dollars to Harvard.
With images of 2020 and 2021 still burned into our memories, now we have the LA riots of 2025. LA Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom do nothing. They try to justify the rioters’ anger—including setting police cars on fire, destroying store fronts and ransacking a local mall and stealing MacBooks. Trump sends in the National Guard. Newsom compounds his negligence by suing Trump to get the National Guard out of LA.
Notice a pattern?
Democrats’ reactions in Congress ranged from silence to defending Newsom and the protestors. And Democratic governors across the nation — including Josh Shapiro — issued a joint statement of solidarity with Newsom and attacked Trump. Stunning.
They are wrong on almost every major issue. The Democrats prioritize issues that most people don’t see as a priority. They speak out, vote against, protest and sue to get their way. They cry and scream on TikTok and X. They get louder and angrier as they lose support, like a child throwing a tantrum.
They have become a cult. A cult where they do not allow discussion or debate. A cult where the objective is not to solve problems, but to advance the cult. Results be damned.
They’re not trying to make America great again — actually many aren’t proud of America. They aren’t focused on you making our families great, either.
The focus is to advance their left-wing utopia and appease their “gods.”
They know that 60 to 80 percent of Americans disagree with their positions on these issues. Eighty percent of Americans and 67 percent of Democrats oppose biological men in women’s sports.
Legal immigrants support Trump for his work on the border and using ICE by eight percent over Democrats.
Perhaps that’s why Democrats want open borders; to give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants; to allow them to vote in “local” elections; to be counted in the census for blue states.
Because they’ve run out of votes that they can get from ordinary Americans.
When a party fights so loudly to tell us who they are, we should believe them.
Guy Ciarrocchi is a commentator and strategist who writes for Broad + Liberty and RealClear Pennsylvania. Follow Guy at @PaSuburbsGuy.
