Thank You Democrats!

Thank you, Congressional Democrats, countless Democratic Governors and mayors and the well-funded (often by taxpayers) left-wing activist, professional agitators. Thank you.

Rather than feeling angry, or shouting back, I offer you my sincere thanks.

In case any taxpayer or any citizen thought this past election was merely a contest between two people running for President, or simply a battle between two political parties, the last five weeks have helped us all see that what is at stake is much, much bigger than one election or even one session of Congress.

The major differences between the two parties are not over policy. The major battles are over priorities, values and goals. The Democrats and Republicans are not trying to achieve the same things, just by different policies

So, I wish to thank all the left-wing activists, talking heads, and politicians. We now have complete clarity of all that is at stake.

They’ve held rallies outside the Capitol almost every single day since January 21. They’ve screamed on the floor of the House of Representatives. They posted on social media about “chaos,” a “constitutional crisis,” and the age-old classic, “Hitler.” While sitting in their kitchens or cars, they’ve cried on TikTok.

They’ve gone judge-shopping to find radical judges to rule that President Trump can’t fire executive branch employees. That he can’t hire — or assign — executive branch employees to perform tasks. To get court orders forcing our tax dollars to continue to go to countless wacky causes around the globe. To get court orders prohibiting illegal immigrants with criminal records from being extradited back to their home nations. To get court orders prohibiting the Secretary of the Treasury from reviewing Treasury department records of how our tax dollars are being spent. To prohibit eight-month severance buyouts being offered to bureaucrats collecting paychecks in the bloated, expensive, wasteful federal bureaucracies. To prohibit White House staff and supervisors from asking bureaucrats what they do at work. To prohibit the President and his team from requiring that federal workers actually show up at work.

When they’re not in court, they’re hurling unlimited, vitriolic accusations — warning of despair, poverty and death — because President Trump, his cabinet, and staff are doing such “dreadful” things.

They’re calling Trump a “fascist” for the umpteenth time because his staff is allowing podcasters and radio talk show hosts to sit in the White House press room and even — Heaven forbid — sit in the seats “reserved” for CBS News.

They’re warning of chaos in America and around the world because the Trump administration doesn’t want American taxpayers to pay for — or require — drag shows in Africa, or for South American nations to use DEI policies to hire companies to build sewer systems destroyed in floods.

They’re paying activists to go to GOP congressional town halls and yell, whine and exaggerate the horrors of reducing a $7 trillion budget, for our nation that is over $36 trillion in debt.

And, now they’re screaming that taxpayers might get a refund — returning to us some of the billions in tax dollars that will no longer be misused for waste, fraud, or abuse.

So, yes, I say to Hakeem Jeffries, Jasmine Crockett, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren — and their army of left-wing lawyers and professional agitators masquerading as community activists: Thank you.

And to Governors like Newsom (California), Hochul (New York), Pritzker (Illinois), Mills (Maine) and our own Shapiro, who have trial lawyer activists racing to court to demand the unending flow of our tax dollars into their coffers for pet projects and for the “right” to ignore federal law — and common sense — so as to impose their left-wing values on their home state’s citizens. The right to spend billions, hide illegal alien criminals, and allow teenage boys to spike volleyballs at the faces of teenage girls — and then join them in the showers.

Yes, thank you. One and all. You have clarified the debate about values and goals for America and Americans.

You believe that the bigger and more expensive the federal government, the better.

You believe that bureaucrats should have more power than elected officials or citizens.

You believe so strongly in woke policies and DEI that you want to impose them on impoverished nations across the globe.

You believe in foreign aid so much that you want American taxpayers to send money to European nations, China, and to “non-profits” helping Hamas!

You believe so strongly in open borders that you fight to have illegal immigrant criminals remain here and be subsidized by Americans.

You are so beholden to the teachers union that in the face of over one trillion dollars spent on the US Department of Education and falling test scores, you’d prefer to spend more to keep it going than to start over.

And you feel so strongly that grown men should be allowed to compete against, win trophies from, and shower with teenage women that you’ll go to court to keep those policies in place — and even censure legislators who oppose you (see Maine).

These are not merely two parties with disagreements on how to make America great again.

There are genuine, Grand Canyon-sized differences on what America is and what it should be.

The Democrats in Congress, their gubernatorial and mayoral allies, and countless well-funded professional rally activists have told us what they value. What they will fight tirelessly for, in the courts, in halls of Congress, in capitols and in the streets.

So, on behalf of those of us voting for and wanting common-sense, results-oriented government and stability in our communities and lives: you have made the choice crystal clear.

Thank you.

Guy Ciarrocchi is a Senior Fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation. He writes for Broad + Liberty and RealClear Pennsylvania. Follow Guy @PaSuburbsGuy.