Democrats got some bad news about resisting Donald Trump that crushed them
Democrats were hoping to replay their resistance strategy from Donald Trump’s first term.
But they’re operating in an entirely different political world.
And Democrats got some bad news about resisting Donald Trump that crushed them.
New Trump voters are sticking with him
Democrats are rudderless without a true leader of the party or a coherent message.
President Donald Trump is more popular than ever and the all-out institutional resistance he faced during his first term has evaporated.
Democrats are still trying to figure out a strategy to oppose him in his second term.
The party has settled on hoping that voters get buyer’s remorse and his support collapses.
Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville predicted that Trump’s polling collapse was already underway.
Trump expanded the Republican Party and brought new voters into his electoral coalition in the last election.
He became the first Republican since 1892 to win Starr County, Texas.
The county along the Mexican border is one of the most Hispanic in the country with 97% of residents identifying as one.
Former President Barack Obama got more than 86% of the vote in Starr County in the 2012 Election.
The country was traditionally one of the most Democrat in the country.
These new Trump voters are sticking with him despite the hope from Democrats that his support was in freefall.
Hispanic voters in Starr County want to see the system disrupted
Trump has moved at breakneck speed to remake Washington, D.C. with the help of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Democrats and their media allies have been shrieking about the alleged chaos that Trump is creating.
Politico spoke to residents of Starr County and found they were on board with the President’s approach.
Rio Grande City resident Homero Gonzalez backed Trump’s efforts to downsize the federal government.
“It’s hard,” Gonzalez said. “We need it.”
Politico reporter David Siders spoke with dozens of people at the Starr County Fair who supported Musk’s work with DOGE.
They voted for someone to bring business as usual to an end in Washington, D.C., because the system didn’t benefit them.
“There’s a lot of people who take advantage, they abuse the system,” Gonzalez stated.
Truck driver Roman Del Bosque sympathized with government workers getting fired.
“It sucks,” Del Bosque said.
But he thought that it had to be done.
He argued that DOGE’s work was getting rid of “the B.S.”
Democrats have been hoping that there would be a massive backlash to Musk and DOGE, but Politico didn’t find it in Starr County.
Clerk Nelda Cruz welcomed the disruption to the system that Trump and Musk are bringing.
“The nation needed this. A good shakeup. And all the people it is riling up, it’s because it’s hurting them,” Cruz explained.
Agriculture teacher Jorge Gonzalez argued that Trump was the better choice to fix the economy and supported DOGE’s work.
“I am liking the DOGE thing,” Gonzalez said. “They’re tightening stuff up.”
Democrats have positioned themselves as the defenders of the Washington, D.C. Swamp.
That isn’t the winning position that they hope it is.
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