So far, I’ve outlined the many challenges ahead and the danger I think Trump and Stephen Miller present not just to the US, but to the world. People should take it very seriously, because this loss will fester and fester in Trump’s tiny mind like a tumour. He’s already putting out posts suggesting the voting machines were rigged.
If there’s one huge takeaway from the political tectonic shift the American people should take away from November 3rd, it’s the intake of hungry ‘PEOPLE FIRST’ Democrats they sent to Washington; even more impressive is the number of amazing women ready to take the fight to this regime. I remain of the opinion that both houses need a change in leadership, and for months, I have made no secret of it. I have to say I am incredibly encouraged that voters haven’t just voted and stepped away. They are making their voices heard as power is about to be transferred to the elected representatives the people have chosen.
It’s plain to see the establishment political class wasn’t ready for this, as Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer have proved over the past few days. They expected to just jump back on the gravy train and put the voice of the people out of their minds until they need their money again in 2028. THINK AGAIN. The thing politicians have turned into an art form is truth distortion. The ability to appear to listen when all they’re really interested in is listening to donors. After all, that’s how it’s been for decades. NOT ANY MORE.
How can you have the audacity to accuse the current regime of corruption when your own representation is corrupted by the converging corporate control of politics? Swing voters have lent their vote to Democrats, not because they share their vision. You know why I know that? Because there WAS NO VISION. Just the usual vague beige promises to deliver change as pre-agreed with their corporate sponsors. If Jeffries and Schumer were forced to wear their sponsors’ badges at pressers today, we could at least witness their hypocrisy, openly for all to see, without having to delve into who’s funding them.
There’s no doubt in my mind that unless Democrats address the issue of corruption in politics, they WILL be punished for it at the ballot box. If Jeffries genuinely believes the American people voted for the same old promises of ‘jam tomorrow,’ I fear he’s gravely mistaken. The current regime has committed crimes against the American people in plain sight; they have trashed the guardrails, created a shadow legislative agenda through the abuse of executive action, and, in my opinion, been aided and abetted by the Supreme Court. Do he and Schumer seriously think that the American people voted to just move on?
A political reset is not just required; it’s DEMANDED, and that applies as much within the Democratic Party as it does across the entire political class. The 120th Congress must be an exercise in rebuilding trust, not reaffirming the belief that nothing has changed. His suggestion of building bipartisan consensus is beyond comprehension right now. He’s sitting across the aisle from a bunch of fascist enablers who have sat in silence as a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist has stuffed his pockets through self-dealing to the tune of an estimated $3 billion.
The appointment of Stephen Miller as chief of staff to Trump and the election of Jim Jordan as House Minority Leader tell you everything you need to know about any hope of bipartisan cooperation. Jim Jordan was one of the key players in the now infamous Benghazi hearings that resulted in a report drenched in politics, that secured $7 million of taxpayer money to run a reality TV hearing with the sole intent of carrying out a character assassination of then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. A piece of performative politics. As Paul Singer noted in an article in USA Today:
“Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., famously said during a television interview that the Benghazi committee had helped drag down Hillary Clinton's poll numbers.”
Republicans are gearing up for their Stalingrad defence, and will, in my view, see any attempt to reach across the aisle as weakness. Do I think Democrats should not do it? No, I don’t, but they MUST do it only where they can clearly demonstrate to the American people that such cooperation is in their interest. NOT at the direction of special interests.
If Democratic leadership doesn’t have the appetite to seek justice for the American people, then they’re part of the problem, not the solution. In the last two years, Republicans have been complicit in the most egregious abuse of public trust in American history. Bipartisan trust and cooperation have to be earned, not gifted. With at least an 87-seat lead over Republicans in the House and a possible seven-seat majority in the Senate, I would respectfully suggest that bipartisan consensus should not be foremost in their minds.
For those who might think I’m advocating for political retribution, grow up. It really is time we stopped falling for the victimhood narrative the far right is already flooding the zone with. Retribution serves no useful purpose other than a short-term feel-good effect. What I want to see is forensic analysis of the actions of an administration that has abused the American people in plain sight. What we have witnessed since Trump moved back into the White House is, in my view, a litany of criminal abuse of the public purse. Even worse, Republican lawmakers have remained silent and let it happen. Accountability to preserve the integrity of US politics should be a non-negotiable imperative.
In my opinion, Trump has operated a transnational extortion gang, running a global racketeering operation for two years with impunity. Now is NOT the time to move on. It’s not only time to hold those responsible to account; it’s time to put a firewall in place to make sure it never happens again.
Will it be challenging? Absolutely, it will. He and his acolytes will be burning the evidence as we speak. I believe they used the Signal app across government for good reason; they wanted no evidence to survive. Lest we forget, Trump, beyond taking the DOJ hostage, has used the Supreme Court to provide him with immunity for crimes committed while in office. There is little doubt justice will be hard-fought, but I trust Jamie Raskin to lead a team to get it done. There must be no hiding place for corruption in high office. If a case can be made, criminal prosecutions should follow, and those found guilty should be punished to the full extent of the law.
I really don’t think people have even begun to understand the scale of the task ahead to repair the catastrophic damage Trump has done to American society, and that’s before we even begin to examine the global impact his foreign policy agenda has had. I believe it will take a generation to repair, if it ever can be. So, in my opinion, Hakeem Jeffries' framing of accountability as the urge to ‘get even’ is a betrayal of voters. This is about credibility, but more importantly, it’s about trust, or rather, a lack of it. Let’s face it, if just days after the most momentous repudiation of a felonious president, you tell voters they don’t want you to ‘get even’, you’re either deaf, stupid or you’re bought and paid for. I’m still trying to work out which.
There’s no question in my mind that we are about to see, from the likes of Stephen Miller, Russell Vought and the cast of their new reality TV series ‘Leave Nothing But Ashes’, the most obstructive, lawless congressional session in American history. Don’t for a moment think they haven’t gamed this out. They’ll use the courts to slow things down, and don’t dismiss the possibility that the Supreme Court will help them attempt to castrate any effort to deliver a meaningful legislative agenda. I believe we are about to see a real-life version of ‘Battle of the Bastards’, and Republicans will ensure the bottom 90% are deliberately caught in the crossfire. They will lay every ounce of pain at the door of Democrats. But yes, Hakeem, let’s reach across the aisle and sing Kumbaya.
What Democrats need to understand is that, assuming they win in 2028, which is by no means guaranteed, the current leadership team will inherit a dysfunctional government, full of Trump loyalists, all of whom have sworn an oath to a criminal. Reestablishing a government of the people, for the people, by the people will take years, if not decades. It will take the first two years just to begin returning to any semblance of order, all while trying to keep the American people onside.
On the good news front, however, this is the best opportunity since Nixon to effect lasting change. The kind of majority that Democrats hold is a majority made for getting things done, and that’s why Republicans will obstruct, just like they did with Obama. So there needs to be a plan to deal with it. Ben Blatt highlighted one important opportunity in The New York Times on November 8th 2026. In a piece headlined:
Democrats Now Have a Path to Sidestep the Electoral College. Would It Work?
He notes:
Since 2007, 18 Democratic-run states and the District of Columbia have joined a legal framework that would pledge their Electoral College votes to the nationwide popular vote winner, rather than the winner in their state. The effect of the pact, if enacted and enforced, would be the same as replacing the Electoral College with the popular vote. The pledge would activate only if the states in the pact accounted for at least 270 electoral votes, the majority needed to win.
The election result delivers an opportunity, given the compact requires no constitutional amendment. While I think it remains a heavy lift, and it will face challenges in the courts, I do believe there is a path to retiring the Electoral College, especially given Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin together hold 50 electoral votes, enough to take the compact from 222 to 272, past the 270 needed. I have gifted Ben Blatt’s piece so you can read it without a paywall. I highly recommend you take the time to read it, because there’s a lot of talk about it on social media right now.
In the final episode of this series, I’ll share some thoughts on how Democrats can, with the right leadership and messaging, bring the American people along on the long road to liberation. Right now, the Republicans believe they have a shot at regaining power in 2028 because Democrats have a weak and vulnerable leadership team, and that needs to be addressed NOW, not in 2028, as they attempted to do in 2024. This is the last chance saloon, and failure is NOT an option.
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Thanks.