The arguments supporting recent heavy Israeli military attacks on Iranian nuclear and missile installations convinced most reasonable Americans that Iran’s capability to continue to develop nuclear weapons should be destroyed. Last weekend, when President Trump authorized and implemented a successful air attack against Iran’s last remaining atomic facilities, the Trump Resistance forces within the Democratic Party again found themselves on the wrong side of another popular Trump initiative. The Trump Resistance forces had already wasted the first few months of his administration, floundering in their efforts against his successful border initiatives.
The long-term survival of the two American political parties has historically been based on both parties agreeing that the programs they passed, implemented, and maintained would have significant benefits for our citizens. In subsequent elections to gain a partisan advantage, the parties would argue over the details, modifications, and nuances of the programs. America’s political system thrives when both political parties work within the Constitution to create an environment where all citizens can pursue their desired destinies.
In our imperfect world after 9/11, however, partisan interests became more important than the public good. After one hundred years of attempting to solve every possible aberration in the nation, the powerful elite Washington politicians in both parties found themselves disconnected from their constituents. Chasing special interests to retain their political power had alienated various large segments of their voters.
With both parties unable to heal themselves, Washington outsider businessman Donald Trump recognized that many previously prosperous workers, in what became known as the ‘Rust Belt States’, had lost their jobs in the rush to replace them with low-cost, out-of-country manufacturing through ‘globalization’. In the 2016 election, running as a Republican against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, Trump eked out a victory by winning in some of these previously strong Democratic-voting states. He used the theme ‘America First’ to take over the Republican Party, whose leaders allied against him as ‘Never-Trumpers’, only to later disappear into permanent political oblivion.
Under a female President Clinton, the Obama Democrats were expecting to use another eight years of political power to implement Obama’s promise to transform America into a progressive utopia. From the moment Trump won the election in November 2016, all establishment elements joined together to prevent any outsider from invading their exclusive Washington club. With their minions in the media, they made Trump the most hated president since Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1861, as they sought to destroy his presidency with the appointment of a Special Prosecutor, two impeachments, and bureaucratic inertia.
The perceived threat to establishment power in both parties was so great that the ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ developed within the power elites, justifying their view that anything Trump did – good, bad, or indifferent – was evil and had to be opposed at any cost. Collectively, his opponents failed to understand that Trump was not an ideologue, but looked at problems as a practical businessman, not as a politician seeking to hold power. When he was still left standing after four years of personal assaults by the Biden Administration, the old Republican establishment was replaced when Trump was renominated in 2024 and became the unquestioned leader of a new ‘America First Republican Party’.
After spending four years out in the political wilderness during the Biden Administration, in the 2024 election, Obama’s Progressive-Democratic Party lost again to Trump, this time with Vice President Kamala Harris running a campaign built upon nothing but their obsessive Trump Derangement Syndrome. Instead of being a rational opposition party, the post-election Progressive-Democratic Party has defined itself as ‘The Resistance’, determined to oppose anything the Trump Administration proposes or accomplishes.
Because Trump is a pragmatist, the Progressives find themselves opposing Trump’s common-sense programs, many of which are to clean up problems they caused, like the 15 million or so open-border immigrants Biden’s minders allowed into the country. Their hatred of Trump prevents them from making any reasonable issues favored by our nation’s majority, which include:
- The Progressives oppose the deportation or incarceration of criminal illegal immigrants. They fund protests against federal agents in which the American flag is burned and spit upon as masked participants wave the flags of Iran, Hamas, Mexico, or other anti-American groups.
- The Progressives oppose any reduction in the rapidly increasing federal debt, which threatens the nation’s continuing prosperity. They vote against any increases in federal spending.
- The Progressives opposed Trump’s action to prevent Iran from achieving atomic/missile capability. They want to impeach him for doing so without Congressional approval, while they downplay the results of the magnificent American air operation.
- The Progressives oppose preventing men from competing against women in sports competitions. As such, they think men can be transformed into women and vice versa.
- The Progressives accommodate and promote anti-Semitism within America. They promote dividing Americans against each other along racial, sexual, gender, and ethnic divisions.
Any moderates left in the Democratic Party have no power, and the Obama Progressives who took over their party have no popular programs left to promote. Progressives cannot escape their Trump Derangement Syndrome as their energizing force for regaining power, and they have no viable leader to remake the party as Trump did for the outdated establishment Republican Party.
It is more than a Bump in the Road when a major American victory cannot be acknowledged by one of our two major political parties. Desiring outcomes to enhance political gain that can cause serious damage to America is an abdication of that party’s legitimacy.
America needs two responsive political parties to carry us successfully through the challenges that lie ahead. One major party has remade itself – can the other party do likewise?
TW3
June 26, 2025
John Whitmore Jenkins
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