The only way to earn praise from Democrats is to become one.
The only way to earn praise from Democrats is to become one.
During his address to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump displayed more moral clarity than many other conservatives and even evangelical “leaders” when he said there’s absolutely nothing you can do to make leftists happy.
“This is my fifth such speech to Congress, and once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud. Nothing I can do,” Trump said in the first 10 minutes of his speech.
The next hour and a half proved the president right. When Trump acknowledged a young female volleyball player who sustained a traumatic brain injury at the hands of a male opponent, Democrats scowled. When he recognized a 13-year-old who has spent half his young life battling brain cancer, they refused to stand. When Trump honored the families of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, two girls brutally murdered by illegal immigrants, Democrats continued to sit defiantly. When he praised the bravery of Corey Comperatore in defending his wife and daughters at the hands of the Pennsylvania rally shooter, it was more of the same.
Nothing true or virtuous or praiseworthy could elicit approval from Democrats.
We didn’t need Tuesday night to know there’s no point in Trump and his voters trying to make friends with Democrats, however. For that, we’ve had the past decade. Trump derangement has so infected the Democrat Party, Never Trumpism, and neoconservatism that absolutely no win — for women, workers, taxpayers, Christians, free speech, law and order, children, parents, seniors, veterans, or the country at large — will ever please his detractors.
