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It is said Donald Trump has a near-magical ability to make Democrats do insanely self-destructive things. They’re doing it to themselves. Trump doesn’t have to apply clumsy reverse psychology, their self-imposed Trump Derangement Syndrome and their raging hatred of America and Normal Americans makes them reflexively, loudly and irrationally, oppose anything he says or does and anything they imagine he might be thinking of saying or doing.
In only eight months, we’ve watched Democrats maniacally defend:
*Illegal immigration
*Hamas
*Islamic terrorists in general
*Violent domestic criminals
*Antisemitism
*Pedophiles
*Democrat legislators fleeing votes to “defend democracy”
*Mentally ill men in women’s sports, locker rooms and bathrooms
*Ignoring and damaging the Constitution
*Rampant violent crime in Washington, DC, including “gun violence”And the list goes on and on.
Mike McDaniel
August 22, 2025
Brady United chooses DC criminals, politicians – American Thinker
I think the problem is that they are emotionally driven. They have bought into all the terrible things they have been told about President Trump and reflexively oppose anything he supposedly is in favor of.
I suspect this is rather common in people. I remember growing up and people would respond in the same sort of manner to anything related to Hitler. Yes, Hitler had primary responsibility the deaths of millions of innocent people. Yes, he deserves to be considered one of the all-time evil people of history. But he gave political support to the Volkswagen Beetle and the Autobahn. It doesn’t reduce the severity of his crimes, but I don’t see the problem with saying those were praiseworthy projects.
The same sort of thing happened to me early 1990s. I was living in Sandpoint Idaho at the time. There was a big deal about something the Aryan Nation wanted to do or was doing locally or in the nearby Hayden Lake area. There was a big meeting of the Sandpoint locals to oppose whatever it was they wanted to do. I went to the meeting.
Various people talked about how terrible the Aryan Nation people were and what they stood for. There were a handful of people from the Aryan Nation group there and wanted to talk. After bit of discussion one of the Aryan Nation people was given a few minutes to say some things. He said they were advocating for equal treatment of white people. For example, there was a case where a black person severely injured (or killed? I don’t remember for certain) a white person and because of the numerous racial epithets used at the time of the attack it was clear it was a racially motivated. But the prosecutors would not go for it and the perp got of far easier than had a white person committed the same crime against a black person.
It was clear to me that by accepting and rectifying the valid points, including letting them talk without a debate about it, they could take a lot of “wind out of their sails.” Without stories to tell of all the discrimination against white people they would have a much more difficult time recruiting new members and probably keeping existing members. That was not the consensus of the general population. “White Supremist bad. Everything they want must be opposed.”, seemed to be the attitude.
It is a something more general than just the three examples of Trump, Hitler, and the Aryan Nations. I see it done by Republican/Conservatives too.
If those examples are not enough to demonstrate the pervasiveness of the phenomena, think about loyalty to sports teams. People get in fights and even riots in opposition to the “other” teams.
The emotional content of belonging to a tribe and opposing competing tribes probably was a huge evolutionary advantage. But that doesn’t mean it is universally good behavior. Sometimes adopting some ideas, customs, technology, or team plays of your most hated enemy is to your advantage.
I believe this failure to accept the opposition has some good ideas is how the Democrats came to this: Democrats facing crisis as more than 2M voters leave party in four years.
By taking a vocal stand on fairly central issues Trump, in effect, “forced” the Democrats into crazy territory. The Democrats did not have to go there. They could have agreed on the issues that made sense, and perhaps even legislatively killed that issue before the election. This would have taken “the wind out of Trump’s sail.” But they are too emotionally driven and had to double down on the crazy view of those issues. The end result was they were left in crazy town while the Republicans went to Washington D.C. Now, the Republicans get to implement their reasonable ideas as well as their crazy ones in questionable ways.
Another example of Democrat craziness in this regard is vehement opposition to “cultural appropriation.” White people singing rap songs is bad? But people of color using technology created by white people, say the iPhone (Steve Jobs), electricity (Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Telsa), airplanes (the Wright Brothers), and mass-produced cars (Henry Ford) is okay? People are finally starting to realize they are talking crazy talk.
A similar thing happens in engineering with, “Not invented here syndrome.” People have a reasonably good idea and don’t look around to see if they can get an off the shelf implementation of something at least “good enough” if not better. Or don’t want to use code that someone else wrote.
Here is my approach to faster social, political, and technological evolution. Stop, think, and when appropriate adopt the ideas of others. Give credit where credit is due and advance the ball down the field with your adaptation of a good idea. Everyone wins.
I really wish you that you would wake up and realize that there’s only one corporate political party. This idea of choice is just a fantasy.
” I remember growing up and people would respond in the same sort of manner to anything related to Hitler.”
As well, but utter silence on the millions killed by Stalin and Mao.
Your engineer education and farmer background is showing. Both careers that demand reasoning and positive results over posturing and virtue signaling. Perhaps Thomas Jefferson was correct and we should only elect farmers and mechanics to represent us in government. It would probably eliminate many of the nations current problems if a BS in engineering from a reputable college was a prerequisite to serve in congress or the senate
The media bears much, if not most, of the responsibility for toxic tribalism. It started on the Left with the corporate media but as the Right developed alternative media it is now visible there. The application of tribal loyalty to Democrats and Republicans is just nuts. The real policy divisions are between the Establishment and the populists (Left and Right).
This tribal division is part natural, part heavily promoted by TPTB by gaslighting and media. Divide and conquer. Promote the leftie death-cult following. Many on the left create nothing of great utilitarian value, and define themselves (because of their programming) more by what they are against than what they are for. They fear out-grouping, and acknowledging that their ideological opponent has ANY good ideas means they will be (a) out-grouped, and (b) make it harder to demonize, dehumanize, and destroy them. They need to hate so they can destroy with a clean conscience be “that thing isn’t a human, it’s an evil meat-sack.” A standard part of the Ten Stages of Genocide.
The appeal to emotion is also why Republicans are perfectly happy to have Trump use the military against Democratic cities/states (buh bye “state’s rights”), create a huge unaccountable federal police force (are you within 100 miles of a border? “Papers please.”), hide clear evidence of human trafficking by his friends and his own pedophilia (what Epstein files? There are no Epstein files…), and most recently punt on capitalism and free markets in favor of the Chinese model (Invidia and Intel are almost certainly just the beginning).
Rational thought and basic integrity are well dead and gone, probably for at least a generation.
There are multiple views on his stretching of constitutional limits.
https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1959678342656823300
I’m not taking sides on these things. I’m just observing and occasionally trying to make sense of things.
Sure, if the ends justify the means, then anything is possible. What isn’t taken into account are the unintended consequences, and there are many, many of those.
This is why government should be small and move slowly.
“The government that can give you everything you want can take everything you have.” – Gerald Ford
“This is why government should be small and move slowly.”
Ya, I’m sure you will go far by espousing those views down at Seattle city hall.
And that’s the disconnect I think Joe is talking about.
And the point of the article.
Your quick to point out Trump’s failures, of which there are many. And the future problems he is obviously setting conditions for.
But never your own side’s. You’all created the condition for an A-hole like Trump.
All he had to do to come to power was oppose you and yours. Your ideas and actions.
Which truly suck, and not in a nice way.
You don’t like Trump, neither do I. But you cannot deny that without you’alls BS. Trump wouldn’t be anywhere near the white house.
You’all want to complain? Go look in a mirror.
Don’t like what’s coming?
To bad, it’s probably too late.
I’m not critiquing the dems because a) they’re not in power and b) they’re not a threat (and haven’t been since the 1960s). They managed to lose not one but two elections to a guy who actually managed to lose money on a casino, a guy who reveled in his misogyny and pedophilia, who paints his face orange and STILL they couldn’t beat him.
Critiquing the dems is like beating up a kid with cerebral palsy. Sure, you can do it, but what’s the point?
“I’m not critiquing the dems ”
And you never have.
But thank you for proving the point Joe and the article were making.
(Not to mention me.)
Did you just somehow forget about the 4 years in between losses to Trump that proved you’all to be total losers?
Forgot all about the criminal invasion?
Rape and murder caused/allowed by liberal prosecutors and judges?
Drug addicts OD’ing and crapping on the sidewalks?
(I could go on for several pages.)
And 99% of it all in cities controlled by the people you say aren’t in power?
Okie-Dokey then.
And thanks again for proving Yuri correct.
Right. None of that existed when Trump was in power, and it all started right when he got out. And then stopped again when he got back in.
On a separate note: I have some beachfront property for sale that I think you’ll be interested in….
That’s the point. YOU’ALL started that crap long ago. Long before Trump was even thinking of running.
That’s WHY Trump was able to come to power.
YOUR actions did it.
“None of that existed when Trump was in power, and it all started right when he got out. And then stopped again when he got back in.”
Quod erat Demonstrandum.
That which was to be proven has been proven.
It was bad for the nation for J. Edgar Hoover to run the FBI, it was equally bad when Janet Reno ran it. A quick view of the laws on carelessness with top secret state secrets shows that James Comey made up the element of intent. At the same time as the nation discovered the bathroom server, a Navy Yeoman was convicted of the same crime because he took a picture of his workstation on his ship to send to his parents. No intention of leaking to Russia, or China, or North Korea, or anyone.
If the Right-wing nutters who believe the Constitution is a contract have to be realistic about their guy with power, All the more it works the same way and is equally if not more indispensable for the Left wing nutters to do the same because of so many leftists in media and academia.
Agreed. I’m pretty sure I’ve not spent much time here defending Biden or Obama, they’re both deeply corrupt. But since most of the folks here spend all their time attacking the left, and little to no time attacking the right, I focus on the right in the hopes there’s at least some small semblance of balance.
“Balance” in an internet comments section. Ha. I crack myself up….
You should likely find this nightmare fuel, thinking as you appear to do, especially the last third or so (though that won’t make a lot of sense w/o the first two thirds). Not 100% sold on everything they say, but some very good points are made. That which cannot continue, will not.
Personally, I kind of like running water and indoor plumbing, courtesy western civilization.
State’s rights disappeared in 1861.
They never really existed, and even if they did I’m good with exploiting federalism to get rid of human slavery.
Nobody in power ever wanted to get rid of slavery.
They just wanted to change slavers is all.
And how we perceive who is slave and who is master.
You somehow think picking cotton all day for just a little food, shelter, and clothing as a slave, is one bit different than sweating 12 hours a day at a hard labor construction job just to barely feed, shelter, and cloth you and your children is different?
The only difference is you whip yourself to get the job done.
And real slaves don’t get to pay taxes.
You thinking your brand of communism is one whit different from actual slavery?
States rights verse federalism is distinction without a difference.
“One tyrant 3,000 miles away for 3,000 tyrants one mile away.”
But slaves were a capital investment up front.
35 cent a day Irishmen and illegal immigrates are a dime a dozen.
And disposable.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”
Nobody got rid of anything when it comes to slavery.
Oddly enough I sortof agree with you on that point. The system as currently constructed is heavily weighted towards keeping the rich rich and the poor poor. That whole 1950’s “middle class” thing was an anomaly the rich folks would prefer not exist, and are actively working to get rid of entirely. Peter Thiel and Marc Andreesen and their buddies are all big on making the world as binary as possible, with them in charge and everybody else doing as they’re told.
And don’t forget the Seattle city council.
Communists hate it when you don’t do as your told also.
Oh don’t even get me started. If Nelson loses, and it looks like she will, and then Harrell also loses, which he probably will, we’re well and deeply fucked. It’ll be back to the Sawant era of crazy lefties doing stupid shit all over the place. I want an underground bunker in Idaho….
I know of some land for sale: https://blog.joehuffman.org/2025/06/09/for-sale/
Sorry, Jon. Pretty sure Idaho doesn’t want you or your type. Stay in Seattle.
We’all probably shouldn’t take it too hard.
It appears this is all going as planned. (Who’s plan? Probably satan’s as far as I can tell.) But none the less, the problems of this next generation are going to be horrific.
Maybe even insurmountable.
The way I see it is we’re being driven into a fight. That’s what were being prepped for. Only no one knows exactly who to fight.
But historically elites only benefit from such internal chaos. (As Soro has mentioned and done to humanity several times.)
I think were all being played. And the hardest thing for us to realize and act on is the fact that were all useful idiots. And useless eaters at the same time.
J.P.Morgan, I think it was that said he wasn’t the smartest man in the world. But, that; “he could certainly hire him.”
It seems what we’re going through is a hundred years of the best psychologist money can buy, with the most evil money can buy.
I don’t know if one truly can “prepare accordingly.”
Liberals have always been emotional decision makers. They are prone to violence because: emotion driven arguments consistently fail. Emotion runs the gamut but dwells on the upset and angry side. Interesting fact. I have met very few people in law enforcement, fire rescue or the military who are of that ilk. I also believe the emotional decision. Makers have had their world view skewed by social media. They built an echo chamber and become more convinced their arguments are correct. If someone challenges their premise they block the disagreeing challenger. There is no debate with emotional decision makers. They are relatively harmless alone but incredibly unpredictable and potentially violent in packs. I would note the closure of the state hospital system in the 80s and 90s mainstreamed mental illness. The fallout of that shortsighted decision will plague us for decades.
I tend to refer to Leftists in this matter rather than Liberals. Liberals ostensibly can be reasoned with and convinced with evidence. Believers in truth, if you will.
Leftists are true believers as much as any cult follower, and they hold onto their beliefs as firmly as the Millerites in the 1840’s or the Branch Davidians in the 1990’s
And the closing of the state mental hospitals happened a bit earlier. When I worked in the local public library in the late seventies, the nutters were already camped out in the library. It just got worse in the ensuing years.
You make a good point about how much of the opposition seems to be driven more by emotion than reason. It’s almost like the reaction comes first, and the justification is created afterward. That kind of reflexive politics doesn’t just weaken debate, it also blinds people to areas where they might otherwise find common ground.
Have you ever read any Yuri Bezmenov?
He described this very syndrome as a way to destroy nations.
Is AI be used to continue it?
Just wondering if you can detect any of it going on?
We are not a rational species. Never have been. We aren’t even an intelligent one…merely a clever one. Homo Stupidicus is doomed to be a slave to our emotional subconscious master.
I have heard the aphorism that “Man is not a rational being, he is a rationalizing being.”
This is one of those times I wish I knew how to italicize or underline a word or two.
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The emotional content of belonging to a tribe and opposing competing tribes probably was a huge evolutionary advantage. But that doesn’t mean it is universally good behavior. Sometimes adopting some ideas, customs, technology, or team plays of your most hated enemy is to your advantage.
That is the problem, we should all be considering ourselves part of the American tribe. We have been divided and Trump is bringing most folks back. Hopefully that will last longer than his Presidency.
Fun Fact, the Aryan Nation in Idaho lives in a city named Athol. Pronounced basically the same as A*sehole spoken with a lisp.
“We have been divided and Trump is bringing most folks back. ”
Um, no.
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-for-americans-to-start-talking
That article is full of nonsense and Democrat Governor delusions and wishful thinking.
Trump has gotten more minorities on his side than any Republican has ever done as well as captured the bulk of the center. Gavin Newsom is stopped in California because he has been losing support from all but the most hard-core. They lied and lied and lied and now a lot of people have finally noticed.
Right, everybody’s coming over to Trump’s side and think his policies are fantastic, so him demanding that Texas gerrymander their districts to try and maintain control of the House is clearly some mass hallucination and is totally not happening.
I’m sure the mid-terms are going to go just swimmingly for the Republicans.
Once again, gerrymandering is nothing more than politics.
Which the left has used to great advantage for years. Far and above any power they should have.
But you don’t expect the right to do when they’re in power?
You only pop-off with constitutional indignation when it goes against the commie side?
Riiight.
And equally as swimmingly for the California Democrats who hold a super majority in both State Assembly and State Senate.
As things stand now, in California, a Republican Assemblyman or Senator cannot bring a bill to a vote if the Democrat Supermajority opposes it.
If Newsom gets HIS way and redistricts without using the supposedly impartial committee at the times the law allows it, the Federal Districts where a Republican can get elected on a Republican platform will be reduced by not quite half. I believe it will go from 10 or 11 to 5 or 6.
Rome was not built in a day, but it was built with the weapons and techniques they found elsewhere and adopted. After the Social Wars, they became more open to non Romans as members of the Republic and then Empire.
Winning and doing well can beat narrow tribalism.