The Democrats in Disarray

This week, I had the opportunity to attend President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress as a guest of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. The energy in the room was palpable … at least on the Republican side.

But while Republicans celebrated their 2024 election victory and cheered Trump’s list of accomplishments, Democrats seethed. Disunified and despairing, Democrats sat on their hands as Trump honored victims of illegal immigrant crime, an applicant to West Point, and a 13-year-old boy with terminal brain cancer receiving an honorary Secret Service membership. They sat stone-faced as Trump paid tribute to slain servicemembers and a murdered police officer, to a heroic Border Patrol agent and a female athlete injured by a male masquerading as a female.

When they did protest, they did so in the most desultory fashion imaginable. It began with Democratic women (and one man) wearing pink, in a nod to the feminist protests of 2016; it continued with Democrats in the audience holding up circular placards with statements like “FALSE” and “MUSK STEALS” and “SAVE MEDICAID,” resembling a bizarrely political Brazilian steakhouse; it concluded with Democrats sporadically exiting the chamber in fits of pique.

Perhaps the only truly headline-grabbing moment came at the top of Trump’s address when serial attention-grabber Rep. Al Green—a man who launches articles of impeachment each day before breakfast—began shouting at Trump: “You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!” It was an odd mantra, given that Trump has already repeatedly stated that he has no intention of cutting Medicaid. But it was all Democrats had.

It wasn’t much. Within a few minutes, Green was escorted from the chamber, as Republicans sang, “Nah, nah, nah, nah, goodbye.” […]

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