OPINION
Democrats Can’t Defeat Trump With Their Silly Scandals
Kurt Schlichter | May 21, 2025
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Have you noticed how Donald Trump is getting about ten wins for every one setback? Or maybe you haven’t noticed it. A lot of people haven’t. A lot of people are panicking because there is always something in the news implying that Trump is losing. There’s always a focus on some setback, obstacle, fake poll, or pseudo-scandal; every single day, there’s one of those in the news. But this isn’t bad. This is good. It shows how the Trump Administration is leveraging the inability of the regime media and the Democrats to message outside of the old Alinsky model. There are dozens of things going on every day. The bad guys can only deal with one at any given time, and inevitably, they deal with the shiniest, least important, and easiest to defend outrage. While they’re chasing the squirrel, a dozen honey badgers are running rampant through Washington, D.C.
The Alinsky agitation model, suited for a 20th-century media landscape, is entirely unsuited for 2025. It requires a unified establishment that polarizes around a single issue via a total focus by every Democrat and all the regime media lackeys. The idea is to catch the public’s attention with some big, bad narrative to the exclusion of everything else. That requires leftist coordination, which they eagerly submit to. They literally have memos going out with the outrage of the day. That’s why they always say exactly the same thing. They are all reading off the same script.
The outrage must be something that can be explained – almost always falsely – in about one sentence. It’s an elevator pitch. The negative aspect must be very obvious. It can’t require a lot of thought because it’s not directed at people who think deeply. The idea is to get everybody talking about it so that the victim is unable to do anything else but deal with it, and by the time he finishes dealing with that one, there’s another one. Instead of going on the offense, the victim is on perpetual defense. He’s always losing.
But Trump doesn’t play by those rules. Trump frustrates them by defying their expectations. He defends once, then moves on and stays on the offense. He dismisses these bogus claims offhand, even as his people do a dozen other important things. The left has no bandwidth to resist all those. They are set up to fight one battle at a time, and he’s attacking on multiple axes. They thought this tactic would frustrate Trump. He’s turned it into a tool to frustrate their attempts to stop him.
Let’s look at some of these recent imbroglios. A couple of weeks ago, it was a Qatari 747 that Trump was supposedly pocketing as a bribe, and, of course, it didn’t turn out to be anything like that. The story came out about how Trump was getting a gold-plated jet as a personal gift from some sultans in the Middle East. The left dutifully jumped on it. The story went from 0 to 100 in about an hour, with Democrat politicians and regime media outlets spewing the same nonsense, evidence of the coordination behind the fake news. They thought they had him. On the surface, a bunch of desert sheiks giving him a half-billion-dollar jet would seem pretty bad. You didn’t need to explain why. People just understood. It was the perfect bogus scandal.
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