Commentary
A couple of things affecting the other side of the aisle since my April 16, 2025, edition, “Assessing the Future of the Democrat Party,” caught my eye. And, too, notes on Trump resistance.
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders again appeared before big crowds of young people in California on their “anti-oligarchy” tour. However, Sanders, who is now a millionaire, is now targeting billionaires. AOC, previously seen flying first class, has since been keeping her engagements along with Sanders, flying in private jets at about $15,000 an hour. Reportedly, the pair has spent about a quarter of a million on private jet trips.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden made his first appearance since leaving the White House, in Chicago before members of the Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled, speaking just 30 minutes of the planned 60-minute engagement.
As in his last year in the White House, his voice was soft and often slurred. And he again surfaced stories of his life in Scranton, referring to “colored people.”
While his speaking fee before the ACRD was not revealed, rumors have it that he is asking for $300,000 per gig and having trouble getting it.
During another appearance with about 50 students at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Biden referred to Iraq when intending to say Ukraine. Aside from the gaffe’s Biden dropped an ice cream bar, quickly replaced with an ice cream cone.
Actor George Clooney, during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, responding to questions about his New York Times op-ed urging Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, maintained it was his “civic duty” to break from the Democrat Party and make his position clear.
“I’m okay with that. I’m okay with criticism for where I stand,” Clooney said. “I defend their right to criticize me as much as I defend my right to criticize them.”
Asked about his current favorite Democrat, he said Maryland governor Wes Moore, a relative unknown, is “levitating above” the pack. Citing Moore as a “proper leader,” Clooney spoke of Moore’s response to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, his combat service and, of all things, his tenure at George Soros-backed venture philanthropy organization. He noted, “we have to find somebody rather soon.”
Gary Collins, writing in Spotlight on Maryland, has a different view of Moore as a leader, writing “Questions are mounting about the state’s management and the governor’s leadership as the Maryland faces a historic budget deficit that ballooned to $3.3 billion alongside substantial proposed tax and fee increases.”
“The state’s fiscal crisis is the result of Gov. Wes Moore’s leadership,” remarked Delegate Matt Morgan, chairman of the newly launched Maryland Freedom Caucus.
Resistance to Trump
The name David Brooks may not be familiar to you. He’s a supposed conservative columnist for the New York Times, but I remember him for his 2008 quote, “Obama would be a tremendous president because of the sharp crease in his pants.”
Now, Brooks has called for a mass uprising to oppose President Trump, going so far as to quote “The Communist Manifesto.”
Brooks claims that Trump threatens, “Constitutions to restrain power, international alliances to promote peace, legal systems to peacefully settle disputes, scientific institutions to cure diseases, news outlets to advance public understanding, charitable organizations to ease suffering, businesses to build wealth and spread prosperity, and universities.”
Isn’t it interesting that he didn’t state the purpose of universities. Could it be he didn’t know how to word their desire to mold ideologues with socialistic drivel by leftist professors?
“It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising,” by those affected by the threat to form a mass movement to stop what he refers to as Trump’s power grab. He wrote of a short-term vision: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits. Turn some of his followers against him.
After all of that, Brooks says, “I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies I’m not covering as a journalist,” but he’s looking for some fools with heads full of mush who don’t know of his admiration for Barack Obama.
Then there’s Karl Rove, the on again, off again Republican who devoted his Thursday Wall Street Journal column to, “America Gets Trump Fatigue, “peddling his belief that Americans are not happy with his campaign promise to break inflation and replaced it with a fixation on raising tariffs. He devotes much of his column to make his establishment point that “that’s not the way we always do things.” Like his old boss, George W.
Rove predicts low marks for Trump when the slew of polls come out after Trump’s first 100 days in office on April 30. I’ll bet Rove has already drafted his May 1, Journal column.
He probably pooh-poohed Joshua Chaffin’s Journal piece, “Trust Unshaken: Trump Voters are Sticking with Their Guy.”
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
