Commentary
Before I launch into this commentary, I thought I would share with you the reason I haven’t published since July 11, 2025. The following day I took several clipped topics from my stack of stuff, each one covering things worthy of comment, at least I thought so when I saved them.
When I began writing, however, nothing jelled. When my wife told me I was suffering from writer’s block, I, of course denied it. I don’t recall ever experiencing that, and I wasn’t now.
After stewing over it for a bit, even checking out the definition of writer’s block on the Internet, it came to me as I was reading from one of my attempts to write on the subject of chaos in the Trump administration. Chaos had become a word repeatedly used by Democrat leaders Schumer and Jeffries.
While explaining how they were finding it difficult to confront the speed, scope and scale of President Trump’s unprecedented actions in his first 175 days, it hit me. That was my dilemma.
In addition to his signing several executive orders in one sitting, it’s common for him to talk about 30 or 40 topics in a single press conference.
Just as Trump’s actions proved to be chaotic to the Dems, I too found there were so many topics on which I wanted to comment, but where to begin when blog space is limited and timeliness is important.
A couple of friends who read my commentaries remind me that there’s no shortage of material coming from the White House. Couple that with all the attempts to sabotage Trump’s agenda, by Democrats making threats and kooks who are willing to do their dirty work on America’s streets.
Jeffries recently spoke of Trump’s agenda of “chaos, cruelty and corruption,” as Schumer was remarking that “we’re starting to see dark clouds hanging over our economy because of Trump’s erratic decisions.”
While Democrats like to complain of chaos in the Trump administration, they are behind it with their Trump resistance activities focused of late on deportations. One of the topics I wanted to address.
Dangerous inflammatory rhetoric by Democrat politicians has put our ICE agents at risk of life as they attempt to carry out deportation orders, in Alvarado and McAllen, Texas, Portland, Oregon, and most recently in Ventura, California.
With their leader Jeffries imploring people to “fight” the Trump administration “in the streets,” declaring ICE agents “will be unsuccessful,” his followers on the left have become unhinged.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal called ICE agents “deranged” and said it is “Inspiring” to obstruct immigration enforcement.
Rep Stephen Lynch referred to the ICE agents as “the Gestapo” and “nondescript thugs.”
Rep Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez said ICE “should not exist.”
Rep. Kweisi Mfume challenged the Trump administration to “a street fight.”
Rep. Dan Goldman compared the federal agents to the “secret police.”
From the Senate side, Sen. Bernie Sanders asked people to “figure out a way to stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible.”
And, from leftist media, Sunny Hostin of The View, responding to the attempt to kill Customs and Border Protection agents in McAllen, suggested they had it coming because they wear masks, though necessary for their own safety. She proclaimed that a “reckoning” was coming for them.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell made the ridiculous reference to America becoming like Germany during World War II, when individuals had to be prepared to “show their papers.”
With these representatives giving the green light to make it hard for ICE agents to carry out their duty, the crazies and paid protesters are ready to cause mayhem and just might kill someone.
While people in many communities — large and small, urban and rural — are seeing immigrant relatives, friends and neighbors taken away by federal agents, immigration remains an area where Mr. Trump receives some of his strongest approval ratings.
Gallup pollsters citing Trump’s “swift and visible” response, found many Americans disapprove rather than approve of the president’s handling of the issue, but a majority of Americans still support stricter measures.
Interestingly, the Cygnal poll revealed support for the Trump deportation policy among Hispanic voters had increased 11 percent.
But the left has jumped on Trump’s falling approval ratings that now average 45.6 percent, due somewhat to the continued negative coverage in the legacy media and social media.
With the president’s wins in the Supreme Court on deportations, federal government layoffs and cutting back the Department of Education, it will be interesting to see if the approval rating changes.
In “Trump Is on a Roll, but He Shouldn’t Get Overconfident, “Jason L. Riley’s Wall Street Journal column, he writes, “(Trump) continues to notch important victories while his opponents wait for the MAGA right to self-destruct.
“Democrats tell themselves the president’s base will abandon him, his poll numbers will nosedive, and they will be dancing on his political grave.”
Riley notes that Trump’s success in fulfilling campaign promises isn’t the only problem for Democrats, “It’s also that swaths of voters believe him to be on the common-sensical side of so many controversies.”
Pointing out how Trump beat the Democrats with common sense on cultural issues, he must now “deliver on the economy.” Riley comments that if voters sense an improvement in living standards improve over that of his predecessor, it will be reflected in the midterm elections.
There … I’ve done it. I recognized why I was having trouble publishing this blog edition, and I made the point that it is the left that is fomenting the chaos.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
