A Trump resistance strategy nobody’s talking about
Let’s have some fun
Jeffrey Denny
Seems that Democrats are emitting more thought, energy, and CO2 on resisting Trump than they did to defeat him.
Our failing and flailing strategies run the gamut: Play possum. Go Muhammad Ali rope-a-dope. Let Trump hang himself. Wear pink suits, wave church fans, and shake a cane at Trump at his Hate of the Union Address. While Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene say hold my Jägerbomb, I emasculate Democrat presidents and boyfriends in my disturbed sleep.
We tried to stop libs from shopping at Trump oligarch discount outlets for a day. We put anti-Musk stickers on our Teslas. We “deplatformed” Trump’s congressional bootlickers at their district town halls by yelling at them. We even erased any trace of DEI or rebranded it as “happy togetherness.”
Our brilliant thought leaders grasping for relevance, attention, and remuneration say Democrats should reinvent as “builders” bringing “abundance.” Instead of being white elite educated privileged progressive NIMBYs fighting progress — such as new housing — to protect their exclusive utopian urban communities.
And of course, we should give generously to anti-Trump campaigns flooding us with urgent emails and texts asking for money to save America. Or at least to save their nonprofit organizations.
If all else fails, we’re takin’ it to the streets, as advised by the Doobie Bros. Michael McDonald, beloved by the Fine Young Cannibals in the Trumpy Yacht Rock set represented by Donald Trump, Jr. But with powerful liberal protest signs, slogans, chants and knitted pussy hats.
Feh. Eh. Meh.
For one thing, the hoary 1960s performative protest movement tactics are sadder and more ineffectual than hippie Boomer grandparents serving vegan Thanksgiving to their carnivorous MAGA grandnephews.
The protest playbook that destroyed Democrats at our 1968 convention and elected Nixon only feeds the sadder Trump MAGA bullies who love triggering the libs to act out their psychological issues.
Instead, let’s take a page from Napoleon Bonaparte who copied Alexander the Great’s military strategies. And do unto others what they did to us, like in the revenge and retribution MAGA Bible.
Lie
Through our teeth, implants, or Hollywood veneers. About everything. Screw our data-driven, peer-reviewed research, studies, facts, reality and truth we’re so obsessed with.
Where has that gotten us? Pathetically fact-checking, huffing, and sputtering at Trump’s lies and MAGA “research” from troll-scammers that prey on dummies so they sicken and die of virulent diseases. Then we’re called liars for debunking the lies to save their lives.
Instead, let’s develop and firehose the MAGA public with our facts, true or not, and repeat them over and over every day across every media platform, and gaslight like Trump that anyone who doesn’t believe us is crazy.
We can do this. We’re lousy with PhDs in psychology, sociology, and psychogenics, the study of mass delusion. We’re smarter than the uneducated that Trump says he loves and also screws. Even a border collie can herd these sheep. How hard could it be to fool most of the people all the time like Republican spinners do for greater riches?
Cheat
On spouses. Taxes. Finances. On business and labor contracts. On vote counts. At golf. And not surreptitiously, guiltily worried we’ll get caught, but openly, proudly, in the light of day, with a wink and a grin. We could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot Trump and gain Democratic voters.
And if we’re caught, tried and convicted, let’s not beg for forgiveness or even fake apologize or blame stress, booze addiction, or mental health issues, like family values Republicans caught with their pants down with a trans. Let’s not whimper that we’re not felons but “justice involved.” Declare we’re political prisoners on Trumped-up charges like the J6 patriots.
Steal
Steal from the public by using elected office to get richer. Abscond with classified documents and stash them in the loo. Take from the poor and tell them it’ll make them richer. Be like Putin grabbing Ukraine and annex Texas as the Democratic Republic of Austin. Hire Nick Cage to steal the U.S. Constitution, or what’s left of it.
Asked right, AI says imitation is the sincerest form of misappropriation. So let’s respect our fellow Americans who voted for more Trump, even if they’re regretting it.
