The term “loyal opposition” was coined in 18th Century Great Britain to describe the Party out of power in the Parliament.  The idea was that the out-of-power Party, although thoroughly opposed to many of the policies of the ruling Party, could hold the government accountable while still respecting the legitimacy of the State.  The point was that, despite their differences, both Parties shared a commitment to the nation’s stability.

The notion of a loyal opposition once prevailed in our country as well.  The Parties often disagreed on policy, but remained dedicated to national stability, and the legitimacy of the State never was questioned.  This was especially the case when it came to foreign policy, where the maxim was that “politics stops at the water’s edge.”

There is no better example of that maxim at work than in the lead up to World War II.  FDR’s attempts to rearm America, institute a draft, and provide war materiel to Great Britain were strenuously opposed by isolationist factions in both Parties.  But once the bombs started falling on Pearl Harbor, the America First Committee dissolved overnight, and every elected official stood behind FDR.

In today’s America, we no longer have a loyal opposition.  The Democrats don’t accept the legitimacy of our government, so loyalty doesn’t exist.  And to hear them talk, we really no longer even have an opposition.  They’re opposed to everything that the Trump Administration is doing, to be sure, but they offer no alternative.  They have no opposing view, and no alternative policies to offer.  All they offer America is “resistance.”

Left-wing organizations declared their resistance to Trump on November 6, but the movement took some time to get itself going.  Perhaps they were confused by memories of Al Sharpton’s now famous advice, “But resist we much.  We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.”  Huh?

They took a while to build up steam.  The ever-irritating Whoopi Goldberg tried to help it along.  “Remember, the resistance is real.  You’re not alone.”  Then, lying fraud Senator Corey Booker completed a pointless 25 hour harangue on the floor of the Senate, which I suppose was intended to cement his claim to be a leader of the Democrat Party.  It didn’t work.

So the Dems moved on to last weekend’s nation-wide Hands Off protests.  The question was “hands off what?”  As best I could tell, the protestors were demanding that the Trump Administration keep its hands off Medicare and Social Security.  If that was their cause they needn’t have bothered, since those programs are not now, nor have they ever been at risk.

As with most things Democrat, the protests were stirred up by the chronic and habitual lies of the Left.  “Trump will do away with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”  No he won’t be cutting those programs, nor will Elon Musk and DOGE be cutting anyone’s benefits.  As Trump and Musk have said repeatedly, the reduction of waste, fraud, and abuse will permit benefits to increase.

Another hallmark of the protests was the makeup of the crowds.  The protestors were by and large middle-aged to elderly white folk who were taking a break from composting and making their own sandals, assisted by the usual scruffy-looking 20-somethings, who are required to go outside to protest every week or so, to give their parents a chance to go into the basement to clean the crumbs out of the seams of their gaming chairs.

The protestors are the same people who rallied to Save the Whales, then rallied to Save the Planet by building windmills that killed the whales, then rallied to require all cars to be electric, and now are busy fire-bombing Tesla dealerships to destroy electric cars.  Fickle, aren’t they?

The point is that the protests were largely pointless.  The problem for the Democrats is that they have no identifiable leader.  Bernie the Bolshevik Sanders and AOC are traveling the country on their “oppose the oligarchs tour.”  Bernie is railing against “billionaire oligarchs,” which ignores the fact that nearly all the billionaires are funding his Party.

Failed Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz is making a bid to be the Democrat Leader.  He’s offering himself as the unlikely poster-boy for masculinity, but remains the same hapless boob he was during the election campaign.  And Walz isn’t suggesting that Democrat policies need to change.  He’s said, “Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values.  One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Neighborliness?  Like the friendly neighbors who massacred untold millions in Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea … need I go on?  No.  Tim Walz is not the answer.

Then there’s AOC.  She fancies herself the leader of the Democrats.  But her leadership begins and ends with hatred of Donald Trump.  She criticized Democrats who said the were resigned to a second Trump term, “If you’re a senior Democrat that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism.”

There’s that word again.  Fascism.  It means government control of everything.  Business, speech, life itself.  And Democrats fail to see that they are the true fascists.  So AOC is not the leader the Democrats are waiting for.  She’s simply a reflection of their psychosis.

But what about the new darling of the Democrat Party, Jasmine Crockett?  She’s a Texas Congresswoman who has taken to saying the most appalling things.  She’s from the insult wing of the Democrat Party.  She’s called wheelchair bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott “hot wheels.”  She hails from the so-called Progressive Party that labels any dissent as racism, yet consistently spews stone-cold racism.

Remember the Democrats claim that Trump would outlaw inter-racial marriage?  Here’s Jasmine, on Republican Byron Donalds, “The fact that you’re sitting around talking about ‘life was better under Jim Crow,’ like, is this because you don’t understand history?  Or literally it’s because you married a White woman and so you think that whitewashed you?” “I feel like they give [Donalds] his talking points and he’s like, ‘Yes, massa. I got it.'”  Progressive, huh?

It gets worse.  Here’s Jasmine on immigration.  “So I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact we are a country of immigrants.”  The fact is ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now.”  “OK, I’m lying?” “You’re not, you’re not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can’t pay us enough to find a plantation.”  Yeah, except for the Democrat Plantation they’ve been toiling on for decades.

And like too many Democrats nowadays, Jasmine is perfectly comfortable with using violence to accomplish her ends.  A majority of Democrats say murdering Trump would be justified.  After all, he is Hitler according to them.  Jasmine doesn’t disagree.  She has said Ted Cruz should be “knocked over the head.” And she wants Elon Musk to be “taken down.”  And she has said Democrats need to be “OK with punching.”

Too many Democrats agree with Jasmine.  They’re mindset is, if you can’t outvote them, then sue them, fire bomb them or kill them.  This is not a loyal opposition.  This not resistance.  It’s sedition.

Democrats have no leader, no plan, and no shame.  They have devolved into a violent hate group, fed by lies, promoting no improvements, and signifying nothing.  Let’s hope they keep up the bad work.