Since childhood, we’ve been told this phrase is never a sound excuse. It implies that achieving a desired result can justify the use of any method, even if it’s morally questionable. This idea is often associated with the modern Democratic Party.
In the Donald Trump era of presidential politics, this theory has been prominently showcased. The “end,” in this case, is to remove Trump from the political landscape. The “means” have included every tool, real or imagined, that could be brought to bear.
What often goes unexamined is the question of “why?” The simple answer is power. Socialists have struggled to gain a foothold in U.S. politics since the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, until the last decade. Currently, they are two votes away from gaining full control of Congress. Two more Democratic votes in the House of Representatives would give the extreme socialist left considerable control of the government. They are close, but Donald Trump is standing in their way.
If figures like Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren gain this power, even briefly, they could implement policies such as allowing illegal immigrants to vote, nationalizing abortion access, banning gas-powered vehicles, and moving to a cashless society. They have openly discussed these goals.
Trump has been a significant obstacle to these plans. His policies, such as lowering gas prices and inflation, have garnered support even from those who may not personally like him, but long for a Trump era economy. This has been intolerable to many Democrats, who have, and will employ every possible tactic to oppose him.
In the movie “We Were Soldiers,” Col. Hal Moore, facing overwhelming enemy forces, declares “Broken Arrow,” a call for all available resources to abandon their current missions to assist. Democrats have declared a similar “Broken Arrow” against Trump, mobilizing resources from all levels of the party.
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued executive orders in March 2020 and April 2021 to extend the time limit for filing criminal charges, targeting Trump. The Manhattan District Attorney used questionable justifications to charge Trump with a state crime reliant on an uncharged federal crime. A District Attorney in Georgia brought charges implying that questioning local vote counts constituted conspiratorial interference with state elections by the President.
This has been compounded by accusations from liberals of threats to democracy, often based on speculative fears of what a second Trump presidency might do. Project 2025, a wish list from conservative think tanks, has also been cited, despite not being officially endorsed or connected to the Trump campaign or the Republican Party.
The phrase “the end justifies the means” seems to resonate with many Democrats, who still view the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations as “The West Wing” paragons of good intentions and political virtue. However, this perspective is naive and has contributed to a significant political divide, with supporters employing increasingly harsh rhetoric.
If Trump were able to implement his agenda—lowering taxes, reducing inflation, maintaining low unemployment, ending foreign conflicts, and prioritizing military readiness—Democrats could potentially face a long-term loss of power at the national level for decades to come.
The Democrat party’s embracing of “the end justifies the means” encapsulates a deep-seated ethical dilemma that continues to drag down American politics. As the battle between Trump and his antagonists’ rages on, the country’s political landscape remains starkly divided and a powder keg.
The strategies employed by the left reflect a desperate struggle to cling to power and influence, with significant implications for the nation’s future. Whether Democrats will ultimately be justified by the ends achieved is a question that will continue to provoke President Trump and his supporters and propel reflection in the months to come.
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Let me give you MAGAts some advice. I know you will ignore the advice and attack me, but, in a few months those of you with half a brain will realize “Damn!! He was right.”
The Republican Party is on the verge of being destroyed all because you threw in with Nixon’s Southern Strategy then you dragged in the gunnuts, the biblethumpers, the “America Firsters”, and all the other ash and trash you could convince to vote for you.
As a result, the GOP has no interest in actually GOVERNING. All you are interested in is tearing it down.
Trump will not lose in November . . . he will be trounced, destroyed, repudiated . . . VP Harris will beat the boy like a red-headed stepchild.
With one move the Democrats have moved on from their old, feeble generation to a young generation while you are stuck with a 78-year-old phony, fraud, liar.
The Republican Party is going to be historically renounced and repudiated in November. You know that. Then, after November, the Republican Party may come to its senses, dump Trump, dump the gunnuts, dump the white supremacists and the biblethumpers, and get back to governing.
Do not underestimate the freak show that the democrat party is. They will do anything to win and keep power.
List of Trump’s accomplishments.
-robbed his own charitable foundation
-committed business fraud
-falsified business records
-cheated on his three wives
-been Indicted in multiple jurisdictions
-labeled captured servicemen NOT heroes
-called military KIAs losers and suckers
-filed for bankruptcy six times
-pardoned his own administration officials for crimes committed
-promised to get out of NATO
-ran for office to stay out of jail
-lies repeatedly to everyone
-refused to return classified documents
-obstructed attempts to reclaim classified documents and white house gifts
-questioned the legitimate birthright of America’s sitting President
-hid his tax reports
-falsely claimed charitable donations that could not be verified
-discriminated against Black tenants
-stiffed contractors
-reneged on leases and contracts
-bankrupted a casino
-stood before a worldwide audience and invited Russia to hack American servers
-colluded with Russians
-called Mexican immigrants “criminals and rapists”
-lied by saying “Mexico would pay” for his wall
-spoke of “black and latino jobs” that immigrants were supposedly taking
-separated families at the border and put children in cages
-caught on tape bragging about grabbing women by the p—–
-questioned whether America would buy a N(word) winning the Apprentice
-paid off a porn star to hide his affairs
-falsified documents to conceal the payoff
-palled around with Epstein
-walked in on nude and partially nude beauty contestants, Ivanka says ‘he does that’
-named dozens of times in Epstein related court documents
-stands accused of rape of a minor
-accused by dozens of women of sexual assault
-found guilty of raping via assault E. Jean Carroll
-called his own daughter a hot piece of a—-
-lost the popular vote
-stood alongside Putin while questioning, disparaging America’s intelligence
-debased and denounced his own military leadership while
-loving authoritarian despots like Putin and Kim Jong Un
-profited from the office of the presidency
-engaged in nepotism
-installed heads of cabinets and agencies whose resumes were contrary to the goals of said agencies, to deliberately undermine or sabotage them
-used the office in foreign dealings to personally enrich himself or his own brand
-obstructed justice and attempted to obstruct justice by silencing or censoring the Mueller reports
-hired an attorney general to achieve the suppression of information (Mueller report)
-attempted to install an “election integrity” agency to gather the personal data of every voter in America
-gave Afghanistan a withdrawal deal wholly advantageous to them while leaving allied forces little in return
-abandoned the Kurdish Army on the battlefield
-wants to dismantle NATO
-wants to nationalize abortion, falsely claiming Democrats abort babies after birth
-wants to impose a tariff economists say will cost the middle class dearly
-wants to end the Affordable Care Act
-wants to undermine Social Security and Medicare
-wants to abolish the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
-promised to end environmental regulations in exchange for a billion dollars from oil tycoons.
-wants to dismantle clean energy initiatives
-denies climate change
-instituted a tariff on China that proved costly to Americans, particularly farmers
-ordered hundreds of law enforcement agencies into cities
-wanted to deploy us military and national guard to put down George Floyd protests
-sent federal agents into Portland to do same
-installed far right radicals to the judiciary including three scotus justices
-railed against Kapernick for protests in support of George Floyd and others like him, while
-calling Nazi flag carrying white supremacists in Charlottesville very fine people
-lied about Covid, a pandemic he knew was deadly, by calling it a hoax
-intercepted and confiscated PPE supplies heading to states in dire need of them
-blocked, disputed, and or obfuscated professional medical advice from CDC and other health agencies
-railed against masking, safe distancing and other measures designed to slow the spread of Covid
-encouraged mass gatherings in protest of such
-proposed unproven alternative quack cures including bleach injections, ivermectin, and ultraviolet light
-caused the unnecessary deaths of an estimated half a million people due to his lies, obstructionism, denials, and deceit
-attempted to extort a foreign government for dirt on Biden, in exchange for defensive weapons
-told known domestic terrorists to “stand back and stand by” when asked whether he’d accept to 2020 election results
-lied to the American people about an election he knew he’d lost
-attempted to coerce state governors to falsify voting results in 2020 election
-lost over 60 court challenges to the 2020 election results
-orchestrated a fake elector scheme wherein his imposters drew up phony documents, fraudulently certifying him the winner, and presented them to the National Archives
-invited his election deniers to arrive in DC on January 6, 2021
-incited a riot on January 6, 2021, falsely claiming a ‘stolen election’
-sat back and cheered his insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol, chanting “Hang Mike Pence”
-subsequently praised his insurrectionists as “warriors” “martyrs” and “hostages” demanding their immediate release
-stole classified documents, hid them out when fbi searched his residence
-stole items intended as gifts to the White House
-bragged about bringing an end to Roe v Wade
-claims Black people relate to his criminality
-said that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of America
-plans mass deportation of millions
-says he’ll be dictator from day one
-threatens to prosecute, jail political opponents and journalists
-believes he’s above the law and entitled to immunity
-wants to fire civil servants and replace them with loyalists he can fire at will
-praises dictators like Kim Jong-Un, Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin
-lied that Pelosi was responsible for summoning the national guard on J6
-TWICE impeached and
-convicted on all 34 counts in hush money trial, by a UNANIMOUS jury of his peers
Some of your list is true, some are not. but what does that matter to a moron like yourself Dean… or the cut and paste Media Matters bot that you likely are.
In reply to your post asshole sock puppet:
Hunters Laptop.
True.
C’mon Joker. You gotta do better than that. Don’t you know how much everyone looks forward to your unhinged and grammatically challenged (it’s ok if English is your 2nd language. We appreciate your efforts to assimilate) rants? Our ace super duper patriot can’t be whooped already. But Ms Harris did just get the all important Clooney endorsement so it may be understand that you’re ready to concede.
And a hearty funk you too SBN you little douchebag.
Awwww, Joker old buddy, I was trying to encourage you to hang in there lil fella. Hunter’s laptop is so cliché. At least the ghosts you’re seeing now are semi-real. You have to admit, it’s kind of ironic to see the “law and order” crowd lining up to vote for a felon while the “acab” bunch is ready to jump through hoops to get a DA prosecutor elected. Only in ‘Murica.
What do you MAGAts (rhymes with “maggots”) plan to do with all that “Let’s Go Brandon” junk?
The same thing you are going to do with your Biden campaign posters you stupid asswipe. Throw both in the trash with your man’s candidacy. You were just saying how robust and sharp Joe was…
Your party of “democracy” just arranged a coup where your billionaire donors and shadowy operatives in your party just got rid of Joe… Pelosi said he can go the easy way or the hard way… They had to apply the hard way on Sunday. He was so pissed off about this that he couldn’t even resign in a speech… instead he issued a letter on Twitter that is very suspicious.
You and your partys democracy is a complete load of shit .. It is run by oligarchs dumbass… And if you are a real person and not some sort of sock puppet AI account people like you swallow their shit.
Muh abortion… yeah that’s what your party is good for…
Someone needs to remind Trump of this fact: After he loses the Nov 2024 election, Joe Biden is still in command of the US armed forces until Inauguration Day when President Harris will become CINC. They will not tolerate MAGAts storming the US Capitol and they will not handcuff the DC National Guard as Trump did.
If Trump and his Proud Boys, Three Percenters, and other fools try that Jan 6 shit again, jail sentences will be the least of their worries.
Maybe but the previous summer of 2020 shows us they could burn the streets and it could be called a “movement” as Nancy Pelosi described it.
Democrats don’t have to fear the Trump supporters but they should fear the Biden supporters of the Summer of 2020 that are now awake to the Democrats being America last because these folks are now America First.
Trump may have control of the Republican Party and the support of 10’s of millions of Americans but the Democrats are just in control of the American media.
You see Democrats can’t control when they are being controlled 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
We the People
Trump 2024 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
You really should refrain from posting comments when you are under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances. If you post only when sober, maybe you’ll make a little sense.
The studied insults and oh so clever ripostes mark you as a person of shallow intellect. Your continuing efforts as I posted before only make you look juvenile and shallow. Grow up.
Insults and sex is all they got. You will never hear anything positive about america.