To understand the modern Democratic Party, you don’t need a political science degree. You need a chalkboard and a piece of string connecting one simple phrase: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” That’s the entire Democrat agenda.
Today’s Democrats aren’t guided by principle—Trump guides them, not in admiration, but in absolute, unrelenting opposition. If Donald Trump endorsed, praised, or breathed near it, they’ll be lined up against it by sunset. And if he hated it? Suddenly, it’s sacred. This isn’t policy, it’s pathology.
Democrats like Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, Virginia senators known for their centrist personas, have previously expressed support for securing the border and fixing our broken immigration system. Warner has acknowledged the need for physical barriers as part of a broader security approach. But the moment Trump made “Build the Wall” a campaign slogan, Warner and Kaine pivoted. Kaine railed against border walls as ineffective and inhumane, and Warner voted against funding the very same enforcement measures he once supported. Why? Because Trump was for it.
Warner and Kaine have roots in an energy-rich state, historically supporting a mix of fossil fuels and renewables. Warner even voted to expedite natural gas pipeline permitting in the past. But when Trump backed pipelines like Keystone XL and pushed American energy independence through drilling and fracking, both senators changed their tune. Suddenly, the environment became a convenient cover to oppose what they previously endorsed.
In Virginia, where pipelines like the Mountain Valley Project could create jobs and reduce energy costs, Warner and Kaine dragged their feet because the optics of aligning with Trump were worse than the cost of energy insecurity. Now they are the enemy of lower gas prices for their constituency.
Foreign policy is no exception. The Abraham Accords—arguably one of the most significant diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East in decades—received a lukewarm, almost reluctant endorsement from Warner and Kaine. Why? Because giving Trump credit, even for a historic peace initiative, was politically radioactive in the Democrat Party. Instead, Kaine focused on procedural critiques of Trump’s foreign policy, while Warner mainly stayed silent, careful not to legitimize the achievement.
Warner, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, frequently called for reform in how tech companies handle data and misinformation. But the moment Trump sounded the alarm about Silicon Valley’s censorship and surveillance abuses, Warner reversed field. Now, Democrats like him speak about “protecting democracy” by empowering platforms to crack down on “disinformation,” code for anything outside their narrative. It’s not about consistency. It’s about control and avoiding any appearance of agreement with Trump.
And let’s not forget COVID. Kaine and Warner expressed skepticism early on about Trump’s vaccine rollout and pandemic response. Once Biden took office, however, they embraced mandates, lockdowns, and top-down control measures with renewed vigor—some of the approaches they once criticized when Trump’s name was attached.
This isn’t governance. It’s tribalism. The enemy of their enemy—Trump—is the axis around which their entire worldview spins.
Senators like Warner and Kaine may wear the mask of moderation, but when the rubber meets the road, they fall in line with the worst of the Democrat party, not out of belief but out of opposition. If Trump supported it, they would oppose it. If Trump opposed it, they sanctified it. That’s not leadership; it’s reactive politics masquerading as principle.
Virginians and Americans suffered the consequences: higher energy bills, an open border, unrelenting lawfare, toothless foreign policy, and a government more interested in false virtue signaling than solving problems.
So the next time you hear a Democrat like Warner or Kaine take a position that seems to defy logic or contradict their history, ask yourself: Was Trump for it? You already know why they’re against it if the answer is yes.
Because in today’s Democratic Party, the policy doesn’t matter. Only the enemy does.
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Remember in early 2017 when Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said;
“A pipeline is the safest way to deliver fuel”
Then the next week she back peddled
Sometimes it may not be just being the opposite of President Trump but like with energy a way to shift the commerce of energy.
As someone commented here sometime back
“It’s all about the cabbage”
Trump says Make America Great Again and it’s like cursing to the Democrats. They have all developed inoperable Trump Derangement Syndrome. They are beyond help and just must be defeated and tossed into the dustbin of history where, hopefully, future history teachers will use today’s Democrat Party as a model for what not to do for one’s country and its people.
Little Timmy and Marxist Warner stand exposed for the rank traitors that they are. But, then again, they are democrats. Next question,
It may be axiomatic, but early-on in his first term, Trump based part of his policy development on taking the opposite position of whatever the Democrats were championing. It proved to be both a winning and rational approach. He has since expanded his approach to an “America First” policy across -the-board, which, to your point, has caused the Dems to adopt opposite “America Last” policies. Even CNN polls has shown this to be disastrous for their party.
Spot on !