Democrats keep doubling down on stupid, and even some at CNN are calling them out.
In the latest public tantrum, at least one Democrat lawmaker has threatened to “shut down” the government in protest of President Donald Trump’s audits that are rooting out corruption and policies aimed at reducing the size and scope of bloated bureaucracy.
“Crazy talk to do that!” CNN analyst Mark Preston said in reaction to calls for a protest shutdown on Monday.
“How can you argue for a government shutdown when you‘re arguing about government being cut? I don‘t understand that. I mean, it makes no sense politically to me, anyway. But what do I know?”
Preston apparently knows more than most in the Dem Party and admitted earlier in the segment that President Trump is winning in the messaging war, Fox News reported.
“Let‘s just take a step back and think about what the American people think about Washington, D.C.,” Preston said. “They think very little about Washington, D.C., right? So when they see President Trump going in there and you see Elon Musk going in there and saying, ‘I’ve just cut $17 million.’ He just said he cut a $17 million grant to teach, I don‘t know, tax advice in Liberia. Guess what? The person out in Kansas certainly doesn‘t care about what‘s going on in Liberia right now.”
Preston also criticized Dem Sen. Cory Booker’s appearance on ‘State of the Union’ with Dana Bash for incoherent messaging.
“When Cory Booker was on with Dana Bash yesterday on ‘State of the Union,’ he gave a multi-pronged approach about how Democrats were going to take on Trump. The number one idea was the legal strategy. Okay, that should happen, but that should just happen. Number two, legislative and oversight. They don‘t have any oversight because Republicans control Congress. And then he wanted to put someone on the media,” Preston said.
New Jersey Dem Sen. Andy Kim brought up the idea of a government shutdown on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press” on Sunday.
“I’ve worked through multiple government shutdowns. I will be the last person to want to get to that stage. But we are at a point where we are basically on the cusp of a constitutional crisis, seeing this administration taking steps that are so clearly illegal. And until we see a change in that behavior, we should not allow and condone that, nor should we assist in that.”
Kim has since received support — from Republicans.
Democrats now say that, in response to Trump shutting down huge parts of the government, they are ready to retaliate by shutting down huge parts of the government.
No, please, anything but that!! pic.twitter.com/4JeYtUyDsh
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 10, 2025
Democrats who hate DOGE are threatening to shut down the government. You just can’t make this stuff up.
— Brian Brenberg (@BrianBrenberg) February 11, 2025
Law scholar Jonathan Turley also had fun with the idea. “It’s like threatening vegans with a beef ban,” he snarked.
…In protesting the reduction of the federal workforce, the Democrats would put virtually all of the workforce on leave. It is the same logic as the Vietnam approach that “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 10, 2025
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