Democrats Keep The Dream Alive- Thank You, Chuck & Nancy!

Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi made a joint statement this morning, laying down the most important part. “We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides.” Trump denied that he had “cut a deal” with us Democrats, but was eager to reiterate the merits of the agreement.

Democratic leaders have managed to get Trump to do something right, in spite of himself. This stunning new development has come hot on the heels of their agreement on the debt ceiling and government spending earlier this month. Had that not passed there would not have been disaster relief for the survivors of the terrible hurricanes that hit our shores this month.

For this reason, Republican lawmakers are afraid that Trump will end up signing legislation written by Democrats. Even the thought has infuriated conservative voters.

Representative Dave Brat, a Virginia Republican and member of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, said a wall on the southern border was “what the whole election was about.”

Rep. Steve King of Iowa said that if the deal is true, the “Trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable and disillusioned beyond repair. No promise is credible.”

And Breitbart News, with Steve Bannon back at its helm, was disgusted beyond all belief, and immediately coined the nickname #AmnestyDon. It is the opinion of Millennial Democrats that as nicknames go, this is the best Donald Trump is going to get.

It’s amazing, what having eyes can do in the land of the blind. Here the Republicans are, with all the power in the world, and absolutely helpless to use it. Thanks to their greed, incompetence, and overall moral bankruptcy, the GOP does not have a single idea that’s acceptable to anyone. They can’t even get along with each other.

And so, the biggest opportunity they have had to effect changes in their favor since George W. Bush’s first term is half over, with nothing done at all. Meanwhile, they have been busily slinging their feces at one another like a pack of wild baboons. They never even mention us. They count us as helpless without any official power in government.

That may be true, for now, but that comes and goes. What we do have, is an excellent plan for every aspect of life in America, and the personnel to match. Lacking that, the opposition is guaranteed a long term failure, so long as Trump doesn’t start a nuclear war.

The Republican Party is the source of many of the large- scale social ills in our culture, directly. By stoking and fueling the worst tendencies of humans to want to separate and pull away from one another, they create an environment that is incredibly difficult to get anything done in.

They refuse to accept change at every opportunity, their agenda is completely negative, and none of their positions will ever produce gains among persons of color. It is for this reason that the the GOP has so often found itself with its back to the wall. They consistently leave themselves no real alternative but to resort to a “white voter” strategy.

In the vacuum created by their negativity, the inexperienced and short-tempered president has not been able to get anything done. This has allowed Democrats a way to make some progress, and we have seized the day.

The way things are, all key initiatives will have to come from the Democratic party. Trump has boxed himself in to such an extent, that all eyes in America are tuned in, watching to see if the Democrats are going to be able to handle this  without letting themselves get outrageously used. So far, they have displayed the skill of a matador.

We are well aware that Donald Trump has made a lifetime’s work out of manipulating and lying his way through life. This was the case long before he entered the political arena. Before he could even think about receiving our help, which he desperately needs, he had to give many assurances and prepare to do some decent human things. It was an extremely unusual reversal of fortunes.

Under these bizarre circumstances, the unstoppable Schumer and Pelosi arrived at Wednesday’s dinner. They came prepared, with a specific list of border security items that Democrats could agree to, drawn from Trump’s own budget requests. They included new sensor technology for border monitoring, building and repairing, roads along the border, drones and air support for border enforcement. They were developed along similar lines to what Hillary Clinton had planned.

President Barack Obama, who was by far the toughest president on immigration in modern times, was often referred to by immigration groups as the “Deporter in Chief”. He found and refined some highly effective strategies, which Trump is now extolling the virtues of.

In one of recent history’s most extreme ironies, Trump, who reviled Obama for years, who refused even to accept him as a fellow American, who allegedly paid Russian prostitutes to pee on a bed he slept in– has followed his predecessor in everything.

The same plans, ideas, and people are running the government now as they were eight months ago. Heroic holdovers David Fox and Kathleen Grant were in command of FEMA’s ground forces for Hurricane Harvey. And the government shutdown he threatened repeatedly was averted by the aforementioned Schumer and Pelosi.

If Trump can manage to shut his mouth down, and do what his experts advise, we might just make it through this.