How to Fight and Defeat MAGA (Part 2)
Elected Democrats
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how Donald Trump and other MAGA elites use overwhelming levels of chaos while preying on human emotions and biases to manipulate the chuds into amplifying and supporting their scams. Recognizing how the disease works is an important first step in eradicating America’s MAGA cancer.
In this and forthcoming articles, we will look at ways to block Trump, Musk (and the billionaire scammers hiding behind them) where we can and slow them down where we cannot. In other words, we will explore ways that patriotic Americans can work together to defeat the MAGA enemy.
There are at least five categories of Opposition:
Elected Democrats
Career civil servants
Donors to the Opposition
Media and social media influencers
Everyone else
We will talk about what each group can do in this and the next few articles in this series. First up: our elected Democrats.
Elected Democrats
Democrats are our first line of defense because they are literally on the frontline, facing off across the aisle with Republicans who are so afraid of Trump and Musk that they have capitulated completely and will rubber-stamp Trump’s nominees and everything else he decides to do.
While we generally assume the Opposition are all Democrats or independents, we welcome anyone, from any party, who believes the law still matters and who will oppose Trump and his illegal agenda. Everything we say in this article applies to them as well.
Much has been written already about the failings of the GOP and we will not rehash all that here. The Republican Party has been completely taken over by the MAGA movement and there is no redemption, and no mercy for them.
Republican Senators and Congresspeople are the enemies of Democracy. They are enemies of the United States.
That might seem harsh, but this is a war for the soul of America. The time for bipartisanship, for compromise, for Congressional niceties and decorum? To our detriment, Democrats have been trying that approach since Obama and Republicans have been laughing at us behind our backs the entire time. We are so far past that point.
Our First Challenge: Democrats
If it is not obvious, the vast majority of incumbent Democrats did not rise to the threat that Trump posed. His electoral victory was as much a Democratic collapse as it was a win for a thoroughly unredeemable cretin like Trump.
Democrats in Congress need to stop capitulating. They need to stop cowering in fear and find the courage to stand up and be heard. They need to use every tool at their disposal to slow down or obstruct Trump’s agenda.
Unfortunately, with a few exceptions, they are not yet doing any of that.
Trump Nominee Test
Trump’s unqualified, corrupt cabinet nominees were the first test for Democrats and only a handful showed us that they understand the gravity of the situation our country is in. According to Ballotpedia, these eight Senators voted No on 11 out of 12 Trump nominees who have come before the Senate as of Feb 5, 2025:
The Senators listed above are heroes and clearly understand the stakes. Let them know you appreciate them, even if you are not from their state or district.
Meanwhile, these four Democrats actually voted for eight of Trump’s nominees:
Lawmakers do not operate in an ideologically pure environment of course and they cannot always vote their conscience even if they want to. They have multiple priorities, the biggest of which is winning future elections and keeping their positions of power.
Both Pennsylvania and Arizona are swing states so Fetterman and Gallego might almost be excused for taking a more centrist path but there is absolutely no excuse or Hasssan and Shaheen to ever support Trump. New Hampshire has voted for a Republican president only once in the last 32 years, and that one time was 24 years ago. It should not be difficult for Senators to win blue states.
ACTION ITEM – Check how your Senators are voting and bombard their offices with phone calls and letters telling them to vote NO on every remaining Trump nominee.
Obstruct EVERYTHING (Like the GOP Do)
When Barrack Obama was elected in 2008, Sen. Mitch McConnell (MAGA–KY), the Republican majority leader at the time had one goal in mind and it was not bipartisanship or working together to find common ground for the good of all Americans. His singular objective was for Republicans to regain power and for McConnell himself to get re-elected after Democrats swept the White House and both houses of Congress.
Sound familiar?
The situations are not entirely analogous since Obama and Democrats swept into power with a decisive mandate, whereas most people voted for someone other than Trump. He has no mandate even if he constantly bleats that he does.
Nevertheless, McConnell took a no-holds-barred approach to fighting Obama and the Democrats’ agenda. Republicans viciously attacked the Affordable Care Act even though it made health care available to millions of Americans for the first time, including their own constituents.
They did not hide the fact that they would happily rip health care away from Americans simply because it was a Democratic success story and even though the bill was largely based on proposals by Republican Mitt Romney (from his time as Massachusetts governor) and the Heritage Foundation, an ultra-conservative hate-group that later brought us Project 2025.
"That means that we can — and should — propose and vote on straight repeal, repeatedly," McConnell said in 2010 after Republicans scored big victories in congressional elections based in part on flooding the public square with lies about Obamacare.
That same year, McConnell famously said, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” On its own, his comment is unremarkable; every opposition party wants the other party to lose next time which is fair. But it is indicative of the GOP’s single-minded focus on blocking Democrats who were in power at that time that is relevant to the Opposition today.
Scalia, Ginsburg, and the SCOTUS Theft
After Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly, McConnell blocked the Senate from voting on Merrick Garland, Obama’s nominee to replace Antonin Scalia for almost a year before the 2016 election. Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s nominee for the seat, was not confirmed until April, 2017, 409 days, or almost 14 months after Scalia died.
Three years later, on May 28, 2019 McConnell was asked at an event, “Should a Supreme Court justice die next year, what will your position be on filling that spot?”
“Oh, we’d fill it,” McConnell replied, grinning.
And that is exactly what McConnell did. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away a mere 47 days before the 2020 presidential election and McConnell, still the Majority Leader, rammed through Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination in record time, sealing a MAGA majority on the Supreme Court for decades to come.
The Lesson
Mitch McConnell is the epitome of a successful resister. He weathered waves of attacks from the Left over his hypocrisy and everything else he did because he knew it would eventually pass. He has repeatedly and cravenly put party and power first and as vile as that is, it has paid off for him and for the GOP over and over again culminating with Donald Trump and Elon Musk taking over the U.S. Government this year.
We are not helpless, just as the GOP was not neutered in 2008. However, Democrats need to pull their heads out of their asses sand and stop pretending the world has not changed. We did not make the new rules. Trump, McConnell and MAGA made the rules and we must throw that back at them whenever they whine about the Opposition’s tactics.
We need to fight back the same way McConnell and the GOP did when they were in the minority or we will never be in power again. Does that mean we have to sacrifice our morality, or break the law, or be grossly unethical?
Not at all.
What it means is we need our Opposition politicians in Congress to use every mechanism of the legislative and judicial systems to obstruct everything Trump and his GOP minions try to do, no matter how trivial or seemingly unimportant.
A million specks of dirt stuck to their hides can add up to a mudslide.
Give them no wins. Give them no positive talking points. Block everything, delay everything. Slow down the workings of Congress using every possible rule you can. Sure, some good things might also end up getting delayed or blocked, but the GOP isn’t really going to be doing anything good at all anyway.
We need high-visibility Democratic governors (with presidential ambitions, ahem) like Gavin Newsom in Caliornia and JB Pritzker in Illinois to use their executive powers to block Trump in the states. Attorneys general should sue the Trump administration for every oppressive action that affects their states even tangentially. And most importantly, they need to publicize their counterpunches far and wide so our message rises above their noise: We do not concede America!
Final Thoughts
McConnell taught us that obstruction is highly effective. The more the GOP struggles to enact their agenda, the more they will appear to be losers. The more frequently MAGA chuds on X or Fox News are whining about another delay caused by a Democrat, the more people will peg Trump as a loser who can’t get things done.
How does this help us? It fires up our base. It’s a way to win even when we are out of power. It shows fight and that is what people desperately want now from Democrats.
It will piss off the MAGAs which means our sides’ actions will dominate the social media cycle. They will complain left and right on X and Fox News and Newsmax and other platforms and that is a good thing, because it gets our message out there!
We do not concede America! (say it 100 times.)
The Biden/Harris loss in this past election proves that just getting things done does not win you elections anymore. Biden was incredibly successful at getting legislation passed and at navigating Trump’s inflation and avoiding a recession. But the people did not care because Trump overwhelmingly co-opted the headlines with lies and conspiracies. (We will talk a lot more about messaging and social media in an upcoming article in this series.)
We can get our side back in power, perhaps as soon as the midterms, but not if Democrats keep doing what they have been doing. If Democratic politicians do not have the courage to stand up and fight, then do what Trump would do: primary them and get people in who will.
The rules were changed by the MAGA crazies. We are in a war. It’s time to start acting like it.
Action Items
Obviously, if you are a Gavin Newsom or an AOC, then you can take direct action.
The remainder of this article is for the rest of us.
Once again, flood your federal legislators’ offices with phone calls and letters telling them to obstruct everything the GOP does. Call daily or weekly. Tell them to file lawsuits. Tell them to use Senate and House process, to use congressional procedure to gum up Trump’s agenda. Tell them to use the filibuster. Tell then to create a shadow government and hold shadow hearings. Tell them to make noise and to constantly call out the hypocrisy and insanity of the GOP on the Congressional floor. Tell them to get it in the record, to be so loud and direct that videos of what you are doing end up all over social media.
Tell Congressional Democrats to sow division and infighting in the GOP ranks. Trump sycophants are falling all over themselves to slavishly get Donald Trump’s attention and praise. Our legislators have the biggest voice, because what they say on the House or Senate floor gets on TV. It gets on TikTok and YouTube and X and Trump sees it. Trump is our Target One because he is weak and insecure. We want him to distrust everyone on his own side.
So tell them they to fling accusations out there about how Rep. X or Senator Y. has gone against Trump or Musk. The accusations do not need to be 100% true because those are the new rules, remember? Accusations simply need to have the ring of truth. They need to be just believable enough. This is how propaganda works.
If you follow me on X or Bluesky, you know what I am talking about; my most viral posts are the satirical posts where people say to themselves, “That can’t be true! Can it? Wait, did Trump really say that?”
This all applies not just at the federal level. Force elected Democrats all up and down the country to do the same wherever the GOP holds power, all the way down to city councils and school boards. Get involved at the local level so your voice is heard and advocate hard for not cooperating with anything the GOP does.
Public pressure on elected officials works. Noise works. There are tens of millions of Americans who cannot stand that Trump and Musk and the rest of the MAGA billionaire scammers are staging a coup against America in plain site.
We can and will, stop them, with our current politicians or with replacements if necessary. LFG!
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