Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard last week released what her office claims is “overwhelming evidence” that former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other high-ranking Democrats “politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump” after he was first elected in 2016.
And the video linked to by the tweet has her adding
I thought it was so incredibly interesting that the Democrats cannot accept the will of the American people. They cannot accept the outcome at the ballot box. And of course we're seeing it even today because they lost at the ballot box. They've lost in the courts.
Now, what are they trying to do ? They're trying to resist and obstruct everything that President Trump and his Administration and the Republican-led House and Senate are doing on behalf of the American people.
GOP Senator on 2016 election: "I find it so incredibly interesting that the Democrats cannot accept the will of the American people. They cannot accept the outcome at the ballot box." @atrupar pic.twitter.com/sbohjUs3Md
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) August 2, 2025
Annoyed that Democrats would not unquestioningly accept the agenda of a duly-elected president, Senator Blackburn appears to advocate unilateral surrender of the Democratic Party to anything and everything Trump.. That would create a tyranny of the majority, which James Madison and other Founding Fathers were determined to avoid by creating a federal system and separation of powers at the federal level.
Blackburn, Representative Tim Burchett, Representative Mark Green, and Bill Haggerty (elected 11/24 and not sworn in at the time) are Tennessee Republicans who on January 6 each denounced the riot of that day. However, when national journalists asked them of their opinion of the pardons Trump handed out, none responded. So J. Holly McCall of Tennessee Lookout contacted them, but only Hagerty responded, defending the President; The other three failed to reply.
Tennessee has become one of the most reliably Republican state in the country, and so little can be learned by the blind loyalty to Trump of its most prominent national officials. However, it is fairly typical of Republicans nationally. Here is Politico in late January proclaiming that "several" Republican senators had criticized President Trump for pardoning violent January 6 protesters. Those "several" included S. Collins of Maine, L. Murkowski of Alaska, M. Rounds of South Dakota, and T. Tillis of North Carolina. That's 4 out of 53- not much of a rebuke.
And there are always a few Republicans willing to buck Trump on any one issue, as long as the numbers are insufficient to make an impact. A prime example was President Trump's megabill, passed by the Senate and the House just in the nick of time, as requested, for Trump to make a show of signing it on July 4.
The GOP could afford no more defections in the Senate. It voted 51 to 50 in favor of a bill which had been amended from the one the House had passed on a procedural vote. But instead of going to committee as is the custom in such cases, the House passed the bill, unchanged. There, the GOP could afford only one more defection because the final vote was 218-214. Convenient- especially because it was approved on July 3, an Independence Day gift for Lord and Savior Trump..
Similarly, Jeannine Pirro was approved by the Senate on Friday to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. The vote was 50-45, allowing three Republicans to miss the vote. Interestingly
Pirro’s opponents had hoped Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) would have voted against her, given her election denialism. Tillis opposed Trump’s first pick for the office, Ed Martin, for defending the January 6 attacks on the Capitol. But Tillis voted to advance Pirro’s nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and again for it on the floor.
Tillis, who has announced his retirement, voted against the President's one big, ugly bill, no doubt in part because his vote wasn't needed. Here, he was the 50th vote in favor of the President's nominee.
But that's the game they're playing, and why the primary issue should not be whether Trump should be given credit where credit is due. Obviously, the President is the ringleader. Nevertheless, he could get nowhere without the members of his gang. They include the Republican United States Representatives and Senators, who play a critical role in the game he's playing.
Democratic members of Congress frequently attack President Trump and Cabinet members. That is necessary, yet not sufficient. They repeatedly tell the media that lots of Republicans are with them on this issue or that but fear retribution from Trump. It's not working. Enough already.
This strategy has been a complete failure. It's sufficient to get one or two Republicans to vote in favor of the national interest but it's never quite enough, and that's not by coincidence.
Stop publicly sympathizing with the Republicans whom they imply (but never quite say) are intimidated by Donald Trump. Note that in bowing to Trump's evil wishes, they do not have the courage of their convictions.
Alternatively, accuse these Republicans of being covert Trump allies. Perhaps, like Marsha Blackburn and those other Tennessee Republicans who condemned the 1/6/21 attempted coup only when it was politically correct to do so, they are actual extremists who agree with the self-proclaimed King.
But do something. Passivity is over, at least for the Republican Party, and they seem to be doing quite well these days.
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