Why is Trump so in-your-face?

Why is Trump so in-your-face? Examines our two party system that is dysfunctional in our modern day, and thoughts about fixing it.

​Back 20 or 30 years ago, Congress had two parties that worked together, not always well, but one side didn’t want to offend the other side and get the other side mad by shutting them out. In Congressional committees, the majority side had the majority of the committee members (usually by one) and the minority side had an equal amount minus one. Each party had the privilege of picking their members on all of these Congressional committees. Technically, the ruling party had the right of choosing the committee, but they conceded the opposition’s committee members to that party to decide.

That allowed government to call the laws bipartisan. There is value in being able to claim that. While every taxpayer and voter wants their party to do things, they conceded bipartisanship as being the best for the entire country. All of this has changed over recent years. In the committee to investigate Trump during his first term, the Democrats picked the Republican committee members. That was a breach of decorum. A tremendous insult to bipartisanship. The Republican Party refused to participate in this fraud, and only Rhino Republicans participated.

But the conclusions and acts of any committee thus formed and executed is rightly seen as being “partisan”, in other words, one party has already decided the outcome, and they are cheating to get that outcome.

Moreover, there is a “pecking order” involved, where the longest serving members of each party with their parties officials decide who on these committees would represent their party. This is politics, but each party has got some power, and long serving members and party officials, like if one won the presidency, everybody would respect (which is power).

All of this has changed. In Trump’s impeachment hearings, the Democrats decided which Republicans were to be chosen, and Rhino Republicans were chosen for them. The Republicans refused to participate because it was not right.

Even within the Republican Party, many Republicans refused to see President Trump as their chief elected person in the highest position of authority.

There is a saying in politics that what goes around, comes around, and what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

In other words, the Democrats under Clinton, Obama, Biden, Schummer, Pelosi, etc. started using nasty warfare tactics, because they couldn’t get their way any other way.

Trump suffered and said little. But if and when the tables are turned, watch out. We are now in that watch out moment.

The frustration that the Democrats are experiencing today is of their own creation. If they had shown more control in their opposition to Republicans, and maintained a bipartisan government, they would not be shut out of government now as they are seeing.

This has been shock therapy to the Democrats. They simply cannot believe what Donald Trump is doing, neither what nor how, nor how fast. But again, this horrible situation for them is exactly what they have provoked on themselves. Some Democrats are not so liberal crazy as their current party leaders, and they are noticing that “their party” is being shunned, and trampled on. This is what happens in politics. What you do (playing dirty) to your opponent may one day come back to haunt you. The Democrats are haunted by Trump today.

What is worse is that they will go more in that same wrong direction to compensate, and they risk losing even representatives in government. This is doing something wrong, and instead of learning and changing your tactics, you double down on back tactics. Some are even saying this is the end of the Democrat Party. I do not know. But most probably it is the end of the Democrat Party as we have seen them recently. If they do not change their tactics, act more courteously and civilly with the Republicans in the future, they will be minimalized. This is not being done by the Republicans, but by level-headed Democrats that understand that what they have been doing is causing them backlash beyond belief.