Do Democrats have a clue about the time? This month, with the kick-off of confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s contenders, the new Senate majority will have an option to answer that question.
By effectively winning the confirmation debates, the GOP is show it understands the stakes by neutralizing Democrat assaults, going against them, and standing unified behind Trump’s nominations.
Wining the assurance conflicts is of transcendental significance. Personnel is coverage. To meet the revolutionary mandate that the American people have given him, the president-elect needs to have trustworthy and astute appointees. The advantages of the administration’s plans will continue to be in line with the senators ‘ own social goals and national interests. Their Democratic colleagues may try to oust any and all contenders they can because of this.
Knowing when it is means comprehending that the attacks launched against President-elect Trump’s nominees won’t really be about health or qualifications but rather about energy. We are aware of this because of the numerous incompetent and absolutely inadequate nominees Democrats have supported in new administrations, as well as President Joe Biden’s shortage of fitness and the disqualifying, if no criminal conduct of Ted Kennedy, the later and lauded “liberal lion of the Senate,” who unfortunately presided over numerous confirmation hearings.
What is really social warfare of the highest purchase will be fueled by questions about who will best handle a bureaucracy or reported character issues.  ,
Democrats will use the nomination hearings to try to stoke conflict between Republicans and the president-elect, force them to lose their political resources, and, if successful, switch out nominees for those who won’t function, causing a personnel and plan feeding frenzy. If everything else fails, the Senate minority may attempt to avert and defraud the contenders to the fullest extent possible.
Democrats ‘ real aim is to physically and socially destroy Trump’s picks — especially those unfriendly to the operational state and ruling-class orthodoxy, and so unlikely to play ball with the uniparty — as part of a comprehensive effort to stymie, sabotage, and subvert the GOP, eat into its majorities, and finally reseize trifecta control. The confirmation hearings are the first opportunity to delegitimize and destabilize the incoming administration, grind its first 100 days to a halt, and thus set the party and its leaders on a course to failure as it approaches a generational realignment opportunity.
Democrats should be prepared to bring up previous policy disagreements between Trump and his appointees in an effort to rift them. Democrats will likely dig up old comments that are viewed as being offensive to Trump and badger and mercilessly criticize nominees to fluster them, elicit fury or make offensive remarks. Democrats have been known to manufacture unfounded narratives from tenuous fact ( or fiction ) to portray GOP nominees as evil and conniving, stupid and incompetent, or corrupt and unethical. Watch for Democrats to raise shocking new allegations of alleged infidelity, corruption, and scandal, at least through the use of rumors or fabricated rumors at worst and the release of fabricated rumors at worst.
Republicans ought to make plans for all of these shenanigans and more. From” Borking” to “high-tech lynching” to the” Kavanaugh caper”, all of these tactics and still worse have been normalized and are to be expected.
The appointees must convincingly explain why their backgrounds, experiences, and worldviews have allowed them to carry out their duties on behalf of Trump and the American people. They must be able to respond to the most heinous assaults, including those that involve both well-known opposition research and unanticipated and unforeseen tactics. When necessary, they will have to deconstruct the false premises, innuendo, and strategy behind the narratives being weaved to expose the cynical, scorched-earth political warfare for what it is. In the face of intimidation, neither they nor Senate Republicans can shrink or show weakness.
The senators ‘ job will be to pose the inquiries that will help the nominees best counteract the Democrats ‘ attacks and act as force multipliers and amplifiers in supporting the nominees.
By stating that the attacks on the nominees are intended to thwart the peaceful transfer of power and obstruct an agenda that the American people overwhelmingly supported, they should defy the Democrats. They ought to state explicitly that the nominees are change agents who will prioritize common sense and realism over ideology and idealism, merit over politics, and ingenuity and vigor over bureaucracy and stagnation. In a number of cases, appointees who have not worked their way up through federal agencies or who have been targeted by those agencies are the people who need to shake them up and fix them, and Republican senators must make this point home.
By fending off left-wing attacks, putting Democrats on the defensive, and confirming Trump’s nominees, Senate Republicans will show they know what time it is.  , In so doing, they will help set the conservative-populist-nationalist movement on a path to victory over the next four, eight, or even 12 years— for the benefit of all Americans.
Ben Weingarten is editor at large for RealClearInvestigations. He is a senior contributor to The Federalist, columnist at Newsweek, and a contributor to the New York Post and Epoch Times, among other publications. Subscribe to his newsletter at weingarten. substack .com, and follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten.
