Forget affordability: Dems top goal is squashing your rights Biden-style
Congressional Democrats have plainly ditched their affordability campaign in favor of political reprisals against the president, his cabinet — and you.Rep.Robert Garcia’s cringey “LAWYER UP” post on X cut to the chase: Dem legislators are champing at the bit to go after President Trump and his team.But a disturbing new threat from Sen.
Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) shows they also have every intention of going even further and continuing an ugly Biden-era tradition.Namely, legal and political harassment of private citizens for protected political speech and free-association action.Blumenthal issued a demand that various companies that made donations for Trump’s White House renovation provide records related to their gifts.Other Dems, like Rep.Jamie Raskin (Md.), have threatened to target people pardoned by Trump, firms that received tariff exemptions and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.That Blumenthal, who closed out 2025 as the leading congressional stock trader by dollar volume, should shriek about potential corruption is laughable.Yet his letter carried an undertone of menace that was rightly called out by the Department of Justice, noting that “the First Amendment expressly prohibits Congress from infringing the speech and association rights of Americans.
DOJ will defend against threats to those rights, period.”It might be tempting to dismiss Blumenthal’s action as aimed at shady fat cats only.Surely these millionaires and billionaires (as Sen.Bernie Sanders used to splutter before he was outed as a millionaire himself) must have done something.Except that for the current Democratic Party, moves against the powerful only serve as the thin end of the wedge.What these electeds seem to truly want is to punish — indeed, criminalize — any dissent from their politics as such.The Biden administration provides a clear, albeit incomplete vision of this.Everyone remembers the Disinformation Governance Board, a body President Joe Biden...