“On the Holmes Front” with Frank Holmes
President-elect Donald Trump won a historic landslide victory on Tuesday… but as learned in 2016, left-wing radicals never concede when they lose an election.
2024 will be no different. The partisan Democrats, the radical Left, and Never Trump Republicans have already teamed up in a planned “Resistance” that could put his first-term sabotage to shame.
During Donald Trump’s brief career, critics say the “Deep State” has spied on him, put “honeypots” in his offices, faked a Russian collusion hoax, ripped up the State of the Union address, consulted with the Communist Chinese military behind his back, conspired to remove him from office by invoking the 25th Amendment, conspired to remove him from office through two impeachments, tried to remove his name from the ballot, and tried to assassinate him twice.
Although President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both promised this week to oversee “the peaceful transition of power,” there’s reason to believe they and their fellow liberals are already workings to undermine the 47th president for four more years.
Biden and Harris’ words hint that they will try to torpedo Trump over the next 72 days and beyond.
Harris said she conceded the race, “but I will not concede the fight” against Trump during her concession speech at Howard University.
Behind the scenes, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a memo telling the armed forces “to obey all lawful orders from its civilian chain of command.”
That sounds like compliance—but it’s a coded message: The Left holds that Trump is an illegitimate president, a would-be Fuehrer intent on killing “our democracy,” so his orders are unlawful.
He’s not the only time telling people to defy Trump from within his own administration.
Miles Taylor—who published a book under the name “Anonymous” during the Trump administration—has asked Republicans to burrow inside the Trump administration and stop him from succeeding at every turn.
So-called “conservatives of conscience” should “not to run from [Trump], as some might say they should. Instead, I urge them to join him, as I once did,” he wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times on Wednesday.
“They should step forward and serve in the executive branch,” where they can “prevent abuses of power”…and Taylor considers everything Trump does an abuse of power.
But not everyone is keeping the Resistance 2.0 a secret. The Fake News media are already screaming about it.
“The second resistance to Trump must start right now,” begged an op-ed from Jeff Bezos’ The Washington Post.
“Dems Planning Resistance to Donald Trump Presidency,” said the Shore News Network.
The Columbia Journalism Review ran an essay by Jon Allsop titled “In Defense of ‘Resistance.’”
Some of the Resistance will come through lawfare. New York Attorney General Letitia James , who tried to imprison Trump, said, “My office has been preparing for several months…We used the rule of law to fight back. We are prepared to fight back once again.”
NEW: Grandstanding NY AG Letitia James agitates for conflict with the incoming Trump admin:
“My office has been preparing for several months. We are prepared to fight back once again. It is my job to protect and defend the rule of law. I will not shrink from that… pic.twitter.com/6LX1rCjiCd
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 6, 2024
Some will come from Democrats in higher state offices, with higher aspirations.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called his legislature into session to pass laws hostile to Donald Trump’s America First agenda.
“I just called an emergency special session to help bolster our legal resources and protect our state against any unlawful actions by the incoming Trump Administration,” Newsom posted on social media platform X.
He promised to do all he can to thwart the Trump administration on abortion and “climate action.”
“California is ready to fight,” said Newsom, who desperately wanted to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee instead of fellow Californian Kamala Harris.
California is ready to fight.
I just called an emergency special session to help bolster our legal resources and protect our state against any unlawful actions by the incoming Trump Administration.Whether it be our fundamental civil rights, reproductive freedom, or climate… pic.twitter.com/fIBPKsehot
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 7, 2024
Other liberal Democratic governors promised to keep criminal illegal aliens in their state if it meant spiting Donald Trump.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell asked Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey if she would let state police assist the federal government in arresting and deporting illegals in the Trump administration.
“No, absolutely not,” replied the sanctuary state governor.
But she promised mass resistance using “every tool” at her disposal.
“While I’m sure there may be litigation ahead, there are a lot of other ways that people are going to act and need to act, There’s regulatory authority and executive powers, and the like.”
“Every tool in the toolbox is going to be used to protect our citizens, to protect our residents,” she said.
BREAKING:
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (@MassGovernor @maura_healey) announces that she will use executive powers to block the Trump administration if they attempt to deport illegal aliens in Massachusettspic.twitter.com/1gvhinmtyy
— Bostonians Against Mayor Wu (@AntiWuCoalition) November 7, 2024
As in his first administration, opposing Trump will be a bipartisan project, with MAGA-hating Deep Staters running a tag team operation inside government and outside.
Washed-up Never Trump commentator Bill Kristol—who used to be a fixture on Fox News and now is to the Left of MSNBC—planned a huge operation inside the government.
Come next January 20, it “will be important to have an informal but organized hub for the Trump resistance. Use what levers of power there are outside Trump’s control to block his White House’s bullying and intimidation, to defend individuals, to counter-attack politically,” said Kristol.
One thought looking ahead: Will be important to have an informal but organized hub for the Trump resistance. Use what levers of power there are outside Trump’s control to block his White House’s bullying and intimidation, to defend individuals, to counter-attack politically.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 6, 2024
Failed 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an op-ed for his news service the day after the election. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-06/michael-bloomberg-donald-trump-once-again
“For now, the country will simply need to deal with Trump, and begin to restrain his worst excesses, one more time.
Dealing with a reckless president is an exhausting job, but it can and must be done – and it’s a job for members of both parties.”
Mike Bloomberg, who Biden gave the medal of freedom to in May, writes about how Dems lost:
“It probably wasn’t great to cover up President Joe Biden’s infirmities until they became undeniable on live TV.”https://t.co/tIil5cJWxK pic.twitter.com/J5YBT2nzwQ
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) November 7, 2024
For the next four years, President Donald Trump has to endure the same old uniparty coalition as he tried to drain the swamp.
He needs the support of the new, multiracial, middle-class coalition that elected him to be their voice, protect their families, and make their country great again.