Five Quick Things: The Well-Deserved Disgust of the American People

Well, it’s been a pretty clarifying week, more or less.

There is so much going on that trying to decide what to include and exclude in this week’s installment of the 5QT is an exercise in paralysis by analysis, but the top of the list was easy to pick.

Because it’s been a pretty clarifying week.

More or less.

1. Chuck the Schmuck Has a Plan, and You’re Seeing It

The Left has decided they can’t stand the Senate Minority Leader, and the more effort he puts into making them not hate him, the worse things seem to get for him.

This is not to say that anyone ought to have sympathy for Chuck Schumer. He might be the least worthy politician in American history, with the slight exception of Harry Reid, of anyone feeling sorry for him.

He’s a jerk. He’s a schmuck. He’s a dirty SOB.

The thing about Schumer, though, is that when the Republicans in the House and Senate finally decided to show some testicular fortitude and refused to play Santa Claus to the Democrats on the passage of a continuing resolution on the federal budget last week, he was put in a position where he’d get trashed by his party no matter what he and his Senate Democrat colleagues did.

If they filibustered the CR, then Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought was ready to leverage the resulting government shutdown into a full restructuring of its agencies and programs.

If he didn’t, the next thing coming would be a rescission package that would deliver pretty much the same result.

Schumer has been getting trashed by Democrat politicians and media figures alike ever since, and the schadenfreude has been magnificent. To watch him get interrogated by the likes of Chris Hayes and Sonny Hostin, essentially being insulted to his face with video of House Democrats and others ripping him as a wimp, has made for a hilarious last few days. (RELATED: Democrats Came Up With All the Wrong Answers Once They Reflexively Asked, ‘WWDTD?’)

And Schumer’s response to his week-long struggle session has been to give up the Democrats’ game.

What’s that plan?

2. Bitching and Griping

Schumer told Hayes, and the Morning Joe crew in a different MSNBC appearance, that the Democrats plan to spend the next few months caterwauling against the Trump administration “day after day” until the president’s approval numbers drop.

But there’s more going on than just that. In a PBS appearance, Schumer took credit for the Democrat activists showing up at town halls in Republican districts and heckling congressmen and senators about Elon Musk and DOGE and deportations and all kinds of other things he and the Democrats’ political consultants believe they can turn the public against.

INCITEMENT: Sen. Chuck Schumer openly admits to deploying Democrat operatives into Republican districts—not to debate, but to intimidate. This isn’t grassroots activism; it’s political warfare. A sitting U.S. senator is effectively sanctioning a campaign of coercion, sending… pic.twitter.com/pigFYraoyr

— @amuse (@amuse) March 20, 2025

Essentially, this is one giant, coordinated trash-talking session. And Schumer thinks it ultimately results in draining enough of Trump’s political capital that he can’t effectively get anything done.

Of course, what he didn’t say, and it’s somewhat notable that he didn’t just come out with it because we’ve seen lots of evidence before that Schumer’s not above openly thuggish tactics, is that what springs from AOC going on TV to trash Elon Musk as stupid or Chris Murphy saying … whatever it is that Chris Murphy says, is something more. (RELATED: Democrats Are Looking For a New Face. Is It AOC?)

Teslas burning in dealership lots, something which doesn’t appear random at all. Mouth-breathing morons vandalize private automobiles equipped with external cameras so they’re utterly identifiable when they key those cars or, in one glittering example of subhuman behavior, rub their own fecal matter on someone else’s car. (RELATED: ‘Broken Windows’ and the Terrorism of Small Things)

Or “swatting” conservative influencers. If you don’t know what “swatting” is, it’s calling the cops and telling them there’s some sort of exigent situation going on at your victim’s house, in hopes that the resulting confusion when the police show up might result in your victim getting killed.

Inciting your crazies by each day screeching about public policy arguments over the structure of government or the federal budget or immigration policy results in domestic terrorism, and Chuck the Schmuck damn well knows that. He knows it because it’s worked in the past. Schumer threatened conservative Supreme Court justices that they’d “reap the whirlwind” if they didn’t decide the Dobbs case the way he wanted, and it wasn’t long after that two of them became the targets of too-close-for-comfort assassination plots.

So if somebody ends up getting killed because of Chuck Schumer’s efforts to trash Trump’s poll numbers, what then?

3. Lawfare

Schumer told Hayes what a lot of us saw right away, which is this barrage of utterly absurd judicial usurpations in federal district courts aimed at gumming up the works of the Trump administration aren’t accidents or organic occurrences but rather an organized insurrection using the courts to mount an effort at a coup d’etat. (RELATED: This Mess Is of Your Own Making, Chief Justice Roberts)

In that MSNBC interview, Schumer launched into Vought, calling him “the worst of all” and saying that the OMB director had a plan to permanently close “large chunks” of the federal government in the event of a shutdown.

“He’s doing it right now!” Hayes exclaimed.

“No,” said Schumer. “He cannot. Now, if you don’t have a shutdown you can go to court. And we’ve had some successful results in the courts, a lot of the judges we put in, you know, the 235? We’ve won about 85 percent of the cases. Shut down, no court, they make the decision, and they can make it quickly, easily, and across the whole federal government.”

In other words, by refusing to filibuster the CR, he left the door open to those non-stop organized and funded efforts to sue on every imaginable basis and thus try to tie up the Trump administration in the courts so they can’t do anything at all.

Just Thursday, a federal judge ordered a denial of DOGE access to Social Security records, an absurd ruling which would have the effect of preventing an examination of what we know is rampant Social Security fraud. The number of judicial orders restraining the Trump administration in the current term has now risen above 60, an unprecedented, exponential number compared with any past president.

Schumer already explained it. None of this is organic. None of what Democrats do is organic. It’s all planned and funded, the products of a long-standing and committed conspiracy against the public.

That’s it. That’s the plan. Bitching and griping and ginning up the crazies to commit violent acts that will hopefully intimidate Team Trump, and run as many roadblocks through the courts as they can to paralyze Trump in the same way that the Russia hoax and Mueller investigation did in 2017 and 2018.

4. So How’s This Working?

Well, who knows how all this will ultimately go, but let’s face it, this plan hasn’t impressed Schumer’s leftist interlocutors, and there isn’t a lot of reason the rest of us will think highly of it.

In fact, poll after poll seems to show that the American people flat-out hate Chuck Schumer’s Democrat Party.

Polls published by CNN/SSRS and NBC News on Sunday found that the Democratic Party has hit all-time lows in popularity among voters — 29 percent and 27 percent respectively — while Trump’s approval rating is tied with its highest point across both of his terms at 47 percent, per NBC News.

Seems like you have a whole lot more bitching and griping to do, Chuck!

Nearly two months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s approval rating matches his all-time high.

Congressional Republicans also enjoy record ratings, while views of congressional Democrats tumble near an all-time low, according to the latest Fox News Poll.

Half of voters, 49 percent, approve of the job Trump is doing as president, matching his high from April 2020. That’s also better than at the same point in his first term (43 percent approved in March 2017). He is at high marks among key groups, including women, Black voters and voters under age 30. (For reference, in January, a 52 percent majority of voters approved of the job Trump was doing handling the presidential transition.)

Hey, maybe this will turn. Maybe Schumer’s old-time Third-Era politics plan will ultimately bear fruit.

Or maybe this will be as big a disaster as his move to switch out Joe Biden so that lady who takes four shots of vodka before every meeting could be their nominee.

Either way, this is why we hate you, Chuck, and it’s also why we’re right to do it.

5. And Meanwhile, Something Magical Has Happened

And now I’m just about speechless.

For many decades, the federal Department of Education has failed our students, families, and teachers.

Education is best administered by parents and teachers and those closest to students, not bureaucrats in Washington, DC.

President Trump is keeping his promise and returning… https://t.co/kBD5gLW7Jb

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) March 20, 2025

It’ll take a whole lot of maneuvering to kill the beast that is the Department of Education, which educates nobody, once and for all. But the fact that Trump has done what Republicans have promised to do since Ronald Reagan, in ordering it closed down, makes this a great day.

Let Chuck Schumer have his “schmucky” plan. Trump has his, and it’s better.

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