Friday, May 1, 2026

Is Donald Trump the Ocean’s Daughter?

I will be truly shocked if a single reader of my blog initially gets the connection in the title of this piece.  Now if I told you that the most memorable line from the song in which it occurs is “Can’t Get It Out of My Head”, some might recall that it was a 1974 hit by Jeff Lynne and ELO (#9 on Billboard Hot 100).  However, very few indeed will know that the subject of the song was a nymph-like figure sighted from a shoreline perspective and called “the ocean’s daughter”.   So…what in the world does this song have to do with Donald Trump?  As a pretext, here is that great song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA111Tb9GCE .

 

In the song, the singer is totally obsessed with his seaside vision…to the point where he can think of nothing else.  She dominates his every waking hour and haunts his dreams.  His entire life and world has come to revolve around this one illusive and unattainable ideal.  Now if I were to tell you that in my analogy, Donald Trump is the ocean’s daughter, then who do you think would be playing the role of the mesmerized individual staring into the waves?  That’s right…it is the Democrats.

 

In the presidential election of 2020, Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.  It was bitterly contested, has been assiduously analyzed, and remains an unhealed wound between MAGA Republicans and the Democrats.  And even though Donald Trump and many Republicans refused to accept this defeat for several weeks (some…perhaps longer), it was ultimately accepted by all sides that it was indeed the law of the land and would be enforced.  Smarting as they were, the Republicans in Congress and the party in general complied with their role as the minority and settled into a consistent, faithful, and dysfunctional position as the loyal opposition to the Biden Administration.

 

In that liberal halcyon that was the first two years of the Biden presidency, the Democrats ruled the roost and essentially marginalized the Republicans to a point of irrelevance.  In their collective mind, they had dispensed with the Demon Trump and banished him to never be heard from again.  Intent on foisting their progressive agenda on the American public, they proceeded in hell bent fashion to legislate and administrate their policies.  And they did so quite effectively; to the lasting detriment of this country and its citizens. 

 

In the last two years of Biden, the Republicans began a semblance of opposition with a new-found majority in the House.  But with the Democrats still controlling the Senate and the Executive Branch, they could do little to mitigate the Democrat march towards implementing their radical agenda.  Towards the end of his term, when his mental and physical condition could no longer be papered over, Biden became a ripe target for not only elected Republicans…but from the general Republican population as well.  Heck…by that time, even his own party had turned on him to a point where they utilized extraordinary measures to remove him from their party’s ticket. 

 

To any reasonable observer, the level of vitriol in the overall Republican opposition to Joe Biden cannot begin to approach the level of spite, malice, political chicanery, and hatred directed at Donald Trump by the Democrat Party from the inception of his second term through to this very day.  Trump Derangement Syndrome is a very tangible and powerful political reality and it was a conscious choice made in the last two months of 2024 by the leaders of the Democrat Party. 

 

Not content to play out their role as the loyal opposition to Trump Administration policies, the individuals in control of the party apparatus chose to not only make things difficult for Donald Trump’s presidency…they chose to make things impossible.  Schumer in the Senate, Jefferies in the House, mainstream media, academia, Hollywood, the deep state in the Department of Justice and State…they all collectively determined that Trump would be ridiculed, demonized, and unflinchingly opposed in every word or deed that he pursued…regardless of the merit within his pursuits.  The day after the second election of Donald Trump, the New York City/Brooklyn duo of Schumer and Jeffries decided that they would dedicate every…single…ounce of energy and influence they had to making life miserable for President Donald John Trump. 

 

What we are witnessing today in Congressional paralysis, government dysfunction, the coarsening of political rhetoric, and the national partisan divisions that have become so pervasive in our culture and society…they all trace their origins…in the main…back to those critical two months at the end of 2024 when the Democrat Party decided that it was more important to destroy Donald Trump than it was to govern responsibly as the minority party in America.  They mortgaged not only their own souls, but also the fabric of this nation.

 

In November of 2024, Donald Trump won 312 electoral votes to 226 for Kamala Harris.  Donald Trump won the popular vote 49.8 percent to 48.3.  There was literally no dispute as to the legitimacy of his election.  Think for a moment…How much positive accomplishment could our nation and her people have realized out of the last 16 months if the Democrats had simply licked their wounds, rethought their policy positions that were so roundly repudiated, and chosen to offer fundamental and reasonable alternatives to Trump’s initiatives?

 

Instead, Schumer and Jefferies have literally attempted to burn down the institutions of government with their irrational, unhinged, and crazed fixation on all things Donald Trump.  To the exclusion of all else, their sole priority in civil service is to be against anything that Donald Trump is for.  He is truly their Ocean’s Daughter and they simply Can’t Get It Out of Their Head.

 

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On to the news…deep and wide….

 

Trump has a strangle hold on Iran.  The hammer is raised above their heads and their bank account is frozen.  Time would appear to be on the USA’s side, but public opinion and the looming mid-term elections are increasing the pressure for a rapid settlement.  We can only hope that Trump has the political courage to hang on long enough to insure that all that has been invested thus far is not wasted on a quick, but unsatisfying solution.  Mr. President…settle this issue for once and for all.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/30/trumps-foreign-policy-between-the-retreat-narrative-and-a-new-projection-of-american-power/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/04/what-america-is-getting-right-on-energy/

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/finance/treasury-department-sanctions-chinese-refinery-vessels-providing-oil-iran

 

https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/26/chekhovs-lesson-for-tehran/

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/europe-gas-prices-top-10-gallon-iran-conflict-drives-surge

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/energy-price-watch-europe/

 

The foreign policy challenges that face this nation in the foreseeable future are daunting.  The unholy alliance of China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran has become a global threat to the security and well-being of all nations.  If America is going to face this dilemma with any degree of success, it must find a way to rediscover a united, nonpartisan voice when addressing international issues.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/24/grappling-with-hydras/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/americas-war-in-the-americas/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/04/the-china-model-falters/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=hero&utm_content=related&utm_term=first

 

The wolf in sheep’s clothing has become the progressive in moderate’s clothing.  The Democrat Party’s new playbook is to run the primary buck naked, baring all of your progressive radical proclivities and then, having secured the nomination…campaign in the general as if you are and always have been a vanilla-flavored moderate.  It is has worked with remarkable success in more than one instance.  How will it play out in the upcoming mid-terms?

 

https://jewishworldreview.com/0426/harsanyi042426.php

 

https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/24/va-gerrymander-language-is-so-dishonest-dems-refuse-to-defend-it-in-court/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/04/28/incredible-unstoppable-titan-of-terror-the-lobster-that-devoured-virginias-constitution/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/04/electing-communists.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-absurd-rise-of-graham-platner/

 

In the midst of the loud and boisterous gerrymandering battle that has been unfolding between Republican-run and Democrat-run states, the SCOTUS has dropped a bomb.  In their recent ruling on Louisiana vs. Callais, the Court performed a long overdue cleansing of Section 2 from the 1965 Voting Rights Act.  The Court’s decision accurately reflects the wise remark from Chief Justice Roberts stating that the way to stop discrimination is to stop discriminating.  In other words, reverse discrimination is simply discrimination.  Until America stops seeing all things in terms of skin color, race hustlers will always wreak havoc with public opinion and policy.  This recent ruling is the latest in a string of events that just might signal our nation coming to understand the true meaning…and profound wisdom…of Martin Luther King’s oratories.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/supreme-court-orders-louisiana-to-redraw-racially-gerrymandered-congressional-map-in-major-blow-to-voting-rights-act/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/04/a-righteous-blow-against-racial-gerrymandering/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/04/the-supreme-court-does-justice-on-districting.php#google_vignette

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/callais-callais-callais-callais/

 

https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/01/georgia-gop-could-move-towards-redistricting-top-officials-say/

 

National and comprehensive immigration reform continues to knock loudly at our government’s front door.  How much longer can it be ignored? 

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-case-for-denaturalization/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/30/scotus-weighs-whether-temporary-status-for-foreign-migrants-is-actually-temporary/

 

https://reason.com/2026/04/24/civil-liberties-groups-sue-for-information-on-ices-speech-chilling-subpoenas/

 

The domestic side of our nation’s security, culture, and society is truly chaotic and oftentimes appears to be in a perilous and fragile condition.  I continue to believe that even as presidents come and go, and as the national political parties swap turns controlling the levers of our government…the fabric, faith, and will of America’s people will persevere and continue to be the shining light for liberty and freedom on this planet. 

 

But sometimes…it gets really dark.  Both national parties bear some blame for the unmitigated hate and violence that has become so prevalent in our politics; but there can be no doubt the Democrat Party shoulders a much larger portion of that blame.  The language used by both sides is vulgar, inappropriate, and classless; with no individual bearing more blame than our President.  But the Democrat rhetoric far too often crosses over into hate speech with violent overtones.  

 

I will say this…I have many good friends and neighbors who are life-long Democrats.  They are fine people…good people.  But they have allowed their Party to be commandeered by a radical element of progressive extremists…elected and otherwise…who DO NOT represent them or the majority of their party.  Even worse...they continue to support these fanatics by blindly voting the party line.  The Republicans have their fringe; but that fringe element DOES NOT RUN THE PARTY.  Therein lays the difference between the two.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/the-left-is-lying-to-itself-about-the-cost-of-its-rhetoric/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/04/28/a-nation-divided-new-survey-shows-changing-views-of-democracy-and-political-violence/

 

Please Mr. EX-president…..just go away. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/barack-obama-is-still-annoying/

 

https://jewishworldreview.com/0426/lowry042426.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/29/theres-never-just-one-cockroach/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chicagos-may-day-action-civics-nightmare/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/25/i-didnt-read-the-news-today-oh-boy-embracing-the-news-avoidance-pandemic/

 

Our nation must come to terms with a pragmatic and rational approach to balancing reasonable climate concerns with the realities of current and future energy demands.  A symmetry must be obtained that can responsibly address both the need to produce abundant and adequate energy with the acceptance that production must be regulated in a common sense fashion. 

 

https://reason.com/2026/04/26/chernobyl-was-a-communist-disaster-not-a-nuclear-one/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/29/californias-climate-overreach/

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Is Donald Trump the Ocean’s Daughter?

I will be truly shocked if a single reader of my blog initially gets the connection in the title of this piece.  Now if I told you that the ...