If Trump Wins, the Far Left’s PTSD (Post-Trump Social Disruption) Is Coming
When Trump won, the Far Left flipped. If he wins again, they’ll be even worse.
Over the last several years, America has seen social demonstrations increase in frequency and fervency across a swath of leftist causes. If Trump wins in November, these will grow higher still. You can thank Joe Biden — not for losing, but for giving into the Far Left’s demands and raising their expectations.
Black Lives Matter was not a new organization in 2020, but it came into its own following George Floyd’s death. A summer of protest swept across America and the Far Left’s cry of “Defund the Police” reverberated.
It was the crescendo of a protest cacophony that had erupted as soon as Donald Trump had been sworn in as president. Even elected Democrats got into the act; Rep. Maxine Waters said, “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Before long, a new Democrat majority took the effort into Congress. However, the Far Left never quit the streets. Even after Biden took office, they have refused to come inside.
Being a minuscule minority, the democratic process holds little allure for them — and even less results. A case in point is Green Party standard-bearer Jill Stein, who currently registers 1.3 percent in RealClearPolitics’ average of national presidential polling. Ballots reflect their numbers, but the streets magnify them, as they did when thousands marched last September in New York. Or delayed a 2023 US Open semifinal match. Or disrupted congressional baseball games played for charity.
The Far Left’s “justice” causes have only multiplied, and, with them, their demonstrations.
Addicted to social demonstrations, the Far Left are like all addicts: the more of a drug they get, the more they want. So, despite Joe Biden having brought the Far Left to overdose levels, they want more.
On the environment, he has waged a war against fossil fuels, giving America higher prices, reduced energy security, and $250 billion in lost output. He has adopted unrealistically stringent requirements for electric vehicle sales — even though Americans refuse to buy them, despite steep tax incentives to do so.
His open-border policy was tailored to the Far Left’s sanctuary cities and Abolish ICE mindset.
As Israel continues pursuing an embedded Hamas, at the Far Left’s insistence, Biden’s administration has increasingly turned away from a staunch ally in a time of need.
The administration’s foreign policy pursued the Far Left’s goals from its beginning. Starting with its ignominious withdrawal from Afghanistan, it inexplicably pursued rapprochement with Iran, the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism — including Hamas and the Houthi movement, which now regularly attacks Western shipping.
At the Far Left’s behest, the administration has promoted and tolerated DEI initiatives within its own ranks, even as these are discredited and in retreat elsewhere.
As with all appeasement policies, the target is never appeased. Demands only grow — hence the Far Left’s environmental and Gaza protests are aimed at the Biden administration. It is these elevated demands that, should he win, Trump — and America — will encounter.
If Biden is ushered out, don’t expect the Far Left and their demands to go with him. Not only will they stay, but their demands will be heightened from four years of Biden’s coddling.
No one pulls the Far Left’s triggers like Trump. And Biden has raised their baseline for outrage.
Simply returning to sanity — not being Biden — will set off the Far Left. Supporting our ally Israel in its fight against terrorism will be deemed “genocide.” Developing our natural energy resources will be labeled an attack on “environmental justice.” Dismantling DEI initiatives will be called an attack on “social justice.” Securing the border will be denounced as “racist” — ditto, returning those here illegally.
The list of transgressions will be endless, not that the Far Left will need one. Just being Trump will be enough. Should Trump increase his minority support, as he now appears to be doing, this will only set them off all the more to recast Trump into what they proclaim him to be.
Trump is already leading in this race: in RealClearPolitics’ average of national two-way polling, by more in five-way polling, and by most of all in battleground polling. In June of 2020, Trump was trailing by roughly double digits; at one point in June of 2016, Trump trailed by roughly 7 percentage points.
Should Trump win in November, it will not catch the Far Left by surprise like it did eight years ago. They are already mobilized. Their demands, thanks to Biden, are at their highest levels ever.
The Far Left’s depths will match the heightened expectations Biden has raised. Wherever that disappointment takes them — and it will certainly start in the streets — America’s self-styled elite will support and cover for them.
America should begin bracing itself now for the Far Left’s PTSD: post-Trump social disruption.
J.T. Young was a professional staffer in the House and Senate from 1987-2000, served in the Department of Treasury and Office of Management and Budget from 2001-2004, and was director of government relations for a Fortune 20 company from 2004-2023.
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