Who is the leader of the party?

Not the ceremonial answer. Not the press-release answer. The actual answer. Nobody.

And what makes that answer so deliciously awkward is that it isn’t even controversial. It’s just… obvious. The party that once orbited figures like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama now resembles a group project where nobody wants to take the lead but everyone insists they’re the smartest person in the room.

Let’s talk about the ghosts first.

Joe Biden is less a political figure now and more a museum exhibit that occasionally blinks. Democrats still wheel him out rhetorically when it’s convenient, but the energy behind that effort feels like trying to reboot a flip phone in the age of quantum computing. And then there’s Kamala Harris, who, despite suffering a political defeat so decisive it practically came with its own soundtrack, is still treated by party insiders like a “top-tier option.” That’s not confidence. That’s denial wearing a pantsuit.

The rest of the bench doesn’t exactly inspire confidence either.

Gavin Newsom, once hyped as the slick-haired savior of progressive politics, now feels like a canceled pilot episode. His national appeal peaked somewhere between French Laundry dinners and California’s ongoing audition for a dystopian documentary. The idea of a Newsom presidential run in 2028 has all the excitement of reheated coffee, and about the same aftertaste. Pair him with any running mate and you’ve got a political version of Beavis and Butthead, minus the self-awareness.

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Now I’m no fan of TSA, as I find them useless. But ICE is their real target.

And you know why.

ICE represents a real threat to Democrats. The more effective ICE is, the fewer votes Democrats have.

As for TSA, Democrats believe that travelers will blame Trump for their delays. The 3rd time in six months Democrats have made TSA work without pay.

Airports are setting up food drives for TSA. And now Elon Musk has offered to pay them…

[X] SB – Mamdani on ICE

The same is true with gasoline, as Democrats think they can make hay with the price of gas…

Already Democrats are saying Trump broke his promise not to raise gas prices. Do you know how hard you have to search for a lifeline to blame Trump for gas prices going back up to Biden levels?

But this is their new battle cry.

ICE is MEAN

Gas is BACK TO BIDEN LEVELS. Trump broke his promise.

In case you haven’t noticed, Leftist media is piling on Trump and MAGA.

Late night comedians are still at it, as Kimmel quipped about Trump wanting $200B for the war effort, saying give Trump $100B to go away.

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Let me start with a question that doesn’t get asked nearly enough, especially in a country that claims to love results: how do you build a decades-long reputation as an “expert” when your predictions collapse faster than a campaign promise after Election Day?

Because that’s not normal. In most lines of work, if you’re wrong at scale, repeatedly, and publicly, there’s a consequence. If a pilot lands planes the way Paul Ehrlich landed predictions, you’re not getting upgraded to a bigger aircraft. You’re getting escorted out of the cockpit and possibly handed a pamphlet on alternative careers.

But Ehrlich? He did the intellectual equivalent of calling for the financial collapse of gravity, watched it fail to materialize, and somehow got booked for the sequel.

Now, to understand how that happens, you have to go back to 1968, when Ehrlich publishes The Population Bomb. And this wasn’t some cautious, hedged academic paper filled with “ifs” and “maybes.” This was a man planting a flag in the ground and saying, “We are heading straight into mass starvation, and it’s going to happen soon.”

Not in a century. Not in some distant, abstract future. He told the world that hundreds of millions of people were going to starve in the 1970s. That’s not analysis. That’s a deadline.

And the country ate it up. Not literally, because according to Ehrlich we were about to run out of food, but culturally, the appetite for this kind of message was enormous.

Because here’s something worth sitting with for a second: people don’t just respond to fear, they organize around it. Fear simplifies the world. It takes complicated systems and turns them into a single, digestible storyline. Too many people. Not enough resources. End of discussion.

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