One of the things Dems just refuse to get about Trump is that, for all they scream that "he's flagrantly breaking the law!" "He's a dictator!" he actually does try to work within the law
Trump doesn't just get up in the morning and shout "I'M GONNA DO SOMETHING CRAZY TODAY JUST BECAUSE I'M CRAZY!!!! WICKYDODO!" He actually has lawyers find laws to cite for things he wants to do and then apply them correctly.
Dems bleat about the alien enemies act, but Trump didn't just say "NO ILLEGALS GET TRIALS!" He limited it to a specific organization, Tren De Agua, from a specific country, Venezuela, and his team already had their marching orders for legal arguments they could easily predict. "A 200 year old law? So's the Constitution!" "What country are we at war with? the order specifically outlines that the organization is Tren De Agua, which is a destabilizing influence, and outlines its ties to the Venezuelan government."
Same with arresting judges. Dems scream this is the work of a dictator etc. but he isn't throwing Boasberg in chains for ruling against him, they're only arresting judges blatantly breaking the law, like purposely letting an illegal run away from ICE or harboring an illegal gang member with warrants against him in your basement!
It's the same energy as "oh you own guns? So what well regulated militia do you belong to?"
They have to believe that there's a rule based order to everything that they understand and republicans don't. Conservatives generally have gumption, work ethic, motivation, and just downright balls. Conviction. Leftists
have to have smarts because if they don't what do they have? I see this a lot in nerd culture, they see the jock getting cheered for and say "did you know that the reason humans can run fast is because we would chase deer until the tired out and that's why-".
In addition to that lefties have an unwillingness to admit that a lot of the world is and always has been scrappy and chaotic. This really bothered me in my lefty days so i know where they're coming from, but fact is there is no such thing as "conventional". Obamacare wasn't conventional, giving BLM the podium wasn't conventional, getting involved in kenya wasn't conventional and mouth fucking a girl in the oval office wasn't conventional.
It shows up all throughout their worldview
-We shouldn't have cops but we should have laws and people will have to do what those laws say because it's the law.
-This trans woman got good grades which means she should get the CEO position because the rules say good grades give you success, it's how things work!
-We're going to make guns illegal so that criminals will have to turn them in because we had a vote and decided it should be that way. Now they will do it.
-Look the international community made it against the law to do what israel is doing! That means that... ummm... so what happens to them now? What do you mean we can't enforce it and everyone will still trade with them!? The UNITED NATIONS condemned them! That's the ultimate authority! What do you mean the UN can't actually do anything?
Autistic reference but I've awlays remembered this capeshit scene where the guy says "we have to take this seriously that's the United nations we're talking about!" as if that means shit. And he says it to captain america after calling him arrogant no less, kek.
None of this is to say I think trump deserves a blank check to do whatever the hell he wants, but the left needs to be a bit more strategic about their pearl clutching so that when the time comes that he REALLY needs to be kept in check, the villagers believe there's a wolf so to speak.
