Who could’ve seen it coming? Just 101 days into his tenure as the Democratic Party’s youngest vice chair—and the first “Zoomer” to hold that office—party elites have already declared David Hogg’s election null and void, a complaint that sounds suspiciously like “election fraud.” It’s the latest embarrassment from a spent political party that pales in comparison to President Donald Trump’s incredibly successful first 100 days. If Republicans are wise, they’ll take advantage of the chaos ahead of the 2026 midterms. The complaint centers on broken parliamentary procedures—the preferred excuse of weasels and dictators alike to undermine democratic elections—specifically, DNC rules mandating “gender parity” to tip the scales in favor of female candidates running against men. In other words, DEI did Hogg in. Hogg, who was elected to help Democrats win back young male voters, complained that “the DNC has pledged to remove me, and this vote has provided an avenue to fast-track that effort.” Party elites, he believes, want to “defend an indefensible status quo.” The DNC’s procedural revelation comes just two days after Hogg blasted his party for driving away young men who “feel like they have to walk on eggshells … constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.” Oh, the irony. More importantly, will conservatives capitalize on the blunder? For years, Democrat politicians have told Americans that elections couldn’t be more trustworthy, that only they could safeguard democracy from MAGA Republicans, and that their party represents everyday people over ultra-wealthy special interests. None of that is true, as this latest Chinese Communist Party-style election nullification reminds us. Democrats routinely meddle with their internal elections to manufacture “victories” for party insiders, voters be damned. Remember the superdelegates in 2016 and 2020? Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont sure does—the “oligarchs and billionaires” he complains about cost him the Democratic nomination twice by rigging obscure parliamentary rules against him. Congressional Democrats haven’t accepted a Republican presidential victory as legitimate since 1988. House Democrats tried to nullify Republican election victories in 2016 and 2024 as illegitimate, yet called allegations of a stolen election in the extremely questionable COVID-19 election results in 2020 “misinformation.” As for protecting democracy, leftists tried to turn 2024 into a one-party election in many states by removing Trump from the ballot. That was an inside job by D.C. operatives to thwart the will of voters, who delivered Trump a landslide victory anyway. Don’t forget Democrats’ effort to nullify the Constitution with a “national popular vote” scheme to award all Electoral College votes to whichever candidate wins the most popular votes nationwide. In 2016, that would’ve meant awarding all 538 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton—even in states she lost or didn’t bother to visit, like Wisconsin. Amazingly, Democrats suddenly went mute about the national popular vote after November 2024, with Michigan Democrats quietly abandoning their national popular vote bill mere weeks after Trump won a popular vote majority. This from a party controlled by a small constellation of ultrapartisan activists, agitators, lobbyists, and political operatives in the Beltway. Recall that Kamala Harris never won a primary vote anywhere—not in two presidential elections. Massive dark-money donors with strong ties to Big Business and Wall Street magnates bankrolled Harris’ campaign from the start. Even in California, she was the ultimate product of one-party machine politics: a mediocre prosecutor who failed upward at every turn by collecting enough party IOUs to earn a political promotion. Her promise was to govern as a figurehead for the faceless Deep State cabal that the Left no longer tries to hide. It was only after Harris came into contact with real, flesh-and-blood Americans in places like—shudder—Nevada and Pennsylvania that she fell to pieces. Normal people, it turns out, don’t consider mindless babbling and cackling substitutes for ideas and leadership. Now those same special interests are behind the second Trump “Resistance” to undermine the agenda most voters voted for. There’s a common thread here: Democratic politicians and their allies attack the system as “rigged” and “unfair” when they lose. They’re champions of the system until the system doesn’t work for them, even a single time; then they reveal themselves for the lying opportunists they’ve been all along. Hogg, for all his inanity and gun control bona fides, was honest enough to criticize his party’s toxic obeisance to the radical feminists and trans nazis who’ve made the world’s oldest political party repulsive to young men (and most everyone else). Hogg just proved that democracy cannot be tolerated in the Democratic Party. Dissent will be crushed with extreme prejudice. He’ll shortly be replaced by a gay black woman who pledges to enforce the party line, no questions asked. Republicans should thank God for this gift. We have an opportunity to further expose and permanently defeat the woke mob while it’s distracted by infighting, but that window is quickly closing. If this is how the Democratic Party treats its own “democracy,” America, how will it treat yours? Originally published by RealClearPolitics We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. 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This week, controversy emerged when President Donald Trump announced that the Emirate of Qatar had offered him a gift: a $400 million jet, a modernized “flying palace” complete with all the fixings. The gift will be presented to the Department of Defense to be retrofit for Air Force One; after a short period of use, it will then make its way to the Trump Presidential Library. Questions remain about the legality of such a gift. Does it violate the emoluments clause of the Constitution? Does it require Congressional approval? Regardless of the legality, one fact is eminently clear: Qatar does not offer gifts without golden strings attached. Ever. Qatar is a tiny nation, with land holdings slightly bigger than Rhode Island and a population the size of Connecticut’s—most of whom are migrant workers and/or modern-day slaves. Yet Qatar has spent nearly $100 billion, according to The Free Press, to spread its largesse around the United States, from politicians to universities, from businesses to newsrooms. Recipients include Steve Witkoff, the special envoy negotiating over Iran and Ukraine, who received a $623 million payout for his failing Park Lane Hotel deal; Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was a registered foreign agent for Qatar at the cost of $115,000 per month; a public affairs firm that employed now-Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles; FBI Director Kash Patel, who once worked as a consultant; and the Trump Organization, which just recently signed a deal for a multibillion-dollar luxury golf resort. In two weeks, the Qatar Economic Forum is hosting an event starring Donald Trump Jr. and Omeed Malik. Malik is the head of 1789 Capital, a venture capital fund most famous for funding Tucker Carlson; Don Jr. is executive vice president for development. Malik was also recently appointed to join the board of Fannie Mae. 1789 has reportedly been raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in investment capital, although their investment track record at this point is pretty thin. So, what are Malik and Don Jr. doing in Qatar? They’re hosting a lecture titled, “Monetizing MAGA: Investing in Donald Trump’s America.” Qatar infamously gave $1 million to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. Qatar has dropped $6.3 billion on American colleges and universities, the most of any country; it has dropped $225 million on lobbying in Washington, D.C., since 2017. So why is Qatar firehosing all of this cash across America? Because Qatar has an agenda: to play both sides of the table. Qatar happens to be one of the world’s leading sponsors of terrorism: They’ve sent almost $2 billion to Hamas; they’ve allegedly sponsored al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in 2017, “I don’t know instances in which Qatar aggressively goes after (terror finance) networks of Hamas, Taliban, Al-Qaeda.” In 2017, Trump himself correctly stated, “The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.” Trump acknowledged this week that Qatar essentially acts as a mouthpiece for the Islamic Republic of Iran. All of which is why the United States ought not be taking Trojan Horse jets from them—and why the United States ought to be treating Qatar with extreme skepticism at best. Qatar is not giving gifts because Qatar is a kind and generous Middle Eastern Santa Claus. They’re doing it because they expect something in return. And what they expect won’t be good for either the United States or any of our real allies. Beware Qataris bearing jets. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Qatari Jets and Golden Threads appeared first on The Daily Signal.

“We got so screwed by Biden, as a party,” former Barack Obama adviser David Plouffe is quoted saying in a New Yorker excerpt from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.” The supposition of the piece, headlined “How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump,” is that Democrats only failed to hold the White House because of Biden’s prideful obstinacy. Scapegoating Biden for all the Left’s considerable political problems is an ugly hypocrisy. It is also self-delusional. There is a reason the Democratic Party’s polling is at historic lows right now, and it’s not just Biden’s memory problems. Let’s recall that every congressional Democrat decided to shoehorn the Inflation Reduction Act into law even after most economists warned it would plunge the nation into price spikes. Biden wasn’t the only one leaning into the hysterics of “semi-fascism.” If anything, Biden had merely adopted the social science quackery on gender that so many Democrats champion. Did any elected Democrat speak out about the anarchy of illegal immigration? If so, I must have missed it. Yet, according to a preelection Pew poll, 78% of people believed the border was a crisis or major problem. One of the big criticisms of Biden is that he failed to make room for another candidate earlier. Almost surely, Kamala Harris would have been the nominee regardless of when Biden dropped out. Does anyone really believe a hyper-ambitious politician ensconced in the White House was going to step aside or let some middling governor wrest the nomination from her? The only Democrat who consistently outperformed Harris in most polls after Biden’s debate debacle was Michelle Obama. It was going to be Harris. What makes anyone think that Harris would have experienced more success had she enjoyed more time? After an initial jolt up, the vice president’s popularity steadily declined. Harris needed less time, not more. The more the public heard from her, the more they disliked her. Harris, like any other possible Democrat candidate, was compelled to run on the president’s record. And that record, championed by virtually every Democrat, was unpopular long before the media were compelled to acknowledge the president’s declining mental state. The Democratic Party had blown it. Polls found that only 36% approved of Biden’s handling of the economy, 28% approved of his handling of immigration, 33% approved of his handling of foreign policy, and 30% approved of his handling of the Middle East. Now, even with those numbers, elections are a contest between two visions. A CBS News poll found that 65% of Americans remember the economy under Trump fondly, while only 38% said the same about Biden. Does anyone really believe that Govs. Wes Moore, Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, Andy Beshear or JB Pritzker possess the kind of charismatic personality or compelling message to overcome that record? It’s exceptionally unlikely. Plouffe might have been one of the few Democrats who publicly questioned the wisdom of running a man whose mental acuity had slipped for years. Until the day of the first 2024 presidential debates, however, virtually the entirety of the party and media had been shielding Biden. If the president had refused to debate Trump, the Left would have almost surely kept on concealing Biden’s condition. It had no choice but to turn on the president once he had been exposed. We learn in The New Yorker that Biden didn’t recognize George Clooney at the infamous Hollywood fundraiser where Barack Obama had to lead the president off stage by hand. Recall that even at this point, the big media were still gaslighting the public about the president’s deteriorating acuity. Three days later, Tapper’s colleague wrote in CNN’s media newsletter that the claim had been a “fabrication.” Two days before the debate, then-Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had told reporters the president was sharper than he’d been in years. “He’s fine. All this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong,” he said. In the New Yorker piece, we learn that Schumer would speak to Biden on the phone regularly, “and, after some chit chat,” the president would “admit that he’d forgotten why he’d called. Sometimes he rambled. Sometimes he forgot names. Schumer wasnt concerned about Biden’s acuity, but he was worried about the optics.” The president is the most powerful man in the world, and the Senate leader was worried about optics. So, indeed, was the rest of his party. Which is merely to say that Democrats screwed themselves. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Scapegoating Joe Biden Isn’t Going to Solve the Democratic Party’s Problems appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In an effort to stop the “bloodbath” in the war between Russia and Ukraine, President Donald Trump will have separate phone calls with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday.   Trump will first speak with the Russian leader and the “subjects of the call will be, stopping the ‘bloodbath’ that is killing, on average, more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, and trade,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday morning.   “I will then be speaking to President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and then, with President Zelenskyy, various members of NATO,” Trump wrote. “Hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place, and this very violent war, a war that should have never happened, will end. God bless us all!!!”   ?President Trump will have separate phone calls with Putin and Zelenskyy on Monday. pic.twitter.com/V8eiBtegp4— Virginia Allen (@Virginia_Allen5) May 17, 2025 Russia invaded Ukraine over three years ago, a move Trump says would not have happened had he been president at the time. Trump has made ending the war between the two countries a key priority of his administration.   Since returning to the White House in January, Trump and Putin have spoken by phone but have not met in person. Trump has met twice with Zelenskyy, first in a contentious meeting at the White House in February. The two leaders met alone at the Vatican on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral in April.  The announcement of the Monday phone calls comes one day after delegations from Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul for the first direct talks between the two nations since March 2022.    Putin proposed the direct peace talks but chose not to attend the meeting in Istanbul. Trump encouraged Zelenskyy to meet with Putin after the Russian leader suggested the talks and Zelenskyy flew to Turkey, but ultimately did not attend the meeting.    Secretary of State Marco Rubio was present for the talks on Friday, but acknowledged beforehand that he did not expect a breakthrough without key leaders in the room.    Following the less than two-hour meeting in Istanbul, Ukrainian official familiar with the talks told Reuters that Russia is demanding Ukraine pull all its troops out of the regions Russia has claimed before a ceasefire is agreed upon.   While no clear results toward peace were reached during Friday’s meeting, the two nations did agree to a large prisoner swap of 1,000 prisoners of war on each side.   Vladimir Medinsky, a top Kremlin aide who led the Russian delegation, said each delegation did agree for both sides to present a ceasefire plan in detail and that talks will continue.     “Ukraine is ready to take all realistic steps to end this war,” Zelenskyy wrote on X Friday.   “President Trump wants to end this war,” Zelenskyy continued in a series of posts on X. “We need to keep working closely with him and stay as coordinated as possible. Long-term U.S. support is also essential. An American backstop is needed. It’s important that we all work together, on every level, to make that happen.”   The post Trump to Have Phone Calls with Putin and Zelenskyy Aimed at Ending ‘Bloodbath’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A new conservative political party is rising in Britain, and it echoes President Donald Trump’s success in the United States, according to a veteran political observer who has lived in both countries. “I know the [United Kingdom] and Europe seem lost and adrift, but there are great movements happening at the local level in the grassroots to change the direction,” Sarah Elliott, director of the Special Relationship Unit at the Prosperity Institute, told The Daily Signal. “Don’t give up on your allies overseas.” The Prosperity Institute advances prosperity in the United Kingdom by championing national sovereignty, free markets, the rule of law, family values, and cheap and abundant energy. Elliott, whose official title is Lady Elliott of Mickle Fell because her husband serves in the House of Lords, has worked in politics on both sides of the Atlantic. Speaking with The Daily Signal, she addressed Trump’s budding trade deal with Britain, the economic damage of “net zero” climate alarmist policies, and her hope for the future of British politics. She highlighted Reform UK, the political party led by Nigel Farage, which made big gains in the English elections earlier this month. Reform won 677 of around 1,600 contested seats, taking eight local councils from the Conservative Party. Elliott praised Reform as “the youngest political party in the U.K.” with “more members now than the oldest political party in the U.K., the Conservatives.” Reform is “becoming the populist party, the ‘Britain First,’ ‘Make Britain Great Again’ party,” and it attracts voters from both the Labour and Conservative parties, she said. While Reform focuses on immigration, it also opposes the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement and climate policies. “They’re coming out very strongly now against net zero,” Elliot noted. She faulted the Conservative Party for failing to stand on conservative values, particularly on climate issues. “They’re just very left of center,” Elliott said of the Conservatives. “They weren’t conservative and so they were not an alternative to Labour,” the leftist party. “We see energy prices over there that are five times higher than the United States,” she said, referring to Britain. (The International Energy Agency released data last year showing Britain having the highest energy prices in the world, roughly five times the U.S. price.) Elliott attributed the higher prices to climate alarmist crackdowns. “We’ve shut all of our coal power plants,” she said. “We stopped drilling for our natural fossil fuels in the North Sea. We don’t frack anymore. The environmental lobby has been incredibly persuasive to the public, but it’s become a groupthink in the U.K. and monolithic thinking that all political parties until recently embraced, including the Conservative Party.” She attributed the Conservative Party’s loss in the general election last July partly to climate policies. Conservative voters split between Reform and the Conservatives, leading to a Labour victory. The Conservative government made commitments to cut carbon emissions to zero by 2050, which “has turned upside down our energy sources and made energy incredibly expensive.” “It’s starting to really impact not just individual families, but businesses, and British companies are now relocating to where there is cheaper energy,” Elliott added. “It’s not just at the stage of not investing in the U.K., they’re now actually moving their facilities and their factories to the U.S., and to avoid tariffs.” Elliott celebrated the progress toward a trade deal between Britain and the United States in the wake of Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. She noted that Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the partial deal on May 8, the anniversary of the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany in Europe, and that Britain was the first country to get a partial deal after the tariffs. “The main target of these ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs and the main relationship that needs to be rebalanced is that with China, and the U.K. and the U.S. stood shoulder to shoulder,” Elliott said. “China is not emulating net zero,” she noted. “They don’t care about the environment.” “Why should our economies suffer while others are just running wild?” she asked. While Britain’s Reform Party seems to be taking cues from Trump, Elliott said Britain is leading the U.S. on one issue—opposing gender ideology. “On the whole transgender debate, the U.K. has actually been ahead of the curve on this, pushing back against ‘gender-affirming care,’ and it’s come from the Left,” she noted. “Left-wing feminists and lesbians” sounded the alarm about men in women’s spaces, and the U.K. has curtailed transgender medical experiments on children following British physician Dr. Hilary Cass’ exhaustive report last year. More than anything else, Elliott highlighted the need for Britain and the U.S. to work together to foster economic growth and to counter China. “The U.K. and Europe sometimes need to be guided,” she noted. “They need to be reminded that they want to rely more on the U.S. than on China.” The post Global Anti-Woke Movement: MAGA-Style Populist Party Rises in a Britain Ravaged by Climate Alarmist Policies appeared first on The Daily Signal.