Like many liberals, I spent the last few months, weeks and days hearing incessantly about how President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would be a disaster for Americans. Democrats vowed to fight, even though they don’t have enough votes in Congress.

Now, we know how the story ended. Democrats wouldn’t do anything, and so-called “fiscal conservatives” would ultimately cave to Trump. But at the end of it all, we were treated to a most meaningless and performative stunt — a speech that accomplished nothing.

As Democrats crow that Trump is unpopular and that his actions will be destructive to most Americans, they are missing the biggest warning sign of all — they are polling worse than Trump. Yeah, a lot of people don’t like Trump, but let’s be honest. There are more than a few that voted for him despite their misgivings because they didn’t like the alternative. And it's not that they don’t want things like health care, education, national security and overall safety. They do; they just don’t trust Democrats to get the job done.

And can you blame them? It seems that the Republican slur of Democratic elected officials suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" might be on to something. Democrats seem inclined to yell the sky is falling over every Trump action, but in doing so, they end up looking ineffectual and hypocritical.

Take immigration. It has and will be a major point for many Americans, liberal or conservative, to fix our immigration system. Trump is trying to fix it in his........

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