The Democrats have chosen form over substance. The president gets things done while his opponents opt for dramatic arts.

Two Democratic leaders have spoken longer than my verbose college roommate. Corey Booker spoke in the Senate for 25 hours. Hakeem Jeffries last week added nearly another 9 hours of Democratic talking, talking, talking. That Senator Spartacus and Congressman Magic Minute could talk for a day and a half is certainly impressive.Did their rhetorical tour-de-force performances actually accomplish anything? The answer is a solid no. Nothing changed on the ground—but that was never expected. They just wanted to go through the motions. Meanwhile, Donald Trump sent out a couple of messages regarding voting for his spending bill, and all but two Republicans in the House lined up. That’s the difference between performance and action.

And this is the trajectory of the Democratic Party. When Barack Obama became president and was awarded a Nobel Prize soon thereafter, people noted that he had a very thin resume. Community organizer, local politician in Illinois and 2 years in the Senate. At the time, he reminded me of our college custom of adding every organization we ever visited to our yearbook list of activities. Think about Ike and his leadership in the battle against Nazism. Every president up until Bill Clinton had served in the armed forces. Many of them had been in politics for ages, like LBJ who was the dean of the Senate. With Barack Obama, the Democrats moved from substance to performative politics. And the country has suffered accordingly.

AOC famously cried outside of cages used for holding illegal aliens. Did her tears accomplish anything beyond headlines and clicks? Much of what we did during Covid was performative: masks, six foot separations,........

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