A new ‘Summer of Love’ in 2026?

 We should expect unhinged Democrat protests to pick up as the weather gets warmer, and the 2026 midterms get closer.

nce again, Democrats are offering nothing affirmative in service to the American people.  All they have is opposition to President Trump and Republicans.  They’ve taken the 20% side of every 80/20 issue.

They have, however, leveraged a myriad of “flashpoints” in service to their get-out-the-vote efforts.

The Hands Off protests claimed that Republicans are pillaging Medicare and Social Security — inflaming Boomers to hit the streets in response.

Gun control activists hit the streets in response to the school shooting at the Annunciation Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, once again taking the (false) moral high ground of caring for children and gun violence, in spite of the fact that, as more gun laws are instituted, more gun violence ensues.   

The FREE Gaza protests ran throughout the Summer and Fall of 2025, claiming that Israel was committing genocide in Palestine.  They were ironically quiet at the Iranian regime’s crackdown on peaceful protesters.

The 50501 protests were in response to DOGE efforts to cut federal waste, fraud, and abuse.  Elon Musk and his businesses were targeted personally, costing him billions of dollars.

The No Kings protests claimed that Donald Trump was trying to become a king and a totalitarian, while, ironically, Democrats now support returning actual totalitarian Nicolás Maduro to Venezuela.

Bernie Sanders and AOC hit several cities for the Fighting Oligarchs tour, blaming millionaires and billionaires for the plight of inequity in America.

The Democrat Government Shutdown lasted 43 days, with Democrats eventually passing the continuing resolution with the same provisions that were on the table when the C.R. was due on October 1.

Anti-ICE protests have garnered headlines, most recently with the defensive shooting of a paid political activist in Minnesota.  Democrat governors and mayors have refused cooperation with lawful federal authorities and have incited “street activists” to interfere with federal functions.

All these protests (riots) have one thing in common: stoking emotion.  Pick at the scabs of discontent, as Saul Alinsky advised.  They offer no opening for discussion of the issues that they rail on about.  They offer no affirmative alternative, other than we are angry, you should be angry, and your anger must be channeled into restoring us to power.

We should not discount the role of emotion in bringing voters out in November and in 2028.  Emotion drives action.  Democrats understand this, and we should, too.

Do not expect to see a slowdown of protests throughout the spring and summer.  In fact, as we get closer to November, do not be surprised if another anti-ICE activist is fatally involved in an altercation, or a mass school shooting, or a “black perp” shooting by a white officer.

Democrats can’t debate their ideas, because they have none.  What they do have though is a myriad of activist groups that can fabricate the circumstances for the mass mobilization of paid and unpaid protesters.

It will be a long, hot summer.

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