In 2024, Donald Trump was elected president by 77 million Americans, two million more than voted for Kamala Harris. Republicans also won a majority in the U.S. House and Senate, giving the GOP a federal trifecta and a governing mandate. Democrats had a similar governing mandate during the first two years of both the Obama and Biden administrations.
Now relegated to minority party status, progressive Democrats are powerless to deliver their socialist paradise on Earth. So, they’re frustrated, angry, stricken with Trump Derangement Syndrome, and have gone stark raving mad. Lacking a realistic or rational public policy agenda of their own, Democrats have descended into a simplistic “We Hate Trump” resistance-movement flooding the courts with anti-Trump lawsuits, grid-locking government, and attempting to block any and every Republican initiative in Congress.
A case in point is the Democrats’ relentless war on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an essential instrument of Trump’s plan to find, arrest and deport illegal immigrants (especially criminals) who were ushered into our country under the Biden administration’s open-border policies. Having paved the way for those immigrants to illegally enter the U.S. and remain here, Democrats value them as a key political constituency and hope to harvest their votes forever when they become citizens.
Radical mobs around the country in Democrat controlled states and cities have provoked and obstructed ICE officers from doing their duty while Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, hatched a plot to shut down the entire Department of Homeland Security, of which ICE is an agency. Schumer, of course, was well aware that ICE had already been separately funded by Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), signed into law by the president on July 4, 2025. So, the Democrat Senate filibuster shutting down DHS on February 14th was just a ploy and a bargaining chip to hold DHS hostage to Democrat demands to handcuff ICE. Another consequence of this piece of Democrat extortion was cutting off the paychecks of TSA workers (another DHS agency) at airports across the country, causing many of those workers to stay home.
DHS is a collection of numerous agencies including ICE, TSA, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Protective Service, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security, and others that were combined under the DHS umbrella after the 9/11 attack on America to coordinate their missions more effectively. Stubbornly turning the screws ever tighter, just before the Easter recess Democrats demanded that Republicans accept a phony “compromise” that still hobbled ICE and also undermined the Border Patrol, knowing this bill would never be approved by House Republicans. Under pressure from Trump to make a deal, Senate Republicans took the bait and passed that bill, which was promptly rejected by House Republicans, to the delight of the conniving Chuck Schumer, who predictably blamed Republicans for the impasse. Trump later intervened with an emergency workaround instructing DHS to pay TSA workers retroactively with leftover funds from the OBBB.
It’s despicable that Democrats would stoop to these tactics causing millions of airport passengers to languish in lines for hours, disrupting air travel throughout the country, and shutting down DHS when our nation is especially vulnerable to Islamist terrorist attacks. Some have already occurred here in the midst of the war with Iran.
For now, Democrats are powerless to advance their agenda or “demand” much of anything from the elected Republican majority. How ironic it is that radical progressive Democrats claim Trump and Republicans are “a threat to democracy,” when this is precisely how democracy works when electoral shoes are on the other feet.
Rampant TDS symptoms are glaringly on display in Democrat behavior like the incoherent series of national “No Kings” anti-Trump demonstrations, with three so far. Masses have turned out costumed as everything from chickens to bunnies to outer-space aliens. Elderly women hippies from the 1960s abound joyously dancing and singing silly lyrics amidst a sea of signs praising Antifa, foreign terrorists, democratic socialism, communism, and the universe of woke progressive identity-politics LGBTQ tribes.
Others expressed hatred of Trump, America, Isreal, capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. If this is a serious political protest, the mixture of rage and partying seems schizophrenic. It’s more like a group psychotherapy session reminiscent of the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Longtime KOA radio talk host and columnist for the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News Mike Rosen now writes for Complete Colorado.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Tucker Carlson
And many more former maga realize they had TDS and so will you.
Thank you, Mike Rosen, for exploring the truth in our nation and thank you, Dave Perry for printing it. It must pain you to publish the thoughts of Mike. I wish I knew what power makes you do it. Left to only your own thoughts, I know you would never publish anything that Mike and Jon Caldera would print.
With this, my respect for the Aurora Sentinel has taken a slight uptick. Unlike the intolerant left, who insist on shouting down and cancelling opposing viewpoints, I strongly support opinions from both sides and allowing Aurora citizens to make up their own minds. Aurorans deserve this and a community paper should freely endorse this freedom. It is what true journalists used to do before the far left took control. If this trend continues, we can again take pride in our community newspaper.
Rosen deserves to be in jail more than the people he wants deported for literally trying to steal the democracy he claims to care about with illegal votes.
Any organization should be ashamed to pay a separatist terrorist like him a salary.
This delusional opinion completely misses the point. Democrats understand what happened in November of 2924. We get that we lost total control and we were sick about it, just like the GOP gets when the shoe’s on the other foot. And just like the GOP, we have a right, called democracy, to resist the GOP trying to steal billions from the poor to give it to billionaires. What we are reacting to is the drastic assumption of illegal executive power being seized by this president, while Congressional Repubicans, Senate Republicans, and the Supreme Court twiddle their thumbs. The overt cruelty and irrational cutbacks being dispensed daily through Trump’s cabinet picks ignores the cornerstones of a modern democracy and establishes basis of an autocracy. The DOJ is not, nor ever has been the president’s personal arsenal of lawyers, but that’s what it is now. Why do you think he no longer calls soldiers suckers and losers? Well today, they have decimated military leadership, while dispensing the brand of military bravado and cruelty that Trump enjoys. Now, it’s his personal army! The blatant racism and misogynistic messages emanating from a misunderstanding of what DEI programs were designed to do percolates through false outrage from people who, on one hand proclaim “color blindness,” and yet do not blink when Trump aims his exclusions at immigrants of color and accepts white South Africans with open arms based on a ridiculous conspiracy theory shared by Elon Musk! Yes, we are outraged that there does not exist a moral compass in the GOP camp to hold Trump accountable as existed when Nixon was president. It took a contigent of Repubican patriots, led by Barry Goldwater, to bring Nixon to his senses and resign. It took courage that does not exist in the GOP today! That, sir, is what bothers us! Trump derangement syndrome does not exist. Outrage at plainly obvious odious and illegal actions does!
Oh, Mikie, Mikie, Mikie. Still the knee-jerk Rightie, watching it all collapse because you are led by an ignorant madman.
When your party has stuck with a felonious, lying idiot whose trademark is failure what do you expect? Well, you know. So stop trying to weasel your way out of the chaos we see in real time as this fool throws his weight around and fails and fails.
There is literally no sane person who buys this. Too bad, so sad. But lying to yourself is a mug’s game.
Take just one guess what would have happened if Obama or Biden had demolished the east wing on a whim.
Or any of the numerous actions that Trump has undertaken.
I’m sure Mike would be fine just fine right?
No, he’d probably have to be hospitalized.
Trump won by two percentage points. I hear Republicans calling it a landslide, and I wonder if something horrible happened and then I look at the results again and I think I should buy Republicans a calculator and a dictionary.
But they’d never use them so I’ll save my money.
Spot on again Mike. Thanks!!!