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The Collapse of the Old Guard: How Obama, Pelosi, and the Press Finally Lost Control
27 May 2025 ~~ By David Manney
For more than a decade, the Democratic Party operated like a palace, ruled not by consensus but by decree. Its monarchs were familiar: President Barack Obama with his golden tongue and cool detachment, Nancy Pelosi with her iron gavel, and a press corps that never met a Democrat it couldn’t describe as “historic.”
Together, they built something. Not a movement but an illusion.
Now, in the wake of President Joe Biden’s implosion and Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the spell has broken. What was once ironclad unity has dissolved into whispered recriminations, panicked donor calls, and a leadership vacuum the size of Pennsylvania Avenue. The old guard, who orchestrated Biden’s rise and propped up his administration long after the engine failed, is learning what all empires do: illusions cannot govern forever.
Obama’s Aura Fades
There was a time when Barack Obama could end primary campaigns with a sentence and turn congressional tides with a smirk. His approval alone anointed candidates, even as his own policy legacy, Obamacare, Iran, and record-setting deficits, faded into dysfunction.
But in 2024, the man who once promised that oceans would stop rising could not even convince Joe Biden to step aside.
Reports now confirm Obama privately urged Biden not to run again. But he lacked either the courage or the leverage to say it publicly. He blinked. He defaulted to the back-channel whispering and careful leaks. And that hesitation was costly.
Biden stayed. The campaign withered. The debate disaster happened. Trump’s victory followed. Obama’s influence didn’t just wane; it evaporated.
This was no accident. It was the culmination of a post-presidency spent giving Netflix notes and convention speeches rather than confronting his party’s descent into elite detachment and Silicon Valley groupthink. His legacy now includes handing the White House to President Donald Trump. Twice.
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A New Generation or Just New Faces?
With the old guard exposed and the Biden era finished, a new class of Democrats has tried to seize the reins. But instead of boldness or vision, they’ve offered little more than selfies and soundbites.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom fancies himself the heir apparent, but his California is bleeding population, businesses, and tax revenue. He lectures red states while managing one of the nation’s highest crime rates and most unlivable cities.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commands social media but not swing voters. Her faction trades in moral absolutism and economic fantasy but has yet to pass a meaningful piece of national legislation.
Even Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the relatively most palatable of the bunch, still carries baggage from her pandemic power grabs and inconsistent policies.
These are not reformers. They are climbers. The slogans have changed, but the playbook remains: scapegoat the right, reward coastal donors, and hope the media stays friendly.
~Snip~
A Reckoning, Long Overdue
The Democratic Party is not dying. But the version built by Obama, enforced by Pelosi, and protected by the media is collapsing. It survived on control, not consent. Illusion, not honesty. And when pressed by the weight of its own contradictions, it buckled.
This is not just the end of a Democrat presidency. It is the end of a pantomime, where elites pretended to lead, the press pretended to question, and voters pretended not to notice the decline.
Many have called that a defeatist attitude. No, it is called reality. This whole thing is far bigger than Trump. Far far bigger. Unfortunately Trump is insignificant in the true bigger picture of things. And lying to ourselves just cannot change that fact.
But America's citizens noticed. And America voted.
In 2025, the reckoning isn’t just political. It’s moral. It’s historical. It’s long overdue. And it is, at last, underway.
Commentary:
They have NOT lost control. They were never in control, they are just puppets and followers. Their puppet masters are now pulling the strings on the GOP. Same threat, new puppets. Nothing has changed.
The tentacles of politics are too entangled. The system is self serving and protected with endless redundancy and plausible deniability. I’m now pretty sure it cannot even be stopped. All we can hope to do is try to soften the blows as they come. Right now they are stalling as much as they can and at midterms they are going to be right back in high gear again.
One of Obama’s biggest accomplishments was seeding the whole system in every aspect with people to oppose any disruption of the Deep State/WEF/NWO. They made sure that these people would be almost impossible to get rid of and would be in place to sabotage any administration after Obama if they were opposition.
They had total control with Biden for four years and the results could still be our downfall.
Trump is trying to get rid of many of them but there are always more to take their place.
Just look at the judiciary. Finding someone conservative is like a needle in a haystack.
I’ve long postulated that Neo-Marxist Democrats were like the Soviet commies in the 1980’s. They were ruled by an old core group of Politburo people without genuine new blood. These people anointed Kamaltoe Harris first as Biden’s VP and then their presidential nominee. I enjoyed the chaos and hope it continues.
Presently the chaos (and exposure of the DSA Democrat's gaming of the Republic’s “system”) is a gift from GOD and an answer to prayer. How long this will last is anyone's guess.
