For the better part of a decade, Democrats have acted like President Trump is a dictator, a threat to democracy, and literally Hitler. They've held several "No Kings" rallies, based on their belief that Donald Trump will never leave office.
That assertion is, of course, absurd. President Trump left office in 2021 after losing the election. No, he wasn't happy about his loss. But he left. And in 2029, he will leave office again for the final time. That is the beauty of our democratic republic, and why it works so beautifully.
But after ten years of this hysteria, Democrats are finally admitting that reality: President Trump will be leaving office soon.
Key Republicans are starting to prepare for the inevitable: the departure of Donald Trump from American politics.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) December 11, 2025
So should Democrats. pic.twitter.com/eHiAUvgS7z
But this is also a tacit admission that Democrats never believed the rhetoric they've been spouting for the past ten years. To hear this coming from Buttigieg and Jimmy Kimmel is incredible. There are a few Leftists who have done more to spread the anti-Trump propaganda and inflammatory rhetoric than those two.
On November 20, Kimmel said President Trump would be impeached over the Epstein files, saying, "Yesterday, both the House and the Senate voted to release the long withheld files related to a man who considered himself to be Trump's closest friend for more than a decade, the late sex criminal Jeffry Epstein. The vote in Congress went 427 to 1. It was such a landslide, Trump might actually be able to rebury the Epstein Files under it."
When Kimmel was suspended for his comments on Charlie Kirk, he blamed the "fascist" President Trump (and he wasn't alone in that).
Buttigieg has repeatedly attacked the Trump administration over its immigration policy, and he said Evangelical Trump voters are "hypocrites" and criticized Trump's strike on Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani.
The narrative was set: Trump is a dictator, a horrible person who will never leave office except by the threat of force. Of course, Democrats will treat every post-Trump Republican like they treated every Republican before him: as the same existential threat. Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump were always worse than the Republicans that came before them. I cannot wait for the first Democrat to say they miss Trump under the DeSantis or Vance administration. Because this is the same song and dance everytime an (R) gets elected to office.
Now that the end of the Trump administration is on the horizon, Democrats are simply shrugging and saying, "It's time to move on."
How do you simply "move on" from the person whom Democrats said was the biggest threat to our democracy? The only answer to this is: Democrats, including Kimmel and Buttigieg, never believed their rhetoric.
And that should make everyone, especially their voters, angry.