Pictured is Steve Schmidt. Clicking that link to his name will take you to a Wikipedia profile that identifies Schmidt as "an American political and corporate strategist best known for working on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arizona Senator John McCain during McCain's 2008 presidential campaign."
Schmidt is currently writing a Substack blog, which he has entitled, "The Warning." Despite his Republican Party bonafides, he is not backing our current president. Quite the contrary. Schmidt has nothing good to say about Mr. Trump and the contemporary Republican Party. Still, as revealed in this blog posting on March 17, 2025, Schmidt has very little use for the Democratic Party and its current leadership, either:
I’d like to welcome the Senate Democrats to Substack.
Though their community is small, it is still a place where you can let your anger be known.
There is nothing wrong with being aghast at the marriage of idiocy, arrogance, appeasement and betrayal that has been packaged into self-serving justifications that maintain the best way to fight Trump is to give in to him.
Absurdism is the philosophy of the Senate Democrats.
"Maybe we can, maybe we can’t” were the idiotic words of Donald Trump aboard Air Force One today. He dropped kibble to his stenographers so that they could deliver his stupidities to the anesthetized American people, who have been put in a vice by his malice on one side and appeasement on the other.
He was speaking, of course, about his “peace deal” with Putin that the American people already oppose....
There are no words other than HELP! for the American people, who are threatened by Trump, and held hostage by the Schumercrats....
Trump knows that he has swallowed the Republican Party, intimidated the corporate media and crushed the feeble Washington, DC, Democrats.
Chuck Schumer surrendered any ability to stop Trump for at least six months. The reality is that Donald Trump will become exponentially more aggressive as this period of maximum power nears its first test in November of 2026.
What the NBC poll makes clear is that the political opposition to MAGA, DOGE and Trump will not be DC-based.
It will not be seen in advance by DC reporters and DC newsletters who serve lobbyists, Bitcoin hustlers, crypto scammers, tech bros and gals, opportunists and careerists.
A wave is already building. It is rising, and it will not be contained.
The American people have become hostage to exactly what George Washington warned us about.
I wish there was an American party.
I am not a big fan of political parties. Institutionally, both parties scramble for big money, from those who have it, and those who have that big money are not, emphatically, the American people in general. If people are disappointed with the Democrats (and that they are has become an article of faith among political observers of all persuasions) the people are certainly not deeply committed to the Republican Party, either.
Like Schmidt says, maybe we need an "American Party."
Again, I don't think our politics is best practiced through political "parties." My personal experience with politics was at the local level, and in California. In California, local elected officials (who may, indeed, be registered with a political party) are not officially recognized by their party affiliation. State Senators are. Members of the State Assembly are. So are our state constitutional officers, too - the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and all the rest. But local officials don't run for office on their "party." They run on a platform based on the specific policy proposals that they endorse.
What if we tried organizing our national politics around a "program," and around "policy proposals," instead of around "party"?
I actually think that could be done. Maybe, ultimately, we would end up with a new, "American Party," making Steve Schmidt's dream come true.
Maybe we would also elect people who were more concerned about "policy" than "party." That might be a pretty good thing!
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