In a stunning display of political desperation, Maine Governor Janet Mills – a longtime Trump adversary – has brazenly stolen President Trump's own filibuster playbook as she launches what appears to be a doomed Senate campaign.
Mills, who spent years attacking Trump's conservative agenda, is now championing filibuster reform that mirrors the exact talking filibuster proposal that President Trump and Senate Republicans have been pushing. The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Remember when Democrats screamed bloody murder about Trump wanting to reform the filibuster? Remember when they called it an "attack on democracy" and a "threat to our institutions"? Well, apparently those principles go right out the window when a Democrat needs a campaign platform.
The Left's Shameless Hypocrisy Exposed
This is the same Janet Mills who rubber-stamped every destructive Biden policy that came down the pike. Now she's desperately trying to rebrand herself by adopting Trump's successful reform agenda – the very agenda she opposed tooth and nail.
Patriots, this is exactly what we've come to expect from the radical left. When Trump proposes something, it's "dangerous" and "authoritarian." When they need votes, suddenly those same ideas become brilliant policy prescriptions.
"It's almost laughable watching these Democrats scramble to copy Trump's playbook after spending years calling him a threat to democracy," said one GOP strategist familiar with Senate races.
Mills thinks Maine voters are stupid enough to fall for this transparent political theater. She's betting they'll forget her years of resistance to common-sense reforms and her lockstep support for the disastrous Biden agenda that Trump has been systematically dismantling.
Too Little, Too Late
With Trump's popularity surging and his second-term agenda delivering real results for working Americans, desperate Democrats like Mills are left copying his homework and hoping nobody notices their blatant flip-flopping.
The question isn't whether Mills will adopt more Trump policies – it's whether Maine voters are smart enough to choose the original over this obvious knockoff come election time.