If you needed a snapshot of Trump Derangement Syndrome in its final, desperate stages, look no further than the “Rally for Our Republic” held Saturday at a trendy Atlanta concert venue — an event that was equal parts campaign launch, group therapy session, and progressive panic parade.
Senator Jon Ossoff, one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the country, took the stage flanked by fellow radical Senator Raphael Warnock, desperately trying to recapture the fleeting anti-Trump momentum that briefly elevated him in 2020. But this time, the energy wasn’t triumphant — it was nervous, chaotic, and riddled with contradictions.
“Do you all remember how it felt to fight and to win?” Ossoff asked the crowd, before immediately descending into despair. “Maybe right now you feel surrounded by darkness… But Atlanta, we don’t have the luxury of despair.”
Translation: Please don’t abandon us now that our policies have failed and the country’s slipping through our fingers again.
Ossoff spent much of his speech attacking Trump’s efforts — and Elon Musk’s — to shrink a bloated federal government that’s more obsessed with diversity seminars than doing its actual job. In a stunning moment of cognitive dissonance, he decried cuts to programs as “cruelty and chaos,” apparently unaware that reckless government overreach created the very economic anxiety he claims to be fighting.
“They are literally the elites they pretend to hate,” Ossoff said, seemingly unaware that he was standing in a $20 million concert hall funded by tech donors and left-wing PACs.
As for Trump? According to Ossoff, the former president is spending his time plotting the invasion of Greenland. Yes, really. “When is the last time you even heard Donald Trump talk about health care or child care?” he asked, before alleging — with zero evidence — that Trump’s main concern is annexing territory in the North Atlantic.
What we’re witnessing is not a serious campaign launch. It’s a coping mechanism. Because the left knows what’s coming: A reckoning. Polls show the Democratic Party is underwater with voters, and even progressives are openly panicking over a lack of coherent leadership. One attendee, Jim Cartmill of Woodstock, lamented, “I’m not hearing any coherent message out of the top.”
Well, at least he’s honest.
The crowd — made up of the usual suspects: urban activists, aging college professors, and the perpetually offended — shouted over speakers with slogans like “What’s the plan?” and “Do something!” At one point, even Senator Warnock had to joke that the audience had “more call and response than a Black Baptist church.”
But behind the laughs was real anxiety. These people are terrified. Terrified that Trump is back. Terrified that the Biden administration has been exposed as an incompetent mess. Terrified that everyday Americans are waking up to the hollow promises and authoritarian overreach of the progressive agenda.
One attendee, Jan Hogan of Atlanta, actually said aloud: “I feel like Trump is a Russian asset and doing Putin’s bidding.” Another declared: “I’m just going WTF is happening here?” (Yes, that’s a direct quote.) This is not normal political opposition — it’s emotional instability wrapped in a protest sign.
What Democrats once framed as a resistance has now turned into a support group. “We’re just spinning our wheels,” said Daryl Brinkley of Roswell, “and he’s getting away with everything he wants to do.”
To which most Americans would likely respond: Good.
The left sees every rollback of their agenda — every budget cut, every executive order undoing their power grabs — as a crisis. But for the rest of us, it looks like common sense finally making a comeback.
As we look toward 2026, Georgia will once again be at the center of the political universe. And while Ossoff and Warnock gather in concert halls to nurse their collective anxiety, the rest of the state — and the country — is preparing to take its voice back.
Because when Democrats scream “do something,” Americans are responding with something much louder:
We are. And we’re voting red.
