Lucas: Warren, Markey ‘Occupy’ losing platform for Massachusetts constituents

President Donald Trump last week knocked the state’s two Democrat U.S. senators to their knees.

They both cried foul. Trump shrugged. They took to the streets and attacked. Trump yawned.

When you are out, you are out.

And both U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, 75, and Eddie Markey, 78, are so far out when it comes to the Trump administration that they might be better off joining the Canadian Parliament.

Things are so bad for the pair of progressives, who can’t stop Trump in the Senate, they have taken to the streets to protest Trump cutting agencies and firing people over “waste, fraud and abuse” revelations.

The way they and other half-crazed Democrats, like Rep. Maxine Waters of California, are storming half-empty federal buildings protesting Trump policy, one would think they were a wing of Antifa or at least Occupy Wall Street.

Soon, like Antifa, they will be wearing black hoods and masks as they smash office lobby windows with bats and rocks.

Or they will be attacking the police and trashing public parks the way Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Boston used to do a decade and a half ago.

Who can forget Warren, out of Harvard, bragging about how she was a founder of the Occupy Movement.

“I created much of the foundation of what they do,” Warren said back then. “I support what they do.”

And like the Occupy Movement of the good old days, Warren brought much of its spirit back last week when she led a shouting, arm-waving demonstration outside of the closed offices of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an unaccountable agency, like USAID, that she helped create and that Trump just smashed.

The CFPB, which employed some 1,600 people, was designed to protect consumers from hidden fees and predatory lenders in the finance and banking industry.

Republicans claimed that the agency, created in 2010 under President Barack Obama and briefly headed by Warren, duplicated the work of other existing agencies and simply produced more onerous regulations on the banking and finance industry.

Trump’s White House called the agency “another woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy that leveraged its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by so-called ‘elites.’”

Either way, it is gone. But just as Warren, who has dined of the CFPB for years, campaigned for its creation, she is now campaigning against its destruction, giving a Winston Churchill-like World War II “we will fight in the streets” speech outside the closed agency building.

Eddie Markey, who has lived off his Green New Deal advocacy for years, has the same problem as Warren after Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE go after waste fraud and abuse in the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency.)

Markey, an expert in political performance art, led a group of some 20 people to the empty office building of the EPA demanding a meeting with Musk and new EPA Secretary Lee Zeldin, who was in California, to discuss cuts or delays in environmental programs.

The idea was not to have a meeting, which they could get by merely asking, but by showing up unannounced with a crowd to be denied access by security officials, which happened earlier to Maxine Waters at the empty USAID Building, Warren at CFPB and Markey at EPA.

Meanwhile, they all hassled poor security guards who were just doing their jobs.

Then Waters, Warren and Markey preened, shouted and screamed, before supporters and television cameras about being “denied” access which is what they wanted in the first place.

Their guile and hypocrisy know no bounds.

Trump has the support of most Americans. But rather than seek a compromise with him for the good of the country, the Democrats have chosen to resist him at every turn. The Democrats have no policy, only the politics of resistance.

As Democrat Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, now the anti-Trump party leader, put it: “We will fight on every front.”

And lose.

Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com

The tents go up at Occupy Boston in 2011. (Herald file photo)

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