Donald Trump’s administration was undermined from the beginning.

Establishment Republicans were a huge reason why.

And former House Speaker Paul Ryan took a victory lap that had Democrat-controlled media outlets laughing at him.

Permanent Washington, D.C. does not want things to change.

Beltway elites like the current arrangement because it benefits them and their cronies.

That’s why former House Speaker Paul Ryan congratulated current House Speaker Mike Johnson for passing a gigantic spending package that sold out the Republican base.

Gave away the store

Johnson signed onto more funding for Ukraine, both sides of the war in Gaza, and Taiwan.

Nowhere in the bill was funding for the United States southern border.

But establishment Republicans like Ryan were giddy over the deal.

Ryan told Axios that Speaker Johnson “found his footing, and his voice. . .[H]e did it as a statesman, risking his own personal political fortune for the greater good that he believes in.”

However, Johnson flip-flopped on additional Ukraine funding and border security.

He did not find his footing; he got steamrolled.

Ryan can relate because during the Obama era, he got bombarded when he proposed entitlement reform, then quickly shut up about the issue.

Top Ryan staffer Brendan Buck wrote in The New York Times, “A party unable to bring its agenda to the floor for a vote is no longer a functional majority.”

The top priorities of establishment Republicans are passing bills and dodging bad headlines from Democrat-controlled media in order to stay in office.

They do not particularly care what their constituents want.

Meanwhile, left-leaning outlet Punchbowl News reported that Johnson gave Joe Biden “pretty much everything. . .without having to concede much in return.”

That has been the story of the Republican Party for decades; give the Democrats what they want without anything in return.

Who the establishment hates

Ryan and other establishment players save their ire for people like Tucker Carlson.

People have long wondered why Carlson was fired from Fox News despite having the top-rated show on the network; Fox News still has not stated a reason.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) gave a clue when he was asked why the Ukraine funding package took so long to pass.

McConnell said, “I think the demonization of Ukraine began by Tucker Carlson, who in my opinion ended up where he should’ve been all along, which is interviewing [Russian President] Vladimir Putin. . .He had an enormous audience, which convinced a lot of rank-and-file Republicans that maybe this was a mistake.”

And that’s why Carlson had to go.

Who is a member of the Fox News Board of Directors?

Paul Ryan.

Corporate-controlled media outlets are ruthless.

Megyn Kelly found that out the hard way at two different networks.

And one NBC personality that threw Kelly under the bus just got hit with some bad news.

Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly was never a good fit at NBC.

Because Kelly was center-right, she was always viewed with skepticism at NBC News.

Kelly ensured her demise at the network when she criticized former NBC News Chairman Andy Lack for his mishandling of sexual harassment claims in light of the #MeToo era.

Soon after, Kelly did an innocuous segment on people wearing blackface for Halloween back in the 1970s.

Nobody who appeared in the segment or watched the segment was offended.

But not long after, NBC personality Al Roker knifed Kelly in the back.

She was forced to issue a groveling apology before ultimately being fired.

What goes around. . .

Now Roker is being sued as the “woke” boomerang has whirred back toward him.

Roker’s production company was sued for allegedly ignoring DEI (diversity, equity, inclusivity) mandates.

The Hollywood Reporter wrote that a “lawsuit. . .alleges executives at Al Roker Entertainment ‘callously disregarded’ a diversity, equity and inclusion program, commonly called DEI, mandated by PBS, which covered the bulk of the production expenses for animated series Weather Hunters, by attempting to have Black writers touch up scripts written by white scribes to give the appearance of a diverse writers room.”

So, Roker allegedly wanted to bring in black writers for a token role to “touch up” the scripts instead of hiring black writers for the positions.

These are the types of games companies play when they’re forced to play “woke” DEI games.

Bill Schultz, the former executive producer who brought the suit, also claimed that he was targeted for termination for bringing up the DEI issue.

Fake gestures

The complaint alleged that “[i]nstead of giving the chances to BIPOC writers as had been the plan, the story editor, repeating a strategy previously advocated and backed by Al Roker Entertainment management in writing, wanted to have ‘non-BIPOC’ writers write the stories, and then bring on a ‘BIPOC’ writer and after the stories/episodes [were] shaped, they could be ‘hand[ed] off to BIPOC writers.’”

If true, that would mean that Roker is a virtue-signaling fraud.

In reality, shows should not have to play these quota games, but there are countless left-wing groups exerting pressure on Hollywood.

Democrat-controlled media outlets are steeped in Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The View on ABC might be the worst of all.

And Joy Behar of The View was called out for admitting something truly disturbing.

The political correctness movement of the early 1990s came back with a vengeance in the form of “wokeness” and cancel culture.

But people are finally getting sick of it.

Even one member of The View broke ranks in the middle of a Trump-deranged meltdown.

Controversial “like”

The segment centered around Kansas City Chiefs Tight End Travis Kelce, who’s currently dating pop star Taylor Swift, liking an Instagram post of former ESPN reporter Sage Steele posing with Donald Trump.

Steele was one of the last open conservatives to be purged from ESPN.

Kelce liking Steele’s Instagram picture sent off alarm bells throughout Democrat-controlled media outlets.

The women of The View surprisingly took the sensible position that the “like” had no deep significance.

That’s when Joy Behar confessed, “You know, I just found a picture on my photo thing. . .I was at the [White House] Correspondents’ Dinner, and I posed with Lara Trump and Eric Trump. . .I saw the picture and I thought, ‘I have to go into rehab now’. . .This was before [Donald Trump] became president. Obama was in charge.”

Also surprisingly, Sara Haines called out Behar’s freakout as being ridiculous.

Sara fed up

Haines said that “when I like people, whether it’s on a ‘like’ or my friends and family, that is not an endorsement of everything they’ve said, everything they’ve done. . .Typically, when you’re posing for a picture or you’re doing something, let’s let that go back to the good old days when that’s all it was. Because I hate this cancel by association. If you’ve had a picture in your 45-year-old life with someone that said this and that you’re an awful human being. That is not humanity. That’s not what we learned from our parents. It’s not what we learned from church. This is a crazy time we’re living in.”

The Left have turned everything so political that taking a picture with somebody has become a divisive act.

Nobody should have to apologize for a harmless photo from years ago.

But the only way for Democrats to win elections these days is to portray their political opponents as tantamount to fascists.