The Democrats, Animated by Loathing of Trump, Are Driving Their Party to Self-Destruction
Conrad Black writes:
The party has no plausible opponents to Trump — and lack a policy except Trump-hate.
The
Democrats are now implacably self-destructive. They resemble nothing so much as
a slowly capsizing ship, but show by their frenzied skullduggery that America
is not in decline — the opposition is rotten and hopeless but it still fights
savagely. I hope readers will pardon a recitation of the party’s gradual
foundering. They pushed the nation into Vietnam, mismanaged the war, and
deserted their own president (Lyndon Johnson), and when President Nixon saved
their war, they crucified him on what can now be seen as the utterly absurd
Watergate nonsense.
President
Carter was earnest and altruistic, but he helped push out the Shah of Iran to
bring on the ayatollahs, a horrifying strategic blunder, and his weakness
induced the USSR into Afghanistan. President Reagan uplifted the country and
let America be America, and the Soviet Union and international communism
collapsed. The Bushes and Clintons coasted on Reagan’s coat-tails for as long
as they could.
In 2016 as
it became clear that Secretary Clinton’s campaign was running into difficulties
against President Trump, then a candidate, at whose nomination the Democrats
had rejoiced, they tested the guardrails of American constitutional democracy
by notoriously politicizing the intelligence agencies and the FBI. The National
Intelligence Director, James Clapper, declared that Mr. Trump was being handled
by President Putin as if the American were an intelligence “asset”
of Russia.
The FBI
director, James Comey, facilitated the transmission of a pastiche of lies and
defamations assembled by a former intelligence agent on behalf of the Clinton
campaign, as legitimate intelligence which because of its provenance did not
require substantiation by the press to be published. Mr. Comey answered an
inquiry, under oath, 245
times that he did not remember events he had participated in two years
before.
Mrs.
Clinton’s 33,000 destroyed emails on an improperly used server were naturally
found by Mr. Comey not to be an obstruction of justice, but there was
immediately launched the unmitigated fraud about Russian collusion in Mr.
Trump’s election, to the full knowledge of then President Obama and then Vice
President Biden. When this immense smear job finally collapsed, it was followed
by a spurious impeachment of Mr. Trump on the grounds that he asked President
Zelensky of Ukraine for the truth about the Biden family’s financial activities
in Ukraine. He did not attempt to direct the answer. We now know that it was a
legitimate question.
The
ludicrous impeachment proceedings had just failed as the early indications of
the Covid pandemic became known and the Democrats demanded the total shutdown
of the country with the evident purpose of promoting an economic depression
they could then blame on the president. He was denounced as a racist for
shutting off direct flights from Communist China and was denounced as being an
“anti-science” Neanderthal deliberately risking the lives of the entire
population, to the extent that he did not stop everything and isolate everyone.
As the
election year 2024 unfolded, the death of George Floyd at Minneapolis,
apparently mainly from drug-related causes but following his apprehension by a
policeman who put his knee on Floyd’s neck, was seized upon by radical
anarchists and anti-white organizations for so-called “peaceful protests”
around the country and throughout the summer of 2020 killing dozens of people
and causing billions of dollars of damage. The Democrats informally merged with
the radical left that was inciting the riots and successfully demanding
defunding of police in many cities. The national political press was thoroughly
complicit in blaming all of the violence on “Trump chaos.”
The
Democrats recognized that Senator Sanders could not win because of his extreme
leftist views, so the party elders promised Mr. Sanders his left-wing program
and substituted the innocuous old wheelhorse, Mr. Biden. Even after all
of this, it was necessary for the Democrats to distribute tens of millions of
unsolicited ballots according to inevitably partially obsolete voters lists,
raising concerns about the collection and casting of some millions of
unverifiable and harvested ballots.
There were
window-rattling ululations of joy at the invasion of the Capitol on January 6,
2021. We now know that the mayor of Washington,
Muriel Bowser, declined Trump’s offer of national guardsmen to bolster
security, and Mr. Trump contends that Speaker Pelosi turned
down a similar offer of national guard reinforcements for the Capitol.
Years of effort to wring evidence of Mr. Trump’s involvement have failed.
As Mr. Trump
refused to vanish like a dreadful meteor as had been predicted, and retained
the support of scores of millions of Americans, the Democrats resorted to the
final assault on the integrity of the system and deluged him with four
ludicrous political criminal indictments. The perfidy of the prosecutors
combined with the skepticism of the public; Mr. Trump was effectively acquitted
by 78 million of his fellow citizens in a close but decisive election, despite
a partisan stonewall in the national political media and a large Democratic
advantage in fundraising.
Mr. Trump
returned to office much more knowledgeable about Washington and how to adopt
his comprehensive program to end the massive illegal invasion by mainly
destitute and frequently criminal migrants, to strengthen the market economy,
roll back the green terror, and define America’s national interests in the
world and credibly provide for the defense of them.
The North
Atlantic Treaty Organization’s acceptance of sharp increases in defense
spending and the American and Israeli destruction of the military and
terrorism-supporting potential of Iran and moves to eliminate America’s trade
deficit of over $1 trillion are important accomplishments. Last week’s
rejection by the Supreme Court of the Democrats’ latest obstructionist wheeze
of judge-shopping to notoriously liberal federal district judges and inducing
them to purport to injunct federal policies, is another Trump victory.
The great
Democratic party of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and even up to a point
Clinton, has given way to an unfeasible ragtag of superannuated tyros,
influence peddlers, decayed servitors, and now completely unacceptable
extremists personified by the likely nominee to be mayor of New York City,
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, an economic Marxist who does not accept the right
of Israel to exist as a Jewish state and expresses sympathy for calls to
globalize the intifada.
The
Democrats have no plausible opponents to Mr. Trump, no policy except
Trump-hate, and have carried to its logical extreme the great liberal death
wish. Having failed by an unprecedented series of illegalities to defeat Mr.
Trump, they have practically destroyed themselves.
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