“Four Years Ago,” Trump Was “my last choice”…”Now, I will walk across a vast plain of burning coals to cast my vote”

Scott Johnson – Four years ago, I wrote a piece about what to do if you hated both candidates. Trump was, at the time, my last choice among Republicans, and most Republicans I knew felt the same. Some felt strongly enough to go Democrat.

“I could never vote for Trump,” they all said.

At the time, I wrote this:

I hear this a lot. I’m not talking about Democrats, but Republicans, particularly of the educated, northeastern, country club variety. The sort that like Kasich. For this genus, voting for Trump is déclassé, a lowbrow act. And they would rather see Hillary Clinton be President than have their sophistication questioned at the next cocktail party. Continue reading

The Democrats’ Long Temper Tantrum Will Reelect Trump

Trump Derangement SyndromeClarice Feldman – It’s quite obvious to me that the Deep State and the Democratic Party that staffs it never got over the fact that their nefarious misuse of our intelligence agencies and hoodwinking the media didn’t work any better than their constant efforts after his election to remove Donald Trump from office and continue their autocratic grifting. This week was no exception. Indeed, I have to agree with Roger L. Simon that “In the aftermath of Trump’s contracting Covid-19, they are reelecting him.”

The Debate

Any sentient viewer of this week’s debate had to be disgusted. The moderator, the questions, the format all combined to make this an upscale version of an old-time “Saturday Night Live” debate. I have believed for a long time that there should be a timekeeper and no moderator. That the debate should be on one national policy question with each candidate given 20 minutes to make his case and the remaining time left for rebuttal. Continue reading

Trump Derangement Syndrome: A Misdiagnosis

Trump Derangement SyndromeCherie Zaslawsky – Listen to Fox News, and you’ll hear phrases such as “Trump derangement syndrome” and “liberal heads are exploding” on a daily basis.

Conservative newscasts are peppered with comments like these: “They’re delusional!”  “The Democrats just can’t seem to accept that they lost the 2016 election.”  “They’ve gone crazy!”

Crazy like a fox.

Considering that the Left, since it discredited Joe McCarthy and cleverly put to bed the notion that there were communists in our government, has essentially taken over the media, the universities, Hollywood, our public schools, the tech behemoths, and social media, we’d be foolish to underestimate these guys. Continue reading

Trump the Roadrunner vs Wiley E. Coyote Democrats

Donald J TrumpWayne Allyn Root – The Trump-Democrat Roadrunner vs Wiley E. Coyote dance continues. Poor Democrats are Wiley E. Coyote. They never win. Roadrunner is always right within their grasp…and then he gets away again and their hopes are dashed.

Don’t look now, but Trump the Roadrunner just got away. Again.

I’m talking about Robert Mueller’s preposterous final retirement statement. For all intents and purposes, Mueller announced Trump may be guilty, even though he had no way to prove it. He basically dared Democrats to ignore the lack of evidence and impeach Trump. Continue reading

The Madness of Crowds and What Lies Ahead

Trump Derangement SyndromeJim Daws – In his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Scottish journalist Charles Mackay chronicled the history of the phenomena we now see gripping the Resistance movement to the Trump presidency.  Writing on national delusions, moral panics, economic bubbles, and herd behavior, Mackay observed, “We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”

Mackay documents the manias that made traders turn tulips into the most expensive objects on earth in the mid-1600s, caused Christian communities in the American colonies to torture and execute “witches,” and caused European nobles to sponsor alchemists to turn base metals into gold (and imprison them until they succeeded).  Of these and many other episodes of mass hysteria, Mackay wrote, “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” Continue reading