Democrats’ efforts can’t defeat Trump

The media jeered when Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president in 2015, covering his campaign as though they were children chasing the village idiot. When Trump won in 2016, the media were chastened and befuddled—how could a clown and an outsider defeat the imperious Hillary Clinton? From that time on, the media and the entire Washington establishment vowed vengeance.

They stymied Trump with legislative inaction and judicial roadblocks and international hoaxes which led to two impeachments. They carpet-bombed his administration with lies and innuendo. Trump’s roaring economy was cut short by COVID-19 and the calamitous lockdown, so designed to rob Trump of his political success and eventually of his re-election.

With Joe Biden at the helm, America beat a hasty, humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, wars broke out in Europe and the Middle East, inflation rose, the federal debt skyrocketed and 10 million migrants swarmed the southern border. The nation saw increases in crime and homelessness and Fentanyl deaths; wokeness became de rigueur and conservatism was deemed terrorism.

Into this picture strode Trump once again, inducing the left to hysterical reaction. They mocked him, called him “Hitler,” and a “threat to democracy.” They sued him in multiple jurisdictions with petty, absurd and groundless charges. They threw the book at him and the book boomeranged back. When they tried to bankrupt Trump, his stock rose; when they took his mug shot, his fame and virtue grew. Convicted, Trump attained canonization. They raided his home, jailed his confidantes, ostracized his supporters and censored his speech.

Despite all this, Trump outdueled the hapless Biden so thoroughly at their debate that Democratic leaders were compelled to yank Old Joe from the nomination.

Now Trump faces Kamala Harris, whose party champions democracy. But two failed assassination attempts at Trump wouldn’t necessarily hurt its cause.

Patricia Gbur

Wood Dale