When a political Party stands for something, has ideas, policies, and scruples, it tells the public what it stands for, and trusts the voters to do the right thing.  When a political Party has no ideas, no policies, and no scruples, it must resort to sleight of hand.  Like any self respecting magician, it relies upon misdirection.  While it’s doing one thing with its right hand, it’s distracting the public with its left hand.  They’ll tell you anything you want to hear, except for the truth.

The best laid plans of the Democrat Party clearly went awry.  After Donald Trump upset their plan to have Hillary Clinton continue the fundamental transformation of America begun by Il Duce Obama, they lost their minds.  They gave up all pretense of defining policies.  They ignored their own history, and thereby abandoned everything they had stood for for decades.  They sacrificed standards, the rule of law, scruples, and any semblance of common decency.  Simply put, they went nuts, and embarked on a singular crusade.  The destruction of Donald Trump, at all costs.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real disorder.  Recently, a New York psychiatrist confirmed that many of his patients are obsessed with an unnatural hatred of Trump that is destroying their hopes for a happy existence.  Since liberals believe they’re always right, it wasn’t hard for them to convince themselves that Trump’s 2016 victory must have been illegal somehow.  They acted accordingly.

They weaponized the government to sabotage Trump, before and after the 2016 election.  They hounded and imprisoned Trump employees and supporters.  They concocted a phony Special Prosecutor investigation.  They impeached him.  They sued him.  They indicted him, and tried to bankrupt and imprison him for life.  They even tried to kill him.  They were sure they had slain the Orange dragon.  They miscalculated.

But that was impossible.  Since they were always right, they couldn’t be at fault.  Who to blame?  Donald Trump, of course.  They just hadn’t worked hard enough against him.  They had to redouble their efforts.  Resistance was their mantra.  Whatever Trump was for, they had to be against it.

Now, political opposition is to be expected.  But opposition against every policy or idea, regardless of its wisdom, or of reality itself, is not the exercise of politics.  It’s suicide.  Trump didn’t fail to notice this calamitous mistake.  He supported so-called 80-20 issues, seizing the popular, common sense positions, and leaving the extreme 20% positions to the Democrats.  He’s for lower taxes?  Dems want them higher.  He wants to enforce the law?  They’re against it.  He’s improving public safety?  Democrats even oppose that.  It worked.

The grand plan of the Democrats backfired.  The Democrat lawfare  campaign against Trump failed.  And instead of being destroyed, Trump reemerged, stronger than ever, and the Democrats weaker.  Their total war against Trump permitted their fringe elements to take over the Party.  The inmates now are running the asylum.

Democrats tried to stop Trump in 2024, but they were unprepared.  They had abandoned all popular positions in pursuit of Trump, and were handicapped by their chosen leaders – Sleepy Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris.  A hopeless senile dolt, and the exclusive North American distributor of word salad.

To the horror of Democrats, Trump won, but they had rendered themselves powerless to oppose him on reasonable, political terms.  They thereupon resorted to the violence we’ve seen in Portland, Chicago, and Charlotte.  And they resorted to their only non-violent alternative – misdirection.

They had to distract the public from realities which they could not refute.  Lower inflation.  Lower taxes.  Trade agreements that greatly benefited the U.S.  Trillions of dollars of foreign investment in the U.S.  Iranian nuclear sites bombed to oblivion.  Safer streets.  Mideast peace.  With no plausible answer, they chose misdirection.

A 7 week useless government shutdown that only further weakened Democrat fortunes.

Nonsensical railing against Trump’s White House renovations, which is nothing less than stupid.  Since first being built, the White House has changed constantly.  George Washington chose its site.  John Adams first resided there.  After the British burned it in 1814, it was rebuilt, at government expense.  It continued to change.

The South Portico was added in 1817; the North Portico in 1829; in 1902, the West Wing; in 1909, the Oval Office; in 1913, the East Wing.
In 1948, after Harry Truman’s bathtub nearly fell through a rotting floor, the White House was totally reconstructed.  In 1970, Nixon closed the swimming pool to create the press briefing room.  Taxpayers paid for all these renovations.

But then came Trump.  He installed two large flag poles at his own expense.  Democrats complained.  He renovated the Oval Office and the Rose Garden, using privately raised funds.  Democrats denounced him.  Then he began a $250 million project to construct a ballroom in place of the East Wing, using privately raised funds.  Democrats went berserk.  Why?  When Il Duce Obama changed the tennis court into a basketball court, no Democrat dared object.  But this was Trump, the devil himself.

They had to resist, but resist what?  No one from any Party denied the need for a ballroom in which to conduct State dinners.  Trump had offered to build and pay for the room under Obama, when the cost was $100 million.  Obama refused.  The price went up, and yet the job is being done at no cost to the taxpayer.  No matter.  They must resist.  They have nothing else to offer.

The ballroom distraction didn’t get much traction.  Democrats followed that with the No Kings protests.  Since we never had a King, that didn’t work.  Democrats then  moved on to their crowning misdirection.  Jeffrey Epstein.  The files, the files, crow Democrats.  Release the files now.  Trump didn’t immediately comply, so he must be guilty.  Guilty of what?  It doesn’t matter, just guilty.

Here are the facts.  Jeffrey Epstein was a pervert, who somehow amassed hundreds of millions of dollars, and who courted, and was courted by the rich and powerful, nearly all of whom were Democrats.  Epstein trafficked in and abused underage females.  He owned an island in the Virgin Islands, and flew the rich and powerful to and fro on his private jet.

Donald Trump was on the jet – once.  He flew from Florida to New York with his wife and daughter also onboard.  Shocking, huh?  Trump definitely had contact with Epstein, until about 2003, when he discovered Epstein’s misconduct, banned him from Mar a Lago, never spoke to him again, and later, as President, prosecuted him.

The Democrats are aware of all of this, but they have nothing else to offer, so Epstein it is.  Release the files!  Release the files!  These are the same files that the Biden Administration had full access to for four years, during which time Biden was exhorting AG Garland to prosecute Trump.  They had to make things up to try to get Trump, without success.   Does anyone truly believe that if the dreaded Epstein files had anything remotely damaging to Trump, that they wouldn’t have used it by now?

Democrats got their wish.  The files will be released, but watch out what you wish for.  The list of Epstein frequent fliers includes Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Obama Cabinet member Larry Summers, late New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Bill Gates, and a cast of many other prominent Democrats.

Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are the only people who are known to have committed crimes.  Epstein is dead, and Maxwell is serving 20 years.  Everyone else whose names may come to light are just collateral damage.  What do Democrats call such people, oh yes – leverage.  It won’t work, but pay no attention to the Democrats behind the curtain. Look, look over there!