The Trump Derangement Syndrome default position of “whatever Trump’s for, we must be against it” has been extended to ridiculous proportions in recent days, as the latest expression of the mental disorder has Trump opponents defending foreign drug dealers who are transporting into the United States tons of illicit drugs, including enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child within our borders.

Our laws permit the State Department to designate entities as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), thereby exposing these organizations to a number of sanctions, including military action.  In order to be an FTO, the entity must be foreign, engaged in terrorist activities, as that term is defined in law, and be a threat to U.S. national security interests, such as our defense, foreign relations or economic interests.  “Terrorism” is broadly defined as any action which is designed to kill or seriously injure American citizens.

The law has been used over the years to designate groups worldwide as FTOs, including Middle East terrorist groups, as well as foreign narcotics distribution organizations based in Central and South America.  In January, President Trump designated the Mexican drug cartels, Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, and others as FTOs.

There followed a surge of U.S. military assets to the Caribbean, and a succession of attacks by the military, destroying boats being used to transport illegal drugs from Venezuela to the U.S.  At least a dozen of these watercraft have been blown up in recent months, and those onboard killed.  Democrats, and other Trump haters are unhappy.

Based on the definition of terrorism, there’s no doubt that organizations that transport tons of narcotics into the U.S. are FTOs.  More than a million Americans have died of drug overdoses since 1999.  Cocaine and heroin were bad enough.  Adding fentanyl to the equation raised the stakes dramatically.

More than 100,000 Americans die every year from fentanyl poisoning.  I say poisoning because these are not traditional overdoses.  Someone who abuses heroin or cocaine surely is at risk of death from overdose, but at least they know what they’re ingesting.  Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is added to cocaine, heroin, or other less dangerous substances.  The users don’t know they’re taking it, and a very small amount is lethal.  They are being poisoned.

The fentanyl is manufactured from precursor drugs made in China, transported to Mexico and Central and South America, there refined, and then transported to the U.S.  It is a plague that traditional law enforcement techniques have been unable to stem.  Law enforcement generally speaks of reducing supply by interdicting and seizing drugs, coupled with programs such as drug rehab  and education to reduce the demand for drugs.  Think of the Trump boat attacks as the final word in supply side interdiction.

To date, more than a dozen drug boats have been destroyed.  The attacks have slowed down of late, possibly because it’s getting harder to recruit drug boat crews, or maybe they’re just running out of boats.  From the start, the Trump haters have voiced objections, which have covered the the gamut from lies, damned lies, and nonsense, all the way to monumental insults to our intelligence.

They said the strikes are illegal.  They’re not, see the law described above.  By the way, it’s the same law used by Il Duce Obama to carry out 563 airstrikes in seven countries, dropping 26,000 bombs in 2016 alone, and killing about 4,000 people, including 326 civilians.  No Democrat ever complained, but that was then and this is Trump.

Trump calls the drug cartels narco-terrorists, a term previously used by one Senator Joe Biden, who advocated taking action against State sponsored drug distributors.  Democrats now say there is no such thing.  Let’s study that notion.  An FTO is a foreign group designed to kill and maim Americans.  Islamic terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers in 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people.  Foreign groups were designated as FTOs, and we went to war for more than 20 years, suffering 61,000 military casualties, including 7,000 killed.  Groups using planes to kill are FTOs.  Groups using guns, knives, and bombs to kill are FTO’s.  Those terrorists killed about 10,000 Americans over 20 years.  The narco-terrorists are killing 100,000 Americans every year.

The fact that their weapon is a drug, rather than a bomb is immaterial.  Drugs kill people, and destroy families.  Drug abuse fuels crime, and not just drug crime, but burglary, robbery, and murder.  Illegal drugs fuel the urban gangs engaging in shootouts that kill 10,000 people a year.  Narco-terrorists have done far more damage to America than have Islamic terrorists.

Democrats said these were not drug boats, only fishing boats.  Seriously?  Very little commercial fishing is done from open boats, without nets or fishing gear, speeding along at 70 knots.  One of the boats sunk carried 1,000 kilos of cocaine, another had 8 tons.  One craft encountered was a submarine.  Just fishing, right?  Fishing, my ass.

Another Democrat bullshit story is that the boats are shipping drugs, not to the U.S., but to Europe.  Okay.  First, I thought they were only fishing boats.  Then, how is it that these Democrat “experts” know where the drugs are headed?  Who told them, and exactly how would that work?  These “go fast” boats have top speeds approaching 90 knots, so they can outrun the Coast Guard.  It’s more than 4,000 miles from Venezuela to Spain.  These are small open boats, not the Kon-Tiki.  They don’t carry enough fuel.  Maybe the submarines are refueling them.

Then there’s this excuse.  “These aren’t the drug lords piloting the boats, just poor people trying to earn some money.”  Give me a break.  I guess this excuse should come as no surprise.  These are the same people who don’t want to enforce laws in America, so why on the high seas?  Anyhow, the “I was just following orders” defense didn’t work at Nuremberg, and it won’t work here.  They need another “just poor people” story.  I’ve got it.  The poor Venezuelans can’t afford vacation cruises on the big ships, so they’re using these small boats.  It’s not a drug ship, it’s a cruise ship.  The Grim Reaper of the Seas.

The latest edition of “We’ve finally got Trump and Hegseth now” involves the destruction of a boat and crew in which two missile strikes were used.  This is being denounced as a war crime.  As with all things Democrat, it started with a lie.  Pete Hegseth authorized the strike, then after the first explosion, ordered a second strike, to “kill them all.”

Chilling, isn’t it?  You can almost see Hegseth twirling his moustache, and sneering, “Kill them all.”  Only problem is, it never happened.  Even The New York Times admits that no such order was given.  No matter, say the Dems.  A second strike, or double tap, is a war crime.  I guess this falls under the non-existent legal doctrine, “Shoot me once, shame on me.  Shoot me twice, shame on you.”

Killing survivors is a war crime.  German Uboats were ordered to machine gun survivors in life boats after torpedoing a ship.  That was a war crime.  The drug boats are another matter.  They are being destroyed by missiles from aircraft miles away.  The object is to destroy the boats.  If two shots are required to do the job, so be it.  There aren’t going to be any survivors.

The bottom line is that Trump Derangement Syndrome has forced Democrats to support unconscionable causes.  First criminal aliens, and now foreign drug cartel members who are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.  Given the choice of protecting their own constituents, or the enemy, Democrats chose death.  Maybe that should be their new motto – Death before the Donald.

People like to throw around the term “conspiracy theory” to disparage opinions they don’t agree with.  Sometimes they’re right.  The Epstein files conspiracy theory comes to mind.  The government supposedly has a list of powerful people, many connected to politics, who partook in sex games with underage females.  Then there’s the ever present flying saucer conspiracy theory.  The government supposedly has had information about extra terrestrial aircraft, as well as bodies of the ETs, at Area 51 for 70 years.

The problem with these conspiracy theories is the government secret keeping component.  Our government ordinarily isn’t good at keeping secrets.  In point of fact, our government is an undisciplined, corrupt, and leaking sieve, from which sensitive information is constantly being dispensed for fun and profit.

If the Epstein list and attendant incriminating evidence actually did exist, one of two results would have occurred.  Either Epstein would still be alive and out of prison, having used the evidence to blackmail those on the list, or the government sieve would have long ago spilled the beans.

The same principle applies to the extra terrestrial conspiracy.  It’s impossible for something like that to have been going on for decades without somebody who was involved telling all.

There is, however, one exception to the “government is unable to keep quiet” rule.  That comes into play when the governmental officials involved have incurred criminal liability.  And this exception lasts only so long as one governmental wrongdoer doesn’t have to rat out another to save his or her own skin.

All too often, however, denouncing something as “a conspiracy theory” is merely a convenient way to deny the truth.  This often works, because the American people have been lied to for so long, and so convincingly, by politicians and the media that they’re bound to disbelieve just about anything.

The grand conspiracy to which the title of this piece refers may rightly not be considered to be a conspiracy at all.  Conspiracies normally are covert, unholy agreements between and among shadowy figures.  The grand conspiracy is anything but covert.  It’s being conducted openly, by coconspirators who make no secret of its purpose.

The purpose of the grand conspiracy is, of course, the hindrance, frustration, defeat, and even destruction of a Donald Trump presidency, by any means necessary.  Many means have been tried, dating back to 2016.  They include spying on his campaign, illegal electronic surveillance, false swearing on court warrant applications, insubordination by the FBI management, illegal domestic use of the CIA, enlistment of foreign intelligence agencies, phony special counsel investigations, lawsuits, indictments, harassment and imprisonment of Trump allies, 24 hour a day defamation by the media and political opponents, legislative sabotage, judicial overreach, and attempted assassination.

The coconspirators are mainly Democrats, but not exclusively so.  Many Republicans, who never have forgiven Trump for interfering in their crooked livelihoods, have joined the ranks.  The Bushes and the Cheney’s come to mind.  Prior to the arrival of Donald Trump, both Democrats and Republicans treated the federal government as one common slop trough, from which all the pigs could gain sustenance.

The Parties had it down to a science.  Both treated their respective bases to endless promises, and each harangued the other.  It really didn’t matter who won, because it always was business as usual.  Promise them anything.  Get their votes, and then forget the voters.  There was money to be made, by members of Congress, by administration officials, and by NGO’s;  Nongovernmental Organizations like Catholic Charities, other leftwing interest groups, and labor unions, let’s not forget them.

Democrats and Republicans made sure to spread the graft around.  For Democrats it was your money well spent, because they could rely on generous kickbacks, er, excuse me, contributions, from the organizations which had been greased by Uncle Sucker.  It all was a big show.

Enter Donald Trump.  His calls to “drain the swamp” meant only one thing.  The money burning charade that had become the federal government would come to an end.  The show would be over.  They had to protect their phony baloney jobs.

The resistance to Trump, up to and including attempted assassinations reached that level for several reasons.  One was personal.  Trump had beaten Hillary, the homicidal shrew, and that upset lots of apple carts.  Then you had all he FBI, Justice Department and CIA people who broke countless laws in pursuit of Trump.  They had to destroy Trump to cover up their crimes.  That would have been bad enough, but then Trump turned out to be telling the truth when he promised to drain the swamp.  He understood how the show worked and was determined to stop it.  This was like showing a vampire the cross.

Remember the Big Beautiful Bill that cut out wasteful spending, like all of      USAID, PBS, and the like?  That was the final straw.  The political bullshit machine requires a steady supply of your hard earned money to keep itself going.  Think how many deserving political leaches were being paid off with wasteful grant money.  And don’t forget the CIA.  What do they have to do with grant money being sent to Zimbabwe, and elsewhere?  Plenty.

The CIA has a budget, and is supposed to be overseen by Congress.  But the CIA spends lots of money off the books, from what are called “black” accounts.  Money that is not traceable to the CIA, and which can be used to fund all sorts of mischief that the CIA would rather not explain to Bernie Sanders.

USAID was funneling billions to supposed social welfare projects overseas.  What better place to skim millions of dollars for CIA black projects.  You didn’t really think we were spending all that money for sex change operations in Cambodia, did you?  Trump’s Big Bill zeroed out the USAID budget.  The money tap was shut off.  This strengthened the resistance against Trump.

Who are the coconspirators?  You have liberal Democrats who have been cut off from their grant funding and kickbacks by the Big Beautiful Bill.  You have the radical wing of the Democrat Party, the Democratic Socialists, and their Antifa army, who are always spoiling for a fight.  You have the dispossessed kickback receivers and NGO’s, you have Democrat Governors who are resisting federal law enforcement for making their streets safer, and increasingly, you have the judiciary, which truly has lost its way in its headlong war against Donald Trump.

Every Executive act of the president has been the subject of legal action.  Federal judges have abandoned their role as arbiters of real legal cases or  controversies, and have assumed the role of a Super-Executive, seeking to micro-manage every action of the President.  There is  a method to this madness.  Judicial decisions are being resorted to in order to frustrate and delay the actions of the Trump Administration.

The Constitution forbids the Judiciary from usurping the powers of the Executive.  The radical judges don’t care.  They have constantly usurped Trump’s Executive authority to run the various executive departments, to exercise his powers as Commander in Chief, his every decision.

The judiciary has even inserted itself into the operations of the Justice Department.  Grand Juries in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted James Comey and Letitia James.  A federal judge this week dismissed the indictments, deciding that the Trump appointed U.S Attorney was illegally acting because the Senate had not yet confirmed her.

The failure to confirm the U.S. Attorney is part of the grand conspiracy, Senate Democrats using every artifice to delay Senate action.  This decision will be reversed.  The judge ruled the indictments illegal because the Trump U.S. Attorney presented the cases.  This is nonsense.  If the judge was right, not only the Comey and James indictments would have to be dismissed, but every indictment issued by the District would be illegal, because Trump’s U.S. Attorney signed off on them.  I cannot believe the Circuit Court, much less the Supreme Court would countenance such a result.

The object is to delay Trump until he is gone on 2029.  It’s not a theory.  It’s a real conspiracy to defraud our nation and to undo an election.

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!

When it comes to our government, we truly live in strange and interesting times.  We’re approaching the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence.  Such an anniversary should be proof of the strength and durability of our Republic, but it’s not.  Instead, we find ourselves at a delicate and precarious time in our politics.

Our Constitution says nothing at all about political Parties.  In fact, George Washington warned of the danger of political “factions.”  That said, for more than 200 years, with rare exception, our elections have been dominated by two Parties, but not the same two Parties we know today.  Stick with me on this, there is a point.

For the first two presidential elections there were no Parties.  Washington was the obvious choice.  The Federalist Party grew from Washington’s Administration, and in 1796 John Adams won under that banner, against the Democratic-Republicans led by Thomas Jefferson.  When the Democratic -Republicans won 6 elections in a row, the Federalist Party just faded away.  The second Party became the Independent Republicans, and then the National Republicans.

Think the Trump MAGA takeover of the Republican Party in 2016 was novel? It wasn’t.  In 1828, Andrew Jackson turned the Democratic-Republicans into the Jacksonian Democrats.  A splinter Democrat Party sprung up 4 years later.

1836 saw the birth of 2 new Parties.  The Democrats, who were more populist, and the Whigs, who favored wealthier interests.  The Democrat Party has endured.  Not so the Whigs.  The Whig Party was torn apart, largely over the issue of slavery.  Northern Whigs split from Southern Whigs, and by 1848 the Whigs ceased to exist.

They were replaced by various factions.  The Free Soil Party sought to contain slavery in the South.  The American Party, or the Know Nothings, were fervently against immigration.  Yes, immigration was an issue even back then.  The Republican Party appeared for the 1856 presidential election.  In 1860, 4 Parties vied, leading of course to the Civil War.

Why the history lesson?  The point is that people change, interests change, and political Parties, torn by competing interests, don’t last forever.  They come and go, and as this is written the Democrat Party is approaching one of those watershed moments in its history.  Indeed, both Parties have been changing of late.

For most of my life, the accepted wisdom was that the Democrats supported the working man, while Republicans favored the moneyed interests.  The influence of Donald Trump has changed that landscape, and Republicans have become the populists.  Maybe that’s not all due to Trump.  The landscape was changing for many years, and Trump profited by the changes.

About 25 years ago, we saw the advent of the Dotcom billionaires, who took in vast sums of money.  Vast sums of money are very valuable for political Parties.  As the newly minted billionaires were largely from the liberal Left, they began financing the Democrats.  They became so important to the Democrat cause that they exerted more and more influence over our elections.

In 2016, Donald Trump became the skunk at the garden party for Democrats, who, in 2020, used their alliance with the Leftist billionaires to smear Trump, and block his usage of their social media platforms, ushering in the reign of Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden.  Throughout this period, the Democrat Party progressively (how’s that for a turn of phrase) moved itself further and further to the Left.

This leftward movement of Democrats begat the so called Democratic Socialists, whose so called “Squad,” AOC and company, only accelerated the leftist shift, and correspondingly accelerated the polarization of politics in America.

Not so very long ago, the Democrats and Republicans were not so far apart.  Democrats always leaned closer to expanding social welfare programs, going back to LBJ’s War on Poverty.  The abiding difference between the Parties was largely one of perspective.  While both understood the need for a governmental social safety net, Republicans viewed the net as a trampoline, from which recipients would be propelled into the workforce once put on their feet by government assistance.  Democrats, however, fancy the safety net a hammock, into which generation after generation of recipients could be settled, thereupon being forever reminded who was supplying the butter they were spreading on their EBT acquired bread.

The Democratic Socialists, emboldened by the election of Biden, and confident that they had slain the evil Orange Dragon, Trump, began to drop the pretense that they were merely the good old Democrats of yore, and openly exhibited their true colors – a bright shade of Red.  Simply put, they’re Marxists, bent on “fundamentally transforming” the U.S. into the latest Socialist paradise.  Think Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea, writ large.  The election of Mamdani in New York, an avowed Socialist who boasts plans for free buses, rent freezes, defunded police, and government controlled grocery stores, was just the red icing on the cake.

Donald Trump has profited by the leftward shift of the Democrats.  More conservative Democrats found themselves unwelcome in the Democrat Party.  The so called Reagan Democrats in Congress are long gone, replaced by doctrinaire leftists.  JFK, RFK, Jr., and even Bill Clinton could never be nominated by today’s Democrat Party.

More importantly, essential elements of the Democrat Party base, long looked upon as sure Democrat voters, are being torn away by the populist message of Trump and the new Republicans.  The 2024 election proved that point, as a disturbing number of black and Hispanic voters moved away, sensing that the Republicans are better attuned to their needs than are the Dems.  It seems that these groups, including many union members, aren’t comfortable with the prospect of a government that will dictate their compensation and benefits, so as to better the lives of American and illegal alien hammock dwellers.

Finally, even the left wing billionaires got the message (I don’t know what took them so long) that a Socialist/Marxist government would put their business interests, and as a result their fortunes, in the hands of profligate spenders who have never run anything other than their own mouths, much less a business.

Yet, after last November, the Democrat Party still hasn’t gotten the message, or maybe has gone past the point where it can turn itself away from the precipice it’s approaching.  The Party is increasingly in the hands of the Socialists like Bernie Sanders and AOC, and it continues to steadily march to the Left.

Witness the recent government shut down.  The Republicans passed a clean continuing resolution, which maintained spending at its current obscene level.  Democrats resisted, shutting down the government for 7 weeks, denying pay to the military and to air traffic controllers, but not to members of Congress.  It became known as the Schumer Shutdown, as the Detestable Chuck Schumer prevented the Senate from voting to open the government.

Schumer, no moderate he, knew better than to do such a thing, but he was powerless to do otherwise, lest the crazy Left wing base of his Party stage a revolt – against him.  He learned this the hard way when he signed off on an identical continuing resolution last March, and got his head handed to him by the Socialists.

Schumer’s 7 week resistance this time profited him nothing.  Eight Democrat Senators finally voted to open the government, getting nothing more than the promise of a vote on health care subsidies, a promise they were offered weeks ago and refused.

The loony leftist Democrats are now incensed, and want Schumer out as Leader.  The 8 Democrats who voted to open the government are being denounced as traitors.  Add to this the unfortunate Democrat prediliction to inciting violence to get whatever they want, as Antifa thugs attack police officers in the streets, and conservative voices, such as those from Turning Point USA, on college campuses, and the Democrat Party is facing the same sort of schism that did in the Whigs so very long ago.

The end of the Democrat Party as we know it is not inevitable, but it remains a distinct possibility.  A continued exodus of Hispanic voters, many of whom came here to escape Socialism, and of sensible union members who are not ready for a Communist revolution, would render the electoral success of the Democrat Party, as currently constituted, impossible.  Any further losses to the evil Orange Man and his followers would inspire only more violence, further hastening its demise.

It’s possible that cooler heads will prevail, but I wouldn’t care to bet on it, at least not now.  Yes, the times truly are strange and interesting.  We can only hope to avoid the warfare that ensued when the Whigs went away.

Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules For Radicals, has long been required reading for the crooked politicians in America who call themselves “Democrats.”  You know, those people who constantly call Republicans fascists, authoritarians, and existential threats to democracy.  The book is a primer for the carrying out of Democratic Party dirty tricks.  One of its tenets is, “accuse your opponents of doing that which you yourself are doing.”  Democrats have learned that lesson well.

They’re currently working themselves into a frenzy, complaining that the Trump Administration is “weaponizing the justice system for political purposes.”  This, of course, is strange, coming as it does from the Party that used federal and State justice systems to punish Trump and any of his supporters for the egregious crime of winning elections they had expected to win.

If I have to say it again, the Democrats engineered four bogus indictments of Trump, a civil suit designed to bankrupt Trump and his businesses, indictments of Trump allies and employees, and State attempts to remove Trump’s name from presidential ballots.  And, of course, they used the justice system to employ false and concocted information to engineer two phony impeachments and the appointment of a special counsel to investigate a Russian collusion scheme they knew to be phony.  In so doing, they utilized Justice Department lawyers, the FBI, the CIA, and a number of foreign intelligence agencies to overthrow the Trump 45 Administration.

But if you thought this was as low as the Democrats possibly could stoop, think again.  Previously hidden FBI records have exposed what is the most far reaching, outrageous, and clearly illegal breach of federal law and personal liberties in the history of our Republic.  Like all good clandestine government incursions on the Constitution and laws of the United States, it had a catchy FBI code name – Arctic Frost.

It was revealed last month that the Biden Administration Justice Department (and that’s a contradiction in terms) used Special Counsel Jack “The Knife” Smith to conduct an extensive, and secret, investigation of practically the entire Republican Party hierarchy, including activists connected to the GOP, public officials, slates of presidential electors, and government workers allegedly tied to events around the 2020 election.  Just one look at Smith should tell you he’s a vicious, sneaky prick –

What Smith did, with the blessings of FBI Director Wray, Attorney General Garland, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, and federal judge James Boasberg boggles the mind.  Smith issues at least 400 subpoenas for the telephone records of, not only the personal telephone of President Trump, but  at least 160 Republican elected officials, Administration officials, and others  people who supported Trump.  This permitted the Biden Administration to spy on members of Congress.

This list included Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, Rick Scott, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Dan Sullivan, Cynthia Lummis, all of whom used Verizon as their carrier.  You’ll note fake Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski was not included.  I guess they, based on her record, Smith didn’t recognize her as a Republican.  Verizon complied with the subpoenas.

A number of other Congresspeople, who use AT&T also were the subjects of telephone records subpoenas.  These subpoenas, like those issued to Verizon, lacked any criminal predicate.  In other words, the evidence necessary for their issuance, and instead represented a fishing expedition into the records of the people who get to decide the level of funding that the Justice Department should get.  This not only wasn’t smart, it was highly illegal.

How do I know this?  It’s very simple.  Jack Smith told us.  When the subpoenas of Congressional targets reached AT&T, that company inquired into the legal basis for their issuance.  Jack Smith backed off, and the subpoenas were never executed.  And for several good reasons.

Smith took his subpoenas to friendly Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee.  You may remember that he is the judge who continually does everything he can to defeat the Trump Administrations efforts to enforce immigration law by deporting criminal aliens, as U.S. law requires him to do.  Boasberg kept issuing nationwide injunctions to stop deportations, until the Supreme Court finally told him he shouldn’t be doing that sort of thing.

Boasberg included in the subpoenas a provision which prevented the phone companies from disclosing to the Congresspeople that their records were being seized,  citing “reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation.”  Translation – the Court told the companies that these elected officials could not be trusted to obey the very laws that they had enacted.

Federal law states that communications providers for Senate offices “shall not be barred, through operation of any court order or any statutory provision, from notifying the Senate office of any legal process seeking disclosure of Senate data.”  The House has similar legal protection.  The upshot is that, if records of elected officials are to be seized, the target of the subpoena must be informed.  The Boasberg orders violated this law.  In addition, even a United States District Judge should be aware that snooping into the private communications of members of Congress is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers of the various branches of the government, the bedrock principle underlying our Republic.  One might even call it, an existential threat to our democracy, brought to you by your slimy friends in the Democrat Party.

Needless to say, the affected Congresspeople are quite unhappy with this revelation.  They don’t take kindly to people who tread on their grass, even when the intrusion is warranted.  Remember the Democrat House member from Louisiana whose office was searched with a search warrant shortly after Hurricane Katrina, yielding a refrigerator stuffed with cash?  Democrats loudly protested this serious breach of protocol.

And what are Democrats saying now about hundreds of unwarranted subpoenas?  Not a thing.  Funny how that works, isn’t it?  But it’s not funny.  Ted Cruz was one of the Senators whose records were subpoenaed, and he’s not happy.  “Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt attorney general.  Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor.  This was a political enemies list from the beginning.”  “Judge James E. Boasberg, that radical leftist judge who is out of control, who has been issuing nationwide injunctions one after the other trying to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate for the voters.”

Article of impeachment for Boasberg have been filed in the House.  I don’t know how that exercise will go, or even that it should go on, but this scandal will not simply go away.  This was the worst abuse of political power in our history.  Operation Arctic Frost was an egregious affront to our system of government.  The Republicans are genuinely pissed, and heads should roll over this.  Democrats can’t be permitted to escape Arctic Frost.  Congress is investigating this outrage.  Winter is coming.