Well, we certainly have had quite the interesting April so far.  April normally is a rather quiet month.  Winter is ending, Spring is beginning, baseball is back, and thoughts run to Easter, Passover and taxes.  Not so this year.

The juggernaut that is Donald Trump has changed the narrative.  Friend and foe alike are shocked, shocked to learn that Trump is doing exactly what he has been saying he would do for the past 40 years – impose higher tariffs to stop foreign countries from ripping us off on trade by imposing on the U.S. tariffs that keep our products from being sold abroad, making kickbacks to their local companies, dumping their products on our markets, and creating currency and other trade barriers to rig the system of international trade.  Maybe our trade policy made sense after World War II, but not anymore.

Unsurprisingly, the foreign thieves who have been stealing us blind for 70 years are upset that the U.S. finally is objecting to being robbed.  Wall Street is upset because it reaps profits by shamelessly investing in foreign companies that produce goods with slave and near-slave labor.  It’s just good business, you see.

Both the foreign countries and Wall Street are content to let Uncle Sucker continue to expend blood and trillions of dollars in the defense of the very nations that enjoy the security we provide, then turn around and rob us.  A simple “thank you” would have sufficed.

The Democrats are upset, because the very existence of Trump upsets those bastards.  They’re publicly denouncing the Trump tariffs, while being privately ecstatic that Trump has handed them an issue to tout.  Of course, the Democrats can profit from this issue if and only if the U.S. economy is severely damaged by Trump’s tariff plan, but that’s OK with them.

If they cared about American citizens they wouldn’t have sold out the U.S. to China, they wouldn’t have admitted millions of illegals, they wouldn’t be supporting criminals and opposing law enforcement, and they wouldn’t be supporting murdering Islamic terrorists.  But I digress.

And so, on April 2, Trump unleashed his reciprocal tariffs, nearly all of which were still lower than the ones our so-called allies are levying on us.  You would have thought the end of the world was nigh.

Publicly, our trading partners, who have been waging a trade war on us for 50 years, denounced the U.S. for starting a trade war.  Behind the scenes, according to Trump’s trade team, they’re saying, “OK, you got us, we never thought we could get away with it this long.”

Being pigs, the pigs on Wall Street are squealing loudly.  “How dare Trump interfere with our phony, baloney profits?  Harumpf!”  “How dare Trump temporarily derail our crooked gravy train?”  “We could have a recession, a depression, and, and, how can we entice any more unsuspecting sheep to invest their hard-earned money in an over-inflated stock market?”

The Fake News has pumped up the tariff issue, sowing panic with predictions of lost fortunes and devastated 401k accounts.  Democrats know that, in panic there is profit.  As usual, the truth lies elsewhere.

Yes, between April 2, and April 8, the Dow Jones Average fell from 42,225 to 37,645, that’s about 11%.  The Fake News, aided by the Wall Street denizens screamed that $8 trillion, or $10 trillion, or $12 trillion had disappeared, all because of Trump.  But then, on April 9, the market went from 37,000 to over 40,000 overnight, climbing 8%.  None of them said, “Great, we just got back $8.6 trillion of our paper profits.”  According to these pricks, we’re still facing Armageddon.

Don’t buy into the panic.  The market fell 11% in 6 days?  It’s not the first time.  In October 1987, the market fell 22% in one day.  We’re all still here.  And keep in mind, every other time the market fell it was because our government and the financial “experts” had seriously mishandled the economy.  We either had high unemployment, runaway inflation, or both.  The financial wizards who are now crying foul clearly don’t have clean hands.

The 2008 recession, and global financial crisis that saw numerous bank failures, the end of Lehman Brothers, the bailout of AIG insurance, and the collapses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, was caused by stupid politicians from both Parties, who empowered lending institutions to give mortgages to millions of insolvent borrowers.  The stock market fell 53% that time.  The banks and the Wall Street pigs got government bailouts, and over 8 million poor homeowners lost their homes.  And we’re still here.

Meanwhile, a virtual parade of foreign trade representatives is streaming in and out of the White House.  Some 130 nations are looking to cut deals with the U.S. to avoid high tariffs.  Even the Euro trash from the European Union are looking to deal.  China, so far, is holding firm.  Xi tried to cultivate European nations to stand with him against Trump.  They declined.  Good decision.

Eventually, the Chinese will have to agree to a deal.  I don’t know what’s holding them up, because they’ve never lived up to any agreement they’ve ever made.  We can live without most of the Chinese crap they send us.  But if 300 million Chinese get laid off, Xi quickly will become the former Chairman of the CCP.  This will work out.  I’m not sure we’ll see a Golden Age, but business should improve.

That does it for imports and exports.  Now to the deports.  Tens of thousands of illegals have, so far been rounded up for deportation.  But not without a fight.  No, not a fight from the illegals, but from District Court Judges who have somehow gotten the notion that they’re in charge of immigration decisions.

In one case, a Maryland District Judge ordered the government to return Salvadoran MS-13 gang member Abrego Garcia to the U.S., from the Salvadoran prison to which he was deported.  This case went to the Supreme Court, which ordered the government to “facilitate” his return.  Whatever that means.

AG Pam Bondi has been clear on this.  “He’s not coming back and we don’t want him back.”  Salvadoran President Bukele has said, he’s not releasing him or sending him back.  The Administration has told the District judge, in all appropriate legal language, to pound sand, pointing out that the courts have no authority to order a president to contact a foreign nation, or to control foreign policy.  The battle rages on.

Then there are the 530,000 illegals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, to whom Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden granted parole, under his executive authority.  A District judge in Massachusetts named Indira Talwani (yes, that’s the judge, not the litigant), has stayed the Trump Administration’s termination of the paroles, under the same authority Biden used to grant them.

According to Judge Talwani, one president can let them in, but another president can’t throw them out.  Can’t wait to hear the explanation of that one.  Then again, all 530,000 don’t live in Massachusetts, so, as the Supreme Court recently explained to District judges, she has no jurisdiction over this entire crowd of wretched refuse.

And against this backdrop, Democrats keep backing the wrong side of the issue, siding with illegal aliens over American citizens every time.  Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who had nothing to say when an illegal alien criminal murdered Maryland mother of five Rachel Morin, has announced he’s going to El Salvador to get Abrego Garcia out of prison.  You just can’t make this crap up.

Even after the November election losses, Democrats insist on opposing every attempt to make Americans safer.  As a recent U.S. president is fond of saying, “So sad.”

The term “loyal opposition” was coined in 18th Century Great Britain to describe the Party out of power in the Parliament.  The idea was that the out-of-power Party, although thoroughly opposed to many of the policies of the ruling Party, could hold the government accountable while still respecting the legitimacy of the State.  The point was that, despite their differences, both Parties shared a commitment to the nation’s stability.

The notion of a loyal opposition once prevailed in our country as well.  The Parties often disagreed on policy, but remained dedicated to national stability, and the legitimacy of the State never was questioned.  This was especially the case when it came to foreign policy, where the maxim was that “politics stops at the water’s edge.”

There is no better example of that maxim at work than in the lead up to World War II.  FDR’s attempts to rearm America, institute a draft, and provide war materiel to Great Britain were strenuously opposed by isolationist factions in both Parties.  But once the bombs started falling on Pearl Harbor, the America First Committee dissolved overnight, and every elected official stood behind FDR.

In today’s America, we no longer have a loyal opposition.  The Democrats don’t accept the legitimacy of our government, so loyalty doesn’t exist.  And to hear them talk, we really no longer even have an opposition.  They’re opposed to everything that the Trump Administration is doing, to be sure, but they offer no alternative.  They have no opposing view, and no alternative policies to offer.  All they offer America is “resistance.”

Left-wing organizations declared their resistance to Trump on November 6, but the movement took some time to get itself going.  Perhaps they were confused by memories of Al Sharpton’s now famous advice, “But resist we much.  We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.”  Huh?

They took a while to build up steam.  The ever-irritating Whoopi Goldberg tried to help it along.  “Remember, the resistance is real.  You’re not alone.”  Then, lying fraud Senator Corey Booker completed a pointless 25 hour harangue on the floor of the Senate, which I suppose was intended to cement his claim to be a leader of the Democrat Party.  It didn’t work.

So the Dems moved on to last weekend’s nation-wide Hands Off protests.  The question was “hands off what?”  As best I could tell, the protestors were demanding that the Trump Administration keep its hands off Medicare and Social Security.  If that was their cause they needn’t have bothered, since those programs are not now, nor have they ever been at risk.

As with most things Democrat, the protests were stirred up by the chronic and habitual lies of the Left.  “Trump will do away with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”  No he won’t be cutting those programs, nor will Elon Musk and DOGE be cutting anyone’s benefits.  As Trump and Musk have said repeatedly, the reduction of waste, fraud, and abuse will permit benefits to increase.

Another hallmark of the protests was the makeup of the crowds.  The protestors were by and large middle-aged to elderly white folk who were taking a break from composting and making their own sandals, assisted by the usual scruffy-looking 20-somethings, who are required to go outside to protest every week or so, to give their parents a chance to go into the basement to clean the crumbs out of the seams of their gaming chairs.

The protestors are the same people who rallied to Save the Whales, then rallied to Save the Planet by building windmills that killed the whales, then rallied to require all cars to be electric, and now are busy fire-bombing Tesla dealerships to destroy electric cars.  Fickle, aren’t they?

The point is that the protests were largely pointless.  The problem for the Democrats is that they have no identifiable leader.  Bernie the Bolshevik Sanders and AOC are traveling the country on their “oppose the oligarchs tour.”  Bernie is railing against “billionaire oligarchs,” which ignores the fact that nearly all the billionaires are funding his Party.

Failed Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz is making a bid to be the Democrat Leader.  He’s offering himself as the unlikely poster-boy for masculinity, but remains the same hapless boob he was during the election campaign.  And Walz isn’t suggesting that Democrat policies need to change.  He’s said, “Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values.  One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Neighborliness?  Like the friendly neighbors who massacred untold millions in Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea … need I go on?  No.  Tim Walz is not the answer.

Then there’s AOC.  She fancies herself the leader of the Democrats.  But her leadership begins and ends with hatred of Donald Trump.  She criticized Democrats who said the were resigned to a second Trump term, “If you’re a senior Democrat that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism.”

There’s that word again.  Fascism.  It means government control of everything.  Business, speech, life itself.  And Democrats fail to see that they are the true fascists.  So AOC is not the leader the Democrats are waiting for.  She’s simply a reflection of their psychosis.

But what about the new darling of the Democrat Party, Jasmine Crockett?  She’s a Texas Congresswoman who has taken to saying the most appalling things.  She’s from the insult wing of the Democrat Party.  She’s called wheelchair bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott “hot wheels.”  She hails from the so-called Progressive Party that labels any dissent as racism, yet consistently spews stone-cold racism.

Remember the Democrats claim that Trump would outlaw inter-racial marriage?  Here’s Jasmine, on Republican Byron Donalds, “The fact that you’re sitting around talking about ‘life was better under Jim Crow,’ like, is this because you don’t understand history?  Or literally it’s because you married a White woman and so you think that whitewashed you?” “I feel like they give [Donalds] his talking points and he’s like, ‘Yes, massa. I got it.'”  Progressive, huh?

It gets worse.  Here’s Jasmine on immigration.  “So I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact we are a country of immigrants.”  The fact is ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now.”  “OK, I’m lying?” “You’re not, you’re not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can’t pay us enough to find a plantation.”  Yeah, except for the Democrat Plantation they’ve been toiling on for decades.

And like too many Democrats nowadays, Jasmine is perfectly comfortable with using violence to accomplish her ends.  A majority of Democrats say murdering Trump would be justified.  After all, he is Hitler according to them.  Jasmine doesn’t disagree.  She has said Ted Cruz should be “knocked over the head.” And she wants Elon Musk to be “taken down.”  And she has said Democrats need to be “OK with punching.”

Too many Democrats agree with Jasmine.  They’re mindset is, if you can’t outvote them, then sue them, fire bomb them or kill them.  This is not a loyal opposition.  This not resistance.  It’s sedition.

Democrats have no leader, no plan, and no shame.  They have devolved into a violent hate group, fed by lies, promoting no improvements, and signifying nothing.  Let’s hope they keep up the bad work.

Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)  has been hard at work since January 20.  Surprising no one, the Democrats are screaming bloody murder.  The purpose of DOGE is to ferret out government waste, fraud and abuse in order to reduce the cost of a federal government which has ballooned to an extent never envisioned by our Founders.  You would have thought that our government officials would be working toward that goal anyway, but they’re not.

I mean, they always talked a good game.  Thomas Jefferson said, “The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”  But that was a long time ago, and anyway, he owned slaves, so that must be wrong.   Grover Cleveland said, “Public service is a public trust.”  But now, nobody trusts the government.  More recently, President Eisenhower promised an administration “clean as a hound’s tooth.”  But that’s hard to do when every other elected official is a horse’s ass.

Democrats are against any attempt to improve the system.  Their counterpoint to the DOGE actions is their go-to tactic – lying.  According to NPR, one of the agencies on the DOGE hit list, “So far, the Trump administration has not shown clear evidence of fraud.”  Democrat politicians have attacked Elon Musk as “incompetent.”  Attorneys General from 14 states are suing to block DOGE from accessing federal data.  If there’s no fraud, and the DOGE boys are incompetent anyway, why would they do that?

It turns out they’re doing that because the entirety of the federal government IS A FRAUD.  The federal government, which currently is spending some $7 trillion a year is a model of inefficiency.  580 federal agencies are spending your tax dollars.  And DOGE revealed that all the money they’re spending comes out of one Treasury bank account.  Isn’t that efficient?  No.  You see, all the agencies do is tell Treasury to pay, and Treasury pays, no questions asked, and no verification required.  For everything.  Payroll, Social Security payments, Medicare and Medicade payments, contracts, grants, you name it.

But the agencies must be verifying the legitimacy of the claims before telling Treasury to pay, right?  Ah, it turns out they’re not.  Are they corrupt?  Possibly.  Lazy?  Some might be.  But here’s the latest news from DOGE.  Even if these bureaucrats all are perfectly honest public servants, they can’t verify the claims even it they want to.

The Feds are paying $100 million a year for internet technology, to keep 50 year old computer systems running.  Crazy right?  But it gets worse.  They’re running 700 different antiquated IT systems that are incapable of communicating with one another.

Maybe that’s how, in a country where 310 million people are eligible for benefits, 398 million people are receiving checks.  Not evidence of fraud?  Maybe that’s how we could have Social Security payments being made to 16 million people between with reported ages of between 110 and 369.  Social Security personnel reported this in 2008.  Nothing ever was done about it.  At the average Social Security level, that’s $380 billion a year, but not evidence of fraud?  Maybe that’s why 75% of illegal aliens are receiving Social Security benefits.  But nothing to see here, right?

And hey, you know what?  Maybe that’s why the SBA made loans totaling $300 million to children under age 11, and another $300 million to people supposedly over age 115.  You see, once presented with a loan application bearing a supposedly “active” Social Security number, SBA couldn’t find out that one borrower was 9 months old, and another was going into business at 115.  But I’m sure there must be an innocent explanation for all this, right?

The DOGE boys found out that 40% of the calls to Social Security offices to change the direct deposit accounts of recipients were fraudulent.  Social Security employees told them this fact, but I guess that’s really not evidence, right?

And some agencies don’t even have computers.  Federal pension records are kept in 22,000 file cabinets inside a limestone mine in Pennsylvania.  When the Trump Administration offered early retirements to thousands of employees, it was told that no more than 8,000 retirements could be processed per month.  The government has been planning to do something about this for years.  Members of DOGE are digitizing decades of records in a matter of months.

The goal of DOGE is to cut spending by a trillion dollars by eliminating fraud, waste and abuse.  Democrats object.  Once again they have selective amnesia.  President Clinton fired 426,000 employees.  No one complained.  To date, DOGE is responsible for firing 0.015% of 2 million employees, and we’re told the government has been “gutted.”

Then there’s duplication of effort.  The NIH has 27 Chief Information Officers at 27 centers.  But the researchers don’t have the capability of sharing their findings with other scientists.  The IRS has 14,000 employees whose only job is to issue laptops and phones to IRS employees.  If each issued 2 a day, they could service the entire agency in a month.  There are 4.6 million active credit cards for the 2 million employees.  The cards rang up $40 billion in charges last year.  No one can say for sure where all the cards are.

The sad state in which the Trump Administration found our federal government was one in which a government that takes it upon itself to audit the financial practices of private industry cannot pass an audit of its own finances.  Without the improvements being implemented by DOGE, our government will become insolvent and no legitimate employee, recipient or creditor will be paid.

The current system is unsustainable, but Democrats object to any cuts, modernization, or transparency.  They don’t want the poor taxpayers to be able to look behind the curtain.  I wonder why?  And it’s really not just the Democrats.  Republicans are equally to blame.  A large majority of our elected officials prefer to run the government under the trip to Disney World philosophy.  They figure that the reason they’re going to Washington is not to save money, but to spend money.

This idiocy cannot continue, however changing the system will be a daunting problem.  For too long, our elected officials have regarded the federal treasury as their own bottomless piggy bank.  They’re addicted to spending.

I made that observation nearly 25 years ago.  In the very first installment of FRANK ON FRIDAY, on August 11, 2014, I wrote about The Junkie State.  The piece quoted a former drug addict who described the conduct of addicts.  “They always ask you for money.”  “They always lie.”  “They promise to go to rehab, but the drug makes them feel too good.”

Those observations are equally applicable to our government.  It constantly asks you for money.  “The rich need to pay their fair share.”  It lies constantly.  “The Affordable Care Act.”  “The Inflation Reduction Act.”  “Elect us or democracy ends.”  And it always promises you it will reform.  “The era of big government is over.”  But it never changes.

Addicts rarely change unless they’re forced to do so.  Over the years, I’ve listened to countless addicts, facing the prospect of prison, swear to judges that this time they’ll change, if you give them only one more chance.

In 2014, I wrote that our government needs an intervention.  Maybe DOGE is that intervention.  But I’m not hopeful because I’m not naive.  The drug addict is at the mercy of the court.  The Congressional addicts can ignore the DOGE improvements and go back on the road to ruin.  I hope I’m wrong.

I’ve observed before that the Donald Trump odyssey that began in 2015 can be likened to the titles of the various movies in the Star Wars series.  First we had, A New Hope.  Then, in 2020, there was The Empire Strikes Back.  2024 brought us, The Return of the MAGA.  And now that he’s back in office, the Rebel Alliance is taking fire from a new enemy, unelected, life-tenured judges, who have usurped the authority of the Executive branch.  The next episodes in this series may be called, The Judicial Menace, and The Rise of the Robes.

In February alone, U.S. District Court judges imposed 15 nationwide injunctions on the Trump Administration to reverse, delay, or frustrate policy decisions.  These injunctions include two on the Executive Order challenging birthright citizenship, and orders restoring fired employees of the Executive branch to their jobs, preventing the firings of probationary employees, ordering the military to reinstate transgender members, ordering frozen USAID grant money to be paid, and most recently, D.C. Judge Boasberg’s verbal order that planes deporting violent gang members to El Salvador must return to the United States.

Each of these injunctions represents an intolerable intrusion by the judiciary into the workings of the Executive Branch.  The President’s authority derives from Article II of the Constitution, which is short and sweet.  “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” The authority of a president to supervise and remove executive officers, execute the laws and conduct foreign policy has been recognized by the courts for 100 years.

Leftist judges are attempting to flaunt Supreme Court precedent with orders and injunctions that seek to prevent the Executive from implementing the policies that caused a majority of voters to cast their votes for Trump.  This is a time-honored Democrat tactic.  Having lost the presidency, the House and the Senate, the Democrats’ go-to tactic is to get judges to order policies that would never pass muster with the electorate.  Simply put, that’s not the way it’s supposed to work.

In the Federalist Papers, the Founders envisioned the judiciary as the least powerful branch of the government.  Bolshevik Bernie Sanders and AOC (All Out Crazy) currently are touring the country denouncing Trump’s use of his executive power as the creation of an “oligarchy,” rule by a few people.  Once again, irony is lost on them.

77 million people put Trump into office.  Democrats now are relying on a couple of hundred liberal judges to undo the election.  In any case, Bernie and AOC know as much about oligarchy as they know about fascism.  Newt Gingrich this week published an article on this issue, entitled, An Intolerable Judicial Dictatorship.  In it, he quoted Thomas Jefferson’s statement that, making judges the ultimate deciders of law would “place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”  That oligarchy has arrived.

Not content to accept the vesting clause of Article II of the Constitution that they swore to uphold, these judges have taken it upon themselves to carry out the functions of the various departments of the Executive branch, including immigration enforcement, Executive branch personnel staffing, and even the operations of the Department of Defense.

DOGE uncovered massive waste, including payments of millions of dollars to terrorist groups under the guise of foreign aid.  Trump froze disbursement of questionable grant spending pending a national security revue.  An Obama appointed judge ordered the monies paid.

Another Obama appointee enjoined the firing of an NLRB member, and the stripping of security clearances from the Perkin Coie Law Firm.  The judge denounced Trump as “A president who touts an image of himself as a ‘king’ or a dictator.”  The law firm has since capitulated, making concessions that settled the matter.

Biden appointee, and self-professed lesbian, judge Ana Reyes thinks she’s running the Defense Department.  Trump issued an Order banning transgender persons from the military.  Ignoring the fact that the judiciary has no authority to decide who is and is not fit to serve in the military, Judge Reyes has ordered them reinstated.  The order prompted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to observe, “Since ‘Judge’ Reyes is now a top military planner, she/they can report to Fort Benning at 0600 to instruct our Army Rangers on how to execute High Value Target Raids … after that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to train our Green Berets on counterinsurgency warfare.”

The worst example of judicial overreach is that of D.C. District Judge Boasberg.  ICE has been rounding up criminal illegal aliens from Tren de Aragua and MS13 for immediate deportation.  Such removals are are in accordance with immigration laws on the books.

In response to a hastily filed supposed class action lawsuit based on a newspaper article about deportations of criminals to El Salvador, Judge Boasberg conducted a hearing in which he issued a verbal order that the planes carrying the criminals were to be turned around and returned to the United States.

The deportations were based on the 1798 Enemy Alien Act, which the court claimed was inappropriately applied.  I also thought the use of the Act was a stretch, until I researched it.  The Act authorizes the summary removal of aliens where there has been a declared war, or where a president has proclaimed that the U.S. has been the victim of a “predatory incursion” by elements from a foreign government.

Trump issued such a proclamation, alleging that Venezuelan gang members were dispatched by the Maduro government to prey on the United States.  Judge Boasberg held a second hearing in which he berated the government, “Why was this proclamation signed in the dark on Friday, early Saturday morning, and then these people rushed onto the planes?  To me, the only reason to do that is if you know the problem, and you want to get them out of the country before a suit is filed.”

Boasberg is way over his head on this one.  First, there is no requirement that the Executive branch give 10 days notice  before taking action, so as to give every crook, nutcase, and anarchist a chance to throw a wrench into government operations.

Secondly, in 1948 the Supreme Court decided that the decision as to whether conditions enabling use of the Enemy Alien Act is justified, namely, whether there is a war or incursion, and whether or not it has ended, is a political decision invested in the president and is not subject to judicial review.

Thirdly, the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court ought to know that, even a valid verbal order isn’t worth the paper that it’s not printed on.  A valid order must be signed and filed with the court before it’s in effect.

Boasberg’s actions have prompted calls for his impeachment.  I thought that was a bit much till I learned that Boasberg was the judge who signed the phony FISA court warrants that permitted the Obama Administration to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign, opening up the phony Russiagate investigation.

Then, when it became known that the evidence he was given was false, and that some of it was concocted by an FBI agent, Boasberg conducted the trial of the agent.  After being found guilty, Boasberg said the agent had suffered enough and gave him probation.  Most judges I know don’t appreciate being lied to, and when they learn the court was the victim of fraud, are in no mood to dispense mercy.

Boasberg then participated in the alleged reform of the FISA court regulations by appointing Obama DOJ veterans David Kris and Mary McCord to the job, both of whom helped to perpetrate the Russiagate collusion hoax.  On this evidence, I’d say Boasberg is Chief Judge of the Deep State.

The only workable solution for the Attack of the Robes is a strong opinion of the Supreme Court, reminding the judges of the separation of powers and prohibiting nationwide injunctions.

Two months into the Trump 47 Administration, and I’m amazed at the effect that one man has had on a Democrat Party which has managed to stay in business for 197 years.  Throughout all that time, no other Party or political leader has brought the Democrats to the brink of dissolution, no matter how bad conditions got.

The Democrat Party drove America into a Civil War that cost 600,000 lives.  Yet, aided by a crooked political deal after the 1876 election, it came back.

Between 1897 and 1933, Republicans held the presidency for 28 out of 36 years.  Aided by the Great Depression, Democrats came back.

War hero Dwight Eisenhower routed the Democrats in the 1950’s, but their Party endured.

The Democrats have habit of nominating candidates that are too far Left to be elected.  They did that in 1968, 1972, 1984 and 1988.  The utter failure of moderate Jimmy Carter ushering in Ronald Reagan, and 12 years of Republican rule.

Reagan was very popular, but he couldn’t break the Democrats.  They learned their lesson by nominating Bill Clinton, then successfully convinced America that Obama was moderate in 2008, which, with the aid of an economic fiasco, got him elected.

The point is that up to now, Democrats always realized that their success lay in bringing the Party back toward the middle, because that’s where most of the voters are.  Donald Trump has changed that equation.

I’ve long been telling you that Democrats suffer from a mass mental disorder that causes them to believe that whatever loony position they take is in the mainstream.  Democrats have been walking that fine line between lucidity and Bat Shit Crazy for some time now.  However, that delicate balance has shifted, and Democrats seem to have plunged over the edge.

How else to explain their positions?  Politics is the art of the possible.  A political Party must have the ability to detect changes in public opinion in order to keep itself viable.  Get too far off the beam, and you pay a heavy price.  Republicans learned that in 1964, and Democrats learned the same lesson in 1972.

Today’s Democrats have lost their way.  In the throes of their delusion, they’re no longer in touch with reality, and now believe that public opinion is whatever nutty crap they’re supporting at the moment.  It’s the only explanation for the Democrats to be clinging to the wrong side of just about every 80-20 issue.

80% of Americans favor the deportation of illegal aliens.  Democrats are against it.  80% don’t want biological men to compete against female athletes.  Democrats disagree.  A large majority favor ending the war in Ukraine.  Democrats say any communication with the Russians about a peace treaty means Putin is running our government.

Democrats can’t even adhere to the positions they’ve supported in recent years.  The reason for this can be summed up in one word.  Trump.  Democrats are so consumed with Trump Derangement Syndrome, that they’ve taken the Groucho Marx position from the movie Horsefeathers, “Whatever he’s for, we’re against it.”

Trump has figured this out, and is using the Democrat psychosis to destroy them.  Although none of this is a secret, and although any sane Party would take notice and change its tactics, the Democrat mania to reflexively oppose anything Trump supports has so far prevented them from saving themselves.

You would have thought Democrats had gotten the message that Trump hatred alone, coupled with persecution of Trump and anyone connected to him doesn’t work.  Since 2016, they spied on him, filed false affidavits to attack him, impeached him twice, sued him, prosecuted his supporters, tried to imprison him for life, and twice tried to kill him.  None of that worked.

Last Fall, Democrats spent billions trying to defeat him.  It didn’t work.  Democrats learned nothing from that experience.  Given the choice of supporting Israel, or the Hamas terrorists, most Americans choose Israel.  Not the Democrats.  Trump is deporting Hamas supporting aliens, and Democrats object.  The ACLU isn’t protecting the rights of Jewish students to peacefully attend classes at universities they pay $100 thousand a year to attend, but it is representing the 31 year old “student” who’s trying to stir up a new Jewish genocide.

For as long as I can remember, Democrats have preached that shutting down the government would bring on Armageddon.  Famine, pestilence, etc.  This year, after Trump got the votes to get his spending bill through Congress, Democrats are denouncing the Detestable Chuck Schumer for failing to convince his Party to shut the government down, for the simple reason that Trump wanted it open.

AOC (All Out Crazy) is calling for Schumer’s head, and likely planning to challenge him for election.  On the subject of AOC’s criticism, there’s no better proof of Democrat brain damage than the reaction of Democrat Senator John Fetterman, himself no stranger to brain damage.  “I’m going to stand on what I happen to believe is the right thing to do but ask her, ‘What’s the exit plan once we shut the government down?’  What about all the millions of Americans who are going to have their lives damaged?” “What about the ones that won’t have any paycheck?  She’ll have her paycheck, though.”  Bravo.

But the most conspicuous evidence that Democrats have lost their minds is the 180 degree change in their view of Elon Musk.  Musk once was the darling of the Left, the creator of the electric car, which fit into the Left’s fever dream of prohibiting oil and gas production.

Things began to change when Musk bought Twitter and had the audacity to read the First Amendment and actually protect free speech on the internet.  Then Musk supported Donald Trump.  That did it.  Democrats flipped.

The Musk led DOGE is ferreting out hundreds of billions of dollars of wasteful spending and outright fraud, monies that were the life blood of Democrat patronage and kickbacks.  Preventing Democrats from making payoffs to loony Leftist groups and taking kickbacks is akin to showing a vampire the Cross.

As this is written, Elon Musk is under enhanced security, having received multiple death threats.  Tesla dealerships, charging stations, and vehicles are being attacked, including instances of firebombing Tesla facilities.  Democrats are defacing Teslas and are selling their own Teslas, and replacing them with gasoline powered vehicles.

As a rule I don’t mention anyone with the name Kardashian, but I’ll break it.  Kim Kardashian, a darling of the Left, recently was photographed in and upon Tesla vehicles.  Her promotion of Teslas resulted in her being denounced as a Nazi, with the following comments:  “Cybertrucks do have more rights than women these days…;” “oh you in the cult;” “Kim KKKardashian strikes again;” “This is sick;” “N*zi Alert! N*zi Alert!;” “Satanist propaganda;” “Marie Antoinette vibes mixed with Eva Braun.”

The explanation for these reversals is clear.  Democrats worship government as their God.  Anyone who tries to limit the government is a heretic, and they treat them just as the Inquisition treated Galileo.

No matter how unpopular the Democrat Party gets (it’s down to 27% approval) the Progressives just keep doubling down on crazy.  The Party isn’t going away, but it’s liable to take some time for it to straighten itself out.  Let’s hope that in 2026 the Democrats keep singing that Paul Simon song.  Still Crazy After all these Years.