Officials who identify themselves as Republicans, but who don’t advance conservative values, are known as R.I.N.O.’s, Republicans in Name Only.  It occurred to me that Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is a P.I.N.O., President in Name Only.  Now over 80 years of age, every public appearance Biden makes is an embarrassment to the United States of America which gives aid and comfort to our enemies.  It has been apparent from day one of his Administration that Joe Biden cannot be running the show, because he’s incapable of doing so.  For Democrats, Biden was the perfect candidate at the perfect time.  Their formula for victory was his advancing senile dementia, a phony media, content to overlook any flaw and swear to any lie, and  the Wuhan Plague that permitted Biden to hide in his basement, and permitted Democrats to count dubious mail ballots weeks after election day.  It worked.  They sold Biden to America as a moderate, which indeed he had been.  Now, Joe Biden never was the sharpest tool in the shed.  Even before he became Il Duce Obama’s Vice President, Mark Levin was calling Joe, “the dumbest man in the Senate.”  He was on the Obama ticket not to give Il Duce advice, but to give the appearance of experience to a presidential candidate who himself had very little political experience.  Obama always knew what Joe was though, famously telling people in 2020, “Never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to fuck things up.”  However, Biden was the perfect empty vessel to be used by the Woke imbeciles running the Democrat Party.  Does anyone seriously doubt that it’s Il Duce Obama and his minions who are pulling the strings behind the scenes at the White House?  Sleepy Joe has admitted he’s really not in charge on several occasions, telling reporters he can’t answer their questions because “I’ll get in trouble.”  With whom?  So clearly, Joe’s not running the show.  Biden began proving that he was mentally null and void from the first day of his presidency.This was a signing ceremony on January 20, 2021.  Biden was heard to say, “I don’t know what I’m signing,” to which Kamala replied, “Sign it anyway.”  After that things got worse.  How many times has Biden “fallen up” the stairs to Air Force One?  He fell off his bike during a publicity event designed to show how vigorous he is for his age.  He fell at a military ceremony.  His public appearances, even those with visiting heads of State, often devolve into bouts of mumbling gibberish.  And he has a habit of falling asleep at inappropriate times.  Here he is during a speech on climate change, which Biden insists is an existential threat-

In Maui, supposedly to comfort victims of fires that destroyed Lahaina, Joe just couldn’t keep his eyes open –

Last week, Biden went to the G20 Summit in India.  He stopped in Hanoi, where he praised the Vietnamese for erecting “a memorial to John McCain.”  The memorial actually celebrates the fact that they shot McCain down and imprisoned him.  At a press conference, Biden answered a question about relations with China with, “Tell you what, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go to bed.”  Then, the first president not to be in New York or Washington on 9/11, Biden stopped in Alaska, where he advised that we should “Never forget, never forget, never forget.”  It’s a shame he lacks the capacity to take his own advice.  And then there are the constant lies that the media chooses either to ignore, or to affirm.  Former New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia really was the perfect political candidate.  His father was Italian, his mother was Jewish, and he was a Protestant.  When an opponent accused LaGuardia of antisemitism, LaGuardia challenged the man to a debate – in Yiddish.  I guess Biden wants to be like Fiorello, because, according to him, he either was raised in Pennsylvania by Irish parents, or by people from Poland, Italy, Puerto Rico, or was raised in Jewish synagogues.  Take your pick.  Joe Biden’s entire private life is no more than a fable.  He has claimed all of the following, all of which are bald-faced lies:  he was born in the same hospital where his grandfather died days before; he was appointed to the Naval Academy; he went to an historically black college, Delaware State; he graduated at the top of his law school class (really 76th of 85); his former wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver; oil refineries in Delaware gave him and his neighbors cancer; his son Beau died in Iraq.  And not content to lie only about his private life, Biden’s pronouncements on political affairs are equally lacking in credibility.  With the truth staring him in the face, and the complicity of the lapdog media, Biden has uttered complete lies such as:   Take-home pay has gone up; We have created a record 12 million new jobs; I have presided over the largest deficit reduction in American history  (It’s about to balloon to $3 trillion); Two years ago, our economy was reeling (it expanded by 7%); Oil companies have invested too little of their profit to increase domestic production and keep gas prices down (he cancelled oil leases); Now, thanks to all we’ve done, we’re exporting American products (we have a$ 1 trillion trade deficit).  Then there’s the old Democrat standby, the wealthy don’t “pay their fair share.” The top 1% pay 50% of taxes, and the top 10% pay over 70% of taxes.  Biden claims he was offered a job by an Idaho lumber company; they have no record.  He claims he “used to drive” an 18-wheeler — it didn’t happen.  He’s said he visited Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue after the 2018 massacre – he’s never even been there.  Then this week, Biden recounted a visit to Ground Zero on 9/12/01.  He wasn’t there. Biden’s bad poll numbers have prompted some Democrats to grease the skids to get rid of Joe for 2024.  The word has gone out to the lapdog media that it’s now OK to criticize his age and mental acuity.  An opinion piece published by Newsweek noted, “Biden is the first president in modern times to end press conferences without taking impromptu questions from the White House press corps.  The “lid” time that ends presidential activity for the day generally closes in the early afternoon.  In public statements, Biden often loses his place, mispronounces words, forgets names, interjects inapposite or inappropriate phrases, veers into weird digressions, and fails to complete sentences.  At major events, he has been filmed unsure of his surroundings, acting disoriented, and falling asleep.  The President stumbles and falls with alarming frequency for a man who must stand toe-to-toe against Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.  And when challenged by reporters or frustrated by White House aides, he lashes out in confused and incoherent rages.”  Yet outlets like MSNBC continue to shill for Biden, “We’ve seen little to indicate that Biden is suffering any real cognitive decline.”  MSNBC chides reporters for saying Biden is too old, because, if the media says that, people will believe it.  We don’t need the media to tell us he’s too old, we can trust our own eyes.  We can’t afford a President in Name Only.  We deserve a physically and mentally fit president who we know is in charge.  Unfortunately the MSNBC commentator mentioned above isn’t all wrong.  Democrats will believe whatever the media tells them.

As Louisiana Senator John Kennedy has noted many times, “You can’t fix stupid.”

We’ve had many remarkable presidential elections in America, but the impending 2024 contest is shaping up as a potential train wreck.  More than 60% of those polled say they’d prefer candidates other than Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden and Donald Trump.  I’ve made my feelings known.  I think Trump did a great job as president, but the Left has succeeded in poisoning his name, making his ability to win a general election of real long shot.  Most Americans agree with my assessment of Trump’s accomplishments.  In a Wall Street Journal poll, 51% say Trump had a strong record of accomplishments.  Remarkably, 40% said the same of Biden.  Wonder what they’re smoking?  The latest poll had little good news for Sleepy Joe.  Between 52 and 63% of those polled disapproved of Biden’s handling of the economy, inflation, the border, China, and Ukraine.  28% of those polled said the economy has improved since 2021.  This 28% must be made up of government employees, illegal aliens, and recent visitors to cannabis dispensaries.  The economy sucks, and Bidenomics is a bigger fraud than its namesake.  When asked who they would vote for if the election was held tomorrow, the result was a tie, with both Trump and Biden at 46%.  This was a surprising result for both candidates, but for different reasons.  An incumbent president at 39% approval, and polling 46% in a shaky economy is troubling.  Two thirds of Democrats want someone other than Joe.  That Trump remains at 46% is remarkable.  In 2016, Trump got 46.2% of the vote, after 24 hour a day bashing and lies from the Media, and a coup attempt by the Obama Justice Department and the CIA.  Between 2016 and 2020, Trump suffered constant riots, a world-wide pandemic, a phony Russia investigation, a traitorous Deep State bureaucracy, and 2 impeachments.  In 2020 Trump got 46.8% of the vote.  Since 2020, Trump has undergone the same Media barrage, plus bashing from Fox News and other Murdoch outlets, a reduction in big donor revenue, 2 civil suits and 4 indictments, and he’s still at 46%.  Democrats spied on Trump, they used so-called law enforcement agencies to keep him from being elected, they sabotaged him after his election, created a phony Russian collusion investigation, protested, rioted, and impeached him twice with no effect.  Now they’ve decided to imprison him for life, but after 4 indictments his support hasn’t wavered.  I shudder to think what’s next from the Party that stops at nothing.  All this said, it’s safe to say then, that we can expect Trump to get about 46% of the vote in 2024.  The problem is, in a two-way race, given the Democrat penchant for ballot box stuffing and other election shenanigans, that’s just not going to be enough.  And these are the numbers that have convinced me that Trump is unlikely to beat Biden head to head.  This is why running against Trump is the Democrat plan for 2024.  If they have to face another candidate, the Dems are in deep trouble, and they know it.  But what if 2024 isn’t a two-way race? If Joe Biden remains the candidate, and that remains in doubt given his frailty, his increasing dementia, and the evidence of his lifelong criminality, he faces serious impediments.  73% of Democrats say Biden is too old to run again, and only 36% of voters say Biden is mentally fit to be president.  Given that statistic, the fact that 46% would still vote for him makes you wonder about the 10% who know he’s unfit and will vote for him anyway.  And no, these are not low intelligence or low information voters.  Professor Alan Dershowitz is one who knows Biden is both inept and corrupt, but even he says he’d vote for him again.  I ascribe it to Leftist brain damage and Trump Derangement Syndrome.  But the truth is, no matter how many times Biden tells us that inflation is down and that he’s reduced the deficit, people know the truth.  They’re spending an additional $700 a month to maintain the same standard they had under Trump, and the deficit and debt just keep going up.  Add to this Biden’s constant gaffes, falling down and spewing of gibberish, and the 7 million newly arrived illegal aliens, and that’s trouble for Democrats.  Their only hope is to beat Trump head to head, because more than half the voters won’t vote for Trump.  But what if voters have another alternative?  We’ve had a number of presidents elected with less than 50% of the popular vote, when third Party candidates have drawn off enough votes to make a difference.  In 1912, Woodrow Wilson was elected with 41.8%.  Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt got 27.4%, Taft got 23.2% and Socialist Eugene Debs 6%.  Four years later Wilson was reelected with 49%.  1968 was a wild one.  Nixon was elected with 43%, Humphrey got 42% and George Wallace got 13.5% and won 5 States.  Bill Clinton never got more than 50% of the vote.  In 1992 it was Clinton 43, Bush 37 and Perot 19.  Clinton got 49% in 1996, when Perot’s vote fell to 8%.  In 2000, many believe Green Party candidate Ralph Nader cost Al Gore the presidency, when he got nearly 3 million votes, 2.75% of the vote.  Bush won with 47.9%.  I already mentioned Trump’s 2016 46.2% victory.  Having a Republican elected with less than half the popular vote wouldn’t be a novelty.  The Republicans have cracked 50% only once since 1988, with 50.7% in 2004.  Will there be a third party run?  Well, Cornell West is already the Green Party candidate, but I doubt he’ll make a difference.  The No Labels Party is already on 10 State ballots, and is flirting with running a candidate.  Depending on who the candidate is, No Labels could spell the difference between a Trump defeat and a victory.  Names have been thrown around like Joe Manchin, RFK, Jr., and former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan.  I doubt Manchin would pull the trigger.  He always talks a good game, then folds himself back into the Democrat swamp when the chips are down.  The only possibility of him running is if he’s convinced he won’t win reelection to the Senate from West Virginia.  I also don’t think RFK is going to be the candidate.  Like Manchin, he’s a Democrat and will remain a Democrat.  Unlike Republicans, who are supposed to be elephants, it’s the Democrats who never forget.  If Manchin or RFK go to No Labels, they can never go back to the Democrat Party.  Clearly, lots of people are dissatisfied with both Trump and Biden, if ever there was a time for No Labels to run a candidate this is it.

Last week marked the first Republican presidential debate.  Frankly, it was a bit anti-climactic since Donald Trump, who leads all others by about 40%, didn’t appear.  Those of you who are regular readers of these pages know that I’d prefer someone other than Trump as the 2024 Republican candidate, because the four indictments against him, warranted or not, have damaged him beyond repair as a viable candidate.  That said, the rest of the field took the stage in Milwaukee.  The post-debate consensus was that Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Nikki Haley did well.  The donors favored Ramaswamy and DeSantis, with increased contributions.  I don’t know how all this will shake out, but unless Trump decides not to run, which is a long shot, how the others do is academic.  Which brings me to the subject of this week’s exercise.  Exactly what purpose is served by the presence on the stage of Chris Christie?  Christie got in the race for one reason, to bash Donald Trump.  The two once were friendly.  Trump helped Christie get elected Governor in 2009.  I know this because, on Christie’s inauguration day, I was in Sacred Heart Basilica for a pre-inauguration mass when Donald and Melania Trump walked past me down the aisle, causing a nun in front of me to comment, “His hair looks even worse in person.”  Christie later helped Trump in his 2016 election campaign.  The two had a falling out, I guess over Christie’s role, or lack of one in the Trump Administration.  Anyhow, Christie now says of Trump, “A lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog is not a leader.”  It takes one to know one.  These two really are two of a kind.  Not a leader?  Christie needs to look in his own mirror on that one.  I was at the opening of Christie’s campaign headquarters in 2009, and worked as a campaign volunteer.  Christie’s speech made him sound like the second coming of Ronald Reagan, but it was all talk.  Once elected, Christie couldn’t deliver, and he quickly alienated me.  Understand, I’m a life-long Republican.  If a Republican candidate has turned me off, he’s got a problem.  With Christie, it was “three strikes and he’s out.”  Once elected, Christie made changes to the State employee pension and health care systems that required higher contributions.  This was necessary.  When the judges were ordered to pay more, they sued, citing a provision of the NJ Constitution that prohibited reducing their compensation.  When the judges won in court, Christie went into Trump-like attack mode, complaining, “They [the judges] got one of their own to rule in their favor,” thus declaring one-third of his own government corrupt.  That was strike one.  Then in 2013, while Christie was flying all over the map to support other Republicans, he refused to appear to support conservative Gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli in a winnable Virginia election.  Strike two.  That same year, when Frank Lautenberg finally died, NJ had a special election for Senator.  Now, Republican Steve Lonegan was not going to beat Spartacus Corey Booker in NJ.  But, if you’re Mr. Republican, and a Republican candidate is running in a special election that you engineered in your own State, you should at least mention his name once.  Christie never did.  Strike three.  That being said, Christie is polling all of 2% for the 2024 race.  The liberal media is pushing him, crowing that he now is second to Trump in New Hampshire, with 9%.  A closer look at the numbers reveals that while 17% of Republicans view Christie favorably, a third of Democrats see him as favorable, proving that he’s more popular with them than his own Party.  Clearly, his only appeal is as a Trump basher.  At the debate, Christie was roundly booed when introduced.  Without Trump to kick around, he went after Ramaswamy.  But on substance, Chris Christie offered nothing.  Christie once again mentioned that he was a prosecutor.  To my knowledge, Christie never tried a case as a prosecutor.   In any event, he said the best way to fight violent crime is to have the federal government take over the prosecutions.  He said he would direct each of the U.S. attorneys to “take over the prosecution of violent crime in every one of those cities that are failing to do so.”  This is unworkable, and as a U.S. Attorney Christie should know this.  First, I’m not sure what he proposes is legal.  Not every State case can be tried federally.  The federal courts can prosecute gun offenders under what’s called the Trigger Lock program, and that should be used more often.  However even if legally possible, prosecuting all violent crimes federally is not logistically possible.  There are a total of 14 federal judges in Newark, to serve all the northern counties.  They currently handle about 750 criminal cases a year.  Essex County alone has 17 judges in the Criminal Division, and should have at least 5 more, to resolve more than 15,000 annual criminal Complaints.  Add the violent crime dockets from Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, and Union Counties, and the federal court system would collapse.  Christie’s proposal is downright stupid.  Christie then once again tried to characterize himself as the next Ronald Reagan, noting that “the last Democratic incumbent who was defeated was Jimmy Carter, and he was defeated by a conservative governor from a Blue State who knew how to get results, stood for the truth, who cared about accountability and stood strong and hard against waste.”  To paraphrase Senator Lloyd Bentsen, “I knew Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan was a great President, and Governor, you’re no Ronald Reagan.”  Apart from his absurd personal comparison, Christie’s political analogy wasn’t even correct.  California is a misbegotten Blue State now, but not when Reagan ran for election.  In fact, in the 10 presidential elections from 1952 to 1988 the Democrats won only one time, in 1964.  So Ronald Reagan was not a Blue State Governor.  It’s clear that the answer to the question.”Why Christie?” is, “because he bashes Donald Trump.”  That’s the only reason why Democrats, and RINO’s are tolerant of Chris Christie at this time.  When he’s longer useful to them he will be consigned to the ash heap of history where he belongs.

As this is written, the wildfires on the island of Maui have destroyed nearly the entire town of Lahaina, have killed at least 114 people, and some 850 people remain missing.  The Hawaiian Islands were formed by fire, and indeed are still in the process of being formed, as a chain of undersea volcanoes has moved its activity from the northwest to the southeast.  Near the center of the chain sits Maui, known as the Valley Isle because it was formed by two volcanoes which spewed lava down each peak to create a valley that connected the two sea mounts into one island.  But enough for the geology.  The west Maui coast is home to most of the big resorts.  Kaanapali to the north, and Kehei and Wailea to the south.  In between these areas was Lahaina.  I say “was” because after the wildfires, Lahaina has all but ceased to exist.  Lahaina began as a whaling town in the 1820’s.  It was the site of most of the better restaurants on the island.  This town of nearly 13,000 residents was almost entirely wiped away by the fires.  Now Hawaii is a very liberal-progressive-woke place.  And of course, its leaders are committed (or is it that they should be committed) to Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden’s suicidal plan to end the use of oil and natural gas.  Once the island burned, the Governor immediately blamed the fires on, wait for it – climate change.  A more accurate assessment would have laid the blame, not on climate change, but on the Greenaholic Left’s climate change mandates.  Betsy McCaughey hit the nail on the head with her New York Post article, Greens Burned Maui.  In it she recounts how zero-carbon extremism made the devastating Maui fires almost inevitable.  You see, the Left’s drive to eliminate fossil fuel use, like all stupid Woke hair-brained schemes, has had some unexpected consequences.  Spurred on by extremist Green eco-nuts like Tom Steyer, at who’s $18 million dollar mansion Joe Biden is currently resting his senile old ass, on yet another vacation, the Biden Administration has made destroying oil and gas companies its primary goal.  The drive to move to “renewable” energy sources has put even more stress on the already teetering electricity producing companies, causing the companies to delay or eliminate maintenance measures such as removing vegetation from near power lines and poles.  It seems the money previously used for such things is now being eaten up by the idiotic green energy projects.  Add to the problem the Green maniacs, who have outlawed fire control measures such as brush clearance and controlled burns for fear of releasing CO2.  “No.  Not that!”  And so it came to pass that when winds brought down power lines the fires raged out of control.  But wait.  If the foregoing has made you angry, hold onto your hat, because you ain’t heard nothing yet.  It’s certainly bad enough that the Green movement’s mandates were the main reason the fires got out of control, but firefighting requires water, and the dedication to Woke idiocy denied the Maui residents the water they needed to mitigate the damage.  As with most tropical isles, water on Maui is a precious commodity.  The West Maui Land company manages the water supply, and the Hawaiian Water Resource Management Agency is responsible for directing water on the island.  When the fires hit Lahaina, local officials made an urgent request that water be diverted to the area to be used to put out the fires.  More than five hours went by, while the fires raged out of control, before the water finally was released.  By then, it was too late.  Was it just poor communication, or the chaos, or just negligence?  No.  It was the Left’s preoccupation with what it likes to call “equity.”  The official in charge of making the decision to divert the water explained that the water couldn’t simply be sent to the area on fire right away because he had to first “consider the impacts on downstream users.”  The Woke imbecile continued, “We can share [water] but it requires true conversations about equity,” because “water is a tool of social justice.”  So Maui officials fiddled for five hours while countless people were burned alive, and while the primary commercial center of Maui was razed to the ground after existing for nearly 200 years, and all in the name of the pagan God of Wokeism, “equity.”  When asked about the lack of water to fight the fires, Hawaii Governor Green offered only that we need to “understand there’s been a great deal of water conflict on Maui for many years.”  And such is the harvest of Woke idiocy, who’s adherents would rather see thousands of human beings burn than waiver from their mindless dedication to so-called environmentalism.  Of course, all this was enough of an insult to the good people of Hawaii, before Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden landed on Maui to make an appearance that his political handlers told him was necessary.  Surprising no one, Old Joe only made things worse.  He must have decided it was a good idea at the scene of a holocaust to open with a joke, so he interrupted his mumbling, incomprehensible speech to point out a dog wearing boots.  Biden quipped that the ground must be hot.  At a place where a thousand souls may have been lost, Biden proceeded to make the event about him, recounting the story of his former wife and daughter being killed in a car accident 50 years ago.  Then, in a town where only one house remains standing,

Joe told a story of a 20 minute electrical fire in his kitchen years ago, when he wasn’t home, and no one was injured, complaining that he almost lost his 1967 Corvette.  It may have been Biden’s stupid comments that motivated people along his motorcade route to chant “F*** Joe Biden” and “Thanks for nothing.”  Journalist H.L. Mencken said, “The people get the government they deserve, and they deserve to get it good and hard.”  The Maui disaster is a case in point.  If you elect a president who barely knows he’s alive, and local officials who don’t have the sense to send water to a fire lest they be criticized for being unsympathetic to the mandates of “equity,” you’ve reaped what you’ve sown.  I’d like to think the Left will learn from this travesty, but it won’t.

It is an article of faith that whenever the Left accuses conservatives of doing something that is “a threat to our democracy,” they are doing it themselves, only much worse.  In truth, when a Leftist says “it’s a threat to our democracy,” what they really mean is, it may threaten our Woke Imbecile Democrat rule.  This week Victor David Hanson authored an article detailing the the ten ways that the Left has seized and warped the United States, in the pursuit of its revolution, which threatens to pervert every aspect of American life and culture.  Here are Dr. Hanson’s top ten reasons that the left is pushing America toward the abyss.  1) The Attack On Free Expression.  In schools, in the workplace, anywhere in public really, the Left is stifling free speech.  We used to say, “It’s a free country,” but now we have to think twice about any utterance, lest it run afoul of the campus speech code, or be considered proof of a hostile work environment.  The Left permits only one side to every issue, theirs.  And college students, who once were advised to challenge authority in places of higher education dedicated to the exchange of ideas and opinions, have been transformed into fragile snowflakes who run for the nearest safe haven in the face of the mildest dissent.  2) The Weaponization of Justice.  Friendly Justice Department employees have shielded many a president from close legal scrutiny, but the current Justice Department denizens                prove that “Justice” while a title, does not describe what they do.  Never before has a Justice Department gone out of its way to manufacture criminal charges against the incumbent’s chief rival, while at the same time ignored the blatant corruption of the incumbent.  3) The Attack On The Supreme Court.  The Left once relied on the Court to provide programs it lacked the votes to enact.  Now that the Court is more conservative, that is to say, is two thirds composed of judges, rather than partisans, the Left threatens it with violence and legal action, and denounces it as as illegitimate.  I suppose that makes them law deniers.  4) The Fusion Of  Democrats And The Media.  Yes, journalists have always been rather liberal, but there was a time, not so long ago, when they actually reported the news.  Journalism no longer exists.  The media has become a news management business, trashing Trump and all Republicans constantly with lies, and ignoring or denying truths that might hurt Democrats.  I get the hatred of Trump.  You’re not supposed to pick fights with the people who buy ink by the barrel, and Trump made that his trademark.  The Fake News really is fake, but they don’t like being reminded of it.  The Hell is that they’re killing Trump while protecting a Corrupt Demented Imbecile who’s driving the nation off a cliff.  I also don’t understand their endgame.  See Number 1 above.  The First Amendment that they’re helping the Left to destroy is the only thing that’s protecting their phony baloney multi-million dollar jobs.  If the Left wins, they’re fired, and Chairman Xi will send over somebody wearing a blue Mao suit to read the news for $62.50 a week.  5) The Deconstruction Of The Common Law.  Where to begin?  The Common Law developed from English court decisions going back hundreds of years, was developed from the Mosaic Code, the Commandments which embody the Golden Rule.  The certainty of the application of the law to offenders is the basis of modern society.  Law enforcement permits commerce to thrive and protects citizens from tyranny and vigilante justice.  The Left wants to end all that.  Defund the police.  Let criminals and illegals run amok, without consequences, and society contracts.  The well to do escape.  The cities die.  Jobs disappear.  And the very fabric of society is rent.  No sane person would do this.  6) The Erosion Of The Military.  For all our differences, the one constant used to be a respect for the military, which was considered the one part of the government that worked as designed.  Not anymore.  Our military under Biden worries more about proper pronouns than it does preparedness.  The Leftist insistence on promoting diversity to permit transgender troops is appalling.  The military exists to ensure national security, not easy access to abortions.  7) Sexes.  There used to be only two.  As part of its drive to destroy the family, the Left is hard at work blurring gender lines, encouraging gender changing mutilations, and perverting the minds of children with graphic depictions of deviant sex.  Not so long ago, Democrats told us Joe Camel was a danger to children.  Today, if Joe changed his name to Josephine and put on a drag show, the Left would make it a required part of every curriculum.  8) Race, Not Class.  All racial inequality is now blamed on whiteness.  The Left is promoting the resegregation of campus dorms.  Since affirmative action has failed, they’ve moved on to reparations.  According to the Left, merit, fitness, literacy, and even highways are racist.  9) Debt As A Construct.  For the Left, national debt is meaningless, inflation is caused by greedy corporations, and all private property is up for grabs in the name of social justice.  It’s not a new concept.  They learned it from Karl Marx.  We’d be far better off with Groucho.  10) Universities.  What were centers for thought and investigation are now factories for indoctrination.  Progressives have been coming for our children for 100 years, and they’ve now got them.  Socialist educator John Dewey started kindergartens in America, not to give American kids an extra year of education, but for the stated purpose of getting them away from their parents a year sooner, before the family’s values could be ingrained in them, and thus made harder to destroy.  Dr. Hanson lists all of us who reject Leftist orthodoxy as counterrevolutionaries, clinging to out racist and archaic Bill of Rights.  Wake up.  The Left has been at war with us for years.  Because they believe themselves to be Holy Warriors, they’re convinced that any atrocity they commit is justified.  This explains their preoccupation with Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Most of us might be able to be sent to reeducation camps to be retrained, but as Counterrevolutionary Number One, Trump must be destroyed.  That’s why the people who continually tell us, “no one is above the law” have decided that Trump is beneath the law.  If Dr. Hanson’s story scares you, and it should, tell a friend.