The late, great radio talk show host Bob Grant used to observe, “It’s sick out there and getting sicker.”  That was more than 12 years ago.  Things “out there” have not improved since then,  If anything, the folks “out there” have gotten even sicker than they were before.  And there is no group “out there” that is any further “out there” than the denizens of the Democrat Party.

In the wake of their devastating loss in the 2024 presidential election, there’s been lots of coverage of the Party’s post mortem “soul searching,” and claims that it’s reviewing its policies to ferret out why so many voters have turned against them.  But that’s just empty talk, because the truth is they’ve learned nothing.  You can’t accomplish soul searching unless you have a soul.  They don’t.

We are being subjected almost daily to reports of Democrat retreats, where they undergo hours or days of reflection to pinpoint why their brand is about as popular as genital warts.  They haven’t come up with the answer, although the answer is obvious.  The inmates are running their asylum, and until they can wrestle the power back from them, get them sedated, and return to reality, things for the Democrats will not get any better.

What I mean by this is that, by ceding control to the Leftist fringe, they have abandoned the issues and the voting groups that were reliable Democrat voters for decades.  Working class voters, Black and Hispanic voters, and young voters didn’t leave the Democrat Party.  The Democrat Party left them.  All their problems are self-inflicted.

The Party is spending time and money wondering what went wrong, but they know the answer, or at least, they knew it in 2020.  If you want to get elected, you have to convince the majority of voters that that you’re relatively normal.  You have to at least pretend to have moderate policies.  They sold Biden as a moderate.  Then they used the empty shell that was Biden to pursue policies that are inimical to the majority of the population.

Simply put, the Democrats have done everything they possibly could have done to alienate the greatest number of voters.  Not too long ago, even Democrats understood that running up trillions of dollars of debt, opening our borders to untold millions of illegal alien invaders, preventing the police from enforcing the law, and hiring prosecutors who refuse to prosecute criminals, were ruinous policies that would destroy our country.

They lost their way.  They forgot that their bread and butter supporters aren’t the sad socialist or anarchist cat ladies with purple hair, who have nothing better to do than march and chant idiotically in support of the rights of male athletes to injure female athletes while making a mockery of Title IX.

After the 1968 presidential election, Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg published a book entitled The Real Majority.  In it, they identified the center of the electorate, the real majority, as moderates who were more liberal on economic issues, such as protecting social security, and more conservative on social issues, such as controlling crime.  Their description of “the average voter” was the 52 year old wife of a blue-collar worker in the Midwest.  Their message – if you win those voters, you win the election.  That was true in 1970, and it’s true now.

Democrats once understood this.  Bill Clinton won Ohio and in 1996, he also won Florida.  Il Duce Obama, The Great Pretender, who posed as a moderate (remember, he started out against gay marriage, before he “evolved”), won Ohio twice and Florida once.  Ohio, once a swing State, recently has swung steadily toward Republicans, and Florida is decidedly Red.  At the same time, Democrats have swung Left, away from their traditional base, and increasingly away from reality and normalcy.  This is a recipe for disaster.

Democrats have been mindlessly following this recipe for 10 years for only one reason.  Donald John Trump.  The Democrats are Ahab, and Trump is the White Whale they’ve been pursuing for a decade.  To get Trump, they have set every trap, broken every law, abandoned any pretense of fair dealing, and in so doing have distracted themselves while their base has steadily trickled away.

Democrat hatred of Trump has been Ahab-like.  Ahab said, “From hell’s heart, I stab at thee; for hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”  “I would chase him around the globe.  If it took me to the last corner of the earth, I would find him.” “I will set my sails towards revenge, and nothing will stop me.”  Sound familiar?  Democrats say, “Trump is an existential threat to democracy, a fascist, a Hitler, a Mussolini who must be stopped.”

Every Trump policy is compared to those of Nazis.  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden said it’s “time to put Trump in a bullseye.”  NY Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman told MSNBC, “It is just unquestionable at this point that man cannot see public office again.  He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be eliminated.”  Talk like this led to two assassination attempts, in which Trump was shot, a man was killed and two others severely wounded.  Democrats learned nothing.

If they are unable to shake their obsession with Trump Derangement Syndrome, they inevitably will go the way of Ahab.  Snared in their own ropes, bound to their Great White prey, as he takes them under for the third time.  In his first term, Trump was his own worst enemy, making statements and personnel decisions that hamstrung him.  He learned from his mistakes.

It may have taken Trump’s appointment of most of the staff of Fox News to his second Administration, but he’s finally found effective and loyal subordinates.  And he’s figured out that all he needs to do is to come out in favor of an issue, any issue, and Democrats will trip over themselves to oppose it.

Trump secured the border, and is relentlessly deporting criminal aliens.  Democrats are urging the courts to keep alien criminals in our country and on our streets.  That’s not popular.

Trump sent federal law enforcement into D.C., causing crime to plummet, and D.C. residents to praise his actions.  Democrats are against enforcing the law, taking criminals and guns off the streets, and protecting innocent lives.  Not too smart.

A Trans maniac in Minnesota gets his/her hands on guns and shoots children in a church, and Democrats immediately announce it’s Trump’s fault, for not taking legal guns away from law abiding citizens.  No thinking person buys that crap, especially since Democrats have no desire to take illegal guns away from teenage gangsters.

There are myriad other examples of Democrat stupidity, but here’s the point.  Until and unless Democrats accept the fact that Trump beat them, and that they’ll have to cooperate with him until 2029, they will just keep losing ground.  Unfortunately for them, since they’ve let the loony Leftist toothpaste out of the tube, it’s going to be hard to put it back in and return to normal values.  Moving to the middle is bound to alienate their 20% nutty Leftist base.  Let’s hope it takes them, about 12 years to figure it out.