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The Democrats Are Unwell — Not Trump

Well of course they would say this. And for a reason.  Politically speaking, President Trump has taken the Democrats to the woodshed more times than can be counted. The economy hums. The U.S. is not at war. America’s cities are being cleaned up from the sewers Democrat mayors have opened. One could go on. Yet with all of that — or maybe because of all of that — here are prominent Democrats on the president. • Rep. Madeleine Dean, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said the other day, “The president is unhinged. He is unwell.” • Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas said that Trump supporters are “sick” and that the country has a mental health crisis due to Trump’s presidency.  • One-time Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci, who long ago broke bitterly with Trump, said this: “Trump’s obviously got something wrong with him. I would say to [British Prime Minister] Keir Starmer the guy is unwell and he’s surrounded by willing sycophants that want to pretend that he’s not unwell.” • MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, a longtime leftist, has said a recent Trump speech to military leaders shows the president to be “deranged.” And on — and on and on — goes this nonsense. What these comments and others from Democrats in fact really do is vividly illustrate that it is the Democrats and American Left who are, in fact, “unwell,” “deranged,” and “sick.” A case in point was the Democrats’ insistence that then-President Joe Biden was just A-OK and more than fit to be in the White House. But they couldn’t pull the wool over Americans’ eyes as they saw Biden in televised vivid color on multiples of multiples of occasions not knowing what he was saying, wandering around on public stages, and mangling his sentences. On one occasion, he had to be guided at a gathering on the White House lawn by the visiting actor dressed as the Easter Bunny. That would be a serious definition of “unwell.” Only this week, the Democrat Senate leader, New York’s Chuck Schumer, took to the Senate floor to say that a poll from the New York Times was “biased.” He was greeted instantly by disbelieving, raucous laughter from colleagues.  Suffice to say, all of this and more is the behavior of an unwell political party. And it is not hard to believe that it is the party’s reaction to Trump that has caused this sickness.  Let’s face it. The Democrats have a long history as the majority party. They see themselves today as the heirs of the glory days long gone with Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and, more recently, to their mind, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. But in today’s world, they are hardly seen in that fashion. Over at Fox, journalist David Marcus writes this of what he has seen in left-leaning Portland, Oregon:  PORTLAND, Ore. – For more than 100 nights in a row, Antifa thugs have taken over the streets in front of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility (ICE), hooting, hollering and waving any flag that wasn’t Old Glory. As dusk descended on Tuesday, it was clear they — not the hapless handful of police on hand — were in control. I later learned officers were told by their higher-ups not to engage the black-clad, masked radicals. If you have never seen Antifa at night, in their natural menacing environment, I’d describe it as a mental asylum meeting in a Batman movie. It’s almost hard to imagine these characters are real. But alas, these leftists are real. And in this corner, I would suggest they are a symbol of a political party that is decidedly unwell. While there’s no question the Democrats’ Trump-supporting and conservative opponents are taking considerable satisfaction seasoned with some not inconsiderable glee watching all this, for America’s sake there is nothing funny in the least when one of its two major political parties goes off the rails. In fact, going so far off the rails that one wonders if they will ever get their train back on the tracks. Has this kind of “party unwell” illness been seen before? Yes. For those with a long memory, the hard left turn of 1972 Democrats that resulted in a GOP/Nixon 49-state landslide caused Democrats to, as it were, right themselves with a turn four years later to a supposed centrist Jimmy Carter. Can that return to normalcy for Democrats be repeated?  One suspects, on seeing the rising leaders appearing on the scene — the AOCs and Jasmine Crocketts of the party — that this is a party that is unwell at its grassroots level. A party that, in fact, doesn’t even realize it is unwell. And thinking that it is President Trump who is “unwell” and “unhinged” — and not themselves? That is a problem indeed. A big one. Stay tuned. READ MORE: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Exposes the Depth of America’s Moral Crisis On the Frontlines of the War That Will Change Europe The Ideologies of Western Suicide