Democrat Party's Desperation

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

When Barack Obama was elected President of the United States in 2008, the Democrat Party's smug arrogance convinced them that the United States had finally turned the corner, and was on a non-stop trajectory for socialism.  Obama won his reelection, solidifying their opinion that the Republican Party was soon to become a relic of a fading past.  Seventeen Republicans lined up to challenge the Democrats in 2016.  Hillary's only obstacle, as far as the Democrats were concerned, was Bernie Sanders inside her own party.  Sure, the self-avowed socialist believed what they did, but he was willing to inject the socialism too quickly, and the Democrats had crafted out carefully a sixteen year plan that began with Obama, and finished with Hillary Clinton's skilled iron-fisted closing act.  Bernie was dispatched with the help of super-delegates, and the Democrats were convinced with certitude that Mrs. Clinton was a shoe-in against any of the Republicans.  They secretly hoped Donald Trump would win the GOP nomination, because he would be the easiest to beat out of all of them.

The billionaire businessman won the nomination, and the Democrats jumped for joy. Not only would Hillary Clinton win, according to the pollsters and the embedded members of the deep state, she would win by a massive landslide.  The Republican Party would die sooner than they thought.  The Trump loss would be so destructive to the party, splitting it into battling factions pitting far right crazies against the moderate establishment types, that the party would destroy itself from within.

The Democrats were jumping up and down in glee.  They almost could not contain their excitement.  The breaking of the glass ceiling would also lead to the shattering of that silly right-wing constitutional foundation.

Election day came.  The evening began with the Democrats on the edge of their seats.

As the hours passed, it turned out it wouldn't be a landslide.  But, surely the non-politician, non-establishment candidate, Donald J. Trump, could not possibly beat the anointed heir apparent, Hillary Clinton.

It went past midnight, and in the end, Trump not only won, when it came to electoral votes, he won decisively.

Panic set in, but not completely.  Surely the non-politician would fair miserably.  Between his failed policies and the relentless attacks by the liberal Democrats, they would grab the White House in 2020, and maybe, just maybe, pull a Nixon style victory early on, and impeach Donald Trump.

Instead, the economy is booming.  Trump's foreign policy has been met with wild success.  Republicans love him more than ever, and despite constant attacks, independents and conservative Democrats are flocking to his side, as well.  The blue wave the Democrats smugly proclaimed would happen in November of 2018's midterms are fizzling out, and it's beginning to look like they not only won't get their blue wave, but that the Republicans may actually increase their lead in both Houses of Congress.

The Democrats are becoming frantic.  The melt-down is spreading rapidly.  Trump may not only not be impeached, he may actually achieve a second term, and do so with a GOP-majority Congress.  And, worse of all, not only are the Russian Collusion allegations falling flat, the deep state hasn't even been able to create enough turmoil from within to dislodge the hated Trump.

The establishment's trough is being drained, and Trump is about to kick the whole thing over.

The Democrats are crying out for help to fuel their resistance, paying protesters with George Soros money to create chaos at the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  They've also loaded the back of the room with members of Antifa, and feminist groups.  They've gotten to the point of doing whatever it takes, because, frankly, they are becoming desperate.

It's organized pandemonium that goes beyond the mafia style killings the Clintons orchestrated with the Democrats to cover up Hillary's emails.  The Democrats have decided that breaking rules, lying, and using every deceptive trick in the book is not enough.  Now, they are calling for utter chaos.

And as they continue their frantic effort to stop the bleeding, Trump keeps winning.  The economy is booming.  We have become more respected abroad.  And, the Supreme Court nomination of Kavanaugh, despite all of the silly antics by the Democrats, is not only an inevitability, but the behavior of the Democrats is simply making them look worse, and the whole thing is actually gaining more supportive votes for the GOP.  In the long run the out of control behavior of the Democrats is solidifying Trump's place in history as not only the accepted President of the United States by most Americans, but a highly successful President of the United States.  It got so bad at the senatorial hearings that the shameful leftists were actually attacking Kavanaugh's kids, and the poor children had to be escorted safely out of the senatorial chambers.

In 2020 I have no doubt that Donald J. Trump is going to win by a massive landslide.

But, I must slow down.  We have to be careful, and not let our guard down like the Democrats did when they thought Hillary was an inevitability.

Yes, Cory Booker's behavior has been reprehensible.  Kamala Harris has proven not only to be a manipulative partisan, but you could hear her hate for the Constitution and anyone who claims to be a Republican with each hiss from her throat.

They are desperate.  The melodrama is simply evidence of that.  But we must not be smug.  We only need to smile, and continue handing the Democrats the rope that they are convinced they must hang themselves with.

And, while all of the madness is slamming from sea to shining sea, the New York Times, which we already knew was hard left and hardly a journalistic outfit, anymore, published an anonymous op-ed by someone claiming to be part of the anti-Trump resistance, supposedly working inside the administration to stop the president.

I am not sure which was worse.  The op-ed, or the fact that the Times were willing to publish such a piece of trash.

It was another sign of desperation by the liberal left.

They are willing to do anything.

Destruction of Trump and the GOP is paramount to these people.  The ends justify the means, therefore, there are no rules left in the rule book.

According to Fox News: The op-ed ran 24 hours after excerpts of the contents of Bob Woodward’s book “Fear: Trump in the White House” were published by The Washington Post, where Woodward became famous as a crusading Watergate reporter. Conspicuously, the op-ed in The New York Times parroted the anonymous sources in the Woodward book, all actually proving the president is right about the Deep State.

It also revealed that this was all a carefully coordinated attack.

Talk about collusion.

The Times is no longer a news organization.  The New York Times now floats somewhere between being a tabloid, and a State news agency owned and operated by the Democrat Party Kremlin.

Meanwhile, Senator Elizabeth Warren, another unfit Democrat, has called for Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, which could lead to his removal from office if he can’t do his job and allow Vice President Mike Pence to take over. 

Do they really think their deep state infiltration is so powerful that the President's own V.P. and Cabinet would do such a thing?

And, if I remember the 25th Amendment correctly, the President may transmit a rebuttal, and then it can eventually become a matter for Congress to decide.

Do the Democrats not realize they are the minority in Congress?

You don't think reasonably when you are desperate.

In the elections they are attacking, too.  Duncan Hunter (of California) and Chris Collins (of New York) have gotten hit, Ted Cruz's opponent is getting oodles and oodles of leftist money despite the fact he promised not to take PAC money.   The Democrats are screaming for an end of the Electoral College, showing complete disdain for the republic we have that was ingeniously created by the Founding Fathers.

Desperation.

Conservative voices (like Paul Joseph Watson) are being silenced, too.

Desperation.

The fact is, each tactic is losing.  The New York Times stunt has failed.  No matter how hard the left tries, their attacks keep missing, and losing, and Trump is growing in popularity.

Desperation.

In the end, not only have many Americans recognized the madness for what it is, but when a President is winning, and his winning ways are putting more money in people's pockets, it doesn't matter how much of a bad boy the Democrats make him out to be. . . the fact is, the economy matters, and people's pockets are filling as a result of Trump's successful first two years.

They have good reason to be desperate.  They are losing badly.

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