We have arrived at what are sometimes called the dog days of summer. Historically, the dog days were the period following the heliacal rising of the star Sirius, which Greek and Roman astrology connected with heat, drought, sudden thunderstorms, lethargy, fever, mad dogs, and bad luck. They are now considered to be the hottest, most uncomfortable part of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.  In 1963, Nate King Cole sang about “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days Of Summer.” During those less complicated days of the 1960’s, we could look forward to “those days of soda and pretzels and beer.” We knew nothing of fructose, or grams of sugar or carbohydrates in those days.  Yeah, less complicated.  But I digress. Nowadays, instead of the soda and pretzels and beer, all we’re getting are feverish mad dogs.  We used to call these deranged mongrels liberals, but liberalism connotes a certain measure of tolerance which they do not possess, so I suppose it’s fitting that these lunatics now call themselves progressives.  We’ve covered this ground before in these pages, but to recap, progressives (hereinafter, “Progs”), are afflicted with delusions of rectitude, which leave them with an unshakable certitude that they are always right.  These delusions, when combined with the natural paranoia of the Progs, turn anyone who dares to disagree with a Prog into a dangerous extremist who must be destroyed.  Don’t get me wrong, the Progs are crazy all twelve months of the year, but this Summer they seem even crazier than usual.  I wish it was only the heat.  The Anti-Trump fever on the Left has reached epidemic proportions.  Leftist mad dogs, egged on by Maxine Waters, the leader of the mad dog pack, have vowed to harass anyone who works for or with the Trump Administration.  Sarah Sanders and her children were confronted and chased from two different restaurants in Virginia.  Her crime?  Trying to feed her children.  The Progs have decreed that Sanders deserves a life sentence.  Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was run out of a movie theater by Prog protesters who threatened her.  It’s a sickness.  Senator McConnell was harassed outside his home by the same band of feverish mad dogs.  You don’t even have to work for the government to be a target.  The other day, two conservative media people,  Candace Owens (an African-American woman) and Charlie Kirk, were having a quiet breakfast in a Philadelphia restaurant.  A crowd of filthy Antifa thugs appeared, blowing whistles, blaring bullhorns, chanting stupidly, and threw water on Mr. Kirk.  The police, mostly black officers, responded, and were denounced, along with Ms. Owens, as white supremecists.  As I said, it’s a sickness.  The Progs say Trump is a tyrant, who is destroying the Constitution.  Their solution?  Cancel the Second Amendment, and destroy the First Amendment, by stifling speech they don’t agree with on college campuses and even on the internet.  The virulence of the summertime mad dog fever is  no more evident than on the issue of immigration.  As late as 2014,  Il Duce Obama no less (and there is no less), was advising would-be immigrants not to enter the U.S. illegally.  Prominent Democrats, the Clintons included, were in favor of secure borders.  Not anymore.  The Anti-Trump fever has pushed the Dems so far left that now, every elected Democrat must support getting rid of ICE, or face the wrath of the fevered Left.  The notion that our immigration problems can be solved by opening the borders and ending all immigration enforcement would be crazy enough if it was coming only from some fringe group of nuts.  But the fever has spread to federal judges, one of whom last week ordered the Trump Administration to reinstitute the unconstitutional Obama DACA program.  DACA is not a law, so a judge is ordering the chief executive to take executive action, which violates the separation of powers.  Apparently this judge thinks two unconstitutional acts make a legal act.  Sick.  The fever has sparked more and more violent protests, which are approaching civil war proportions.  In Portland, Oregon, on June 19th, a violent mob of anarchist protestors, including the hooded bastards of Antifa, surrounded the Portland ICE office, trapping workers inside the building.  Portland’s leftist mayor ordered police to stay away, letting the protestors run wild.  Signs called ICE agents Nazis and white supremecists, and  accused them of running concentration camps.  The nuts demanded open borders, they harassed ICE agents, even following them home.  The anarchists set up a filthy encampment in the 90 to 100 degree heat, which soon became a bio-hazard.  Drug use was rampant.  They took down and defaced the American flag and raised anarchist and communist flags over the federal building.  The mob threatened local residents and business people in the area.  The siege went on for 12 days, closing down ICE operations.  All this time, the Portland police did nothing.  Portland’s mayor even encouraged them, “To all demonstrators: I urge you to keep up this effort.”  The siege ended, only after federal police officers from Homeland Security arrived and took back the building.  The mob denounced black police officers as “traitors” and “house niggers,” and threatened that they knew where they lived.  This shows that Antifa isn’t against fascism, but is in charge of it.  I’m sorry, but Trump hatred is one thing, and civil war is something else.  That’s right, I said it, civil war.  If you doubt me, remember John Brown.  He seized a federal building in Harpers Ferry.  They hanged him.  We don’t hang people anymore, but a bunch of these anarchist bastards ought to see the inside of prisons.  They occasionally arrest some of the Antifa goons, even in Berkeley California.  Arrest photos were posted, prompting cries that it might endanger the very hooded bastards responsible for the violence.  Sickness.  Having seen the photos.  I now understand why these bastards wear hoods over their faces.

If these are the faces of the new Democrat Party, they’re gonna need thicker hoods.