You ever notice that Democrats are constantly railing against imagined or non-existent problems that they label as “existential threats?”  On June 25th, Wall Street Journal editorial page writer Barton Swaim made an excellent review of this issue in his article, The American Left’s Fantastic Threats.  The Left is in the habit of championing straw men, who are the supposed victims of imagined problems, and of taking pride in solving problems that no longer exist.  Case in point, congratulating itself for an anti-lynching law in 2022, when no one has been lynched in 60 years.  You really can’t blame them.  Because the Left is morally bankrupt and has neither the will nor the know how to solve real problems, the creation of fantastical threats is really all they’ve got.  The things that spew from the mouth of Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden are a perfect example.  Whatever handler has his or her hand up the back of our Ventriloquist’s Dummy in Chief, provides him with a steady stream of false claptrap, designed to rally the Left by warning voters of threats that either never existed or no longer exist.  Mr. Swaim’s review of a handful of Democrat talking points readily exposes their duplicity, and reinforces the truth that it is the Left that is doing many of the very things it denounces.  The examples he cites are present in every Biden speech.  In a world of ruinous inflation, impending recession, unchecked crime in the streets, the invasion of millions of illegal aliens, and an increasingly impotent military faced with Chinese Communists looking to take over the world, Biden tells us that the greatest threat we face is from white supremecists.  There are some twisted kooks out there, no doubt.  But the greatest threat?  If that was true, where are the raids,  arrests and prosecutions?  The white supremecist scare is an outgrowth of the equally false systemic racism meme.  There once was de jure (systemic) racism, but not anymore.  If this threat was real, wouldn’t Il Duce Barack Obama have ended it?  The Left has an answer which is equally ludicrous.  “There’s implicit bias, you see, so even though it’s against the law, universally rejected by society, and can’t be seen, it’s still there.”  Like much of the Democrat playbook, this is Orwellian.  George Orwell observed that, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them, because no ordinary man could be such a fool.” Likewise, the Democrat claim that Republicans “are banning books” is another Leftist fantasy.  Less then 1% of America’s thousands of libraries have received complaints about books.  And the complaints focus on the provision of sexually explicit books to children.  Banned books are available to no one.  Republicans aren’t banning books, they’re protecting children from perverts, and that’s precisely what the Left objects to.  Never forget, these are the same people who changed the term “pedophile” to “minor attracted person,” the same people who are subjecting children to Drag Queen story hours and shows, and the same people supporting gender changing surgeries for kids.  Yet another Leftist fallacy is “MAGA extremists want to tell people who they can love.”  The Supreme Court settled the same sex marriage question in 2015.  No Republican is trying to outlaw same sex marriages.  The notion of voter suppression is just one more Leftist hallucination, which is totally false, but stirs up the Woke base.  Remember Joe Biden’s denunciation of the Georgia election law amendments as “Jim Crow 2.0?”  After passage of the law, which Biden claimed would keep minorities from voting, more black voters voted in Georgia than before the amendment, and no black voter complained of a poor voting experience.  So it’s not Jim Crow 2.0, it’s Democrat Bullshit 2023.  Of course, Leftist fantasized threats balloon to extraordinary levels when applied to that “existential threat to our democracy” one Donald John Trump.  They told us Trump was a fascist, in league with Russia, and bent on installing an authoritarian government.  Democrats still believe this crap, despite the fact that the definition of fascism (everything inside the State, nothing outside the State, and nothing against the State) could be the Democrat Party motto.  They still believe it even though a recently declassified FBI memo from 2017 has proven that the FBI knew it was all a hoax, perpetrated by Hillary Clinton, before embarking on the 2 year Mueller Investigation.  And, of course, they still believe it although it is Democrats who seek to “fundamentally transform” America into a socialist autocracy.  Who’s banning books from the likes of J.K. Rowling?  Democrats.  Who’s hard at work stifling free speech on campus?  Democrats.  And who’s constantly trying to impose government censorship of free speech in public and on the internet?  Once again, Democrats.  Mr. Swaim is right.  The Left’s chief problem is that the things that formerly were liberal goals have all been met.  Despite this fact, however, Democrats continue to pretend that it’s still 1933, and that none of the social welfare programs exist.  Leftists now search in vain for some new cause.  The latest flavor of the month is transgender politics, along with the obligatory imagined threat to the safety of transgender people.  In truth, the trans community is very small, and no real threat to these people exists.  You’re male and want to pretend to be female?  Go for it.  You’re female, and want to pretend you’re male”  Who cares?  If you want to identify as a goat, I couldn’t care less, just don’t eat my wife’s flowers. The reality is that the Left ignores the real and very pressing problems that do exist, and concentrates on non-existent problems, because they have no solutions for real problems.  The Left won’t deal with the truth because, as Jack Nicholson once said, they “can’t handle the truth.”  The Leftist fixation on imaginary threats brought to mind a quote from RFK, “Some men see things as they are and say ‘why’?  I dream things that never were and say, ‘why not’?”  For today’s Democrat Party that would be, “Some Parties recognize problems that are real.  We focus on problems that no longer are or never were and say, ‘Who knows, maybe they’ll buy our bullshit one more time.'”

When I was young and naive, I assumed that the passage of time would result in a more civilized society here and around the world.  On some level, that made sense  One looked back into history and beheld millennia of brutal dictatorship, grinding poverty, cruel slavery, destructive wars, and above all, near universal illiteracy.  Surely, or so I foolishly thought, as the centuries sped by, the condition of Man would improve until we finally reached that shining city on a hill we’ve heard so much about.  In Ronald Reagan’s famous speech, he saw America as the city, a shining example of stability, prosperity, and freedom.  Although “shining city on a hill” is often associated with Ronald Reagan, he was far from the first to use that phrase.  The concept can be traced to the Sermon on the Mount.  But I digress.  I was horribly wrong.  Man is not moving toward greater civility and stability.  If anything, he’s running full tilt in the other direction.  The reason isn’t a mystery.  Although the average Man in the street, the woods, the village, or wherever would be perfectly happy just to have peace, some personal security, and a full stomach, and although today’s society is perfectly capable of supplying all those things to every person on this Earth, it isn’t going to happen because somebody has to be in charge, and once in charge, the leaders invariably become power-hungry, money-hungry pricks, who gleefully abuse, starve or kill their people if it puts another dollar in their Swiss bank accounts.  Think that’s too cynical?  In his Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defined a cynic as, “a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”  Politicians may talk a lot about their dedication to “the people” or to “democracy,” but they’re really just out for themselves.  Again, Bierce had it right, when he defined politics as “a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”  Think about it.  We’re still hearing about world hunger.  But for the greedy pricks who run the impoverished areas of the world, and the crazy Woke bastards who are running the so-called developed areas of the world, it wouldn’t have to be that way.  There are enough energy sources, food sources and modern farming and food processing techniques to ensure that no one goes hungry.  People are still starving though, for two reasons.  First, the food, money for food, medicine and other supplies sent to the Third World is stolen by the crooks running those countries, and the people be damned. Haiti’s a perfect example.  Tens of billions of dollars was sent there after the 2010 earthquake.  All the money went in, and life in Haiti now is worse than it was in the aftermath of the earthquake. (for more on Haiti, see Frank on Friday, January 18, 2018).  The second reason that hunger persists is the fault of the Woke imbeciles in the developed world.  Maybe it’s because the developed world became too prosperous.  Maybe we just had things too good.  I don’t know, but the Woke kooks in the so-called First World seem determined to destroy civilization.  The First World succeeded because of industry.  The industries themselves, and the personal industry of people who worked hard to better themselves.  The Wokesters  oppose industry, and would have humanity back in caves if they had their way.  The First World societies were orderly because the governments enforced laws to protect people and property.  That’s what separated us from the so-called Third World, but due to Progressivism, we’re regressing.  Wokesters are opposed to law enforcement.  Although we could feed the world, progressives won’t allow it.  They insist on outlawing oil and gas.  No energy, no industry.  No industry, no jobs.  No jobs, no food.  They won’t permit us to produce more food to give the hungry either.  Farmers in California could feed the world, but progressives won’t allow them to use the water they need to grow the food.  They pump potable water into the ocean to protect an endangered fish.  Damn the fish!  People are endangered you stupid bastards!  They don’t care.  They know better.  These are the same caring people who outlawed the use of DDT, an insecticide that had been used in the Third World to control mosquitos.  Without DDT, millions in Africa died of malaria.  Too bad, but it was for their own good.  Progressives have spoken.  Besides, there are more important issues.  The Woke are spending all their time worrying whether they used the proper pronouns to refer to the latest addition to the LGBTQ-whatever crowd.  They’re too busy permitting marauders to steal and kill without legal consequences, as a way to atone for past abuses for which they were in no way responsible, and which will in no way remedy past wrongs.  They oppose guns, but they won’t lift a finger to remove them from the hands of inner city teenagers who murder 10,000 people a year.  They’re too busy teaching children to hate their country, and even to hate their own genders, while denying them the ability to think for themselves.  And, of course, they are much too busy trying to convince what’s left of society to legalize, and even to encourage the use of dangerous drugs.  They oppose cigarettes, but they embrace marijuana smoking, which poses a greater danger to the lungs, not to mention the brain, than Joe Camel ever did.  Now, they’re even supporting legalization of psychedelic drugs.  Clearly, they favor a population that is ignorant, stoned, and perfectly compliant.  They are giving us the world that both George Orwell and Aldous Huxley warned us about so long ago.  They practice Orwellian double-speak.  They warn of misinformation while misinforming us.  They proclaim “no one is above the law” while they flaunt the law, and permit others to do so.  Females are male.  Males are female.  Just yesterday, I swear to God, the CDC issued a directive warning that a drug used by biological males who have turned female, which permits them to lactate, may produce milk that’s not safe for babies.  It’s truly madness.  And they’re ushering in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, by relying on AI technology instead of human experience, and by promoting a docile, tranquilized population.  A population which has but one duty.  To return the same crooked pricks to power election after election.  It’s not a Brave New World.  It’s a Depraved New World, and I , for one, want no part of it.

Like many Americans, I’m not looking forward to a rematch of the 2020 presidential election.  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is a criminal who is mentally null and void.  And Donald Trump, as I’ve said before, did wonderful things as president, and no doubt would continue his good works if reelected, but the Establishment has forever ruined him as a viable candidate.   A large majority of the electorate would prefer neither Biden nor Trump as the choices in 2024.  I’m not sure what it would take to convince Trump not to run, but the other side of that equation seems to be coming together with increased reporting of evidence of the corruption of the Biden Crime Family.  As the damning evidence continued to leak out these past few weeks, and as stories about the Bidens taking bribes were reported, even on CNN, it seems that even the Left is coming to the conclusion that it has to retire Joe Biden if it hopes to win in 2024.  The main events this week were testimony before a Congressional committee from two IRS whistleblowers who documented illegal interference in the Hunter Biden investigation, and the announcement that Hunter would plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and an unlawful gun possession charge (more about the pleas later).  For all the harping by Democrats about the Republican investigations being groundless, and in spite of Joe Biden’s claim that allegations of his involvement are “malarkey,” I was reminded of the words of John Donne, “Never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”  Or in this case, ask not, Joe, for whom the whistles blow, they blow for thee.  Democrats are attempting to blow off these revelations as being limited only to Hunter Biden, and then only because the poor, benighted Hunter was a drug addict.  Due to this, or so the official bullshit story goes, you can’t really blame Hunter for whatever he did, and Old Joe is just showing his love for his son, as any father would.  Diabetic readers are no doubt reaching for the insulin at this point.  Lying Leftist spin aside, the investigations into Hunter Biden’s criminal activities aren’t focused on him, but rather on his father, Corrupt Demented Joe, a/k/a, The Big Guy.  Hunter’s incriminating laptop computer contains all the evidence needed to convict both Hunter and The Big Guy of multiple felonies.  The Republican Congressional Committees looking into the Bidens aren’t looking to catch Hunter, but the whole Biden Crime Family, which has been in operation for nearly 50 years.  If we didn’t live in a land where elected officials (except for Donald Trump) are above the law, then in the past 50 years, someone might have wondered how Sleepy Joe, who claims he came to the Senate as poor as a church mouse, came to amass enough money to buy several luxury properties in Delaware.  The fact that the Bidens achieved great wealth has less to do with Horatio Alger, and more to do with Al Capone.  The Bidens made their money the old-fashioned way, they extorted and stole it.  The investigations are looking into Biden corruption and the weaponization of the justice system against anyone who is outside the Establishment, and thus must be stopped.  Donald Trump comes readily to mind.  As John Adams once observed, facts are stubborn things.  When Trump is the target, anything goes.   Paul Manafort was locked in solitary confinement to convince him to rat Trump out, even though to do so would require Manafort to lie.  Meanwhile, when the Feds have Hunter Biden dead to rights, instead of using the leverage to force him to tell the truth, the Justice Department gives him a sweetheart deal.  The Hunter investigation resulted in offers to plead to 2 failure to pay tax misdemeanors and a diversion program for the gun charge.  Possession of a gun by a drug addict can get you 10 years.  Hunter got a pass.  Meanwhile, the same Justice Department is trying to send Donald Trump, a former president, to prison for what amounts to life for possessing documents that presidents are permitted to possess.  Justice indeed.  And what of the so-called Hunter Biden independent counsel investigation?  It turns out it wasn’t really independent.  AG Garland claims that Counsel Weiss had the authority to look into anything and to bring any charges in any jurisdiction, but that turns out to be a lie.  The Feds raided Mar A Lago for classified documents.  Weiss wanted to search Biden’s Delaware house where Hunter lived.  Justice Department AAG Lesley Wolf rejected this plan, citing “bad optics.”  Then, when Weiss sought a search warrant for Hunter’s storage locker, whistleblowers say Wolf called Hunter’s lawyers to warn them of the impending search.  There’s a term for law enforcement agents who tip off criminal targets of the details of an investigation – official misconduct, which is a felony that will put the perpetrator in prison.  Wolf won’t be charged with anything, and Hunter, who evaded taxes of more than $1 million, wasn’t charged with a felony either.  The income involved was from Ukrainian company Burisma, which was paying the Biden Family milli0ns of dollars for God knows what.  And that tax number would have been higher had not the investigators delayed so long that the 2014 and 2015 payments were outside the statute of limitations.  In all, the Bidens took in more than $8 million from Burisma over 6 years.  Hunter, when he did file tax returns,  took as business expenses a $25,000 payment to a girlfriend, disguised as a “golf membership,” as well as a payment for a sex club membership.  That’s not “failure to pay,” it’s tax evasion, which is a felony.   The gun charge against Hunter has a maximum sentence of 10 years.  Hunter got a diversion program for that, meaning, if he stays clean for a time, it will be dismissed.   No criminal record.  You try to get that deal.  The whistleblowers say they wanted more serious charges brought but were overruled.  I wonder why?  There’s actually a message from Hunter shaking down a Chinese business associate for $5 million.  “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled … And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”  $5 million was paid later that week.  Investigators wanted to obtain location data to confirm that Old Joe was present at the time, but the Justice Department said “No.”  I wonder why?  This week, Biden had a private lunch with Il Duce Obama.  Very hush, hush.  Maybe Il Duce was telling Joe it’s time to go.  Time will tell.

I’ve been reading Gregg Jarrett’s book, The Trial of the Century, about the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.  Nearly 100 years ago, the State of Tennessee passed a law making it a crime for a teacher in a public school “to teach any theory that denies the Story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals,” in other words, the theory of evolution championed by Charles Darwin.  The trial was the subject of the movie, Inherit the Wind, with Spencer Tracy portraying John Scope’s attorney, Clarence Darrow.  Darrow was the most famous defense attorney in America in the 1920’s; a classical liberal, dedicated to the preservation of the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.  Reading the book, I was reminded of the words attributed to  Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”  A hundred years ago, government took up the cause of fundamentalist religious fanatics to suppress free thought and free expression.  Today, the government is in league with fundamentalist anti-religious fanatics to do precisely the same things.  And the issues faced by Clarence Darrow in his defense of John Scopes are no less pertinent today.  Here are some Darrow quotes from the trial transcript.  “Every bit of knowledge that the mind has must now be submitted to a religious test … If men are not tolerant, if men cannot respect each other’s opinions, if men cannot live and let live, then no man’s life is safe.”  “There is not a single line of any constitution that can withstand bigotry and ignorance when it seeks to destroy the right of the individual; and bigotry and ignorance are ever active.”  “They are after everybody that dares to think.” “The government is not equipped to tell its people what to believe and what not to believe.  Individuals have an indefeasible right to decide for themselves.”  As I said, the more things change, the more they stay the same.  100 years ago, as now, so-called Progressives were obsessed with controlling the education of children, in order to indoctrinate them with the notion that the government knows best what may be said and what may be thought, and to stifle any attempt at the free expression of ideas and opinions that conflict with Progressive orthodoxy.  Clarence Darrow was right in 1925.  The government is not equipped to tell its people what to believe and what not to believe.  Individuals do have an indefeasible right to decide for themselves.  The problem for the Left, however, is that individuals who make up their own minds, and who dare to challenge their Leftist masters, are a threat.  They threaten to expose the false premises and outright lies of the Progressive imbeciles, who can maintain control only by kindling the bigotry and ignorance upon which the Left relies.  100 years removed from 1925 Tennessee, the last thing the Left can permit is a populace, and therefore an electorate, which thinks for itself, and which is willing to consider that what it’s being told simply doesn’t make sense.  Clarence Darrow lived by the maxim that, “The beginning of wisdom is doubt.”  But the Left can’t maintain its control in the face of a wise populace.  The Left doesn’t want people who doubt the veracity of its pronouncements.  It’s wants only compliance.  The proof of this fact is palpable.  Control education, and you teach only that which supports your position.  Produce generations of students and graduates who, through no fault of their own, know nothing of history, are ignorant of the truth, and are ill equipped to discover when they’re being lied to.  To quote Darrow once more, “Ignorance and fanaticism is forever busy and needs feeding.  Always it is feeding and gloating for more.”  That neatly sums up today’s Left.  And 100 years after the Scopes trial, Progressives remain hard at work in their quest to spread ignorance and bigotry.  Think about it.  Today’s Democrats have denounced all Republicans as deplorable, irredeemable, extremist, insurrectionists, who are unworthy of holding any office.  Have you ever noticed that the election of any non-Leftist is denounced as illegitimate, while at the same time the Left condemns any conservative who suggests his election loss was unfair as an “election denier?”  And it’s not just a Republican vs. Democrat battle.  This week, the government got social media outlets to cancel the accounts of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  RFK dares think for himself.  Today’s Leftist quest to spread ignorance is done in the guise of a need to avoid “misinformation.”  That’s a neat term that means we should permit Leftist politicians to decide what’s true and what’s not true, and permit them to cancel, suppress, and remove all speech, opinions, or statements that they consider to be dangerous “to our democracy” by labeling it “misinformation.”  They did just that in 2020, having FBI agents warning social media outlets about postings (speech) which they claimed was untrue, and thus unworthy of being seen or heard.  That conduct has caused a number of State Attorneys General to sue the Biden Administration.  One pending lawsuit, in Louisiana, seeks a preliminary injunction to bar the government from “demanding, urging, encouraging, pressuring, deceiving, colluding, or otherwise inducing social media companies to censor disfavored speakers or opinions.”  A federal judge will soon rule on that suit.  Hopefully, the judge will look no further than the opening clause of the First Amendment to grant the requested relief.  “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” But the work of the Left continues.  Il Duce Barack Obama is pushing government censorship to stamp out “misinformation.”  He laments the fact that there’s too much access to differing points of view.  “You have the sheer proliferation of content, and the splintering of information and audiences … that’s made democracy more complicated.”  “Search and social media platforms are our primary source of news and information …  No one tells us that the window is blurred, subject to unseen distortions, and subtle manipulations.”  All this from the president who once said “it would be easier to be the leader of China, because no one’s scrutinizing his words.”  But as with most things Obama, this is pure bullshit.  Separating the truth from what is reported is not a new problem.  When Clarence Darrow was trying the Scopes case, newspapers were famous for simply making stories up.  Sadly, that practice still exists.  Obama and his henchmen aren’t worried about democracy.  They’re worried about their ability to continue to deceive the public.  Once upon a time Ronald Reagan said we should trust, but verify.  Recent actions by the Left constrain me to amend that proposition.  Don’t trust.  Doubt and verify.

Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden kicked off his 2024 reelection campaign last week.  He didn’t have a rally; he didn’t do a Townhall event, or make a major policy speech; but Biden set in motion his principal reelection strategy; he had his Justice Department indict Donald Trump.  The Biden reelection strategy is based entirely on running against a crippled Donald Trump, and the Democrats are doing everything in their power to destroy whatever chance Trump had to return to the presidency.  This strategy really is Biden’s only hope of reelection.  He certainly can’t run on his record, which has been a model of abject failure.  Joe Biden truly has bungled every thing he’s touched.  He knows he was elected only because he wasn’t Trump, but he, or the people really running the show, should have been smart enough to understand that simply reversing everything Trump had done was neither in their best interest nor that of the country.  Under Trump, America had lower taxes, higher wages, no inflation, energy independence, greatly improved trade agreements, a rejuvenated military, secure borders, world-wide peace, and well-funded NATO alliance.  Until China poisoned the world with its Wuhan virus, we had the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.  Biden could have badmouthed Trump while continuing many of the Trump policies, and then taken the credit.  Instead, he mindlessly reversed all the Trump successes, and surprising no one, turned success into the failure that is the Biden Administration.  Joe Biden can’t point to even one thing that’s gotten better since he became president.  Even with a lapdog media that will repeat any lie he tells, Biden can’t run on any real or imagined accomplishment.  Hence, the Biden election strategy.  Run against a fatally weakened Trump.  The Democrats have been working on that strategy a long time.  Donald Trump may be an arrogant, narcissistic blowhard, whose inability to curb his big mouth makes him his own worst enemy, but when he says he’s the victim of a witch hunt, he’s not lying.  What the Democrats have done to Trump is a truly  monumental scandal, second only to the Biden Crime Family bribery scandal.  Trump’s only real crime was that he wasn’t part of the Washington Establishment.  He was an outsider, who wouldn’t play the D.C. money-wasting, pocket-lining, lying, thieving game.  He was like Rocky Balboa in the first movie, “He don’t know it’s a damn show, he thinks it’s a fight.”  As with most crooked political activities, the Trump witch hunt can be traced back to Hillary Clinton.  FBI whistleblowers have now confirmed what I said here six years ago.  Hillary used the fabricated Russian Collusion dossier to prompt the FBI, Justice, and the CIA to investigate Trump before and after his election.  The FBI treated the newly elected president as a criminal target from Day One.  I rarely give the Detestable Chuck Schumer credit for anything, but he did get one thing right.  Schumer warned Trump in 2017, “You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”  The entirety of the Establishment has made getting back at Trump Job One.  They infiltrated the Trump campaign, tapped his phones, persecuted his aides, continually leaked classified information, and engineered two bogus impeachments.  Democrats may not know how to govern, they may be hypocritical lying bastards, and they may be downright nuts, but the one thing they do well is smear the opposition.  Perhaps the one thing that Democrats can credibly claim they’ve done successfully is that they have successfully managed to destroy Donald Trump’s ability to run for office.  And the irony is priceless.  They falsely smeared Trump as a Russian collaborator, while Hillary and Bill Clinton were taking Russian money, and we now know that the Ukrainian Burisma chief who paid millions in bribes to the Bidens is working for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).  It’s not fair.  The only true crimes involving Trump are the ones where he’s  the victim, but they’ve succeeded in destroying Trump’s ability to win, and now they just keep piling on, because they have to run against Trump to have a chance in 2024.  But the Democrats are walking a very hazardous tightrope.  Their challenge is to dirty Trump up as much as possible by repeatedly indicting him, while at the same time not burying Trump so deep that he decides he can’t run for election.  In truth they’re not taking much of a chance, because they’re counting on Trump’s unlimited supply of arrogance.  They know Trump will insist on running, and that his supporters will stay with him no matter how many times they indict him.  The problem is that, even without the indictments, more than half the electorate won’t vote for Trump no matter what he says or does.  But the Democrats want to make sure the election isn’t close, so they’re trying to keep Trump in different courts when he should be campaigning.  Their goal is to turn Trump into the latter day equivalent of Eugene Debs, a Socialist, who ran for president in 1920 from his prison cell, where he was serving a ten year sentence on an Espionage Act conviction.  Guess what?  Debs didn’t win, and neither will Trump, who will be running either as a convicted felon or as an indicted felon.  And even if all the crap gets dismissed, Democrats will say he’s a criminal, the media will support them, the real criminals of the crooked Establishment will be back in business, and the American people will be screwed again.  President Trump, for all your faults you deserved better.  What’s been done to you is a travesty, but the damage can’t be undone.  If you love America more than you love yourself, please step aside and let us have a candidate who has a chance of beating these bastards.