Two months into the Trump 47 Administration, and I’m amazed at the effect that one man has had on a Democrat Party which has managed to stay in business for 197 years.  Throughout all that time, no other Party or political leader has brought the Democrats to the brink of dissolution, no matter how bad conditions got.

The Democrat Party drove America into a Civil War that cost 600,000 lives.  Yet, aided by a crooked political deal after the 1876 election, it came back.

Between 1897 and 1933, Republicans held the presidency for 28 out of 36 years.  Aided by the Great Depression, Democrats came back.

War hero Dwight Eisenhower routed the Democrats in the 1950’s, but their Party endured.

The Democrats have habit of nominating candidates that are too far Left to be elected.  They did that in 1968, 1972, 1984 and 1988.  The utter failure of moderate Jimmy Carter ushering in Ronald Reagan, and 12 years of Republican rule.

Reagan was very popular, but he couldn’t break the Democrats.  They learned their lesson by nominating Bill Clinton, then successfully convinced America that Obama was moderate in 2008, which, with the aid of an economic fiasco, got him elected.

The point is that up to now, Democrats always realized that their success lay in bringing the Party back toward the middle, because that’s where most of the voters are.  Donald Trump has changed that equation.

I’ve long been telling you that Democrats suffer from a mass mental disorder that causes them to believe that whatever loony position they take is in the mainstream.  Democrats have been walking that fine line between lucidity and Bat Shit Crazy for some time now.  However, that delicate balance has shifted, and Democrats seem to have plunged over the edge.

How else to explain their positions?  Politics is the art of the possible.  A political Party must have the ability to detect changes in public opinion in order to keep itself viable.  Get too far off the beam, and you pay a heavy price.  Republicans learned that in 1964, and Democrats learned the same lesson in 1972.

Today’s Democrats have lost their way.  In the throes of their delusion, they’re no longer in touch with reality, and now believe that public opinion is whatever nutty crap they’re supporting at the moment.  It’s the only explanation for the Democrats to be clinging to the wrong side of just about every 80-20 issue.

80% of Americans favor the deportation of illegal aliens.  Democrats are against it.  80% don’t want biological men to compete against female athletes.  Democrats disagree.  A large majority favor ending the war in Ukraine.  Democrats say any communication with the Russians about a peace treaty means Putin is running our government.

Democrats can’t even adhere to the positions they’ve supported in recent years.  The reason for this can be summed up in one word.  Trump.  Democrats are so consumed with Trump Derangement Syndrome, that they’ve taken the Groucho Marx position from the movie Horsefeathers, “Whatever he’s for, we’re against it.”

Trump has figured this out, and is using the Democrat psychosis to destroy them.  Although none of this is a secret, and although any sane Party would take notice and change its tactics, the Democrat mania to reflexively oppose anything Trump supports has so far prevented them from saving themselves.

You would have thought Democrats had gotten the message that Trump hatred alone, coupled with persecution of Trump and anyone connected to him doesn’t work.  Since 2016, they spied on him, filed false affidavits to attack him, impeached him twice, sued him, prosecuted his supporters, tried to imprison him for life, and twice tried to kill him.  None of that worked.

Last Fall, Democrats spent billions trying to defeat him.  It didn’t work.  Democrats learned nothing from that experience.  Given the choice of supporting Israel, or the Hamas terrorists, most Americans choose Israel.  Not the Democrats.  Trump is deporting Hamas supporting aliens, and Democrats object.  The ACLU isn’t protecting the rights of Jewish students to peacefully attend classes at universities they pay $100 thousand a year to attend, but it is representing the 31 year old “student” who’s trying to stir up a new Jewish genocide.

For as long as I can remember, Democrats have preached that shutting down the government would bring on Armageddon.  Famine, pestilence, etc.  This year, after Trump got the votes to get his spending bill through Congress, Democrats are denouncing the Detestable Chuck Schumer for failing to convince his Party to shut the government down, for the simple reason that Trump wanted it open.

AOC (All Out Crazy) is calling for Schumer’s head, and likely planning to challenge him for election.  On the subject of AOC’s criticism, there’s no better proof of Democrat brain damage than the reaction of Democrat Senator John Fetterman, himself no stranger to brain damage.  “I’m going to stand on what I happen to believe is the right thing to do but ask her, ‘What’s the exit plan once we shut the government down?’  What about all the millions of Americans who are going to have their lives damaged?” “What about the ones that won’t have any paycheck?  She’ll have her paycheck, though.”  Bravo.

But the most conspicuous evidence that Democrats have lost their minds is the 180 degree change in their view of Elon Musk.  Musk once was the darling of the Left, the creator of the electric car, which fit into the Left’s fever dream of prohibiting oil and gas production.

Things began to change when Musk bought Twitter and had the audacity to read the First Amendment and actually protect free speech on the internet.  Then Musk supported Donald Trump.  That did it.  Democrats flipped.

The Musk led DOGE is ferreting out hundreds of billions of dollars of wasteful spending and outright fraud, monies that were the life blood of Democrat patronage and kickbacks.  Preventing Democrats from making payoffs to loony Leftist groups and taking kickbacks is akin to showing a vampire the Cross.

As this is written, Elon Musk is under enhanced security, having received multiple death threats.  Tesla dealerships, charging stations, and vehicles are being attacked, including instances of firebombing Tesla facilities.  Democrats are defacing Teslas and are selling their own Teslas, and replacing them with gasoline powered vehicles.

As a rule I don’t mention anyone with the name Kardashian, but I’ll break it.  Kim Kardashian, a darling of the Left, recently was photographed in and upon Tesla vehicles.  Her promotion of Teslas resulted in her being denounced as a Nazi, with the following comments:  “Cybertrucks do have more rights than women these days…;” “oh you in the cult;” “Kim KKKardashian strikes again;” “This is sick;” “N*zi Alert! N*zi Alert!;” “Satanist propaganda;” “Marie Antoinette vibes mixed with Eva Braun.”

The explanation for these reversals is clear.  Democrats worship government as their God.  Anyone who tries to limit the government is a heretic, and they treat them just as the Inquisition treated Galileo.

No matter how unpopular the Democrat Party gets (it’s down to 27% approval) the Progressives just keep doubling down on crazy.  The Party isn’t going away, but it’s liable to take some time for it to straighten itself out.  Let’s hope that in 2026 the Democrats keep singing that Paul Simon song.  Still Crazy After all these Years.