Politicians used to talk about “the vision thing,” by which they meant a candidate’s ability to formulate and present his or her vision for the country going forward.  As 2019 comes to an end, it is abundantly clear that only one of the presidential candidates for 2020 has mastered “the vision thing,” and that his name is Donald Trump.  The contrast is stark.  It’s not just that no Democrat candidate has been able, or even willing, to propose a palatable set of policies.  It’s not that the Democrats’ vision is of a different means to a utilitarian end, the greatest good for the greatest number of Americans, it’s that the Democrats’ vision itself is defective.  They’re not myopic.  It’s not that they can’t see far enough to appreciate the policies of this President.  It’s worse than that.  They have double vision, or more to the point, they are experiencing hallucinations, which cause them to see things that really aren’t there.  It’s really shocking to consider that two large groups of the electorate can view the same landscape, the same facts, and the same actions and accomplishments, and yet see two different things.  Let’s take the realities of the year 2019 as an example.  When 2019 began, the Dow Jones average stood at 23,340.  As this is written near year’s end, the Dow is at 28,565, an increase of over 22%.  In 2019, stocks added $17 trillion in value.  2019 began with an unemployment rate of 3.7%, one of the lowest rates in half a century.  Although Democrats suggested in the Spring that recession was imminent, 2019 ends with the unemployment rate at 3.5%, the lowest in my memory.  There are far more jobs available than workers available to fill them.  Businesses are thriving, wages for all income levels are up for the first time in many years.  All sectors of the population have benefited, with low-wage workers gaining most of all.  A normally sighted person observing these facts could only conclude that the economy is booming like never before, and that 2020 promises even more prosperity.  However, the vision impaired Democrats see something else.  According to the Democrat presidential field, if the economy has improved, and they’re not admitting that it has, any and all credit belongs to Il Duce Obama, who after 8 years, had everything humming along just in time for Trump to take over.  I have to agree that Obama did do one thing right, he left the White House, and with his departure the economy had nowhere to go but up.  President Trump has produced results that Democrats never dreamed of, and which Il Duce Obama told us were impossible.  Obama said manufacturing jobs would never come back.  They did come back, but those jobs, and the 6 or 7 million others created since 2017 are invisible to the Democrats.  Bad vision.  Income up, unemployment down, plentiful jobs available to all, or at least for the sighted.  Not for Democrats though, according to whom, the middle class is “being crushed,” the working class has “no way up,” and the poor “are being left behind.”  You have to wonder about more than the vision thing.  Doesn’t “the middle class” work?  And just who are “the working class?”  Are they working for the middle class?  Or are they working for the hated “rich?”  And if the “rich” are not part of the “working class,” then how did they get so rich without working?  Curious.  But back to reality.  President Trump promised a wall on the Mexican border and pledged to reduce illegal border crossings.  Despite getting no help from the Congress, and constant resistance from misguided federal District Court judges, Trump has kept his promise.  The wall is being built and illegal border crossings are down.  Trump has even gotten Mexico to use its military to stop illegal crossings.  These actions have ameliorated the humanitarian crisis on the border, have protected lives on both sides of the border, and have eased the strain on our health and educational systems, as well as preserving higher paying jobs for Americans.  This looks good to the sighted, but not to the Dems.  Democrats view these developments as proof positive of racism.  Hey, maybe that’s what they mean about the poor being “left behind.”  Poor illegal aliens have been left behind the border wall where they belong.  President Trump promised to get our NATO allies to pay more for their own defense.  He got them to pay billions more, easing our burden.  Under normal vision that’s good.  Through Democratic black-colored glasses, it’s a threat to world security.  Go figure.  Then there’s the trade situation.  The “experts” all said Trump could never replace NAFTA and could never get China to agree to trade terms that prevented them from screwing us.  They were wrong.  Trump replaced NAFTA, getting Canada and Mexico to agree to the USMCA, and the House even took a day off from trying to impeach the President, and actually passed the USMCA.  On top of that, a new trade agreement has been reached with China, in which they will at least promise to screw us a little less in the future.  But positive trade realities look a lot worse through Democrat eyes.  The Dems see a trade war hurting the U.S.  It’s not there, but they see it.  Just like they view the Justice Department’s Inspector General’s report confirming that President Trump was the victim of campaign interference by foreign interests in the last election, and instead see a president who himself is encouraging foreign governments to interfere in the next election.  Funny how faulty vision can play tricks with your mind.  The problem for Democrats is that more and more Americans are now wearing corrective lenses.  With 20-20 vision, more Americans can clearly distinguish between the President’s actual accomplishments and the Democrats’ blurred vision of current events.  An electorate with 20-20 vision bodes poorly for Democrats in 2020.