Who will save Democrats from themselves in 2028?
Guaranteed it won't be either one of these pictured palookas or the pack of pols that run with them.
Democrats are taking their own sweet time coming to terms with the rolling disaster that was the administration of Joe Biden. Or, rather, the administration that the stumbling old geezer was made the face of by the power pack propping him up and trying to manage the coalition of conspirators behind the scenes.
To their own shame, none of these folks has even hinted at an apology or confession for the dangerous and scandalous charade they created and managed covering for the oldest president who lost most of his mind on the elevator somewhere between the White House's second and third residential floors and the Oval Office.
In a just world, each of those elder abusers would be brought to justice for their desperate grasp of power that threatened the national security that they took an oath to defend.
But this is the Swamp. So, we all know they'll skate. And they'll live out their lives on handsome pensions and media paychecks only answering to their conscience, if they have one.
As much as one party may enjoy dominance, without a viable opposition party offering realistic policy alternatives, our democracy is out of balance. With two of the oldest political parties in the world, each has bounced back from previous election disasters. For example, four years after its thorough election thumping in the 1964 presidential contest, the GOP won five of the next six White House elections.
So far, a few of the same old-same olds appear to be trying to maneuver into position to grab Democrats' 2028 presidential nomination. I kind of hope they do because they seem to believe that Trump-bashing will survive through another political cycle.
Trouble is for them, he won't be a candidate. So, Trump Derangement Syndrome will force them to attempt to label any Republican successor as just another Trump. The hard truth is that there is — and I suspect always will be — only one Donald J. Trump.
So, what in the world does the party of Andrew Jackson do to present a viable political alternative to America's voters just 158 weeks from now? It certainly will not be the salad chef from Biden's term nor her jumpy vice-presidential sidekick from the 2024 campaign.
My colleague here, Brandon Morse, shares some of his thoughts, and Nick Arama adds more here from a Hunter Biden interview. Wallow, wallow, wallow.
I have an idea — not a prediction — but an observation of the smartest, wiliest Democrat still standing free and clear from the Biden contagion. And if you're watching closely, you can see him already positioning himself through the media, which will begin its hunt for a favored candidate right after next fall's midterms, if not before.
That's what I talk about in this week's audio commentary, which you can hear here:
I confess that I am a history buff. It's so much easier to grasp an understanding of what's happening today when you have a sense of what's come before. Especially since so much of what's happening today has actually happened before.
(While we're talking about history, if you want to refresh or learn about our past, I strongly suggest you try the trilogy, "The Americans" by the late Daniel Boorstin. He was a social historian, so these books are no dry political histories.
He details how our institutions and traditions developed organically — industry, families, business, work ethic, religion, traditions. I found myself often saying, "Oh, that's why we do that!" I especially recommend the second and third volumes.)
So, when my recent reading led me to discover that the real reason the United States was able to acquire Alaska with all its hidden riches for such a bargain price was connected to the historical fact that Russia made the same mistake of marching through Ukraine to take over Crimea long ago, I knew I had to write about that.
And that's what I did in this week's Sunday column.
The most recent audio commentary took a detailed look at the latest dilemma that the leaderless Democrats have stumbled into. They have been routinely likening President Donald Trump to Adolph Hitler and Nazis.
That shows a less-than-accurate knowledge of the history I was just talking about. But then, OMG, what do you do when that same alleged modern-day Nazi turns out to be the man whose peace plan helps save the Jews of Israel?
Doggone it, that must sting!
