The good news is that company after company and institution after institution have awakened to the intrusive damages of Woke thinking, thanks to the purchasing power of alienated consumers and the second Trump administration. And they are abandoning it.
The bad news is this mental renaissance has yet to reach the plethora of large cities still under the yoke of less-than-forward-thinking Democrat mayors. This despite the forceful "encouragement" of the second Trump administration.
In fact, Democrat politicians and groups are actively resisting the president's efforts to fight crime and illegal residents in their community with the assistance of like-minded judges.
Nowhere is this sadder than in one of my favorite U.S. cities, Chicago. Yes, its name is an abandoned Indian word for the smelly, wild onions that used to flourish alongside the trail that would become the once-stately Michigan Avenue.
The city's voters have elected a couple of pinheads as the last two mayors, Democrats who believe that governing involves more virtue-signaling of leftist causes than actual management of government for the benefit of city residents.
And now, to demonstrate how perversely self-destructive and ridiculous the symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome can be, Chicago's city treasurer has announced that she will no longer invest city funds in U.S. Treasury bonds, one of the world's safest and most reliable sources of revenue.
This decision is designed, of course, to show like-minded leftists her TDS membership bona fides and the low regard she holds for Donald Trump, who has absolutely nothing to do with the bonds.
So, by disregarding her fiduciary responsibility to safely maximize income for the city and its overburdened, sinking pension funds, she is actually revealing how little she knows of things that actually matter to the job of a municipal treasurer, like finance.
That's the subject of this week's brief audio commentary available for listening right here:
Instead of a Sunday column this week, I did another Malcolm's Memories on a Sunday. This was the 36th in the ongoing series of recollections from decades in the news business.
This one dealt with my times behind the Johnny Carson show, literally. I was behind the curtain behind the guest chair and couch during the afternoon tape sessions. I was listening intently in case the guest said something newsworthy that I would write up for the first edition of my newspaper.
That did not happen a whole lot, but it did give me an eye-opening window into the little-known backstage operations of that iconic late-night show before today's wokesters took over the host desk to preside smugly over that TV genre's continuing decline.
Also included in this Memory was my time with Gerald Ford before he was president and the drastic changes I witnessed in person as a great and personable conversationalist was turned into a starkly different man as his image was processed through the television medium.
And then there was Mattie, a stray dog rescued from the streets of suburban New York who became a regular therapist for scores of elderly people whom she rescued from loneliness as I watched.
Last week's audio commentary examined the stunning size — and financial scandal — of the federal government's Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program as revealed during the Schumer Shutdown.
Nearly two billion taxpayer dollars every week are getting doled out to some 42 million Americans, allegedly to purchase foods and allegedly during a brief period of financial difficulty.
But as I wrote here during the Schumer Shutdown:
It turns out what was once meant to be some supplemental food-stamp help for a modest cohort of citizens experiencing temporary tight times, has blossomed into another massive, full-fledged food-welfare program costing those Americans who pay income taxes around $100 billion every year.
