One of the most striking political non-events in the past nearly 15 months is the Democrat Party's refusal — or total inability — to address the reasons and publicly atone for its stunning failures in the 2024 election year.
Not just the party leaders' refusal to acknowledge their abject failures to defeat Donald Trump, the man who has inhabited their minds and every waking moment since the 2016 elections:
The hoaxes. The deep state leaks, few of them true. The ongoing collusion with mainstream media. The phony staged impeachments. The numerous court cases with partisan prosecutors. The sold-out judges. The outrageous sentences and fines.
But the nefarious years-long scandal of the cover-up collusion over Joe Biden's deteriorated mental and physical conditions and insistence that he was "sharp as a tack" as commander in chief and totally up to four more years.
The man with access to the nuclear launch codes had trouble with screen doors. He talked to people who were not present. He got up and inexplicably walked out of the room in the middle of White House ceremonies.
And the political conspiracy, aided by media sympathetic to the anti-Trump narrative, might have worked if Biden hadn't been so arrogant to challenge Trump to an early nationally-televised debate. And had the president's puppeteers hadn't been so desperate to cling to their lucrative positions of power that they let him do that.
Which finally enabled Americans to see for themselves through the fog of D.C. deceit into the empty eyes of that lying, lost soul.
How could all that happen to the country's oldest political party?
Democrat leaders thought they wanted to know the answers. So they commissioned a detailed study. They got the results. But now the party that claims to be a champion of government openness, the one whose leadership wants to move back into the White House in two years' time, now they have suspiciously buried their own political autopsy. For reasons that can't be good.
And I have thoughts about that betrayal and the utter lack of public accountability in this week's audio commentary here:
The most recent audio commentary had some fun with the federal government's new advice on what Americans should be eating. Does anyone actually turn to the D.C. Swamp for directions on what foods to feed their families?
I never have. Have you?
Last Sunday, I posted another in the ongoing series of memories from my decades of travel and stories as a reporter. It is here.
The most recent Sunday column analyzed all this uproar over Greenland, which isn't really green. The world's largest island was, in fact, given that alluring name as a marketing pitch by a Viking conqueror 1,000 years ago. Seriously!
That's what the column examined.
