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AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
As the economic boom that has defined the first four
years of the Trump presidency continues, the likelihood increases that the Left
will face four more years in what to them is the nether world of a Trump
presidency. As this realization grows in
the minds of the Left, so too does the already virulent anger that has
characterized the movement since Noon on January 20, 2017.
It has been obvious to even the most casual observer that
Democrats still have not recovered from Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016. The Left never has accepted the fact that
Trump ran a better campaign than Hillary three years ago, or that his message
was more in tune with voters than was that of his opponent. The arrogance and sanctimony that ever since
has characterized the Democrat Party and its adherents, appears certain now to
be the rules by which the Left will conduct itself in the months leading to the
November election.
In some instances, this worldview has given rise to
child-like tantrums; like that of former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey
Abrams who steadfastly has refused for more than a year to concede losing to
Republican Brian Kemp. The conspiratorial-based movement she launched in
the wake of her November 2018 defeat, has found continuing and fawning support
from national Democrat leaders like Joe Biden, and significant financial
benefits from benefactors like George Soros.
Before Trump even took his oath of office, Democrats were
plotting revenge. The use of dirty tricks by which Democrats have
obstructed the Trump Administration has been unprecedented in both scale and
aggressiveness. From using unelected, leftist federal judges to block the White
House’s domestic agenda through the use of improper, nationwide injunctions, to
the repulsive treatment of Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court
confirmation hearings, no trick or ploy is a bridge too far for Democrats when
it comes to opposing Trump.
This is why the “impeachment” of Trump fell so flat.
Outside partisan Democrat confines, the public saw it for what it really was --
not a serious decision made after a deliberative and constitutionally based
process, but fulfillment of a partisan promise made by Democrats the day after
Trump was elected.
Impeachment by majority vote of the House was a foregone
conclusion; simply another escalation of increasingly bitter behavior directed
at the President by people who refused to accept him as the duly elected leader
of the nation.
As Trump edges closer to another electoral victory later
this year, things are only going to get worse; perhaps much worse.
When the impeachment gambit officially runs its course
and fails in the Senate, Democrats will turn to other weapons: more lawsuits in
federal and state courts, and abuse of the legislative, oversight and
appropriations powers they still possess through majority control of the House.
Their goal will be to slow or grind the administration to a halt in whatever way
they can, while still attacking Trump and his supporters with subpoenas,
inquiries, and threats. It will be a no-holds-barred opposition with a
vengeance.
But it is more than the halls of Congress in which the
danger of Leftist instability is increasing. Over the last few years, the
country has witnessed an escalation of force and intimidation from leftist
political groups. One need only look to the violence of ANTIFA, or the recent
street-clogging antics of Extinction Rebellion, to see how desperate they truly
are. As Republicans continue to find substantive success through the
president’s policies and judicial nominations, and as leftist groups fail to
gain traction in the public arena, they will become increasingly frustrated,
radical, and likely violent.
The hostility seen in disgruntled child activists like
Greta Thunberg and the Parkland High School activists, who scowl and seethe
whenever offered media opportunities, is the same anger that fuels the entire
Left right now. The tools of choice to which they increasingly turn are
shouting, media manipulation and violence to wrest power from those who have
been elected to the offices they covet.
Perhaps another stunning defeat in 2020 will be the
wakeup call the Democrats and their leftist allies need to spark a more
reasonable strategy change. Unfortunately, with recent history as our
guide, a far more likely scenario is more excuses, finger-pointing, and
conspiracy theories to justify their growing resentment of the democratic
processes – a process they used to favor but which they now deride because it
provided a win for a president they hate.
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IN
THE NEWS
Hundreds of Troops Sent to Middle East After Siege of
U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
Which started early Tuesday as hundreds of protestors
stormed the compound (Fox
News). The attack forced Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to push back
his trip to Ukraine (Washington
Examiner). A look at the damage at the embassy (Fox
News).
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Iran-backed militiamen withdraw from siege of
US Embassy in Baghdad as more American troops deployed
U.S.
troops fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse pro-Iran protesters who were
gathered outside the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad for a second day as
dozens of pro-Iranian militiamen and their supporters had camped out at the
gates of the embassy in Baghdad, where they stayed the night. (AP Photo/Khalid
Mohammed)
The violent protests, which included smashed windows and
sprayed graffiti on the embassy's walls, were said to be in protest of the
deadly U.S. airstrikes that targeted an Iran-backed militia over the weekend,
killing 25 fighters. In turn, those strikes had been in response to a rocket
attack on an Iraqi Army base that killed a U.S. contractor and injured several
American troops.
The protests prompted the Pentagon to send hundreds of
additional troops to the Middle East.
