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In the aftermath of President Biden’s self-immolating debate performance against former President Trump, the Democrat Party is careening out of control before the nation’s – and the world’s – very eyes. To say merely that the party is in disarray over how to keep its election hopes alive does not capture its true state of frantic, floundering desperation. This is a party reeling in panic as the power they crave, and had within their grasp, slips away.

The state-run news media, having been exposed as a collusive network of propagandists and spinmeisters propping up a senile puppet president, is now frenziedly rewriting a new narrative painting themselves as having been deceived about Biden’s true mental and physical condition. No one is buying this shameless lie; public trust in the profession was already at an all-time low, and now may be broken forever.

The Democrat leadership, meanwhile, is torn between calling for Biden to step down, on the one hand, and on the other, pushing forward with the decrepit incumbent rather than changing horses in midstream. Those who want Biden to step aside are further torn over whom to replace him with; there is literally no one in the Party –least of all Kamala Harris, the obvious choice as VP – who can beat Trump.

This would be an historic opportunity for the Democrat Party to do some intense soul-searching about the radicalism that has brought them to this moment, about their disconnect from the American people, about their destructive policies and agenda… Just kidding – soul-searching is not a feature of the revolutionary mind, and progressivism is nothing if not a movement of perpetual revolution.

Witness, for example, the revealing attitude of former entertainer (emphasis on former) Whoopi Goldberg, co-hostess of ABC’s inexplicably long-running daytime gabfest for Progressive women, The View. In Monday’s episode, Biden cheerleader Whoopi declared defiantly to the audience that she supports Biden staying in the race no matter how far he collapses physically and mentally:

I don’t care if he’s pooped his pants. I don’t care if he can’t put a sentence together. Show me he can’t do the job, and then I’ll say, okay, maybe it’s time to go.

Now, he had a bad night the first time that he went on and debated with Kamala Harris. Everybody wanted him to quit then, saying ‘You can’t talk to women like this,’ or ‘You’re doing this wrong, you’re doing that wrong.’ He came back, said, ‘You know what? I got it,’ and gave four years.”

This is what passes for thoughtful political commentary in the living rooms of the female progressives of The View’s audience. The ever-classy Whoopi then decided to take her scatological metaphor to the next repugnant level:

So yeah, I have poopy days all the time. I step in so much poo you can’t even imagine. Now, I’m not running the world, but I don’t know anybody who doesn’t step in stuff at some point.

To be clear, Biden isn’t running the world either (that would be the Evil Triumvirate of Barack Obama, Susan Rice, and Valerie Jarrett) but “stepping in stuff at some point” is hardly an accurate description of his condition.

Co-hostess Ana Navarro, who is laughably considered a “conservative” voice on the show’s panel, described herself as “livid” at media “malpractice” for reporting on Biden’s mental decline. She stood with Whoopi in pledging her loyalty “’til the damn end.”

Imagine being such staunch left-wing ideologues – and yes, Navarro is left-wing – that you would accept an incontinent vegetable as our President, the leader of the Free World, over a man who was already president once and yet didn’t turn the country into a Handmaid’s Tale dystopia, didn’t mass-deport immigrant families, and didn’t round up political enemies and minorities to be sent to concentration camps, as the Left warned. Imagine suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome so severely that you would rather stand with a senile shell of a leader than a still-vigorous former President – not an unknown quantity – who boosted the economy, kept us out of wars, and kept our enemies in check.

Speaking of TDS: the Left has become so unhinged at the thought of a looming Trump election victory that they are doubling down on their shrill alarmism that a vote for Trump is a vote for Hitler 2.0. The communists at The New Republic, for example, decided to trash what was left of their journalistic credibility by publishing a June 2024 issue featuring an image of Trump with a Hitlerian mustache and hair makeover. “Yes, That’s Right: American Fascism,” the editors insisted.

It should go without saying that anytime your political rhetoric degenerates from reasoned argument into Hitler comparisons, you have abandoned logic and realism for the very same kind of demonizing demagoguery that Hitler himself employed. But this is the negative state in which the Democrat Party, running scared, now resides: fear-mongering about the opponent rather than touting their own candidate’s accomplishments and capabilities; desperate rabble-rousing rather than real-world solutions; and establishing narrative control rather than offering a compelling, positive vision for the American people.

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