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Democrats’ Crazy and Dangerous Plans for the Next Congress

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">I have long conceded that Democrats will take control of the House in 2028 – and have a less than 50&sol;50 chance – but a chance &&num;8212&semi; of taking over the Senate&period; So&comma; what is on their agenda&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Democrats have not put forth an official platform&comma; but we can know what they would like to do &&num;8212&semi; and are likely to try &&num;8212&semi; from statements by various Democratic Party leaders and organizations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">High on their agenda is to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;get Trump&period;”&period; The Trump Derangement Syndrome &lpar;TDS&rpar; that infected the left-wing establishment starting on Election Day in 2016 has not abated&period; In fact&comma; it has intensified&period; Democrats will continue to rely on partisan courts and prosecutors to turn everything Trump does as President into a courts case&period; In addition&comma; Democrats will be filing Articles of Impeachment like handouts at homeless shelter&period; Looking past 2028 – as Trump returns to private life – there will be ubiquitous efforts to drag him personally into court on civil and criminal charges&period; Everything most folks hate about the current political climate&comma; and the current political leaders&comma; will be the standard operating procedures for years to come&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">While Trump is the political tar baby from whom his adversaries cannot withdraw&comma; there are other issues on the Democrat plate&period; California Congressman Ro Khanna has listed five policy goals&period; They are Medicare for All&comma; a &dollar;25 national minimum wage&comma; stronger union protection&comma; a &dollar;10-a-day childcare stipend&comma; and cutting off all U&period;S&period; aid to Israel&period; These are all dangerously bad ideas&period; It is an example just how the radical Bernie Sanders’ policies have been absorbed into the Democratic Party mainstream&period; Each deserves a point-by-point repudiation – more than is possible in the commentary&period; But rest assured that each will be addressed in future commentaries by this writer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Many of the new leaders of the nascent radical left-wing come from the Democrats’ political auxiliary – the Democratic Socialists of America &lpar;DSA&rpar;&period; Recognizing their weakness as a free-standing political party&comma; they run as Democrats – the party most closely aligned to their philosophy and which they can best influence&period; Democrats&comma; such as Pennsylvania’s moderate Senator John Fetterman&comma; have suggested that the DSA folks leave the Democratic Party and run on their own&period; Of course&comma; that is not going to happen as long as the bulk of Democrat leaders kowtow to their comrades on the far left – as California Governor Newsom did recently&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The DSA has unveiled its latest platform&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Workers Deserve More&comma;&&num;8221&semi; a document so detached from reality that it reads like a manifesto penned by a bunch of left-wing professors after too much vodka&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In checking out the DSA platform&comma; one can see just how bat-poop crazy these radicals are&period; Among the proposals in the platform are &lpar;hope you’re sitting down&rpar; abolishing the United States Senate&period; No&comma; that was not taken from a satirical article in &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Onion”&period; In my own congressional district in Florida&comma; SDA member&comma; Oliver Larkin&comma;&nbsp&semi;is running to abolish the Senate and remove the power of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The SDA platform also calls for the elimination of the Electoral College&comma; prisons&comma; and Immigration and Customs Enforcement &lpar;ICE&rpar;&period; It grants full voting rights to all immigrants regardless of citizenship – and all convicted felons and prisoners&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">They further demand a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay&semi; support the seizure of major corporations&semi; the imposition of universal rent control&semi; cancellation of all student debt&semi; unconditional amnesty for &&num;8230&semi;&period; everyone&semi; and the transformation of the Department of Defense &lpar;or War&comma; if you prefer&rpar; into a &&num;8220&semi;Department of Peace”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">They would defund the police they do not outright abolish&period; They would make the U&period;S&period; House the primary authority – ending the balance of power that has protected democracy for two and a half centuries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The current radical left Democrat establishment would end the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court with radical left-wing justices – much further left than the liberals who currently sit on the high court&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Men in women’s sports would become the norm&period; Elections would be conducted without traditional common sense safeguards&period; And the borders would cease to exist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">They want to end free market capitalism – that has made America the strongest economic power in the world – with socialism – that has brought massive human suffering wherever it has been attempted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">It may be easy to dismiss all this nonsense as impractical and not likely to be enacted&period; That is probably true of the most insanely outrageous stuff&period; But there is sufficient radical left-wing power in the current Democratic Party to enact a lot of their crazy proposals&period; The extreme crazy stuff makes the slightly less crazy stuff seem relatively rational&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">If you are inclined to believe that the crazier proposals would not happen&comma; consider men in women’s sports&period; How crazy is that&quest; It ignores science&comma; biology&comma; logic&comma; fairness&comma; common sense&comma; and overwhelming popular opinion&period; And yet it is happening throughout the country<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Putting Democrats in power in any way at his time – in view of their extreme unhinged positions – would be a huge mistake&period; But sadly&comma; it is one that it appears many Americans are willing to make&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">So&comma; there &OpenCurlyQuote;tis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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