Have Dems Pulled The Plug On Themselves?

We've gotten used to the cartoons of Donald Trump playing the Roadrunner to the Dem's Wile E. Coyote. This morning, to go along with The Iowa Hoax, Conrad Black has an entertaining yet serious article at American Greatness:

Pulling the Plug on Democrats’ Life Support

The Democrats’ walls are not closing in—they are crumbling. And they are about to be overrun by the fierce army of the president’s millions of supporters.

It's a longish piece, tracing The Donald's rise, but reflective. Toward the end, Black looks to the near future--Election 2020. He sees big trouble:

Yet as the impeachment controversy demonstrated and as all polls confirm, the Republican Party is now rock-solid behind the president. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who told Republican congressional candidates four years ago that they would “drop (Trump) like a hot rock,” has smoothly conducted his partisans to the quick dismissal of this unfounded impeachment effort.

The Democrats, and the sharply dwindling ranks of their anti-Trump Republican allies, have retreated from the charge of electoral fraud, to treason with Russia, to obstruction of justice, to impeachable abuses of power and contempt of Congress. All of it was piffle; there was no truth to any of it. ... 

... For more than three years we have heard that “The walls are closing in” on Trump, with the “drip, drip, drip” of cumulative damaging revelations. Those predictions apply with perfect accuracy to the Democrats. They have exhausted their ability to maintain some Damoclean legal threat over the president, and now, though they are still addicted to having an opponent bound and encumbered by official harassments and tainting activities, they are going to have to attack his record.

Apart from general economic progress, the country hasn’t really paused to consider how far it has progressed in three years. High unemployment and oil imports have ended; illegal immigration has been reduced by nearly 80 percent. Approximately half of all Americans are now directly or indirectly investors in the stock market and they have had a capital appreciation of nearly $10 trillion. Poverty and food stamp use are down sharply, the workforce has reversed previous declines, and the lowest 20 percent of income earners have enjoyed greater proportionate income increases than the wealthiest. President Trump is thus the world’s first head of an important country to begin to address the problem of income disparity. He has renegotiated trade agreements and when these are fully in place next quarter, and Boeing is back to work, economic growth should return to 3 percent.

Moreover, Trump has faced up to the challenge of China, smashed ISIS, and revived the concept of nuclear non-proliferation where his predecessors were swindled by North Korea and Iran. He has spared the country the Green Terror and kicked the Western Alliance into a revival of collective self-defense so it can no longer be just a gang of slackers hiding behind the Pentagon. 

This is Trump’s record and unsubstantiated truisms about Trump’s “corruption” won’t sell anymore. 

The Democrats have an inadequate group of implausible candidates, appear to be fixing up their convention to sandbag Bernie Sanders again and perhaps to make an energetic effort to sell themselves to Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg is a capable man but a New York liberal who is far from a spellbinder, starts with no following outside the wealthy parts of New York City, and he spent $170 per vote in his last election municipal election. That translates to $14 billion in a presidential election. He could afford it, but Trump and the Republican Party are rich, too, and no one can simply buy an American general election. For good measure, whatever tatters are left of the ethical gap with Trump will almost certainly be blown away by the conclusions of U.S. Attorney John Durham when he has finished looking at the official harassment of the Trump campaign in 2016. 

The Democrats’ astonishment is understandable ... as they face the revelation of their own skullduggery, and face up to the profound mediocrity of their candidate pool. 

The Democrats’ walls are not closing in—they are crumbling, and they are about to be overrun by the fierce army of the president’s scores of millions of supporters, those whom the Democrats reviled as focused on “guns and religion,” the “deplorables” who, we learned from House impeachment managers last week, must not be allowed to reelect the country’s leader. That is not how the American system works, and the Democrats will soon finally feel the pain the country sought to inflict on them in 2016.