For nearly three years the Democratic party has twisted itself into knots trying to explain away Donald Trump’s victory in the ’16 election. The excuses have been limitless, from Hillary Clinton’s complaint that voters were not yet willing for a woman to win, to the grand theory that it was all “Russian interference.”
Out of the Russian interference conspiracy theory, and the Democrats’ stubborn refusal to accept Trump’s legitimate win, grew the impeachment process. That wary effort has clogged the American political system since the day after the vote. After all the sound and fury (Wednesday is the very last day of this interminable mess, when the Senate will vote to acquit) it has actually done more political damage to the perpetually irate Democrats than the Republicans or their leader.
The ability of the Democratic party, amounting to a kind of eagerness, to wound itself cannot be underestimated. For over two years it salivated over the impeccable Robert Mueller investigation, which was surely going to prove beyond all question that the dread Russians, Vladimir Putin and his gang, had worked (colluded was the word) with the nefarious Trump to “steal” the election. It was going to bring him down for sure. And then Mueller stumblingly reported in person to Congress that there was nothing. Not a single American, not a single person on the Trump campaign, not Trump himself had colluded.
Mueller was a dud for the Democrats. Impeachment was a lead sinker. Russian collusion was a phantom and a farce. Most of the Democrats’ deepest problem lies with their own party, their own strategists, and — let us turn now to Monday night’s first major event of the 2020 campaign — their startling incapacity, a near-fatal incompetence, in the management of their own business.
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