At a December 10, 2019 rally in Hershey, Pa., Donald Trump said, I’m the only politician in history that has kept more promises than I actually made."  Very amusing, and the gist of the remark bears a measure of truth.  Just imagine how terrifying it would be if one of his Democratic opponents were to beat him in November and make that same crack three or four years down the road.

It's been a common refrain all along among Democrats that Donald Trump is somehow unfit to be president.  Aside from the destructive policies the Democrats would subject us to, Trump is "unfit to be president" compared to whom?  Compared, I presume, to this cast of storybook characters:

Somehow, when I think of Joe Biden, I hear The Sound of Music: how do you solve a problem like Joe Biden?  Since 1973, when he voted against building the Alaskan pipeline in the midst of an Arab oil embargo, his policy meanderings as a senator have provided a formidable supply of fodder for criticism from every slice of the political spectrum.  Based on his performance during this, his third campaign for president, no one should be condemned for saying he's well past his prime.

Bernie Sanders, after convalescing (in a Soviet nursing home?) from a heart attack, came roaring back to the campaign trail in typical fashion, which is best described as apoplectic.  He should immediately draft Larry David as a stand-in double in order to conserve whatever "Bern" he has left.

Then there's Elizabeth Warren, Defender of the Proletariat, Enemy of Bloated Corporatist Parasites.  In addition to getting caught systematically rewriting her personal and family history to promote her professional and political career, she never learned, as she should have from the master politician Obama, that as a revolutionary, you keep your campaign as vague and mushy as possible.  If forced to lay out specifics, you look straight at the cameras and lie, and you lie early and as often as necessary.

A thirty-seven-year-old mayor of a small Midwestern city wants to be president.  Pete Buttigieg missed his calling by not being tapped to play Mr. Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. 

How many millions will Mike Bloomberg blow before he realizes that money can't buy him the love of the people?  There's no question he possesses a Napoleonic bearing, and stature, but he lacks the Corsican's flair for turning a pithy phrase.  To wit, Bloomberg on raising taxes on poor people:

Some people say, well, taxes are regressive.  But in this case, yes they are.  That's the good thing about them because the problem is in people that don't have a lot of money.  And so, higher taxes should have a bigger impact on their behavior and how they deal with themselves.  So, I listen to people saying 'oh we don't want to tax the poor.'  Well, we want the poor to live longer so that they can get an education and enjoy life.  And that's why you do want to do exactly what a lot of people say you don't want to do.

In addition to Bloomberg, there are a few other low polling stragglers hoping to break through the upper tier: Klobuchar; Yang; Booker; and even another old white billionaire, Tom Steyer.  The Democrat field is mostly in lockstep with positions that range from goofy to nihilistic.  As just one example, Steyer, who is blowing millions in ads, is especially adamant about forcing us to blanket tens of thousands of square miles of our landscape with solar panels, wind turbines, and right of ways for transmission lines.  We would scour the Earth for cobalt, lithium, copper, neodymium, and whatever else these low–energy density technologies require, and de facto outlaw hydrocarbons and nuclear energy.  As the cost of energy skyrocketed, economic damage and human suffering would follow suit.  These "green, clean" champions of justice and tolerance would take our cars and guns and over time herd us into high-density urban dwellings by making our suburban homes unaffordable to all but the wealthiest — those homes and the land they consume having been rendered an unsustainable blight on the environment.  Hey, most of the rest of the world signed on to Kyoto, so we'll hold their feet to the fire as well.  So be ready to sacrifice individual liberty to a central, even global authority.  It's for the good of the planet, so we must do it.  Yes we will!  Yes we can!  ¡Sí se puede!

I encourage you to read this Wall Street Journal op-ed about Chile, "The Oasis of South America," the most stable and prosperous country in the Southern Hemisphere during the last two and a half decades.  That country has plunged into a dark, violent vortex in just a few short weeks.  The root causes, as explained by the author, a Chilean university scholar, are the usual suspects: progressive social and economic policies, just like the ones being mouthed every day to a greater or lesser extent by every Democratic contender for president.  A large segment of Americans must get over this notion that any warm body with a pulse is more fit to be president than Donald Trump.

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