Democrats and The Big Backfire
They never thought Trump could get this big.
In September 1917, a little-known Russian dissident named Vladimir Lenin was on a train travelling though Germany on his way to St Petersburg. The German government arranged for the train, packed with about 30 other revolutionaries to make their way to Russia for a very specific reason.
What these men carried was a contagion. The contagion was an idea, an idea of a Communist utopia that Germany hoped would take down the Czarist regime and get Russia out of the war. It was a success. Months later Lenin was running the Soviet Union, and its troops were not fighting Germans.
Germany promoted this contagion, but a few short months later, Lenin’s ideas had spread to German troops. German soldiers began to refuse to fight. After the war, Communism was a significant political force in Germany, threating the government. In April of 1945, Communist troops were pounding Berlin into dust. The release of Lenin into Russia was the biggest backfire of all time.
In 2015, Donald Trump announced his candidacy for President. The Democratic Party immediately saw this as an opportunity. The press was all over Trump – non-stop coverage. They pushed his message out for him. Democrats hoped the Trump candidacy would act as a contagion within the Republican Party. They knew he would damage other candidates and his boastfulness and common-man appeal would take voters away from establishment Republican ideas. A contagion withing the Republican Party, if you will.
If Democrats and their media toadies had left the Trump story on the back burner, Donald Trump most likely would have gone the way of other outsider, fringe, candidates. But that was not the Democratic Strategy. They wanted Trump to create chaos, so that their hand-picked, undemocratically selected candidate could be the voice of reason to American voters. An epic fail, but it didn’t stop there.
Dems had released the contagion, and much like post-war Germany, their plan had spiraled out of control. The contagion they helped to create was consuming them. With the outsized media attention he was getting and his knack for connecting with voters, Trump surged in the polls.
Even more important was his message. Americans had long been frustrated with a political system that ignored them. Politicians seemed to be unconcerned with what the average citizen wanted or needed. Trump promised (and later often delivered) a government that listened to the will of the people. America suddenly had a populist that could relate to the common man and not fall prey to political machines.
Realizing they were in serious trouble from their own creation, the Democratic Party began to take drastic action.
In Germany, the people turned to an anti-communist extremist, authoritarian, and racist in the personage of Adolf Hitler. The Democratic Party turned to rigged primary elections, 1st Amendment violations on social media, impeachments, changing election laws, lies about the Hunter laptop, wiretaps on Trump’s presidential campaign, and finally a weaponization of the American system of justice.
Both scenarios were a violation of anything resembling rules and norms. Hitler’s rise proved to be an unparalleled human tragedy for both Germany and the world. The Democrats machinations pale in comparison, but they are a serious threat to the democratic process in this country and the rule of law. Americans today display a lack of trust in their government the likes of which we have never seen. The hijinks used to try to stop Trump play a major role in that sentiment.
Trump has created a revolution in politics across this country. Unlike Lenin, who used force and was never particularly popular, Trump garnered the support of a great percentage of Americans. The persistent popularity of his flawed personage is a manifestation of a people opposed to a government out of control.
Yes, Trump is a radical change in politics, but unlike the dangerous idea of communism, Trump’s ideas themselves are quite normal; listen to the people, don’t make deals bad for America, appoint constitutionalist justices, don’t tolerate government incompetence, and have a secure border.
Much like in 1930’s Germany, the greater threat is seen in the response. Germany turned to Hitler, who, vowing to destroy communism, instead destroyed Germany. Democrats, vowing to destroy Trump, are destroying the institutions of our government.
Woke DA torments Cop
In Minnesota a State Trooper has been under indictment and preparing for a murder trial for the past 10 months. For a cop, living under a murder indictment is a stress like no other.
On the night of July 31, 2023, Troopers from the Minnesota State Patrol pulled over Ricky Cobb II for driving with his lights off. Cobb was wanted for violating an order of protection. When Trooper Ryan Londregan attempted to take Cobb out of the car, Cobb began to drive away. Londregan reached into the car, attempting to stop Cobb. During the struggle, and with the car moving, Londregan fired two shots, killing Cobb.
An illegal gun was found in Cobb’s car, near the center console (which never seemed to make the news). Londregan stated that Cobb was pulling on his unholstered gun as he drove away. Some questionable tactical decisions aside (don’t reach into an occupied car), this seemed like a case that was legally justified. Yes, there would be a civil suit, and the Cobb family has that right, but criminal? No way.
Enter the longtime Hennepin Chief County Public Defender Mary Moriarty. These days she is posing as the Hennepin County District Attorney. She gained that position in a 2022 election, running on a woke platform of justice reform and going after cops – and with over $500,000 worth of George Soros’s money. She kept her campaign promises, dismantling the idea of justice in Hennepin County and seizing upon the shooting of Ricky Cobb to prosecute a cop.
After months of investigation, Moriarty indicted Londregan in January 2024 over the objections of her own use-of-force expert and the Minnesota State Police’s training expert. Even the Democrat Governor of Minnesota condemned the indictment.
Undeterred, Moriarty moved forward with the prosecution. Assistant District Attorneys on the case quit and an outside counsel (which cost a fortune) had to be brought in. Even they couldn’t justify the prosecution, and last week Moriarty finally dropped the case.
Moriarty naturally blamed the defense team for her inability to take the case to trial. Umm.. that is their job, right?
Trooper Londregan is surely breathing a sigh of relief, but that type of stress does not just go away. Add Mary Moriarty to the list of woke DA’s that see ideology over the law and will do anything to damage the justice system in this country.
Venezuelan Crime Rate Plummets
As two NYPD cops were shot a few weeks in Queens by a recent Venezuelan immigrant and Tren de Aragua gang member, it seems like a lot of Venezuela’s crime problem has migrated to the United States. That is to be expected to some degree. That country is in crisis, and our borders are wide open. Not every immigrant is an upstanding citizen.
But as Officers Richard Yarusso and Christopher Abreu were thankfully released from the hospital with minor injuries, we took a look at the crime trends in Venezuela. Crime is down – a lot. Significantly more than you would expect with a normal migration trend.
From 2022 to 2023, the homicide rate (murders per 100,000 people) is down from 35.3 to 26.8 – a 24% drop in one year. That is remarkable for a country “in crisis.” More recently a Venezuelan official stated that overall crime dropped 32% so far in 2024 compared to 2023.
Venezuelan politicians deny that they are pushing criminals to the United States. But this quote from a Venezuelan crime tracker should give us a good idea of what is happening: “Crime is falling in Venezuela because of the destruction of the country’s economy…because of the loss of opportunities for crime.” So, a failing economy and chaos is causing less crime? Right. If there’s one mango left in the entire nation, the criminals would steal it.
We think the migration thing sounds just slightly more plausible. Maybe we can wait for the Biden Administration to give us the real scoop?
You know – because they’ve been so honest about our own crime numbers….
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