If you are a consumer of Democratic Party propaganda, you learned over the last two years that Donald Trump is not only a unique threat to democracy, he also single-handedly caused inflation, created the crisis at our southern border and ran up the scandalous national debt.
Just last week, you learned of two more ways the former president is destroying America.
First, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg declared that voters in the 2016 presidential race were deprived of key facts that could have made Hillary Clinton the winner.
Bragg appears to be insisting she lost because, in 2017, Trump reimbursed a lawyer for giving Stormy Daniels and two other people hush money.
Later last week, President Biden also tried to rewrite history by claiming that, despite near-universal belief that he, as commander in chief, was responsible for the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, it was actually and totally — drumroll please — Donald Trump’s fault.
A visitor from Mars might reasonably wonder who this fellow Trump is and how he remains a free man despite doing so many terrible things.
To which his tormentors could answer that they have a plan to end his free man status.
What would Democrats do without Donald Trump?
The short answer is they would have to find somebody else to hate and blame.
The obsession is not just a top-down manufactured political trick.
The party’s rank-and-file seems to have sworn an oath never to break ranks on two related fronts.
First, they swear to stick together on anything major and, second, anything that can be pinned on Trump is major.
A unity oath would be a coherent explanation for the incoherence of a blame game that can’t let go of the past and gives more power and responsibility to a former president than to the bumbling current one.
There is, of course, a method to the madness.
Biden’s record is a disaster both at home and abroad but polls consistently show he and his party are usually better off when the former president is in the news.
Trump’s endorsements in key races helped Dems retain Senate control in 2022 and party leaders and activists aim to build on that success by helping Trump become the Republican nominee next year.
Although Biden has not committed to seeking a second term, Dems believe Trump cannot win a general election so they are using a political bank shot to help guarantee he is the opposition candidate.
Their working theory is that the more they attack Trump, the more the MAGA base rallies around him.
Thus, by hammering him relentlessly and unleashing serial prosecutions, Dems aim to choke off GOP support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other primary challengers, leaving Trump as a wounded nominee.