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Everyone\u2019s angry with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that things are getting ragged with just over five months left until the midterms. The president\u2019s agenda is being stymied in the courts and in Congress by bloody-minded Democrat obstructionism, and by a handful of lily-livered naysayers in his own bare-majority party.<\/p>\n

Read more Crew of Chilean thieves who targeted elite American athletes\u2019 homes \u2014 including Travis Kelce\u2019s \u2014 arrested<\/a><\/p>\n

His poll numbers are as bad as they\u2019ve ever been, apart from a rough patch in the aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

The war with Iran has hit gas prices and exacerbated the cost of living. It may be heading to some sort of deal, but cheerleaders are thin on the ground. His enemies at home are desperate for Trump to fail, even if it means America is dealt a savage blow.<\/p>\n

Poor alternatives<\/h2>\n

His administration\u2019s botched handling of the so-called \u201clawfare\u201d slush fund is one of several own goals that his media foes and their Machiavellian whisperers have twisted into fake existential catastrophes to demoralize his supporters.<\/p>\n

Under inhuman pressure, he has a tendency to talk too much, and his sclerotic lashing out at blameless bystanders endears him to nobody.<\/p>\n

The other day, he scolded popular Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich apropos of nothing, during a press conference, because she is engaged to a Republican congressman, Brian Fitzpatrick, who breaks with Trump more than most \u2014 but that\u2019s because he has to hold on to a purple suburban Philadelphia district full of Trump-deranged wine moms, and why is that Heinrich\u2019s fault?<\/p>\n

None of this is good.<\/p>\n

But \u2014 and this is a big but \u2014 don\u2019t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.<\/p>\n

Or to paraphrase Joe Biden: Don\u2019t compare Trump to the Almighty. Compare him to the alternative.<\/p>\n

Wherever you look in the Democratic Party, the alternative is horrendous.<\/p>\n

Exhibit A: Graham Platner, the Dems\u2019 hard-left Senate candidate in Maine who cosplays a rugged working-class oyster farmer. He has been given the superstar treatment by the likes of The New York Times and Time in airbrushed cover stories praising him as \u201crough-hewn, gravelly voiced .\u2009.\u2009. flawed everyman\u201d whose numerous scandals \u2014 sporting a Nazi tattoo for 18 years, excusing rape, masturbating in porta-potties, mocking a Purple Heart recipient \u2014 are proof of his authenticity and \u201credemption arc.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dem disasters<\/h2>\n

The fawning free publicity helped catapult him ahead of Maine Gov. Janet Mills, who has dropped out of the race before the primary.<\/p>\n

Platner wears his hyper masculinity like a fat suit. It\u2019s hiding something he doesn\u2019t want us to see. Everything about him is a concoction: the gravelly voice, the boots, flannel costumes, even the offensive tattoos. He and JD Vance are the same age \u2014 41 \u2014 and both are former Marines.<\/p>\n

But in the quality of their character, they are exact opposites.<\/p>\n

One was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and grew up into a spoiled, destructive narcissist who joined the Marines, got a Nazi tattoo, didn\u2019t get married until he was 40 and has never had children \u2014 although in fairness, that shouldn\u2019t be held against him, since various soft soap articles say he and his wife went through IVF treatment in Norway earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Read more Iran deal to open Strait of Hormuz could take days or longer \u2014 if any<\/a><\/p>\n

The other man was born to a single mother with a heroin addiction, joined the Marines, went to Yale on sheer brainpower, married well, gave up a lucrative tech career to go into politics and rose to become vice president while bringing up three children, with one on the way. Vance\u00a0is a contemplative man of faith who has overcome his hard-scrabble beginnings. Platner is a punch-drunk poseur who squandered the privileges he was granted at birth.<\/p>\n

But Platner\u00a0is just one of the Democrat disasters waiting in the wings to ruin this country if Republican voters lose heart.<\/p>\n

Take Texas Senate Democratic candidate James Talarico, who believes there are \u201csix genders\u201d and that God is \u201cnon-binary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Texas Democrat congressional candidate Maureen Galindo, the sex therapist who wants to lock up \u201cZionists\u201d in detention camps.<\/p>\n

Or leading Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who campaigns with vile dog-torturing Marxist twitch-streamer Hasan Piker and was caught telling staffers to avoid commenting on the death of Ayatollah Khamenei because Dearborn voters were upset about it.<\/p>\n

Dog torturer embraced<\/h2>\n

Speaking of Piker, another repellent nepo baby progressive who thinks America deserved 9\/11 and Israel is worse than Hamas, he has been embraced by the new Democrat establishment.\u00a0His third glowing New York Times profile recently lauded him as \u201cA Progressive Mind in a Body Made for the \u2018Manosphere,\u201d while giving him a free pass for using a shock collar to inflict excruciating pain on his poor dog in the middle of a live stream.<\/p>\n

He denied it, but you only have to watch the video to know he\u2019s lying.<\/p>\n

This new crop of Democrats makes AOC look like a moderate. The next thing we know, Hunter Biden will be running for president.<\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n

Even the old crop is horrible, as we all should know after enduring four years of \u201cmoderate Joe\u201d Biden.<\/p>\n

Kamala Harris summed up the zeitgeist last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a moment when there are no bad ideas,\u201d the former vice president declared on a podcast, before reaching into the old progressive grab bag of stacking the Supreme Court and granting statehood to Puerto Rico and DC.<\/p>\n

As in 2020, when Trump unnerved the country with daily COVID press conferences alongside the sly Anthony Fauci, be careful what you wish for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more Feds investigate Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba aid convoys: report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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