Conrad Black:
“…Against this Democratic orgy of phantasmagorical self-delusion, the Republicans offer a president who despite illegal harassments of unprecedented persistence, slashed unemployment to record lows, virtually ended oil imports, silenced all talk of China surpassing the United States any time soon, reversed the preposterous “new normal” of no real income gains for the lower half of income-earners, stopped 80 percent of illegal immigration, cut the taxes of 83 percent of taxpayers and all profitable corporations, delivered the country from the Green Terror, reduced poverty and violence, and reintroduced the concept of nuclear nonproliferation with the untrustworthy states of Iran and North Korea which had swindled former presidents. Then he managed down the greatest public health crisis in a century and is leading the country’s economic recovery.
This absurdly unequal contest, apparently, is being kept close by the concentration of the Washington press corps, bristling at Trump’s marginalization of them by his dominance of social media and the radio talk shows, and by his public disparagements of their laziness and dishonesty.
They have generally supported the Democrats in trying to soft-peddle the steady emergence of the fraudulence of the Mueller investigation and of the FISA activity and the persecution of Michael Flynn. The national political media’s efforts to downplay these elephants rampaging around the room are accompanied by a state of official make-believe. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) described the withdrawal of the prosecution of Flynn as Attorney General Barr advancing “the president’s cover-up,” without even hinting at what she thinks he’s covering up. The megalomaniacal judge in the Flynn case, Emmet Sullivan, has called for third parties to advocate against termination of Flynn’s prosecution although the jurisprudence is clear that when the charge is withdrawn there is nothing to try.
Trump’s enemies are cracking up; their tenacity in the treacherous defamation and harassment of this president is remarkable. Trump’s limitations are obvious, but so are his achievements. As Ulysses S. Grant said of the Confederacy, as General Lee took his leave at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, the Trump-hating official and media Democrats “have fought so long . . . for a cause, though that cause was . . . one of the worst for which . . . people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.”
Comparative peace will come after the election; political corpses can’t fight on after the voters have buried them…”