A WARNING TO THE DESTROY-TRUMP CROWD – AT 10:56 A.M. ET:  Michael Barone, one of our best political observers, sends out a warning to the left about overreaching in its hatred of Donald Trump.  Will the left listen?  Probably not.  Brain death is permanent.  From the Washington Examiner:   

Overreach. President Trump seems to have an uncanny knack for provoking it in his opponents and critics. This often hurts him and the country. But it has the potential to hurt those doing the overreach as well.

Start with Trump's speech in Warsaw last week. "As the Polish experience reminds us," he said after recounting in vivid detail how Poland rebounded from decades of horrors, "The defense of the West ultimately rests not only on means, but also on the will of its people to prevail. The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive."

But Trump's text included praise of Poland's and Western civilizations' resistance to Nazi and Communist totalitarianism, empowering women, striving for excellence, valuing the dignity of human life, debating and challenging "everything." Presumably, Trump's critics embrace each of these products of Western civilization.

Nonetheless, they sneer at Trump's pledge to oppose "another oppressive ideology — one that seeks to export terrorism and extremism all around the globe." But that threat of Islamic terrorism is real.

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To call these statements "racism" or "dog whistles" to "white nationalists" is nonsense.

This week's lead story about Donald Trump Jr.'s June 2016 meeting with a Russian apparatchik revived the meme of Russian "collusion" and provoked similar overreach. This meeting, which included campaign manager Paul Manafort and son-in-law Jared Kushner, seems to have been a waste of everyone's time, and it's easy to argue that it was ill-advised.

But Democratic politicians and bloggers, who haven't given up on dreams of somehow ousting Trump from office and who are eager as always to delegitimize his presidency, have gone farther. Some have argued that attendance at the meeting violates a federal criminal statute prohibiting foreigners from giving "money or other things of value" to a federal or state campaign.

That's obviously a stretch. People involved in campaigns get information every day from foreign sources — starting with the Daily Mail website — which could conceivably help their cause. Common sense tells us this is not criminal behavior.

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There's no bipartisan consensus now that Trump should go, and an obvious political peril, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has recognized, in Democrats' campaigning not just for a check on the president — the usual off-year opposition theme — but for a futile 1999-style impeachment trial. Overreach is not usually good politics.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  It's a good warning.  The Democrats are going crazy, and I don't see where it's actually helping them.  Every little revelation produces declarations that this is the worst catastrophe in human history.  Trump as Hitler.  As Mussolini.  As BUSH!!!  Even Cheney!!!!!!

The Dems need tranquilizers.  And new leadership.

July 13, 2017