Trump Derangement Syndrome is a disease

They first tried to keep Donald Trump from being president. That conspiracy reached the highest levels of the FBI, maybe the highest levels of our government. When that didn’t work they demanded a recount. Then they demanded the Electoral College not seat him. That failed and they moved to impeachment talk, impeachment over nothing remotely resembling an impeachable offense. Then they tried to shout down his policies. The tax cuts would be ‘Armageddon,’ remember? Again they were wrong and the economy is at the best place it’s been in decades.

They thought they had created a lethal issue in family separation at the border. The left-wing media have been exposed for lying to the American people about it. They didn’t tell them that Obama detained children in far worse conditions. They didn’t tell them that 80 percent of the children held in detention came with no parent at all. They didn’t tell them that the viral photo of a little boy in a cage was a fraud or that the little girl, looked down upon menacingly by the president on the cover of Time, was never separated from her mother. In fact, her mother had kidnapped her from her father in Honduras. They didn’t tell them, but word got out. Now a majority of Americans, according to a CBS poll, favor building the wall. This isn’t how this issue was supposed to end.

What’s more troublesome to the left is now, according to a CNBC survey, the majority of Americans favor the president’s handling of the economy. That’s a tipping point in American politics. Pocketbook issues usually hold the strongest sway over American voters. Pretty soon some of the staunchest opponents of Trump will say, “I still think Donald Trump is a vulgarian, but…” Once that ‘but’ creeps into the conversation, it’s all over.

So, there’s only one thing left for those with Trump Derangement Syndrome to do. Sow utter chaos in the country.

Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, is kicked out of a Virginia restaurant because the owner says she works for an ‘inhumane’ administration. DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is screamed at and harassed out of a Mexican restaurant in Washington, DC. Florida’s AG, Pam Bondi, can’t even attend a screening of a Mister Rogers movie without being accosted by deranged anti-Trump fanatics. Maxine ‘Mad Max’ Waters throws gasoline on the fire by encouraging everyone everywhere to harangue Trump administration officials. “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

They’ve lost. Not just their minds, they’ve lost the cause. It’s no coincidence that the better the country does the more deranged they become. America’s prosperity through tax cuts and capitalism is the worst news these people could get. They felt they were so close to fundamentally transforming this country under eight years of Obama only to see most of what he built on sand washed away in a torrent of supply-side economics.

If you’ve been waiting for these Never-Trumpers to calm down it should be clear to you that they’re not going to. The more they see their precious socialist utopia slipping away the more hysterical they become. Many of these people are ashamed of what made this country great. They think capitalism is cruel and capitalists are evil. They despise the direction we’re going.

They see only one option left, and that is to burn society to the ground.

Phil Valentine is the host of the award-winning, nationally syndicated talk radio show, The Phil Valentine Show.

Forgive them, Margaret, for they know not what they do

No sooner was Margaret Thatcher dead than the vile leftists were out in the street popping champagne and celebrating.  And the further to the left the more vicious they became.  They chanted disgusting slogans and waved pre-printed banners.  They had been waiting – and preparing – for this moment for years.

I even saw an e-mail from some Internet radio station in the UK gleefully soliciting for anti-Thatcher songs to play.  “Rejoice!  Oh Happy Day!  Hallelujah!” read the headline.  “What wonderful news – the most evil woman in the world is roasting in hell tonight!!” the e-mail read.

So, why is the left so thrilled at the passing of the UK’s first female prime minister?  It has little to do with what she did that directly impacted England during her time in office, although they would like you to think as much.  It’s more what she did for the world.

Together with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II she brought an end to the Soviet Union.  The USSR was the communist world’s shining beacon of hope.  It represented not only a collectivist utopia but a clear and distinct alternative to capitalism.  Leftists, even in the United States, had begun to believe that it would reign for a thousand years.  They believed it was living proof that communism worked.  That competition was evil.  That capitalism’s days were numbered.

Then suddenly it ended in a whimper.  The mighty empire that enslaved a generation and, through brute force, subjugated half of Europe into a hypnotic state of mediocrity, brainwashing millions into believing that striving for excellence was sophistry, was gone in the blink of an eye.  The wall that physically and symbolically separated east from west came tumbling down.  The appeasers who thought it wise to humble themselves in the presence of the evil empire rather than stand up to it were made to look like the spineless fools they really were.

Dedicating your life to the “greater good” from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs was believed by the self-anointed enlightened ones to be a noble expenditure of one’s existence.  Rugged individualism, self-reliance and a life spent pursuing happiness were thought to be crass, selfish, even grotesque.  Those who strove to create a world in which everything was fair found themselves ironically clinging to a system of government in which everything was equally unfair and equally miserable.

Tens of millions were killed during the Soviet Union’s reign of terror, far more than the brutal Nazis ever dreamed of killing.  Those so eager to dance on Thatcher’s grave would’ve been shot for such a disrespectful display against any Soviet leader.

Yet there they were, dancing in the streets like some acid-crazed lunatics devoid of even an ounce of decency because nothing in their lives is decent.  At the end of the day these pathetic provocateurs and self-proclaimed protectors of the proletariat are all about one thing: themselves.  The name of the game is getting the government to support them so they don’t have to contribute a thing.  Not that they’re even capable.

And even some who are capable got sucked into the vortex of vulgarity because they fancy themselves as ordinary citizens – as their private jets scuttle them along to their next rock concert or philanthropic cocktail party.

No, life is not fair.  It’s not fair that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher snatched Britain from the jaws of economic depression.  That she saved countless millions from the hard underside of the jack boot of totalitarianism. That she gave hope once again to the hopeless.

That this is the thanks she gets.