POLITICS: Dems continue to wallow in denial and do the dumbest things – it’s clear they haven’t learned a thing

It’s been four months since Donald Trump and Republicans swept the 2024 elections — and Democrats haven’t learned a thing. 

Here are three snapshots of a party wallowing in denial: When the eight candidates running to head the Democratic National Committee were asked if they believed “racism and misogyny” were factors in Kamala Harris’ defeat, all eight raised their hands. 

When congressional Dems gathered outside the headquarters of the rogue USAID agency that Trump plans to shrink or close, one of their lead speakers was the antisemitic terror defender and America-hating Rep. Ilhan Omar. 

Then there’s New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who said Saturday he was hiding an illegal immigrant in his house and challenged ICE, saying “good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.” 

I’ve long believed Trump has a gift for driving his opponents over the edge.

Sputtering mad over his style and success, they say and do the dumbest things, which reveals them to be the real crazies. 

Murphy plays the fool 

Take Murphy: His office quickly backtracked, saying there is no illegal immigrant living in his house and that he was referring to a legal immigrant who is a friend. 

Huh? 

So why did he feel the need to lie and make himself out to be a deportation resister? 

And why in the same speech did he go back to the Hitler, Hitler, Hitler nonsense that failed during the campaign? 

“Germans in the ’20s and ’30s got tired. They got sick of fighting and look at the price we paid,” Murphy said. 

Trump’s success is driving him nuts, so Murphy retaliates by making a fool of himself! 

Such is the case with much of Washington as Dems and their media mouthpieces rage over the president’s first two weeks in office. In their rush to paint Trump as an extremist, they are saying and doing extreme things. 

They’re also showing their ignorance. 

Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly foolishly tried to summon the ghost of Winston Churchill’s famous World War II pledge that “We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall never surrender.” 

Connolly’s embarrassing imitation came outside the closed USAID building when he said: “We are going to fight in every way we can in the courts, in public opinion, with the bully pulpit, in the halls of Congress, and here at USAID itself. We are not going to let this injustice happen.” 

Churchill he’s not, nor is the slashing of unaccountable spending the equivalent of World War II. 

Resistance is passe 

Huff and puff as they might, the resistance movement doesn’t have nearly the same appeal it did when Trump took office in 2017.

Then streets in big blue cities were filled with protesters as pink pussy hats became a symbol of defiance. 

The zeal persisted and led to the effort to drive him from office, starting with the despicable Russia hoax that was a fabrication of the FBI and Hillary Clinton. 

It failed, only to be repeated following the 2020 election by a series of prosecutions designed to lock him up and keep him off the ballot, scandalous moves urged by Joe Biden and carried out by Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI. 

None of it worked — in fact, the weaponization of the FBI and the courts backfired and helped lift Trump to victory.

So did the assassination attempts, which I believe were inspired by claims he was a threat to democracy. 

Yet most top Dem officials are still trying to stoke the old anger, as if it’s the only playbook they know. 

What they should do instead is do an honest, no-sacred-cows-spared assessment of why he’s in the Oval Office and Kamala Harris is grocery shopping in California. 

Such an examination would begin with the admission the party has lost touch with the majority of voters. Trump won all seven battleground states and was the first Republican to win the national popular vote in 20 years. 

The broad result indicates something far larger than a “messaging problem,” which is the only mistake the dead-enders will concede. 

In fact, voters understood exactly who the Dems are and what they stand for.

That’s why Trump pulled in record numbers of black, Latino, Asian and young people as he transformed the GOP into a middle- and working-class party. 

The country wanted big changes, and Harris promised more of the same. 

Even now, her party still misses the point when it goes after Trump for staffing his administration with people outside the usual government boxes and for launching tariff wars. 

Did they really think he was going to have a conventional administration? 

One of the silliest arguments The New York Times makes is a near-daily accusation that Trump’s efforts amount to “revenge.”

The implication is that the only acceptable administration is one that pursues Biden’s policies and allows the permanent government to continue to control everything. 

And while it’s true there are a few questionable players on Trump’s team — RFK Jr. for one — the larger truth is that his administration already is a huge upgrade over Biden’s team of losers. 

Most important, Trump is doing exactly what he promised — and what the public voted for.

Isn’t that democracy? 

Get these numbers: Some 87% of adults favor deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records in one of the Times’ own polls, while 74% of registered voters support it in a Wall Street Journal poll. 

The Times also found that 55% support deporting all illegal immigrants. 

Trump’s finger on pulse 

Other surveys found huge backing for other Trump policies.

One found 57% support for his decision to send the military to secure the southern border, 56% support for his demand that federal employees return to the office full-time and 54% support for his blocking the use of federal funds to promote gender ideology. 

Those are big numbers in a polarized nation and if Dems continue to oppose such popular, common-sense corrections, they’ll be spending a lot more time in the wilderness. 

In fact, it’s impossible to say what they stand for that most Americans want.

All we know is that they remain committed to opposing everything Trump says and does. 

The new head of the DNC, Ken Martin, a party lifer from Minnesota, struck a sour note in his victory speech. 

“I’ve always viewed my role’s as a chair of the Democratic Party to take the low road so my candidates and elected officials can take the high road,” Martin said.

“So Donald Trump, Republican Party: This is a new DNC. We are not going to sit back and not take you on when you fail the American people.” 

If it really were a new DNC, Dems would have a fighting chance of winning back public trust. 

Instead, they are living examples of the maxim that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.