Lawfare and nonstop smears from Democrats only contributed to Trumps triumph

If Democrats honestly sort through the debris of the election, they will find a slew of key issues where they were far out of step with voters.Their misguided economic policies led to sky-high inflation, they opened the border to millions of unvetted illegal migrants and adopted a radical approach to cultural issues, all of which Donald Trump seized on in his commanding victory. It certainly didn’t help that Dems fielded two weak candidates, starting with President Biden.His cognitive decline, which the party tried to hide, led leaders to belatedly give him the hook, and Kamala Harris, despite spending nearly $2 billion, was mercilessly exposed as lacking the right stuff for the Oval Office. These policy and personnel issues obviously contributed to the result, and some Dems, however grudgingly, are starting to come to grips with them. But there is another dimension to the race that helps explain Trump’s triumph, and I don’t believe any Dem dares to touch it, at least yet.These issues revolve around the party’s decision to launch a personal war against the Republican, which featured nonstop charges that he was a racist, a fascist and a wannabe Hitler. It was created out of whole cloth and was despicable, and it was only part of the assault.

The other part was the decision to weaponize the Department of Justice and state prosecutors to knock Trump out of the race by bringing a slew of criminal charges and civil suits. No former president had ever been charged with a single crime, but Dems went full jihad and charged him with a total of 94 felonies in four different federal and state cases. There was also an effort to bankrupt him in New York and a plot to ban him from the ballot in a dozen blue states, a disgraceful bid that would have deprived voters of choice. Thankfully, the Supreme Court stopped it. Displaying not an iota of shame, the activist Dems carrying out these unprecedented assaults routinely accused Trump of being a threat to democracy....