Election 2024: The last laugh is on the Democrats | Mulshine

A great man once said that most of the world’s ills are caused by the taking of politics seriously.
The Democrats are now learning that lesson.
Back in 2016, when Donald Trump blundered into the presidency, the loyal opposition failed to recognize him for what he was – a stand-up comedian in the mold of the many Borscht Belt comics trained in his native New York.
But when it comes to issues, Trump had no plans to keep his campaign promises. On issues such as replacing Obamacare or building a border wall that would be paid for by Mexico, he had no plan.
He was more adept at making deals than carrying them out.
The Democrats would have been wise to take advantage of that and just let him serve out his first four years as a figurehead. He didn’t have the votes in Congress to implement most of his policies.
Instead they took him seriously. A key point in the Russiagate scandal came when the Democrats accused him of “colluding” with Russia partly because of a joke he told asking Vladimir Putin to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails.
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said in reference to Hillary Clinton’s missing emails. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
He was clearly being facetious, but many members of the mainstream media took him seriously.
Then there was Ukraine. When it comes to Ukraine, the public’s ignorance was bliss for the Bidens. Hunter Biden was engaged in some fishy financial dealings there. But those wouldn’t come to light until after Hunter Biden left his laptop off with a Delaware computer repairman in April of 2019.
It was full of information embarrassing to the Bidens. But my fellow members of the mainstream media were complicit in covering up the contents of that laptop until after the 2020 election.
“They said the laptop from hell was from Russia, and I said, ‘It wasn’t from Russia. It was from Hunter,’” he added. “And I never got an apology.” (Only one newspaper columnist bothered to call the former CIA agent who was in the middle of the controversy.)
Trump cited that cover-up during the most recent campaign, in which the Donald sounded bitter rather than funny.
But that didn’t put a dent in his popularity. The Donald was bullet-proof – both literally and figuratively.
In the recent campaign, The Donald would make one or another gaffe that would finish off a lesser candidate. But the next day the polls were unmoved.
The most recent was that comedian’s quip about Puerto Ricans and garbage at a Trump rally. The pundits proclaimed that would cost him Latino votes. Instead, Trump’s Latino vote rose to historic proportions.
Then there was the Democratic nominee for president, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Dems made a big mistake in choosing a candidate who didn’t have to win a single primary battle to attain the nomination.
If they’d pressured Joe Biden into dropping out of the race from the beginning, they could have had presidential primary elections open to a number of Democrats more skilled and accomplished than Harris.
And even with Harris at the top, they could have had a much more competitive ticket if they had chosen someone the other than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for veep.
New Jersey native and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly would have been a much stronger candidate, if only because that ticket likely would have carried Kelly’s home state. The Harris-Walz ticket lost the state and its 11 electoral votes.
But my friends in the Democratic Party tell me that Kelly was deep-sixed by the leaders of the public-employee unions, who thought he didn’t show proper fealty to government workers.
Now that Trump will be returning to the White House with a Republican Senate and perhaps even a Republican House, he will be empowered to take whatever revenge he desires. Or so says one GOP legal scholar:
“I think it’s actually funny how much effort the extreme left spent on trying to criminalize Donald Trump’s actions and how that boomeranged on them,” said lawyer and former assemblyman Michael Carroll of Morris County. “Many folks looked at what happened in New York City and recoiled in horror.”
That case was the classic example of a comedy being turned into a tragedy by the Democrats.
The comedy involved Stormy Daniels, the porn star who claimed to have had a dalliance with the Donald.
The humorous part came when Daniels visited Trump’s penthouse for a second time.
“I remember arriving, and he was watching Shark Week,” she said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “He made me sit and watch an entire documentary about shark attacks.”
Now that’s funny! But what happened to Trump next was serious. He was convicted in Manhattan criminal court on charges he covered up the hush-money payments to Daniels 18 years earlier.
News reports say that and three other cases against Trump will be suspended while he’s president.
As of Wednesday morning, my liberal friends were in mourning.
The big question now is how Trump will act when he’s back in the White House.
All I can say to my liberal friends is: You never should have got him started.
But you’ll have to pardon us for laughing at the result.