Anchor Struck

With the Democrats’ ticket set and solidifying, Trump’s panic is becoming more glaring. Yesterday he Truth Socialed “What are the chances that CROOKED Joe Biden . . . CRASHES the Democratic National Convention and tries to take back the NOMINATION, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE. He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!”

I told my wife Jude, whom I met on a locked psychiatric ward (as employees), that we’d seen patients involuntarily committed for raving less than that. Aging Orange and Vance will only sink lower as their numbers do. Their go-to gripe, a rampant crime rate, is easily disproven. And their biggest weakness, reproductive freedom, is mentioned even less than Watergate.

They’re not going to gain any ground if they compare service to their country, either. Harris wasn’t in the military, but she didn’t have to dodge the draft like Trump did. You’ll remember his bone spurs, of course, which fortunately do not affect his golf game now. Vance was in the Marines for four years and served as a combat correspondent in Iraq for six months, although he “was lucky to escape any real fighting”. He did, however, receive the Good Conduct Medal, which we Leathernecks referred to derisively as the Fire Watch Ribbon. He mustered out at the rank of Corporal (E-4).

Walz, on the other hand, was in the Army National Guard for 24 years, training in heavy artillery and serving in posts from the Arctic Circle to the more combative Texas. He deployed to Europe to support Operation Enduring Freedom. He was the Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year in 1989. He was awarded an Army Commendation Medal and two Army Achievement Medals. He attained the rank of Command Sergeant Major, the highest ranking enlisted member of a battalion or larger unit, at the end of his career, mustering out as an E-8.

Trump will most certainly continue his hysteria strategy, given his tendency to double down on anything that doesn’t work. There’s just no reverse in his gear box. He would, however, do well to notice that Ronald Reagan’s success was based largely on optimism. Reagan said “it’s morning in America” and the electorate swooned. I’m counting on Donnie to ignore that.