The Revolving White House Asylum

Sanity. That is all most Americans want. Neither political party is willing to humor us and that makes them equal owners of our ongoing plunge.

How can Democrats be responsible for legal immigrants being denied due process? How can Republicans be responsible for giant men wearing women’s clothing competing against girls in sports?

By being crazy, that’s how.

As the world burns from an insane trade war somehow dubbed as “conservative,” I can think of no one more responsible for it than the Democrats. I have noted before, and will say it again, that all they had to do last year was give up their craziest ideas and run a coherent candidate with the policies of, oh, Barack Obama circa 2008, and a Democrat would have picked the draperies in the Oval Office.

Most Americans don’t want to live in a world where Canadians are outraged at us because we keep talking about annexing them. Most Americans liked when our leaders didn’t talk like Vladimir Putin when visiting Greenland.

But, most Americans actually “believe the science” that men and women are biologically different. Most Americans think that looking the other way while millions of immigrants come across the border illegally might not be a sound long term strategy. Most Americans could tell from afar what Democratic leaders claimed to be unable to tell up close: that Joe Biden was not of sound mind.

Obama’s excesses with the nascent Black Lives Matter, looking the other way as cities like Ferguson, MO, burned, gave us Trump 1.0. Had he led in the spirit of 2004 Barack “There are no red states or blue states, just the United States” Obama, Trump wouldn’t have gotten traction. Had 2016 Democratic leaders not tipped the scales in favor of no-normal-person’s-choice of Hillary Clinton, Trump would have lost.

But, no, Obama went increasingly divisive and the party followed that up with a historically bad candidate. If they thought Trump was dangerous, they didn’t act like it.

Fast forward an administration and plenty of years of experience later. They could have learned when the already fading Joe Biden was able to take the 2020 primary lead. Voters didn’t pick the most obvious heirs to the Obama torch. They picked the Obama veep who had been vice president for the sole reason that he represented the staid, old guard.

People said, “Give us normal.”

I doubt that a Biden of sounder faculties would have provided the administration we got over the last four years. Thanks to those keeping an increasingly encumbered man operating, though, we got a used car salesman presidency: people ordered a moderate and got a progressive torchbearer.

After 2020, a President Trump sequel should have been next to impossible. Democratic incompetency so deep one wonders if they have a GOP double agent in their ranks made it possible. It is they who made an insurrectionist who stole nuclear secrets the calm, normal choice in 2024.

Meanwhile, consider the Republicans. A sensible party would have rejected a man who refused to accept an election in which he clearly lost and could provide no evidence to the contrary. They at least would have said enough is enough, as his vice president did in January 2021, when said man pushed the country to the brink of a coup in which his supporters built a noose for said VP, who didn’t want to play ball at the game of ignoring the law.

But, no. They spent four years fomenting discontent so we could get Trump 2.0. They couldn’t have succeeded without the Democrats’ help, true, but they still could have gone the route of a candidate capable of winning on his or her own. They could have pushed a somewhat more stable candidate — Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis, the Joker, basically anyone with a pulse.

Instead, the GOP relied on the uniquely bad candidate they were running against as their vector to win. The VP who clearly lacked the chops to be president, having served under a president who lacked the chops to be president, was the one ticket the Democrats could give to let us have another Trump presidency. The Dems gave it and the Party of Lincoln seized it.

To be sure, Trump 2.0 promised a host of sensible things normal Americans actually want. He promised to rein in illegal immigration. He promised that we’d again recognize that some people are girls and some people are boys. He promised to reduce government inefficiency.

In late January and early February, when President Trump focused on those promises, guess what? The majority of Americans supported what he was doing. Democrats melted down over DOGE cuts to bloated government, but normal people did not. Despite his unique set of incompetencies, Trump was serving up a common sense foundation for another Republican administration after his own. Give average folks reasonableness and they’ll be happy.

But, this is Trump. He does have a unique set of incompetencies. He must self-sabotage. And, as president, he must spread that self-sabotage to us all.

So, after those first few “wow, maybe he actually can govern” weeks, what have we gotten? Berating a war hero leader of an ally in the Oval Office. Undermining our friendships with our closest allies, rather than simply addressing issues. Holding our tongue towards, or even complimenting our enemies, because apparently you have to be nice to adversaries to get things done, but you influence friends by insulting them.

And that’s not all. We got deportations of people who should not be deported without constitutionally guaranteed due process. Security officials ignoring basic security procedures and the administration defending that. And, then, you know, there’s the whole blowing up the whole world economy thing, erasing trillions of dollars in less than a week and aiming us on a kamikaze trajectory towards a New Great Depression.

Any one of those things would have gotten a president impeached at one time. It certainly would have ended the political aspirations of anyone associated with him forever. Remember when simply saying “Read My Lips” could help seal a president’s fate for the audacity of later needing to raise taxes?

But, this is 2025. Republicans will continue to complain that anyone who doesn’t support all of this insanity is somehow “not conservative.” Never mind defending free trade; today’s “conservatives” upend the economy to chase a proletariat’s utopia of equity.

Democrats will wring their hands, but undercut their concern by elevating the next set of insane extremists to leadership, ensuring any reprieve from Trumpian insanity be brief. How brief? Just long enough to remind America that the Wokeistas are perfectly happy to drive the nation into the ground, too, just using alternate means.

The inmates aren’t running the asylum; they’re running our government. Running it right into the ground. All the while, all we want is someone — anyone — who is, you know, not certifiably insane.