WorldNetDaily columnist Laura Hollis has been on a Democrat-bashing tear of late. She claimed in her Aug. 9 column:
Why are the Democrats floundering so badly? There are a number of reasons, all interrelated:
First and foremost, the Democrats have held too much power across too many industries (politics, the media, the entertainment industry, academia) for too long.
As often happens, they abused that power: manipulating the electoral process, weaponizing the justice system to go after political opponents, censoring dissenting voices in traditional and social media, poisoning education and entertainment with “woke” garbage, and lying to the public.
They also co-opted the structure and operations of countless charities and nongovernmental organizations, raking in donations and spending billions of taxpayer dollars to fund policies and programs – at home and abroad – that Americans would not have supported, had there been any public oversight.
They have been protected in all of this by the very people and institutions that should have been holding them accountable and exposing corruption – the press. Our legacy media, however – which also lean leftward – have become so assured of their own moral superiority that they were more than willing to ignore or cheer on violations of America’s most deeply held principles, as long as those violations were committed by Democrats.
Democrats became arrogant and elitist, thinking themselves untouchable.
In 2008, the Democratic Party chose Barack Obama, a man whose past was cloudy – and in some cases, deliberately obscured – as their presidential candidate, and they won. Twice.
Is Hollis still buying into Obama birther conspiracy theories? Sure seems like it. She concluded:
Ironically, Democrats’ current predicament could have been avoided had there been any reasonable checks on their power. As it is, the Democratic Party is collapsing in a cesspool of its own creation.
Hollis did not advocate for any reasonable checks on Donald Trump’s power. Instead, she cheered that Trump “has not only exploited the widespread dissatisfaction conservative Americans had for establishment Republicans; he has left the RINO wing of the GOP (which was, at least at the national level, most of it) politically neutered.”
Hollis went on to huff in her Aug. 16 column:
Law-abiding Americans have to worry about their safety because Democrats’ policies favor criminals, both foreign and domestic.
While Americans are outraged about crimes committed by people here illegally – crimes that include drunk driving, violent assault, rape and murder – Democrats express deep concern about those criminals being sent back to their home countries or to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
While Americans who own businesses suffer retail theft that costs them (and the country) tens of billions of dollars each year, Democrats like those in California advocate for policies that reduce shoplifting to a misdemeanor and give thieves a slap on the wrist. (And that is if they are prosecuted at all.)
Democrat-controlled legislatures in New York and Illinois enacted laws eliminating cash bail. In some cities (including Washington, D.C.), Democrat prosecutors have bonds set ridiculously low – or refuse to prosecute certain crimes at all. As a result, criminals are back on the street.
Similarly, Americans watch in horror as downtowns in our major cities are destroyed by homelessness, filth and rampant, open drug use. Those situations were created or exacerbated by policies Democrats called “compassionate.”
Across the country, Democrats purport to be incensed about Republicans redrawing congressional districts, even though Democrats have used their political power to gerrymander voting districts to favor Democrat candidates for decades. In Texas, Democratic Party legislators illegally left the state, trying to prevent the legislature from acting. This is apparently something Democrats do when they don’t have a majority; Wisconsin Democrats pulled a similar stunt in 2011.
Hollis didn’t mention that Wisconsin Republicans used the 2011 redistricting to create highly gerrymandered maps.
Hollis mixed Trump-fluffing with her Democrat-bashing in her Aug. 23 column:
There are only a few professions where you can be consistently wrong and hold onto your job. Apparently, being a Democrat is one of them. It’s perhaps less evident when a Democrat is in the White House, because the media will lie and engage in deflective hand-waving to cover up for them on a daily basis. But with Donald Trump as president of the United States, facts blow C-4-sized holes in the American Left’s narratives on a daily basis.
[…]It’s obvious not only that Democrats are wrong about a good many of Trump’s policy initiatives but that they know they’re wrong. They seem to have no economic message, to be defenders of surveillance and multinational corporations, and to be more interested in protecting the “rights” of illegal aliens and criminals than those of American citizens, workers and families.
Hollis threw in even more Trump-fluffing over his alleged peace efforts:
Most recently, Trump hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, seeking an end to the bloody war between Russia and Ukraine. Just days later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Trump at the White House, joined by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – a gathering that even news organizations like NBC described as “historic” and “a rare display of trans-Atlantic unity.”
It remains to be seen whether Trump will be able to parlay that unity – along with his famous “Art of the Deal” skills – into an actual peace between Putin and Zelenskyy.
Hollis must have been reading WND’s hagiographic Trump-fluffing on the Trump-Putin meeting. Meanwhile, two months later, no change in that conflict can be seen.