{"id":1912921,"date":"2023-04-11T05:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-goodwin-dems-play-same-old-hand-the-trump-card\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T06:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T10:02:21","slug":"michael-goodwin-dems-play-same-old-hand-the-trump-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-goodwin-dems-play-same-old-hand-the-trump-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Goodwin: Dems Play Same Old Hand: The Trump Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichael-goodwin-dems-play-same-old-hand-the-trump-card%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1912921&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p>If you are a consumer of Democratic Party propaganda, you learned over the last two years that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/07\/trump-indictment-just-leaves-the-nation-facing-the-same-awful-choices\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> is not only a unique threat to democracy, he also single-handedly caused inflation, created the crisis at our southern border and ran up the scandalous national debt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, you learned of two more ways the former president is destroying America. <\/p>\n<p>First, Manhattan District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/06\/the-week-in-whoppers-da-braggs-laugher-on-crime-white-houses-balloon-malarkey\/\">Alvin Bragg<\/a> declared that voters in the 2016 presidential race were deprived of key facts that could have made Hillary Clinton the winner. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/05\/fresh-proof-braggs-trump-case-is-a-reach-and-nakedly-political\/\">Bragg appears to be insisting<\/a> she lost because, in 2017, Trump reimbursed a lawyer for giving Stormy Daniels and two other people hush money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/07\/biden-invites-tennessee-three-to-the-white-house\/\">President Biden<\/a> also tried to rewrite history by claiming that, despite near-universal belief that he, as commander in chief, was responsible for the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, it was actually and totally \u2014 drumroll please \u2014 Donald Trump\u2019s fault.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A visitor from Mars might reasonably wonder who this fellow Trump is and how he remains a free man despite doing so many terrible things. <\/p>\n<p>To which his tormentors could answer that they have a plan to end his free man status.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What would Democrats do without Donald Trump? <\/p>\n<p>The short answer is they would have to find somebody else to hate and blame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Recent polls have shown as many as 84% of Democrats approve of the Trump Indictment case.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The obsession is not just a top-down manufactured political trick. <\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s rank-and-file seems to have sworn an oath never to break ranks on two related fronts. <\/p>\n<p>First, they swear to stick together on anything major and, second, anything that can be pinned on Trump is major.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A unity oath would be a coherent explanation for the incoherence of a blame game that can\u2019t let go of the past and gives more power and responsibility to a former president than to the bumbling current one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is, of course, a method to the madness. <\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s record is a disaster both at home and abroad but polls consistently show he and his party are usually better off when the former president is in the news. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s endorsements in key races helped Dems retain Senate control in 2022 and party leaders and activists aim to build on that success by helping Trump become the Republican nominee next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/03\/biden-to-push-back-2024-campaign-launch-possibly-to-fall\/\">Biden has not committed<\/a> to seeking a second term, Dems believe Trump cannot win a general election so they are using a political bank shot to help guarantee he is the opposition candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their working theory is that the more they attack Trump, the more the MAGA base rallies around him. <\/p>\n<p>Thus, by hammering him relentlessly and unleashing serial prosecutions, Dems aim to choke off GOP support for Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/07\/desantis-threatens-new-taxes-tolls-targeting-disney-as-feud-escalates-were-going-to-win\/\">Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> and other primary challengers, leaving Trump as a wounded nominee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Limited appeal\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The idea is not as farfetched as it sounds. <\/p>\n<p>Trump enjoys unshakeable support of perhaps 35-40% within the party while his tiresome histrionics limit his appeal among other Republicans and independents. <\/p>\n<p>Those dynamics explain why Dem activists see him as a very beatable 2024 general election opponent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, their latest forays at putting the plan in motion are so bizarre that the machinations might have reached peak absurdity. And could backfire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Though Biden has not fully committed to running for a second term, many Democrats believe Trump won\u2019t win the presidential election.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sheer weirdness of the Bragg indictment is captured by the fact that even disappointed Trump haters threw cold water on it. <\/p>\n<p>The historic moment of having a former president criminally charged was overshadowed by doubts about Bragg\u2019s judgment to use a novel legal theory to dodge a statute of limitations and turn bookkeeping misdemeanors into 34 felony counts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On top of Bragg\u2019s reputation for avoiding prosecution of violent criminals, the overreach cemented the view that the DA\u2019s motive is purely political.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of merit, polls show as many as 84% of Dems approve of the case, a tide that has silenced any qualms from moderates. <\/p>\n<p>Also, three other Dem-driven criminal cases targeting Trump are underway, demonstrating how completely the party is wedded to a course of prosecution that has no American precedent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Biden\u2019s claim that Trump is responsible for the Afghanistan debacle takes the cake for presidential fiction. <\/p>\n<p>The 12-page document released by the White House purports to be a thorough review but instead reads like a Biden campaign speech written by an intern. <\/p>\n<p>It puts more blame on Trump than the Taliban.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden\u2019s choices for how to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/06\/biden-review-of-chaotic-afghan-withdrawal-blames-trump\/\">execute a withdrawal<\/a> from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor,\u201d it says, adding that \u201cthe outgoing Administration provided no plans for how to conduct the final withdrawal or to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having washed its own hands of responsibility, the administration tries to turn humiliation into triumph, and uses childish phrases to blow Biden\u2019s horn. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden undertook a deliberate, intensive, rigorous, and inclusive decision-making process,\u201d is typical of the heroic terms White House authors employed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to produce evidence of its flawed assertions amount to little more than quotations from Cabinet members\u2019 congressional testimony, as if the self-serving claims are irrefutable facts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Historic mistake\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>As for actual facts, the review avoids any hint of the documented proof that military leaders warned Biden that total withdrawal was a dangerous mistake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not until page 8 that the authors get around to mentioning the terrorist attack that killed 13 American service members and 170 Afghans while injuring 45 other Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/AP23067691677797.jpg\"> <\/a><figcaption>An image of Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, one of the members of the military killed during the withdrawal of Afghanistan, is displayed behind Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., as he speaks during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on the United States evacuation from Afghanistan.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although the airlift is accurately described as historic, there is no mention of the vast store of military equipment and weapons left behind, making the Taliban the best-armed terrorist force on the planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite so many allies being abandoned and the mistaken drone attack that killed 10 innocent Afghan civilians, the report insists the outcome was a big victory that \u201cfreed up critical military, intelligence, and other resources to counter terrorist threats around the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It claims that fears the withdrawal \u201ccould weaken our alliances or put the United States at a disadvantage on the global stage\u201d did not materialize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opposite has happened,\u201d the report says. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur standing around the world is significantly greater, as evidenced by multiple opinion surveys.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That assertion would be laughable were it not so tragic. <\/p>\n<p>A more honest view of Biden\u2019s tenure is that the Afghan cut-and-run convinced our adversaries that their time has come because America is weak and the West is divided.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The results include the brutal Russian war in Ukraine and China\u2019s aggressive moves toward global domination, with a takeover of Taiwan now considered inevitable. <\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/AP23081253861366.jpg\"> <\/a><figcaption>Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands after speaking to the media during a signing ceremony following their talks at The Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, on March 21, 2023.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Additionally, the \u201cunlimited\u201d agreement between presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping sets the stage for an unprecedented united front aimed at restricting the United States around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In effect, they are using a form of the containment strategy we used to defeat the Soviet Union, only now America is the nation to be contained. <\/p>\n<p>Good luck blaming that on Trump.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a consumer of Democratic Party propaganda, you learned over the last two years that Donald Trump is not only a unique threat to democracy, he also single-handedly caused inflation, created the crisis at our southern border and ran up the scandalous national debt.\u00a0 Just last week, you learned of two more ways<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1912922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5137,3933,8084,6274,5177,4599,3634],"class_list":["post-1912921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-card","tag-dems","tag-goodwin","tag-hand","tag-michael","tag-play","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}