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At least one Democrat seems to be waking up to reality, claiming to understand just how far from sanity her party is at present.

Tim Hains headed his column @realclearpolitics.com yesterday: “Camille Paglia: Trump Already Headed Towards Reelection, Democrats Have Overplayed Their Hand”

Mr. Hains writes about New York Times columnist Frank Bruni’s “moderating a 'Times Talks' discussion between legendary feminist Camille Paglia and 'Watch What Happens Live' host Andy Cohen about life in the Trump era.”

Paglia says the Times and the Democratic Party still have "soul searching" left to do about why they called 2016 wrong. "It is incumbent upon the defeated party to pull itself together, or else we're going to get the reelection of the present administration," she said. 

Noting that early on "I didn't take him seriously at all," but shortly after the first Republican debate, seeing “Diamond & Silk, the African-American sisters doing a pro-Trump attack on Megyn Kelly on their podcast," Paglia "suddenly saw the populism, and from that moment forward," could "feel the momentum of it."
 
What made the article particularly relevant is Paglia’s realization that “The New York media was in an absolute bubble about this." 

Andy Cohen said he had similar thoughts: "Just today I was walking by a monitor, I don't know what channel was on, but there was -- he has some slogan about jobs for America or some new plan. And I saw that chyron: 'Jobs For America Plan,' and I thought to myself... it doesn't even matter if this works or not, he could get reelected just because he has a 'Jobs For America' plan." 

The article includes a quite interesting interchange, as follows:

“BRUNI: You feel like he is going to get reelected?

“PAGLIA: Yes. The Democrats have overplayed their hand. And the -- I just can't imagine--

“BRUNI: You're already betting on his reelection less than 100 days in?

“PAGLIA: Yes because what the Democrats needed to do-- and the major media, Frank, needed to do was to do some soul-searching.

“BRUNI: By that you mean the failing New York Times?

“PAGLIA: Yes.

“BRUNI: Yes, we're going to rebrand this 'Failing Times Talks.'

“PAGLIA: If you read only the New York Times-- I said, 'Oh my God!' The readers of the New York Times are heading for a major, major breakdown shock if Trump is in fact elected.”

A strong stimulus for including Mr. Hains article was a comment posted by reader, JustASimpleGuy, who concisely defined the Democrats quandary.   

“Their problem is they can't do anything other than what they've been doing. They have whipped their base into such a raging froth of a deranged and deluded frenzy that they have painted themselves into a corner where rational opposition isn't possible. It would either demoralize their base or turn their base against them and push them further into loony land.

“One of the most important reasons that Trump will likely be elected has nothing to do with irrational Democrats, but instead to a simple reality. He’s fulfilling the campaign promises that got him elected in the first place.” 

JustASimpleGuy’s accurate premise was confirmed just a few minutes later in an article by Jeffry Bartash @marketwatch.com, reporting that “The number of out-of-work people collecting unemployment checks fell to a 17-year low in April, underscoring the strongest U.S. labor market in years. 

“So-called continuing jobless claims fell by 49,000 to 1.98 million, marking just the second time they’ve fallen below 2 million during the current eight-year-old economic expansion. Continuing claims also dipped below the 2 million mark in March. 

“There is a “steady downtrend in place in the pace of layoffs,” noted Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities.”

That reflection of a rebounding economy was reinforced by Tim Devaney who wrote @thehill.com that: “President Trump has saved taxpayers more than $86 billion in regulatory costs during his first three months in the White House, according to a new study from a conservative group. 

“The American Action Forum (AAF) points to several Obama-era regulations that Trump has either rolled back on his own or with the help of Republican lawmakers using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). 

“This includes the Education Department’s school accountability standards, the Environmental Protection Agency’s waters of the United States rule and the so-called “blacklisting” rule for government contractors.” 

Then, a commentary was found on FoxNews.com by Sean Hannity that considers the diametrically opposed positions held by the two major party's, along with the role played by the mainstream media.  

Addressing the question of whether the MSM is biased against Trump, Hannity writes: 

"Actually, they are. And there’s proof. A new study from the Media Research Center shows a whopping 89 percent of coverage during ABC, NBC, CBS's evening newscast has been negative toward President Trump. 

“We're seeing the alt-radical left taking all of this unhinged hatred to a whole new level, and they're teaming up to attack the president on all fronts. It's only going to get worse, it's only going to get more intense. So Republicans need to do their job and also be ready to fight back.”

And then Hannity writes about the most disturbing predicament in which the left has put itself, and can do absolutely nothing to rectify. Primarily because they don’t know how:  

“As for President Trump, all he needs to do is check campaign promises off his list and continue to fulfill enact the agenda that he won on. And then his haters can keep on hating for the next seven years.” 

That's it for today folks. 

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