WATCH! The Agony of the Democrats, by Douglas Andrews

“The voters have spoken,” said Arizona Democrat Mo Udall after having been trounced by Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential primaries. “The bastards.”

Similarly, the voters spoke last November 5 — but the Democrats just don’t seem to have gotten the message. And the voters have continued to speak — urgently so — through the political urchins known as pollsters. Yet still, the Democrats continue to thrash about and do self-harm — so much so that they’re polling at depths never before plumbed. A recent CNN poll has the Democrats’ favorability at 29%, while an NBC News poll has them at 27%.

At the same time, that NBC News poll has Donald Trump, Le Bête Orange, polling at an all-time high.

Still, there was Chuck Schumer two days ago, making the TV rounds and defending himself against calls to step down as minority leader in the wake of what his party’s wingnuts see as a budgetary surrender to Donald Trump. “It gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends,” said “The View’s” Sunny Hostin, “but I think you caved. I think you and nine other Democrats caved.”

Schumer meekly replied, “We’re going to fight this every day. But I want to win and fight smart.” He was no more convincing when he added, “We’re going to stick it to them and fight smart and win.”

Uh-huh. Lately, the Democrats have been sticking it to Trump and the Republicans by reflexively taking one suicidal policy position after another. This is how Trump has so thoroughly boxed them in: First, he trained them like seals to hate his guts. Then, he’s sought out and embraced the issues that are wildly popular with the American people: closing the border and getting rid of the criminal illegals; canceling foreign aid and rooting out government waste; calling out the outrageousness of men competing against women in sports; and on and on. What have the Trump-deranged Democrats done in response? In every case, they’ve adopted the opposite position merely to spite him.

The American people are disenchanted with the status quo. They don’t like Big Government. And the Democrats are, as always, The Party of Big Government. Consider the self-destructive meltdown that Schumer had on “The View”:

“You know what their attitude is?” he railed, “‘I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me. I don’t wanna pay taxes.’ Or, ‘I built my company with my bare hands. How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, my, um, the land and water that I own, uh, or my employees.’” …

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