Corruption rears its ugly head.

Democrats are creating a toxic brew of corruption allegations and hate just in time for the midterms.

The Democrats have finally started hitting Trump on corruption, which, as far as I am concerned, is kind of long overdue just from a political strategic perspective, because he is vulnerable there. A lot of deals are going on with family members involved. So, the optics are not good, regardless of the legalities.

They figured out how to combine corruption with affordability. The pitch is going to be prices are too high, and the reason is because Trump is corrupt. So, for example, gas prices are high because Trump is corrupt, which is not true. Prices are high because of Operation Epic Fury and its sequelae in Iran. But they can weave that together in a tapestry of hate, so prices at the pump are high because of Trump and his corruption, because of Operation Epic Fury, because Israel and Netanyahu and AIPAC got us in it, and then you weave all those emotional hot buttons in with a little bit of a policy scaffolding, if you will.

The other low-hanging emotional fruit for them, of course, is ICE, immigration enforcement, that sort of thing. Mainstream Democrats think that will at least rnale them to a avoid getting booed by DSA by saying “look, we are getting tough on Trump here, and we are calling him out and holding him accountable and we hate Jews too” and all that nonsense.

Because the energy in the party right now is Marxist, and they always exploit divisions in society. They divide to rule. Oldest trick in the book. The division DSA is exploiting is generational. Usually it is identity politics or what have you. But in the intraparty war, they are using age. If you notice, all the candidates that have been derailed by DSA have been older. There is a lot of bitterness and jealousy on the part of younger people against older people. The language I hear all the time now out of DSA is the game is rigged; what they mean is it is rigged against young people. They see the older people like their parents, presumably, have nice things, like nice houses and nice cars, compared to them. They figure that they are never going to be able to have those things unless they become communists and redistribute the wealth generationally. It is an incredibly simple-minded view of the world, and it is not how the world works, but they are feeling, they are not thinking, and that is how you end up with Marxism. It is driven by jealousy. It is driven by class envy. In this case, the classes are the older class versus the younger class. Now, they beat up on billionaires and trillionaires, and they say all billionaires and trillionaires are evil, except the ones, of course, who give them money, like J.B. Pritzker and George Soros, are evil. (Of course., there aren’t any trillionaires any more. There was one trillionaire for like a week, maybe. But now he is not a trillionaire anymore.) So they do use them as piñatas, as bogeymen, but mainly it is generational. I felt that myself from younger people when I was in a job where everybody was young except me and the owner. That is the divide that is being exploited.

Now, if they get intoa de facto majority in Congress, it’s pretty predictable what is going to happen. I would think that the market will tank. Now, it may be baked in, but I think maybe the realization that this is actually happening is going to be a shock to the market, because these are the Occupy Wall Street people. They want to end the private sector, they want to end stock exchanges. So, that has got to send a shiver down the spine of anybody with a brain who is on Wall Street. I am not in the business of giving investment advice, but if I was and if I was, I would suggest that you lighten up on stocks going into the fall even though a blue win may be baked in.

I expect the first thing they will do, day one, is file articles of impeachment. That will not accomplish anything except political theater, of course.

But that brings us to the other kind of puzzler, which is why the Democrats have not shut down the government going into the midterms. The reason I understand is that they think the politics would be bad for them. The last shutdown was a long one and it was not popular. They felt that, at least to some extent, they got blamed for it. They were not successfully able to convey the fiction that it was Trump's fault and the Republicans' fault, because the Republicans were more than ready to pass something. So they were not able to pull that scam, and so they did not try to do it again.

I think if Congress turns turns blue, then, in effect, the DSA will be running the country because the mainstream Democrats are running scared from DSA. So I think DSA will demand that the government be immediately shut down. You could look at a two-year shutdown because these people subscribe to the Leninistic philosophy, which is the worse, the better. They are not interested in maintaining the United States as we know it. They want to destroy the United States as we know it and rebuild the country. It is a people's republic. So for them, shutting down the government is a perfect way to cause chaos and disorder and mass dissatisfaction. They want riots in the streets. They do not just want policy debate about Medicare for all like Bernie Sanders. They want to tear it all, burn it all down, and rebuild from the ashes. So I would expect them to want to shut the government down and do it at the earliest opportunity. Now, what has happened is the mainstream Democrats do not want to play it that way, so there is a continuing resolution on the table that would get the government funded into December, as I understand it. So we probably will not see a government shutdown here, because neither party wants it. But after the election, if it goes the wrong way, as far as I am concerned, Katie bar the door, we used to say.

There are some ominous signs going. In the Michigan Senate race, the DSA-endorsed candidate is ahead by 15 points over a woman who has been in the House for many terms, a very respected mainstream Democrat. She is getting her brains beat out by DSA. She is older. She is not particularly photogenic. And she has got a young physician who reminds me of Che Guevara running against her. A Muslim, he is basically a clone of Zoran Mamdani, and he is killing her. The good news is that he is polling 10 points behind the Republican.

In Wisconsin, you have a DSA candidate, card-carrying member, who is killing the mainstream Democrat. I think she is up 15 points. Now she is trailing in the poll against a guy named Tiffany on the Republican side by 10 points.

So there are two ways this could go. One is the DSA has the big momentum, as George Bush the elder used to say, and takes over governorship in a Midwest purple state and a Senate seat in Michigan, which is not totally blue. Or these people could be so radical that they end up getting Republicans elected. So that remains to be seen, and we will not know that until obviously November. But the fact that these folks can beat any mainstream Democrat, apparently in virtually any state, is mind-blowing to me.

Now what I am trying to do is educate mainstream Democrats about the DSA platform. They are meeting in Chicago as we speak, actually. I was going to go down there, but I figured I had better not. The task is not easy. To my knowledge, I have not persuaded one of them to do anything but vote blue no matter who. I tell them, “look, do not believe me; look at the DSA platform, the one they just did in the spring.” And I just list the things I want to do, which I will not repeat, because I have laid them out in this Substack many times, but they want to tear the Constitution up. I tell them, “Their own words convict them. Do you support this stuff?” I have never had one of them say no, I do not support that. Because they are so obsessed with Trump, they will vote for anybody. They are just blinded by TDS. They are blinded by hatred, and that is a dangerous thing. I always saw that as an issue with Trump, going back to 2016, that he is so divisive that he makes people crazy. And they do crazy things, like vote for DSA. And, according to the prophecy, here we are.

I think it is our job to educate them about the extremists that they are getting themselves taken over by, frankly. It is hard to take your party back, and where are they going to go? They are not going to vote for the Republicans. They will be politically homeless if they cannot handle the heat in this new kitchen where DSA is cook. If they decide, “you know what, I kind of want to have an army and a navy and an air force and Marines. I think I ought to have a border. I think maybe I like having the Senate. I like electing the president as opposed to letting the DSA parliament appoint a president and appoint Supreme Court justices. I think I kind of like having private businesses as opposed to having the state own all what you consider to be essential businesses. So maybe I do not want to be in this party of yours that you have stolen from me anymore.”

Well, maybe that is the opening to have a sensible center party. That is what I have always said from the beginning of this Substack, that we need a sensible center party that represents the 80% of Americans who I believe have common sense. That is why it is called Common Sense Substack. So in my own small way, that is what I am trying to do.

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