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Making Sense By Michael Reagan

Praise the Lord for his mercy.

Joe Biden’s failed presidency has finally come to an end.

There’s no predicting what Biden will do at the last minute to sabotage Donald Trump.

But as he proved this week in an interview and in his bitter farewell speech, Joe Biden is clearly suffering through the final stages of TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Like those with Alzheimer’s, TDS victims suffer confusion, incoherence and bursts of anger. In Biden’s case, it also causes delusions of grandeur and amnesia.

Early this week he was still telling USA Today that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was an “extraordinary success,” not a national embarrassment, and boasting that he saved America from economic collapse.

Apparently, he forgot that the inflation rate since he took office has been 20 percent. He also repeated his laughable claim that he could have beaten Trump but instead took a knee forthe sake of his party.

In his dark farewell address Wednesday night Biden warned about the threat of dark money, disinformation and said “an oligarchy is taking shape in America, of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms.…”

Obviously referring to zillionaire Elon Musk’s unofficial partnership with his new pal Trump, Biden apparently forgot he just gave a Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros, his preferred kind of meddling billionaire.

Before Biden delivered his hypocritical goodbye, his fellow Democrats in the Senate spent Tuesday and Wednesday making fools of themselves at the confirmation hearings for Trump’s cabinet appointees.

Future Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and future Attorney General Pam Bondi hit back-to-back walk-off home runs before their committees and almost certainly solidified the vote of every Republican in the Senate.

On the other hand, Democrats like Elizabeth Warren, Tim Kaine and the insufferable Mazie Hirono of Hawaii asked nasty, asinine, unsuccessful gotcha questions and made creepy personal attacks that made them seem petty, stupid and unprepared, which they were.

Speaking of Democrats behaving badly, the ones who’ve been running California as a one-party state for decades are doing their best to ruin what’s left of their party’s reputation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor Bass of Los Angeles, and the heads of the fire departments have been pointing fingers of blame at each other for failing to prevent the terrible wildfires that devastated so much of Los Angeles.

The wildfires, driven by hurricane winds, were impossible to prevent or control. But the collective incompetence of the Democrats in charge of state and local government turned them into historic tragedies.

It’s hard for the rest of Americans to understand just how dumb and relentlessly woke California’s Democrats are.

This week the same politicians who’ve given the richest state in the union a $40 billion deficit passed a bill that devoted $50 million to “Trump-proofing” California by strengthening its legal defenses to prevent mass deportations of illegal immigrants.

A few hours later Gov. Newsom announced his plan to spend $2.5 billion on a “Marshall Plan” to rebuild and repair Los Angeles’ schools and prevent future wildfires.

Meanwhile, while the victims of the fires wait for the government money and help to show up, thousands of families who two weeks ago owned homes worth millions are now homeless and wondering how to go on with their wrecked lives.

They need clothes, food and shelter and everything imaginable. They’re getting enormous amounts of help from their lucky neighbors, churches and private charities like the Red Cross.

But everyone can help. For example, my family and I have adopted a family with two kids that lost their home and everything in it.

We’ve made sure they’ve been able to go out and buy clothes, food and whatever else they need. My three young grandchildren have even made gift baskets for their kids.

President-elect Trump is said to be on his way to Los Angeles with Elon Musk to witness the destruction, now estimated at more than $150 billion.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the world’s richest “oligarch” dug deep and showed his charitable streak. But in the meantime, anyone can help the victims of Mother Nature and the Democrats by doing what my family has done.

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Copyright 2025 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

It’s easy to blame California’s Democrats for the devastating fires that killed at least five people and destroyed more than 5,000 homes in Los Angeles this week.

It’s the Democrats in charge of the state of California who have been tearing down dams to protect fish and please environmentalists instead of making sure Los Angeles is sent enough water from the northern part of the state.

It’s the Democrats running Los Angeles who have not been clearing the volatile grass and brush that has built up on the mountainsides east of the city and who have cancelled the controlled burns that can prevent wildfires from spreading out of control.

And then there’s the super-inept mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who had to rush back to her burning city from a junket to Ghana, where she was attending the inauguration of its new president. Bass recently cut $17 million from the city’s fire department budget.

And just last month she ignored a warning from her fire chief Kristin Crowley that turned out to be tragically prophetic – Crowley said her department had “severely limited capacity to prepare for, train for and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.”

But let’s be honest.

We can blame Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Democratically controlled state legislature in Sacramento and Mayor Bass all day long for being unable and unprepared to protect the city from a natural disaster many people knew was bound to come someday.

But the prime villain is Mother Nature.

Even if all the Democrats in charge of California suddenly became smart and competent, and even if all the storage tanks and fire hydrants in Los Angeles had been filled to the top with water, Mother Nature’s destructive rampage was not going to be stopped.

The Santa Ana winds were historic – sometimes hitting 90 to 100 miles per hour. The flying embers that were cast high into the air from burning homes and businesses couldn’t be contained by all the fire trucks in the world.

Plus, the first two days of the hurricane-force winds prevented helicopters and planes from dropping water on the fires.

Air support helped to put out the flames Wednesday night in the Hollywood Hills by using Lake Hollywood, a five minute flight from the fires. but it came two nights too late for the people of Pacific Palisades – my father’s old neighborhood.

Until 1980, my father lived in Pacific Palisades at 1669 San Onofre Drive in the “General Electric Showcase House.” Built for him by GE, it was where my siblings Patti and Ron grew up, and where I lived and visited on weekends and holidays.

I know the Pacific Palisades neighborhood very well and it was especially sad to watch it being decimated overnight by Mother Nature.

I don’t know yet if my father’s old house survived the firestorm, but the damage to Pacific Palisades alone has been estimated at $10 billion.

The total cost of the burning of Los Angeles is already pegged at over $50 billion. But the damage to the hearts and souls of those whose lives have been turned upside down forever has no price tag.

The catastrophe in Los Angeles was the result of a perfect storm – historic Santa Ana winds on top of decades of the Democrats’ radical environmental policies, wasteful spending and incompetent leadership.

Mother Nature can’t be sent the bill. In a just world, however, the Democrats in charge of California at every level should have to pay a steep political price for their continuing mismanagement of the most beautiful state in the Union.

Unfortunately, they won’t. Democrats have had near total control of state government in California for almost 40 years.

California needs to start electing people who are going to make a radical change. But the Republican Party barely exists, and I can’t think of any conservative out here who can save my once-great state from the foolish ineptitude of the ‘progressive’ Democrats.

It looks like Californians need our own Trump to “Make California Golden Again.”

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Copyright 2025 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Editor’s note: Michael Reagan is on vacation this week. He will return with a new column on Friday, Jan. 10

Making Sense By Michael Reagan

Will somebody please tell Donald Trump he won?

I’m sure he’s seen the official results by now.

I’m sure he knows he’ll be moving back into the White House on January 20.

But he’s still acting like he’s on the campaign trail.

He’s firing off tweets, trolling his opponents and talking about the United States buying Greenland, retaking control of the Panama Canal and making jokes that he wants Canada to become the 51st state.

It’s weird, what Trump’s doing. It’s the Christmas holidays. It’s a time for families, not politics.

It’s a time for shopping, watching football and building back relationships with our loved ones and friends that were ripped apart by four years of ugly partisan politics.

I don’t know what topics your family was talking about during your Christmas dinner, but at mine no one even mentioned Greenland, Panama or Canada – thank the Lord.

I’m the son of a politician. But I know there are many other more important things in life besides politics – especially over the holidays.

I really care about the Christmas season and I always try to keep it from being spoiled by politics. I think every American would be much happier at this time of the year if they focused solely on the holiday.

That goes especially for Trump.

I haven’t been paying attention to what he has been doing or what he’s been saying his policies will be. That’s because he’s not president yet. I don’t care who his appointees are, either. They haven’t even been approved.

The best thing Trump could have said to his followers and the entire country was, “Enjoy the holidays. Enjoy your family and friends. Forget politics.

“We won. We’ll hit the ground running after the first of the year. See you then. I’m going on vacation.”

Trump should know that this is supposed to be the time to relax and look forward to the new year. I’m hoping he’s going to make the sun come back out not only where I live, but to come back out over America.

I want to see people being happy again, talking to each other again, having dinner with friends, going to movies. I want to see people getting to know their families and neighbors better and rebuilding their old relationships.

I think everybody in the U.S. is ready to get back to the way their daily lives were before the pandemic and the lockdowns came along and wrecked them in so many ways.

But that’s not going to happen unless everyone is willing to break out of their partisan bubbles and silos.

As for the shrunken army of MSNBC fans who are vowing to continue their failed war against Trump, we know you hate Trump. Get over it. He’s president.

Instead of spending the next four years whining about the dumb things he’s going to tweet or detecting the coming of a dictatorship in every executive order he issues, the Trump haters should get a grip.

Try to look on the bright side of things. Try to be fair. Try to be open-minded. Try to be less deranged.

Trump is bound to do some good things you can agree with. Concentrate on the big and important things he might do right.

For instance, what if he brings a quick end to two wars, tames the inflation rate and closes the border?

Those would be three major accomplishments. If he pulls them off – of if he fires half a million bureaucrats and cuts a couple trillion dollars in spending out of the budget – not buying Greenland will not prevent him from making America great again for everyone.

And don’t forget, President Trump. You won. Take a break. Play golf – while you still can.

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Copyright 2024 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense By Michael Reagan

The Wall Street Journal has just published a “blockbuster” story that President Biden has been in significant mental and physical decline for the last four years.

The WSJ’s headline is such old news, and so out of date, that it reads like it was written in 2022 — when it should have been if the corporate media had been doing its job.

“How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge.”

“Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted. The administration denied Biden has declined.”

Biden’s slow and steady decline from the day he became president has been obvious for years to any honest person who’d simply believe their own eyes and ears.

But the lying White House spokespeople, the lying U.S. Senators, the lying vice president and the lying Joe Biden protection racket in the liberal media repeatedly told us he was perfectly fine.

Right up until the minute Old Joe dropped out after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump, his boosters insisted that the doddering and mumbling old man we saw on our TVs was really as sharp as a standup comedian — when no one was watching.

Today that same crew of professional liars in Washington is telling us that the swarms of unidentified drones that have been buzzing over New Jersey and New York every night for a month are nothing to worry about.

Yet at the same time they’re telling us the government doesn’t know yet who’s controlling the mystery drones, doesn’t know yet what they’re doing in our skies, and doesn’t know yet what country – or planet – they’re coming from.

It’s pretty obvious the government knows what the drones are doing and who they belong to. They just ain’t telling the public.

Some people are guessing that the drones are trying to detect something lost that’s radioactive, like a nuclear bomb the size of a suitcase, or they’re looking for Kamala Harris, who’s been hiding out from the media since she had the joy knocked out of her on Election Day.

But whatever is really going on, the government’s top mouthpieces assure us that the drones – which citizens, local police or the military are not allowed to shoot down – pose no threat to national security or the freaked-out people of New Jersey.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – who’s spent the last four years telling us the Southern border is guarded more tightly than Jill Biden’s diary – said that “We know of no foreign involvement.”

Karine Jean-Pierre, President Biden’s question-ducking press secretary, assured the world that her boss is “aware” of the drone activity.

Biden himself had nothing to say about the drones until this week. He claimed they are being checked out by the government and remain a mystery, yet he was still certain they pose “no sense of danger” to Americans.

Ordinarily, that assurance would be a relief. But we’re dealing with a very diminished Joe Biden, which could mean all kinds of trouble for Trump.

Biden and his handlers are already trying to sabotage Trump’s administration, whether it’s selling off unused pieces of the border wall for 5 cents on the dollar or making it harder for Trump to fulfill his promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

Biden’s last 30 days in office could be really frightening. What if, God forbid, he dropped dead or had to leave the White House tomorrow?

That would leave you-know-who in charge. After the FBI found where she is hiding, Kamala would become the country’s first woman president — for four weeks.

I don’t seriously think the drones are looking for Kamala. But in case they do happen to stumble on to her hiding out in Atlantic City or Trenton, I have a favor to ask of their human operators – don’t tell us.

Kamala could do a whole lot more damage to America in four weeks than all the drones over New Jersey.

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Copyright 2024 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

The biggest stories in the national media this week both came from the mad streets of New York.

The manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, the young man who accidentally killed a crazed homeless man on the subway, and the cold-blooded assassination of a healthcare CEO on the sidewalks of Manhattan, both deserved the saturation coverage and commentary they received.

But the way in which the stories were spun by the left-liberal news media shows what a sick, upside-down mentality exists in the U.S.

In the case of Penny, it’s safe to say Fox News and conservative media of all types treated him like the hero he was.

When Jordan Neely popped into his subway car and started threatening people and acting like a mad man, Penny did what you’d expect – and hope – any ex-Marine would do.

He tackled Neely, put him in a strong chokehold and held on to him until police and paramedics arrived. Sadly, the multi-troubled Neely died at the hospital.

Also sadly, instead of hailing Penny as a citizen hero, the city’s grandstanding prosecutor Alvin Bragg put him on trial for manslaughter and criminal negligent homicide, ruining Penny’s life for more than a year.

Because Neely was black and Penny was white, the ugly issue of race was always part of the story.

One of the top race-baiters in the liberal cable media, Joy Reid of MSNBC, griped that Penny’s acquittal was just the latest example of the systemic racial injustice in our legal system.

Others equally blinded by skin color said Penny was a racist because he never would have subdued a white guy – skipping the fact that several men and women Neely was threatening in the subway were blacks or Latinos.

Neely’s death never should have happened. He was a victim of bad parenting and his city’s broken mental health system and civic chaos.

Penny’s political trial, though an unnecessary political stunt, ended in the best way possible. Justice was served by the judge and jury and 95 percent of Americans would agree. Let’s hope Neely’s greedy formerly MIA father loses his civil suit against Penny.

We’ll have to wait to see what happens to Luigi Mangione, the rich, bright and proudly evil young man who’s been arrested for assassinating United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Details are still coming out about the motives and politics of the 26-year-old Ivy league grad who apparently has had health and mental issues of his own and doesn’t fit in any political box.

He disliked both major parties, supported RFK Jr. for president and criticized wokeness and cancel culture.

But he is against “corporate greed” and hates our “unfair” system of healthcare insurance because it costs too much and hurts people by rejecting too many claims.

Mangione’s cold-blooded hit made leftwing nutjobs like MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Sen. Elizabeth Warren do moral backflips – and make fools of themselves.

They tried to explain that while of course violence is wrong, what Mangione was pushed to do was understandable because our healthcare system is so systemically unfair.

Online thousands of anonymous knuckleheads submitted their own moral depravity, cheering for Mangione, buying “Free Luigi” shirts and calling him a hero for shedding light on the terrible crimes of insurance companies.

Tellingly, we haven’t heard a national call by the left for more gun control, which normally happens when celebrities or politicians are shot. But that knee-jerk cry usually doesn’t come when people you don’t like are shot.

Even hinting at the idea that it is the slightest bit understandable or excusable to murder a healthcare CEO to protest the failings or unfairness of our healthcare system is not just immoral, it’s insane.

By that twisted logic, to protest spiking grocery prices it’d be OK to assassinate the CEO of Ralph’s. To protest higher gasoline prices in California, it’d be OK to gun down the CEO of Exxon.

And to protest high inflation or the failure at the Southern border, it’d be OK to …

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Copyright 2024 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense By Michael Reagan

The next four years are going to be especially tough for MSNBC’s Joy Reid.

The always angry host of “The ReidOut” has spent the last four years ranting about Donald Trump and the danger he poses to democracy – and he wasn’t even in power.

She’s already politically insane. She regularly calls Trump a gangster and a Putin puppet.

I can’t imagine how she’ll deal with the next four years as Trump and his salvage team try to get America on the road to being great again.

Reid is so blinded by Trump hate that she – like so many humorless Democrats and her soulmates in the liberal media – has lost her ability to laugh or even recognize a joke.

She proved it for the hundredth time this week when she heard what Trump reportedly said to Pierre Trudeau during a dinner discussion at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump apparently said if Canada’s economy could not survive sweeping new tariffs on its exports to the United States, “We’ll just annex you and make you part of the USA. You can be governor of Canada, our 51st state.”

Reid acted like the joke was a declaration of war by a dictator she claimed wants to rule the entire Free World.

Reid’s joyless worldview is an example of why her network and CNN were two of the biggest losers in last month’s presidential election.

Harris lost. Biden lost. The Democrat Party lost.

But MSNBC and CNN, which had attacked Trump relentlessly and endorsed Biden and then Harris fervently, were almost put out of business as competitive sources of liberal news and opinion.

Once Trump officially won, their disappointed and misled viewers left by the hundreds of thousands and both experienced double-digit drops in their ratings.

ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” may not have the greatest political minds at its table, but the election and its aftermath boosted its ratings to 4.4 million viewers on Nov. 6.

It was like a funeral with most everyone despondent, dressed in black and looking suicidal. Sunny Hostin spoke for all the sad ladies and tens of millions of shell-shocked Democrats when she said, “I’m profoundly disturbed.”

Fox News, meanwhile, was almost as much of a winner as Trump. It saw its ratings soar during the election because it covered Trump’s every speech and its personalities enthusiastically backed him.

But I don’t think that carrying the flag for Trump was the only reason Fox’s ratings stayed so high.

Unlike CNN and MSNBC, which are miserable and hateful places most of the time, Fox is a happy place – a fun place.

It’s where the hosts and guests are usually found laughing and smiling, even when the subject is partisan politics.

Fox News fans can see fun being had everyday on “The Five” at 5 p.m.

Whether it’s Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino, Judge Jeanine Pirro or the token liberal Democrat of the day, Jessica Tarlov or Harold Ford, viewers see happy humans who like each other.

“The Five’s” people have good senses of humor and clearly enjoy their jobs – and viewers can tell.

Somehow I can’t imagine Whoopie Goldberg and the other bitter ladies on “The View” or Joy Reid looking forward to doing their show every day.

So what are the angry stars on CNN and MSNBC going to do now, now that Trump is back in power?

They’re probably only going to become crazier and angrier because they don’t know how to laugh or have fun.

They didn’t know how to laugh when Trump was handing out French fries at a take-out window at McDonald’s. Or when he dressed up like a trashman and rode in a garbage truck.

That was very funny to us Republicans and to most normal people. But the angry faces on CNN and MSNBC couldn’t crack a smile.

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Copyright 2024 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.
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Editor’s note: Michael Reagan is on vacation this week. He will return with a new column on Friday, Dec. 6

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

It doesn’t matter how many terrible wars we’re mired in overseas.

It doesn’t matter how many seemingly unsolvable social and political problems we face at home.

At this time of year, we Americans have the usual Walmart store of blessings to be thankful for.

An extra reason for the entire country to give thanks next week is the fact that the long-dreaded 2024 election is finally in our rearview mirror – and for half of us the outcome was a blessing.

Thanksgiving is usually a national holiday that doesn’t get stuck in the swamp of partisan politics.

But this year the shocking victory of Donald Trump was too much to take for ordinary Democrats and many of our most fragile liberal TV talking heads and pundits.

Three weeks after Election Day, most of the liberal media are still in meltdown mode.

They are encouraging lame-duck Biden Democrats, the Justice Department, the Coast Guard – anyone who works for the federal government – to do whatever it takes to sabotage Trump’s incoming administration, even before he takes office.

Whether it’s risking a nuclear war with Russia by giving gifts of fancy rockets to Ukraine or digging up every speck of old dirt on Trump’s cabinet picks, Democrats and the liberal media are so busy trying to thwart Trump they have little time to give thanks for anything or anyone.

Some nasty newspaper columnists and teary-eyed panelists on CNN are so despondent about Trump’s victory they are willing to spoil the love and fun at half of America’s Thanksgiving dinners.

They are urging their fellow Democrats not to invite – or to dis-invite – friends and family members to Thanksgiving dinner who voted for Trump or didn’t vote for Kamala Harris.

Some MAGA hardheads who are just as dumb are saying they aren’t going to sit down with RINOs who hate Trump and think Mitt Romney is a real Republican.

But making our family Thanksgiving tables smaller and smaller because of politics is all wrong. It does nothing but ruin America’s best holiday and further divide the country into partisan bubbles and silos.

My father Ronald Reagan never let politics come between friends and family, especially during Thanksgiving during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

He had two children with Nancy Reagan, Patti and Ron. In 1980 Patti was a member of the Peace and Freedom Party and didn’t vote for her dad for president. Ron didn’t vote for our father, as far as we know.

Both didn’t vote to reelect their father in 1984, either. In fact, Patti and her friend led a peace march in Washington, DC, while her father was president of the United States.

Patti also has written highly critical books about her relationships with her father and her mother, mostly her mother. And Ron is a lifelong atheist who makes radio ads saying he’s “not afraid of burning in Hell.”

Once while we were having dinner together as a family, my father, a sincere Christian, reached over, grabbed my hand and said, “My only prayer is that before Ron dies, he too will know Jesus like we do.”

So each Thanksgiving at the ranch you had two children who were absolutely opposed to their father’s politics eating with him and the rest of the Reagan family.

And if you want to know if those bipartisan family turkey dinners were noisy with angry political arguments, the answer is “No.”

Nobody was throwing mashed potatoes or drumsticks at each other, either.

The point I’m making is that these political people I hear dropping my dad’s name on TV all the time could learn a lot from the way he always put politics in its proper place.

So this Thanksgiving, don’t ask “What would Ronald Reagan do?” – do what he did.

Invite your whole family and your old friends. Sit down and have a nice turkey dinner with all the fixings. Argue all you want about sports or music. Just don’t ask anyone to pass the politics.

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Copyright 2024 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.
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Making Sense By Michael Reagan

The Democrats did not do a good job of dealing with their terrible loss.

In fact, they and the liberal media collectively melted down in front of the whole world last week when Donald Trump and America’s voters dealt Kamala Harris a decisive, humiliating and historic election defeat.

For a bunch of supposedly sophisticated liberal politicians, journalists and celebrities who profess to love democracy, it was an embarrassing but completely predictable display of bad sportsmanship, denial, reverse racism and partisan bias.

Joy Reid of MSNBC blamed white women for Harris’ loss. Al Sharpton blamed misogynist Black men.

Jimmy Kimmel cried on the air. So did Van Jones on CNN and former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill on MSNBC.

And John Dickerson – a top CBS newsman and future “CBS Evening News” co-anchor – betrayed his bias by choking up on the “Late Show” when Stephen Colbert asked him how he planned to explain Trump’s election to his kids.

Millions of progressive Democrats are despondent at the thought of living under the “dictatorship” of President Trump for the next four years.

And now their favorite politicians are pointing fingers at each other for letting Harris become the party nominee in the first place, and then for failing to prevent her wipeout on Election Day.

They can’t blame Party Crank Emeritus James Carville. He saw the Kamala train wreck coming out of the station, but his bitter, foul-mouthed rants were ignored by party bosses.

Instead, Democrats and the liberal media spent three months cheering on Kamala as if she had a real chance to win and warning us incessantly that Trump was a dictator in waiting.

If Trump won, they cried over and over, he would kill our democracy. There’d be no more elections and everybody who has ever disagreed with him was going to go to jail or face a firing squad.

But anyone with an underanged brain always knew the fear mongering about the end of democracy was partisan BS.

The American people, the country, Trump and the MAGA Republican Party all won big last week. The biggest losers in the short run and the long run were Democrats.

They’re the losers who put up an incompetent and unlikable candidate without anyone voting for her in an election or in their party.

They’re the ones who spent four years making America less better off and less safe today than it was four years ago.

Democrats should quit blaming blacks and Latinos and everybody else for their many screwups.

They have to look in the mirror and admit to themselves they were the ones who lost the election, not the rainbow of American voters who had the good sense to wake up and abandon them and their terrible policies.

There’s one important Democrat out there who probably understands where his party went wrong better than anyone and who apparently has already made peace with the brutal results of the 2024 election – Joe Biden.

Old Joe may get the last laugh.

When he met with Trump this week for a “smooth transition of power” photo-op and a friendly two-hour chat, the only politician to ever defeat Donald Trump in an election couldn’t wipe the big smile off his face.

Given the Bidens’ well-publicized hatred of Kamala and that cheerful White House photograph, it wouldn’t be a stretch to suspect that Joe and Jill secretly voted for Trump.

To find out if that’s true we’ll have to wait for Jill to write her memoir describing what really went on in the Democrat Party’s dirty coup of her husband. It should be juicy.

Meanwhile, let’s get back to the election and the bullish future of America’s democracy.

Here’s what I told Jake Tapper when I was on CNN this week publicizing the work my Reagan Legacy Foundation (ReaganLegacyFoundation.org) does to honor the Americans who served in World War II and help today’s sailors and their families with scholarships.

“Democracy is alive and well – and it worked perfectly on Nov. 5.”

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Copyright 2024 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.