Are Democrats ready to break with Crazy?

Reality can be a harsh teacher.

Or, as Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday, the country is not divided between Left and Right, but between Normal and Crazy. And not the kind of Crazy Patsy Cline sang about.

Starting with Crazy, for more than a decade, Democratic-run cities and larger jurisdictions have been self-righteously pounding their chests and virtue-signaling that they are “welcoming” to migrants, irrespective of their legal status.

Philadelphia is one of them, bragging about how it would “protect” migrants from ICE, which means “protecting” them from federal law. 

Interfering with federal agents is actually against the law, but courts have been unduly generous in defining “interference” as taking actual action, rather than not taking action, meaning it’s OK to not cooperate with the feds, to not even share information. Even about convicted felons.

Not that migrants had much to worry about under President Joe Biden, who broke with his Democratic (Barack Obama) and Republican (Donald J. Trump) predecessors, by basically telling border enforcers to stand down. And calling them racists if they did their job — I refer here to the infamous non whipping incident.

Prior to his election, Biden stupidly made remarks about how welcoming the U.S. is to immigrants. He “forgot” to say legal immigrants. 

Migrants responded by coming here in unprecedented numbers, creating a crisis along our southern border.

What the above chart does not say is almost all those apprehended at the border were then released, to continue on their merry way to the interior. And many were bused or flown north by the federal government. And you thought there was no free lunch.

Governors Greg Abbott (Texas) and Ron DiSantis (Florida) took the unusual and controversial step of bussing migrants from their states to Sanctuary cities, such as New York, which soon had Mayor Eric Adams screaming foul, and shipping migrants elsewhere as soon as he could, even buying bus tickets to Canada, which is more extreme than sending people to Martha’s Vineyard. 

In doing so, he is essentially duplicating what he had criticized Abbott and DiSantis for doing. Some operational details were different, but the intent was the same — get these people off our front steps!

The reality is that wealthy New York City can no easier bear the burden of tens of thousands of migrants than can Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida.

Biden’s border policies — which has admitted millions of illegals or faux asylum seekers in the past two years — amount to Open Borders, and as I have written in the past Open Borders will destroy America. We simply can’t take the tens of millions who would come here if they could — 158 million by Gallup’s count.

It’s not a matter of being “anti-immigrant.” It is not “racist.” Under current law the Top Eleven countries sending us immigrants are nonwhite. 

 So the “racist” trope is a lie. And Open Borders is assisted suicide.  We want and need immigrants, but they must be admitted in an orderly fashion, so they can be absorbed. 

The Open Border types ignore reality, but the numbers speak much louder than their beliefs. And when the numbers become unmanageable, the “Sanctuary Cities” start filling buses and shoving migrants toward the door. 

And that reality now — finally — has Biden getting ready to deport illegals to Mexico. Just like meanie Trump did. Sssshh.

This is a mess Biden created by mindlessly, reflexively, and spitefully reversing Trump’s policies. 

Another mess, for Democrats, is being labeled as Woke, which Mayor Adams said the other day is driving minorities out of the party. 

I guess that makes me a minority, but I am not leaving. I will stand and fight.

Getting back to Sanders, she defines Woke as Crazy.

So do I, but I think it is even worse.

Starting out as an enlightened idea, it has morphed into a fascistic weapon, demanding everyone think and talk the same way.

No way.

Now, some Democrats are trying to slip from its embrace. Such as Adams, who says too much of his party has been captured by the Crazies on the Left. Let’s have more kitchen table issues and less palaver about gender and “safe” injection sites and defunding police and other Froot Loopy notions.

He’s right.

And too much of the Republican Party has been captured by the loons on the Right.

The fringes do not, and must not, represent America.