QUELLE SURPRISE! New York Times Blames Platner on — You Guessed It — President Trump
Stephen Kruiser | 9:51 PM on July 09, 2026
Here's my biggest problem with the current state of looniness on the left these days. It's not just that the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media have had sanity in their rearview mirrors for years now; it's that they've become criminally boring while doing so. We've all seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; we know that there are crazy people out there who are fun to watch. The 2026 Democrats are just an endless parade of yawn-inducing predictability.
It's a given that no Democrat will ever take responsibility for anything that he or she has done wrong; personal accountability is anathema to them. Although it has always been a devout hive mind, the Democratic Party did used to be good at properly throwing one of its own under the bus when it served its purposes. Now, thanks to Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome, Dems and the MSM propagandists are obligated to make excuses for any one of theirs who has fallen by the wayside, no matter how aberrant the behavior. More precisely, they are obligated to make an excuse, and that excuse is always the same.
It's President Donald Trump's fault.
With this column, I am running afoul of two rules that I'd set for myself. A couple of months ago, I stopped my weekday habit of perusing the Opinion sections of The New York Times and The Washington Post. It had gotten to be like wandering through an insane asylum that could also give you an STD without any contact.
Earlier this week, I told myself that I would not write another word about Graham Platner, or Maine politics in general. The place has 14 people and, until the black bears and the moose start voting, politics there won't be that interesting. Also, I'm certain that the Democrats are working on ways to get the bears and the moose to vote.
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