I’ll be brief. With regard to the recent mid-term elections, I was certain the Democrats would win the House but I also believed the Republicans would probably keep the Senate. I was right on the first and wrong on the second. I also was somewhat surprised at how well the Dems did. They may not have swept every race, but while Republicans had some good victories, the Dems dominated most races. Were this a football game, I would say the Dems won 56 to 14 – a decisive win.

Given that I do not belong to either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party I try to remain circumspect about elections, knowing that there is always some level of give and take with election results. It’s always a mixed bag. And while I would normally want to be a good sport and congratulate the winner of any such contest, it’s a bit tough to do so when one considers what it means to have the Democrats in power at this point in time. After all, with the recent election, when considering local government, it is sobering to realize that four of the largest cities in the country now have a socialist mayor (Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and New York City.) Socialism (and, ultimately, communism) appears to be on the ascendent and Democrats have allowed the radicals to infiltrate and overtake their party.

This leads to a key question: What will the Democrats likely do when they take power in January?

I believe I know:

• They will attempt to establish policy that re-opens our southern border as happened during the Biden Administration. They will attempt to create conditions that will allow around 30 to 50 million new illegal aliens to storm into our country, seizing vital resources involving pharmacies, hospitals, and healthcare while simultaneously enabling non-English speaking children to flood our schools.
• Dems will attempt to go back to no bail policies wherein dangerous, violent criminals, those guilty of assault, rape, homicide, grand theft and arson, will be released from jail with no consequences – often the very same day they are arrested. Violent crime will explode to new records and criminals will, for all intents and purposes, be rewarded for engaging in criminality, which in turn will cause ever more illegal aliens to further embrace a life of crime as the incentives to do so will be overwhelming. Otherwise decent people will become criminals.
• The Dems will attempt to abolish ICE so that illegal alien criminals will be left to do whatever they want, under the mantra “No one is illegal.”
  The Dems will attempt to shut down prisons with the result that dangerous thugs will now be free to roam the streets. America’s big cities (think Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, Seattle, Houston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Atlanta, and St. Louis) will become a beehive of danger heretofore unheard of and law enforcement personnel will be overwhelmed and told to “stand down.”
• Schools will now spend their energies teaching Trans-ideology as well as other LGBTQIA+ ideologies, from Kindergarten through Graduate School, and such ideologies will take far more precedence over core educational disciplines such as law, chemistry, philosophy, music, history, English Literature, the math sciences, the culinary arts, engineering and medicine, as such standard disciplines will now be forced to be taught through a woke and DEI lens. Five-year-old boys will be taught to question whether they are actually boys with far more frequency than questioning how to add two plus two.
• Dems will work to create two more states (Washington DC and Puerto Rico) as they believe having 52 states will give more power to Leftists.
• Dems will also attempt to change current policy concerning the Supreme Court. The Dems will no longer tolerate 9 Supreme Court justices. Instead,
• Dems will seek to raise the numbers serving from 9 to perhaps 13, 17, or even 23. Why will they do this? Because they believe the greater number of members of the Supreme Court will result in greater opportunities for Democrats to either establish laws on matters important to the Left, or at the very least, will enable Left-leaning Supreme Court justices to blunt any laws from passing that are important to Conservatives.

Admittedly, I cannot possibly speak with absolute certitude on these matters. However, it is unmistakable that the progressive-left find these seven items to be very important. Yet there is one thing Dems care about more – much, much more – than open borders, soft-on-crime policies, closing prisons, brainwashing students young and old in Trans ideology, creating new states that lean Left, and altering the structure of the Supreme Court to their advantage. And that thing is Donald Trump.

The Left loathes Donald Trump far more than they love anything else, including their pet projects, their political objectives, and perhaps even their own spouses and children. That may sound far-fetched but it’s obviously true. The hard Left suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Trump lives rent-free in their heads 24/7. Once the Dems return to power, I suspect their number one priority will be to destroy and punish Donald Trump and doing so will be far more important than any of their ideological pet projects. If they can remove Trump from office, that would be ideal, exceeded only by finding a way to send Donald Trump to prison. In fact, if the Leftist-Dems were faced with only two choices – implement all 7 items I mentioned above or find a way to destroy and humiliate Trump, I am certain they would choose the latter. Thus, they may well take their eye off the ball and put all of their energies into punishing Trump (and perhaps any of his followers). Revenge may be an even bigger motivation than any Left-wing policy decision.

In November 2028, after the election, I will try my best to give an accounting of my various predictions from this column. Stay tuned.

And that, my friends, is the latest elephant in the room.