It seems to me that what unites the Democrats is not primarily either ideology or the will to power. It’s their turn of mind: Envy, principally, which accounts for their hatred — and it is hatred — of the One Percent, and, [secondly], anti-Americanism.

Question: What’s the one thing every single Democratic policy, foreign and domestic, does? Answer: Produce a weaker USA. [This is true] no matter where you look: from indulging criminals, digging us deeper into unpayable debt, retreating from Iraq and Afghanistan in a way that emboldens Iran, hostile treatment of essential allies and obsequious treatment of enemies, increasing dependency at the expense of self-reliance, punishing producers with higher taxes to reward takers with more benefits, obsession with race and the culture of whinerism and victimization, and cracking down on the institutions Americans admire most (the military and the family) while snuggling up to anything weird, vulgar and offensive.

All these substantive “accomplishments” are accompanied with, and significantly facilitated by, the Democrats’ main strategy, to wit, lying. Lying does more than make it politically possible to put over programs promoting decay and decline, see Obamacare. Lying is a good unto itself, because ultimately it undermines trust, and, far more than is commonly understood, trust is the glue that makes a wholesome civic and commercial life in this country possible — at least civic and commercial life as it had been known pre-Obama.