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Many Democrats are still absolutely certain today that Donald Trump conspired with the Russian government to win the 2016 election. For two years, they’ve been in denial that this uncouth narcissist could possibly have defeated the Anointed One — Hillary Rodham Clinton — on his own.

After the Barr summary of Robert Mueller’s report was released Sunday, I watched online video of CNN talking heads and Democratic politicians to see whether they were willing to admit they might have been wrong for the last couple of years.

Their tone was that of children who have been told that Santa Claus doesn’t exist, but they cling to the hope that he exists even though nobody has seen him yet. They’re still in denial.

All over social media for the last couple of days, Democrats sound just as insane as conservatives did when they used to scream “Benghazi!” and chant “Lock her up!” all the time.

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When people tell me they admire Donald Trump, I tend to ask them which of his four bankruptcies they admire most.

The Donald has been a sick narcissistic joke to me for years. The fact that some people took him halfway seriously as a presidential candidate four years ago was disturbing. The fact that some people see him as a frontrunner today is appalling — because he’s potentially dangerous.

As a 2016 presidential candidate, I don’t find Trump especially interesting. I don’t believe he has the remotest chance of winning, partly because I have a naive belief that people will come to their senses before enough of them could support him and partly because I think he’s objectively a terrible candidate, completely apart from whatever insanity he believes.

But nations have a way of elevating insane people to positions of absolute power every now and then. Things like that tend to happen during periods of economic and political turmoil when most people don’t know what to do. In times such as those, scared people turn to blowhards who confidently claim they know what to do.

The uneasy state of the economy and the fear millions of people feel about the future of this country combine to create a situation in which an unstable and unpredictable man could come to power. I honestly don’t expect Trump to be elected — but I can see how it could happen.

That scares me.

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