To the Editor:

Some Jews and Christians believe that a third Jerusalem temple will be built in the area currently occupied by the Dome of the Rock. When will the Muslim holy site be struck by an Iranian rocket or drone or debris from them? Will Israel or Trump be blamed?

-Wayne Dyer, Groton

Gavin Newsom tries a new one: Vance Derangement Syndrome

With guys like this, good luck returning America to the days when Democrats and Republicans could be friends.

Many Americans may wish that one day the nation can return to inter-party comity. You know, those “good old days” when we could politically disagree with our family members over a beer while the turkey was roasting and then sit down to carve it up and share bread on Thanksgiving.

Some may hope that once the controversial Donald Trump has finished his term, such normalcy will return. Not on your life.

In his insightful 2016 book, Listen, Liberal, or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?, liberal pundit Thomas Frank laid out his own party in lavender for sacrificing policy in favor of a virtue cult that had abandoned the working class and become the party of Martha’s Vineyard elites, its sole message being to vilify Donald Trump and his supporters. Frank warned that this was a failed mission over time, but Democrats have doubled down.

Eight years later, it is evident that Mr. Frank had the liberal elites pegged. He wrote,

This is modern liberalism in action: an unregulated virtue-exchange in which representatives of one class of humanity ritually forgive the sins of another class, all of it convened and facilitated by a vast army of well-graduated American professionals, their reassuring expertise propped up by bogus social science, while the unfortunate objects of their high and noble compassion sink slowly back into a preindustrial state.

The working class did not thrive under Obama and Biden — the elites, technocrats, and NGOs did. When populist Trump rose as a counterforce to this betrayal, the Dems doubled down, and Trump Derangement Syndrome was born. The justification was that Trump was a scoundrel (itself a propaganda lie), and that anything he does (even lowering prescription prices and exempting tips from taxation?) is innately wrong.

But this was never limited to Donald Trump; it extended to all of his “deplorable” supporters. Dehumanizing the other has become the cornerstone of the bogus Dem party, which seeks to discredit anyone who does not comply with its growing list of intersectional purity tests. This is a uni-party that, in the name of “protecting democracy,” seeks to extinguish all parties but one and is willing to jettison the Constitution and engage in classic Alinsky power-grabs to do so.

Gavin Newsom recently demonstrated the post-Trump future by launching a grotesque and adolescent demonization of V.P. J.D. Vance. In a revealing interview with Jen Psaki on MSNow, Americans can view the post-2028 future of their nation:

Gavin Newsom: “Vance, for whatever reason, scares me almost more than Donald Trump.”

Psaki: “Why?”

Newsom: “I don’t know. I just, I mean, talk about a guy who put a mask on and his face grew into it. I mean, JD Vance and Marco Rubio were two of the most effective critics, just like that guy, what’s his name, Graham Lindsay, of Donald Trump. What frauds! What phonies. But JD is a unique fraud and phony, and he’s a little more dangerous, and the folks around him, these are not folks that believe. … There’s a nihilism to the way they talk about the world. I know these guys. I literally know them, not figuratively.”

One will note the typical left-wing projection here. The nihilists are those who seek to protect borders and uphold the Constitution, not the freak show of perverts strutting in front of children at Drag Queen Story Hour, mutilating children with puberty-blockers and genital mutilation, flinging the borders open, releasing criminals, hating America, calling to return lands to Native Americans, and refusing to stand to support U.S. citizens at the State of the Union address.

Newsom and Psaki conspiratorially nodded in agreement that Donald Trump will surely run for a third term. Noted Gavin: if, “God forbid, we don’t take back the House of Representatives, he may be on that ballot.”

I just wouldn’t put it past him. What he does, it’s the old adage “Once the mind is stretched, it never goes back to its original form.” All of a sudden, it’s socialized, now it’s normalized. Sorry, Jen, it’s a world we’re up against.

Newsom perverted the mind-stretching quote attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., who was referring to the beneficial influence of enlightening ideas that broaden the mind. Holmes was not inclined to view gender surgeries, open borders, and treating criminals as victims as enlightened concepts…but the party that can’t define what a woman is probably can’t go back to normal. And so you see two Democrats pre-emptively declaring the 2028 election stolen unless they win the midterms. They are seeding division, not supporting democracy.

Let us recall the BLM riots, the lies about Russiagate, the suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop, lawfare against Trump, abridged freedoms on social media under Biden, spying on Catholics, etc. These people will do whatever it takes to stop Trump — and any other conservative.

The derangement is hardly confined to The Donald. When Elon Musk dared to search for Democrat thievery and fraud, the party of climate alarmism jettisoned Teslas with Molotov cocktails and accelerated global warming. Musk Derangement Syndrome evaporated once Elon left. Kennedy Derangement Syndrome persists daily. (He has a worm in his brain, and his cousin said bad things about him, dontchaknow?)

ICE derangement is the most current hate feast; Vance Derangement Syndrome may come next. The Democrats have become a hate cult, with no productive policies to offer — just lies and contempt for anyone who dares demur.

-John Klar

H. 740: The Dem/Progs Trojan Horse:

That three page bill requires Vermont fuel dealers to report fuel gallons delivered in the previous year.  It’s the next step in the GWSA law written by Dem/Progs to raise fuel and gasoline costs forcing a shift from fossil fuels to save the planet.

How the heck did we get here?

Follow the money for an answer.

The U.N. IPCC, in December 2015, approved the Paris Accord lowering CO2 emissions by 50% in 2050.   Immediately, national environmental NGOs strategized how to codify the Accord in every State legislature.   Vermont included.  They appealed to their benefactors like Hewlett, Rockefeller Brothers, Packard foundations and dozens more.  The ‘save the planet’ crusaders tapped the deep pockets of the billionaire zealots.

With grants in hand, they approached Governors Brown, Inslee and Cuomo to create a United States Climate Alliance, arrange a 2017 meeting of Northeast Governors and persuade them to enact mandatory reductions in 2025, 2030 and 2050; the Paris Accord.  

Soon after, small local foundations were flooded with proposals from local enviro NGOs including VPIRG, EAN, VNRC, Sierra Club, 350VT and Conservation Law Foundation. Together they began a well-funded lobby effort to make Vermont’s commitment to the Paris Accord a matter of State law.  They wrote the Global Warming Solutions Act, established the Climate Council, set mandatory emissions caps and invited citizens to sue Vermont for non-compliance.  Note; CLF will raise funds to litigate that case.  Vermont Democrats overrode the Governor’s veto of the GWSA on 9/22/2020.  

So, here we are! 

We spent $4 million on the failed Clean Heat Standard; an energy policy mess that may drift away if voters revolt again as in November, 2024.

Now, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is calling for a pause, until 2028, on implementing their GWSA mandates.  And, N.Y Governor Kathy Hochul’s energy department estimated NYC gas heated households could see $2,300 of added costs. And pump prices could jump $2.23 per gallon.

If H.740 actually goes to the Governor, his veto will be overridden by only Democrats.  

Republican Senators tell the voters you will never support a carbon tax on the backs of struggling families and retirees at the will of irresponsible and inept NGO lobbyists doing the bidding of their funders – wealthy foundations.

The Clean Heat Standard was written off as too complex and expensive by the PUC. Its sponsors and advocates remain ignorant of its cost to Vermonters.  For that reason alone, voters must waken to the absolute need to elect at least 3 more Republicans to create a Majority opposition to GWSA.

GWSA is the law Vermont must either obey or abolish.  Its 80% reduction below 1990 levels by 2050 is without substance, ignores lacking the workforce shortage and grid capacity in these next 25 years.  Your children’s family cost of living may become unaffordable.

Finally, 

Senators, your Majority is within reach.  Pledge to the same voters that elected 6 Republican Senators last election that you will protect them from NGOs messing with your heating oil.

-John McCormick, Bristol