Democrats: The Party of Dinkelspiels

Washington
As President Donald J. Trump climbs to the highest approval rating he has reached in his presidency, we keep hearing about how much trouble he is in. He cannot possibly be reelected, the critics tell us, while his approval rating rises above 50 percent and his disapproval rating detumesces.
Well, I would agree with the critics if his opponent in 2020 were Abraham Lincoln or George Washington or Franklin D. Roosevelt or even Ronald Reagan — he was the president that the left still calls stupid though he figured out how to win the Cold War without firing a shot and wrote many more of his own public utterances than any president since Woodrow Wilson, that is Professor Woodrow Wilson. Yet, in 2020 Mr. Trump will be running against a Democrat, a living Democrat. No deceased Democrat can run and the living Democrats constitute a mélange of dinkelspiels.
President Trump will be up against Pocahontas or Crazy Bernie, or the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana whose name I have forgotten or possibly never knew, and then there is the youngest woman to win a seat in the United States House of Representatives, the Hon. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez whose problem is that she also sounds like the youngest woman ever to win a seat in the United States House of Representatives. She sounds like she is about 14 years old, and last week she seemed intent on proving it when she unveiled her Green New Deal whose cost has gone through the stratosphere and includes eliminating whole industries in ten years: the airlines, the beef industry — even McDonald’s — closing oil rigs and gas stations and coal mines, and other means of employment. However, the Green New Deal will cover the unemployed by providing “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.” There will be a lot of them.
On that last point there is debate. Her aides and counselors say she did not mean it, and the statement has disappeared from her website. Others say she did mean it. At any rate, the cost of her Gr...