Despite radio silence on it from the legacy media, it’s never been more urgent for Americans to understand: What on Earth has happened to the left and the once-great Democrat Party?

Its leaders have pursued patently anti-democratic, arguably treasonous backroom machinations, while their followers have adopted an increasingly dark and dismal view of America.

To wit:

• Democrat Party leaders and functionaries funded and fulfilled a scheme to frame candidate-turned President Trump as a Russian asset in the 2016 campaign and beyond. The Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee were actually fined for lying about financing the concocted and debunked “Steele dossier” that was cynically used to launch the hoax and to justify unprecedented spying on a presidential candidate.
• Newly revealed documents show that just before leaving office, Barack Obama ordered up a highly suspect Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that seems to be specifically written to bolster the Democrats’ Trump-Russia collusion false narrative.

Obama’s rabidly partisan team of CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were all “excessively involved” in rushing through the fishy assessment trying to taint Trump. And guess what they relied on heavily: That’s right – the phony Steele dossier.

“It was a setup,” former CIA director Mike Pompeo writes of the ICA in his 2023 book Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love, pointing the finger directly at Clapper, Comey and Brennan – but especially Brennan.

“The entire process of the ICA was a political hit job on President Trump, and it was clear much of it was Brennan’s doing.”

Now a new CIA report says work on Obama’s anti-Trump ICA hadn’t even started before we saw “media leaks suggesting that the Intelligence Community had already reached definitive conclusions” in the matter.

Indeed, journalist Miranda Devine reports some CIA analysts “who would typically have been part of the [ICA’s] review chain opted out due to the politically charged environment and the atypical prominence of agency leadership in the process.”

In other words, it all came from above, and those analysts wanted nothing to do with it.

First create a narrative. Then cook up phony facts to support it. That’s not an intelligence operation. That’s a psy-op that’s tailor-made for a coup d’état.

In plainer terms, treason.

How is that not the biggest scandal in American history?

Democrat patriotism has collapsed

With cynical, sinister shepherds such as these, otherwise good and rational Democrats have been led far astray from the party’s greener pastures of yore.

Shockingly, Gallup reports a measly 36% of Democrats today are very or extremely proud of America. Some will sadly spend their 4th of July protesting the country.

And in another shock poll, by a vote of 32% to 30%, more Democrats said they would prefer China win in a trade war with the United States. (But it’s only that close because 38% of Democrats said they’re not sure which country they’re rooting for.)

And in New York, Democrats just nominated an openly socialist mayoral candidate who, by his own words and actions, exhibits the identifying marks of a Marxist.

Meanwhile, as put by the New York Post, a new report this week shows the Biden FBI “blocked an investigation into an alleged Chinese effort to meddle in the 2020 election to help former President Joe Biden because it would have made then-Director Christopher Wray look bad, documents released by the bureau show.”

A source, writes the Post, told the FBI in August 2020 “that the Chinese government had produced ‘a large amount’ of fraudulent US driver’s licenses – using data collected from millions of TikTok accounts – that would allow ‘tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, despite not being eligible to vote in the United States.’

“Information about the alleged plot was circulated in a Sept. 25, 2020, FBI Intelligence Information Report (IIR) – one day after Wray testified to Congress that the bureau was unaware of any ‘coordinated national voter fraud effort’ – and recalled minutes after it was issued.”

All along, Democrat “leaders” and operatives have been outrageously denigrating ICE agents dutifully enforcing longstanding immigration laws, while their misguided followers fight the feds in the streets and in the courts.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Washington, actually posted that ICE is a “terrorist force.”

The self-proclaimed party of democracy has mounted relentless and varied efforts to deny voters the government they voted for in November – suing to block nearly every policy and, on Thursday, needlessly filibustering near-certain House passage of the bill embodying the bulk of the people’s will.

This is not democracy. And this is not a party that is, in any way, democratic.