The Patriot Post® · Monday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Joe Bastardi: Defund Climate Change Research to Pay for Pre-Existing Conditions
• Peggy Noonan: Trump Has Been Lucky in His Enemies
• Ed Feulner: Reducing the Regulatory Burden

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Opinion in Brief

Peggy Noonan: “Mr. Trump has struggled so colorfully the past three months, we’ve barely noticed his great good luck — that in that time the Democratic Party and the progressive Left have been having a very public nervous breakdown. … The closest they got to meaning recently was when [Tom] Perez found it helpful to say, of a Democratic mayoral candidate who’d backed some pro-life bills, that that kind of thinking had no place in the party. Bernie Sanders rightly called this out as madness. You can’t do this ‘if we’re going to become a 50-state party.’ Imagine a great, lost party defining itself by who it’s throwing out. They’re like the Republicans the past 20 years, throwing people out for opposing Iraq or George W. Bush, or for not joining NeverTrump. Where does this get you? It gets you to where we are. … It is a party blowing itself up whose only hope is that Donald Trump blows up first. He may not be lucky in all of his decisions or staffers, or in his own immaturities and dramas. But hand it to him a hundred days in: He’s lucky in his main foes.”