Democrats’ Abrego Garcia blunder could haunt the party for years

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The most debilitating symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome is impaired political judgment. Something about President Donald Trump‘s presence and popularity, and perhaps even his very existence, causes his opponents to malfunction and self-destruct. Perfectly intelligent people become like cats chasing laser pointers into walls. Seasoned politicians and operatives misread easy cues and miss wide-open lay-ups. Allies credit Trump’s success in 10 years of politics to a Midas touch, but it’s more about his opponents having the opposite.

The Democratic beatification of Kilmar Abrego Garcia stands to go down as an historic American political blunder. The illegal immigrant and MS-13 gangbanger “accidentally” deported to his native El Salvador did not become a martyr randomly — he was purposefully chosen by Democrats and their legacy media machine to highlight the supposed evil of Trump’s deportation efforts. He was famously dubbed the “Maryland man” and cast as a loving father and husband and a model citizen despite evidence to the contrary. 

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