Trump vs. Biden: 6 reasons why the left is in a full, hysterical meltdown

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Editor's note: The following column was first published on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The media is afire with warnings of the impending Donald Trump "dictatorship." Celebrities, the Squad, and Biden administration grandees vie to conjure up the most nightmarish things that Trump might do to them.

What drives their current mounting hysteria?

1. The left feels it may be heading for an historic 1972 McGovern-like or 1980 Carteresque blowout. And it is terrified at this late date that it cannot do anything either about the escalating dementia of Joe Biden, or the terror instilled by the specter of either a president or continued Vice President Kamala Harris.

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2. It knows that a first-term novice Trump had a successful four years, and that he now is savvier four years later—and far more likely and able to overturn the entire four-year Biden catastrophe and thus enjoy an even more successful second term.

3. It fears that all it did to destroy democracy—the Russia collusion hoax, the Russian disinformation laptop farce, the two first-term impeachments the moment the Republicans lost the House, the Senate trial of ex-President Trump as a private citizen, the effort to remove Trump from state ballots, and the five criminal and civil