By Joseph Catena
One of the hardest punches Mike Tyson ever landed was a compact left hook to the temple of Trevor Berbick. It was the night the 20-year-old bulldozer won the World Boxing Council heavyweight title. Berbick staggered to the canvas. He tried to get up twice more, but the punch had such a reverberating effect that he crumbled on both occasions. Basically, one punch, three knockdowns.
Finally, on his third attempt, Berbick did get up, but legendary referee Mills Lane waved him off and stopped the match. He also saved Berbick from falling a fourth time, as the bulky Jamaican stumbled forward into Lane’s arms. Simply put, poor Trevor could never regain his senses. His faculties were distorted.
In many ways, Donald Trump’s victory in November over Kamala Harris was much like Tyson’s legendary performance against Berbick. And the reverberations from his victory are even greater than “Iron Mike’s” crunching left hook. In the five-plus months since Trump won, the Democrats still cannot find their sea legs. They are flopping about and floundering their way through their daily lives, and they keep falling into Mills Lane’s metaphorical arms.
Democrat problems run deep. As the party searches for its soul, they cannot or will not agree why they lost. The wallop Trump landed went far beyond Kamala Harris. His coattails allowed the Senate to regain control and flip four seats. The House remained Republican. Trump made gains in every state since 2020, even deep blue states. What’s even more astounding is that he won nearly 90 percent of the counties throughout the U.S. A map of the Continental United States looks as though someone bled all over it – red from sea to sea. Sure, there were greater landslides in the past – Roosevelt in ’36, Johnson in ’64, Nixon in ’72, and Reagan in ’84, to name a few. But there was something different about Trump in ’24.
Those of us on the right and anyone with an ounce of common sense know why. The vast majority of Americans don’t want men in women’s locker rooms or bathrooms. The vast majority don’t want illegal alien gang bangers running amuck and wreaking havoc in our neighborhoods. The vast majority don’t want taxpayer dollars paying for injecting ducks with cocaine to test their libido. You get the picture. These are topics that have been exhausted ad nauseum. However, Democrat troubles go well beyond the obvious.
The Democrats have lost their collective soul. The radicals, who are now the ruling bloc, are not allowing any middle-of-the-road rationale or voices to be heard. Forget about the Joe Manchin types, or the Jim Traficants or Zell Millers from days of yore. They are dinosaurs. In today’s world, Sen. John Fetterman and perhaps Gov. Josh Shapiro (both, coincidentally, from the swing state of Pennsylvania) appear to at least speak moderate rhetoric and serve in their respective positions with olive branches extended to the GOP. Too bad for them the party shows these Keystone Staters the cold shoulder. That was quite apparent when Shapiro was shunned and uber weirdo Tim Walz was chosen as Kamala Harris’ running mate.
Even with President Trump’s current blowback from tariffs, the Democrats are still Berbicking all over the place. First, they have no leader at all. Sen. Chuck Schumer has been excoriated for backing Trump and not shutting down the government. Socialist Squad commander Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is rumored to primary him in 2028. Loony toon Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is trying to push further from the edge of civility than the Squad with her nasty street talk. Bernie Sanders at 83, is still promoting a socialist agenda that hasn’t worked for him in two previous presidential runs. Gavin Newsome and Pete Buttigieg are trying to masquerade as moderates, in spite of their extreme woke pasts. Walz is even failing as a comedian yet is delusional enough to think he’s the guy in ’28. Kamala Harris rambles more incessantly than ever, and polls reveal she is leading the pack.
And nobody wants Joe Biden. Worse yet is the fact that the entire Democrat machine is being outed and cannibalizing one another over the most scandalous coverup of the aforementioned president. Biden went from being “the best Biden ever” to a decrepit shell who needed instructions on the simplest things, like where to walk. His shadow presidency and the lies that supported it are a scourge on the Democrats. How can they be trusted when they fought us on so many basic truths? Books are being written detailing how blatantly everyone covered up. Is that not a form of treason? So-called legacy news outlets who played the denial game for four years have less than zero credibility.
The Democrats, particularly the radicals, need more than soul searching. They need a political exorcism. Quite simply, they are sadistic and let their demons rule them. The Democrats are the equivalent of political cuckolds. They enjoy watching the violation of America. Illegal aliens storming through our borders. Transgender brutes pretending they are women so they can excel at sports and invade female locker rooms. Burn the flag. Burn a Tesla. Destroy the economy. Handcuff the public and force DEI and electric vehicles down their throats. Torch cities (and get captivated by the smell of burning tires like Gwen Walz). Defund the police. Tell a woman she has a choice to keep her baby, and they deem you an intolerant woman hater. If you are pro family, you are the counterculture. They want your children to be indoctrinated with alternate lifestyles and gender bending as being normal and acceptable. For some strange, perverse reason, these ills give them satisfaction and a thrilling sensation that makes them tingle.
But the Democrats are not dead. They will once again regain the House, the Senate, and/or the Oval Office. Maybe two out of three, maybe the trifecta.
Just not now. Or anytime soon, if they keep practicing their current insanity.
The politicucks must reinvent themselves, and that would demand a raging cleanse. The center/center-left party of Bill Clinton is long gone, but a primary lineup featuring Walz, Harris, Buttigieg, Crockett, AOC, and Newsome offers no comfort. If the pro-Israel, somewhat moderate Shapiro runs, he will be vilified. Essentially, the Democrats are a party that constantly shoots low. They are doubling and tripling down on crazy failed policies and are espousing violence when they perceive something as unfair. Their protesters are an unseemly lot comprised of malcontents, freaks wearing weird costumes, packs of oddballs and leftover hippies from the Woodstock era chanting off-key slogans, and numerous folks who would be better suited inside a mental institution. They do not resemble or represent mainstream Americans, Republican or Democrat.
After Trevor Berbick was annihilated by Tyson, he never regained his world championship. Sure, he scored another 18 victories, but he also had 6 losses, and he never came close to being a world-class fighter again. Sadly, his life outside the ring was a much bigger mess. In 1992, six years after losing to Tyson, Berbick faced a five-year prison sentence for raping his children’s babysitter, and in 2006, he was beaten to death by two assailants – one of them his nephew – who repeatedly clubbed him with a steel pipe.
The Democrats should heed this tragic narrative. Since Trump’s wicked blow in November, they haven’t scored any victories. They are clubbing each other almost daily. However, they still have a chance to regain their glory.
But they must avoid the armed assailants within their shrinking circle.