Conservatives areas of states including Virginia, Illinois, Oregon and others are joining a growing movement to secede from their liberal-controlled states.

They're giving billionaires and millionaires and pre-millionaries a bad name. Now that the DNC has cleared out the riffraff — Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, and all the other pretenders.

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been rising drastically in the national polling for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. By dropping hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising, he has thwarted the process.

Pining for the Obama days of appeasement. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, along with several of his Senate Democrat colleagues, met secretly with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif last week.

The Left's convulsions are warranted, just not for the reasons they now are giving the public. The Left and NeverTrump Right is in full meltdown mode.

Beyond the public's mood, the Democrats' strategy was a mess. You simply can't expect a well-adjusted voter to maintain CNN-levels of indignation for years on end.

The decision to be hostile throughout the speech caused Democrats to look small and petty, particularly as President Trump spoke of big successes and big goals for the future.