So, so much fun

The new Democratic Party is furious that Bernie Sanders is daring to respond to The Donald’s SOTU speech. As a white male, he has no right!

Sanders giving his own response, after Abrams gives hers, should be completely inoffensive. And yet some in the liberal coalition think Sanders has got some nerve: He's a white man, choosing to speak, even though party leadership has chosen a black woman to speak. (Doesn't he know it's Black History Month? For shame.)

#Resistance conspiracy theorist Louise Mensch was apoplectic on Twitter. "We already have to listen to one old white male traitor advance the Kremlin's interests, we don't need two," she wrote.

Mensch, of course, does not speak for sane Democrats. But a more respected voice, MSNBC's Chris Hayes, predictedSanders' commitment to doing the rebuttal—again, something he does every year—"will grate/alienate." It appears he was right: Many on social media dragged Sanders for daring to speak out of turn.

"Why is he talking over the black woman our party chose to speak for us?" asked the feminist author Amy Siskind. (Again, Sanders is not talking over anyone.) "This is disrespecting black women, the most important and reliable part of our base. He can speak another night. This is Stacey Abrams' night. She was the one the party chose. Nope. This is not his night!"

I’m so old, I remember when thinking that Russia was an enemy of our country was considered a delusional hangover from the 80s, but that’s an aside, The new Democratic Party’s insistence that white males and even white heterosexual females step aside from politics is, at least through the 2020 election, going to fare poorly, I predict.

On the other hand, the vast majority of the traditional Republican power structure is determined to see Trump fail, and, knowing full well that he will fall if there’s no wall under construction next year, will join with the Democrats to prevent it. They think they’ll rid themselves of Trump; I think they’ll see the destruction of their party.

Interesting times; buy popcorn futures.