Not given in this space to saying much good about Donald Trump, we do need today to give him his due: He is doing his part to make good on his Make America Great Again promise. He’s increasingly turning it a beautiful Democratic Blue.
* First it was the December 2017 special election in Alabama – the one that gave the Heart of Dixie its first Democratic win for a statewide federal office – a U.S. Senate seat – in more than a quarter of a century.
Trump had stumped steadfastly for defrocked federal judge Roy Moore, but Doug Jones won a stunning red-state upset by 22,000 votes, 50% to 48%.
Just a month before that, largely red Virginia spun its own “resistance” energy – sparked by Trump’s stolen presidential victory in 2016 – into three Democratic statewide gains.
* And don’t forget the Blue Tsunami of 2018 – the one that gave Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives and placed the Speaker’s gavel firmly back into the hands of Nancy Pelosi. Altogether, Democrats picked up a net gain of 40 seats. It was the largest Democratic House gain in four and half decades.