Today’s read is by Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell Mont., and author of “The Media Matrix: What If Everything You Know Is Fake?”

A brief excerpt:

I’m going to remember 2019 as the Democrats’ last stand. The party of Thomas Jefferson was given the keys to the nation’s future and told, simply, don’t drive it off the road. Instead, the Democrats honored their Southern roots and decided to go mud bogging! Might have been fun if they had four-wheel drive, but they were stuck with the antique transmission of the Constitution. Voters were sure to notice when the yee-haw Democrats covered them with dirt, ground the gears to dust, and spun the engine into oblivion.

But just in case you’ve forgotten, here’s the roadmap of how we got here.

Here’s the column in its entirety.