AN UNFATHOMABLE NOVEMBER

The Democrat National Committee collaborated with the Clinton campaign to sabotage Bernie Sanders, emails published by Wikileaks on the eve of the Dem convention indicated.

The news infuriated Sanders supporters, already grumpy because Hillary selected Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA., who is what passes for a “moderate” among Democrats these days.

The firestorm swiftly consumed Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, D-FL, the DNC Chair, who was canned and blew town before the convention was gaveled in. Then in a stunning display of cluelessness, callousness, or both, Hillary made Debbie Dimwit honorary co-chair of her campaign.

Every mention of Hillary’s name Monday (7/25) was booed, beginning with the benediction (!). Some Sanders supporters chanted “lock her up,” as Republicans had in Cleveland.

Here’s a heads-up: Donald Trump will run as if he were in a Democrat primary. He’ll be to Hillary’s left on some economic issues, in sync with her on most social issues. He’ll aim his pitch at Sanders supporters, and the white working class Democrats abandoned.  Witness yesterday (7/26) his advocating raising the minimum wage in total ignorance of basic economics.

This strategy comports with Trump’s political views, such as they are. (He’s a New York Democrat.) It’ll discombobulate Hillary, who doesn’t respond well to the unexpected. Trumpkins will applaud whatever he says, even if it’s the opposite of what they said they believed just a few months ago. Republican “leaders” are too ethically compromised to complain.

After outlining well in his acceptance speech why so many think America is in crisis, Donald Trump said: “I am your voice. I alone can fix it.”

“The most striking aspect of his speech… was the extraordinary spectacle of a man standing on a podium, elevated above the surrounding crowd, telling the millions of Americans who were watching that he, alone, could solve their problems,” said Yoni Applebaum of the Atlantic.

This is Chavismo, Caesarism. Only megalomaniacs say such a thing. Only morons believe that he has such an actual real magic wand.

Searches on Google for “third party candidates” jumped 10,000 percent during the GOP convention, with the biggest bump while Trump was speaking. But he left the convention with a small lead in most polls.

Which didn’t improve the mood in Philadelphia. “A ham sandwich could beat Trump,” said a Sanders delegate from Michigan. “And Hillary cannot. She’s a crook.”

Despite its rocky start, Hillary probably will get a bump from her convention. The polls should remain close as Americans vacillate between which candidate they dislike least.

If nothing much changes before November, Hillary may have an edge. There are more bad things for most Americans to learn about Donald Trump. The “mainstream” media is eager to tell us all about them. A corrupt IRS will leak the tax returns Trump wants to conceal.

But if more police officers are murdered, Hillary will regret cozying up to Only Black Lives Matter. And if ISIS can pull off here terror attacks like those in Europe, she’ll really regret having said the problem is “Islamophobia.”

Many who now find Trump distasteful will prefer a caudillo who will do too much to restore order to a crooked politician who’s determined to do too little.

Russian intelligence hacked the DNC’s email server, the FBI thinks. Wikileaks is a front for the FSB, which is what the KGB calls itself these days. Hillary turned over fewer than half of her emails. Odds are the Russians have the ones she didn’t.

That’s bad news for Hillary, because the Russians have a powerful interest in electing Donald Trump. He has a man-crush on Vladimir Putin, has indicated a willingness to dismantle NATO, Putin’s foremost foreign policy objective.

The gaps in Hillary’s email record coincided with meetings with shady foreign characters who got favors after making megabuck contributions to the Clinton Foundation, noted Peter Schweizer of the Government Accountability Institute.

Few Americans understand how badly Hillary has harmed national security. Most would be appalled by evidence she solicited bribes. I bet she’s lying awake tonight wondering what will be in Wikileaks’ next data drop.

Trump is what unreconstructed Commies like Putin call a “useful idiot.” Ordinarily, if a presidential candidate were being manipulated by a hostile foreign power, that would be reason enough to vote for the other candidate. But Hillary has her own sweetheart deal with the Russians.

Rosatom, the Russian nuclear agency, bought a Canadian mining company. “The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain,” noted the New York Times.

The deal, which gave Rosatom control of 20 percent of U.S. uranium production, had to be approved by the State Department, because of the national security implications. After the owners of Uranium One contributed $145 million to the Clinton Foundation, it was.

And Hillary, who proudly presented the Russian foreign minister with a “reset” button, who mocked Mitt Romney for calling Russia our most dangerous enemy, doesn’t have the cred to call anyone else soft on Putin.

In what I regard as a sign of panic, Hillary’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, went on the cable shows Monday to whine Hillary was being victimized by the Russians. She was, but Mook wasn’t portraying his boss as the strong woman she pretends to be.

“Amazingly the DNC has compounded the blow by turning it into a talking point, acting as if Hillary were a child needing sympathy because her lollipop has been stolen by a bully, rather than as a competent person firmly in command,” said Richard Fernandez of PJ Media.

It’s probable this election will be influenced more by Russian intelligence than by a corrupt news media, whose bias has reached such comic proportions it’s lost much of its power. This is, alas, not an improvement.

All we know for sure is if either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump wins, America loses.  The question for November voters will be: with whom does America lose least?  God’s sense of humor is indeed unfathomable.

Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret, and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force during the Reagan Administration.  He is the national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.