THE PARTY OF CHILDREN

One of Jack Wheeler’s classics is Infantilizomania from September 2005.

Democrats and indeed all those on the Left, he said, are afflicted with a neurotically obsessive compulsion to treat adult human beings as children.

Ever since Donald Trump’s electoral victory six weeks ago, we have seen the devastating consequences of their compulsion. Democrats have succeeded in fully infantilizing themselves.

After thousands of unhinged leftists browbeat electors from states Donald Trump won to vote for someone else, he expanded his lead over Hillary Clinton.

“Most of the pleas to reject Trump are coordinated, automated, professionally generated, and, for those reasons, none too persuasive,” noted the Associated Press.

“We got a stack of letters from idiots,” said Arizona elector Edward Robson.

“They don’t seek to understand or persuade – just to insist,” said Kansas elector Ashley McMillan Hutchinson. “As a mother of two small children, I know how to handle that.”

Many electors reported death threats. Pennsylvania electors got police protection.

The recount of votes in Rust Belt states backfired too. Mr. Trump gained votes in Wisconsin. “Irregularities” benefiting Hillary were uncovered in Wayne County (Detroit), giving Attorney General designate Jeff Sessions more reason to make vote fraud a priority.

“Clearly the left hasn’t figured out how disgusting are its crybully tactics to normal, emotionally healthy adult voters,” wrote John Hayward of Breitbart.com.

The excuse leftists gave for attempting a coup is “Russia meddled in our election.”

They’re referring to emails phished from the Democrat National Committee made public by Wikileaks, accused of being a front for the SVR, which is what the KGB calls itself these days.

The “bombshells” in the phished emails were the DNC rigged the primaries for Hillary; she was leaked debate questions in advance. You can count on fingers and toes the votes swayed by these disclosures.

Those fussing about Wikileaks now shrugged off cyber attacks when the target was the United States.

President Barack Obama was “briefed regularly” on Russian efforts to hack servers at the White House, the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but chose not to respond, said the New York Times. He shut down a State Department effort to counter Russian disinformation.

Mr. Obama did nothing after the DNC hack because he expected Hillary to win. So, in all likelihood, did the Russians.

The Donald’s bromance with Vladimir Putin is a legitimate concern. But Mr. Trump’s plans to develop America’s energy resources and to rebuild our military are not in Russia’s interest.

Hillary figured to be as soft a touch as the supine Mr. Obama. (After a big donation to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary approved the sale of 20 percent of our uranium reserves to the Russkies. After more donations, she approved the transfer of dual use technologies (military and civilian) to the Russian version of Silicon Valley.)

 Intelligence officials suspect the Russians have the emails Hillary deleted.

“Of course the SVR got it all,” an ex-KGB operative told former National Security Agency counterintelligence officer John Schindler.

If the Russians wanted Hillary to lose, why wouldn’t Wikileaks have made those emails public? They aren’t of much use to the Kremlin now, but could have been used for blackmail if Hillary won.

More likely, the Russians meddled to cast doubt on the integrity of our electoral process. Which is exactly what “progressives” are doing.

Hillary transmitted classified information over an insecure server, then lied about it. She ignored the Rust Belt to campaign in states she had no chance to win; spent millions to boost turnout in Chicago and New Orleans, which was irrelevant.

If the SVR engineered Team Clinton’s boneheaded mistakes, Vlad Putin is the Svengali of our times. If not, this is much ado about not much.

And a brazen example of leftist hypocrisy.  Many “progressives” cheered when Wikileaks published disclosures by traitors Edward Snowden and Bradley (Chelsea) Manning. They saw no threat until Wikileaks embarrassed Democrats.

Leftists applauded when Barack and Hillary made overtures to Vlad, who was as evil mean a nasty rotten guy then as he is now; ridiculed Mitt Romney for calling Russia an enemy.

It’s way past time for these ill-mannered, hysterical hypocrites to get to the fifth stage of grief, and to learn the difference between vigorous dissent and sedition.  The only adult Democrat in the Senate now seems to be West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, who is advising his colleagues and fellow Dems:

“People just gotta get over it and go on. I mean, let’s get on with governing this country, making us the world leader, and keeping — maintaining that superpower status. And that means we’ve all got to get behind our president, whether you voted for him or not, and work with him, and try to make him successful, and be respectful if we disagree and find a different path forward.”

But the moonbats evince no ability to take his advice.

“Casual voters are getting the message that left-wingers aren’t serious or principled in their opposition,” Mr. Hayward said.  “The nation hungers for adult leadership, and Democrats are acting like children on a playground, demanding six strikes before they promise to give up the bat.”

“Even as a Trump skeptic, I cannot overstate how gratifying it is that these people lost,” says conservative columnist Guy Benson. “Their entitled, bitter blamestorming is sadlicious.”

Note, finally we have a word in English for the German schadenfreude.  It’s deliciously sad – sadlicious – that Dems have infantilized themselves.  But at some point, they – like their snowflake students and offspring in college – are going to have to grow up.

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.