15 August—Michael Reagan is the 78-year-old adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. His curriculum vitae isn’t particularly impressive, but, building on his adopted father’s name, he’s become a very conservative and successful syndicated political commentator and columnist.

So as I read Reagan’s column this morning—the same old, same old, but entirely valid conservative mantra about the liberal media whitewashing or ignoring the unsavory side of the notorious Biden Bunch while spewing all their bile on Donald Trump—I wondered how he’d defend Trump.

“What [are] President Biden and his administration doing to fix all [the] national and local problems?” Michael asks. “Is he to blame?”

“Don’t expect the liberal media to ever press Biden to answer that kind of question. They’re not interested. All they know is, ‘We hate Trump.’

“The liberal mainstream media hate Trump so much they’d never do or say anything that might help him win or hurt Biden in 2024.”

But then Michael confesses, “I fear for 2024. I’m truly concerned about Republicans winning back the White House. I don’t think Trump can win and he’s not going to let anyone else try. [editorial emphasis]

“My greatest worry is that if he doesn’t win the nomination he will sabotage the nominee [editorial emphasis], guarantee a Democrat victory and destroy the Republican Party—if he hasn’t done that already.

“Then there’d be a legitimate reason for me to agree with the liberal media who say ‘We hate Trump.’”

Michael Reagan is absolutely right. As far as he goes. Because if Trump fails to win the Republican presidential nomination next year, he’ll without any doubt at all do everything he possibly can to sabotage the party’s nominee. That’s because he’s a bully who always but always got his way by hook and by crook—until he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

Donald Trump is a loser who can’t accept losing.

Given his overwhelming narcissism and total lack of principle, Trump might even throw his support behind a Democrat or third-party candidate just to get back at the party and candidate who denied him the gratification he’s always needed. The scary thing is, many—if not most—of Trump’s mindless followers can be expected to follow their messiah into the abyss.

And scarier yet, if all those mindless morons shouldn’t get their way, would they—even without Trump’s blessing (unlikely as that may seem)—declare war on the rest of us?