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PEGGY NOONAN: Crazy Won’t Beat Trump — Impeachment looks like a victory for Democrats, but their lurch left will prove far more consequential.

From their first debates in June, their major candidates announced themselves to be for sharply higher taxes, banning private health insurance, the Green New Deal, free college, complete student loan forgiveness, free health insurance for illegal aliens, and functionally open borders. They would ban fossil fuels and fracking. At least one candidate said America’s religious institutions should lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage. They are extreme on abortion—no limits, ever—and in their support of identity politics, which sees not a country but a thousand warring tribes endlessly rewarded for being at each other’s throats.

Very much a part of all this, and sworn in just under a year ago, were Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “The Squad,” enthusiastically held up by the Democrats’ friends and operatives in the press as the future of the party. If they are, the future is grim, with their Leninist insistence that you’ll do it their way or be flattened. It is not only policies that count but spirit. Theirs is one of accusation and division. Where they should be ardent they are only arrogant. Their approach speaks of a desire not to make progress but to unsettle and undo.

But the point is most of the most famous public faces in the party spent 2019 essentially supporting a reordering of arrangements that have lasted two centuries and allowed us, for all our mess and chaos, to be great.

Here is how the party’s lurch left has improved the president’s position.

It makes the 2020 race not “Trump vs. the Democrat,” a race he can lose, but “Trump vs. Lefty Madness,” which he can win.

The left is turning Donald Trump into a savior. He was not a savior before AOC. He was not a savior before Elizabeth and Bernie said they’d ban your health insurance.

Well, he was for millions for preventing Hillary from implementing what would have essentially been Obama’s third term, and possibly appointing two or more Supreme Court justices.

Related: Coming in 2020: Nightmare Year for the Left?

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Says the woman who wants to regulate every aspect of American lives, praised Evita Peron, and whose former chief of staff was photographed wearing Che-style Subhas Chandra Bose t-shirts.

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I LOOK FORWARD TO THE UPCOMING PROTESTS BY AOC, GRETA AND JANE FONDA: China ramps up coal power in face of emissions efforts. Study shows new plants being added equivalent to entire capacity of EU.

How dare you!

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GIVE IT AN ASTERISK: Roger Kimball: The ‘Impeachment’ of Donald Trump: It’s amazing what semantic potency can reside in a pair of quotation marks. “Many commentators, myself included, have warned that the House was playing a dangerous game by taking the box marked ‘impeachment’ down from the shelf and beginning to bat those balls around when there were no plausible grounds—none—for playing the game to begin with. Impeachment—again, as many commentators, myself included, have pointed out—was intended by the Founders to be a remedy of last resort, an in-case-of-fire-break-glass option when every other recourse had failed. As recently as this March, Nancy Pelosi had insisted that impeachment had to be a bipartisan decision, only employed to address the most serious crimes.”

SAD! Say, the VA AG Seems a Little Cheesed Off Over Those Second Amendment Sanctuary Proclamations.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Congressman: Dems Impeached Trump to ‘Shield’ Themselves from ‘Reckoning that Will Come.’

Flashback, March 2017: “Hypothesis: The spying-on-Trump thing is worse than we even imagine, and once it was clear Hillary had lost and it would inevitably come out, the Trump/Russia collusion talking point was created as a distraction.”