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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

cchumley@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arrives at a primary night election rally in Essex Junction, Vt., Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bernie Sanders wins, even when he loses

If socialism is an evil, which it is, then pretending this election season could sound the death to socialism with a decisive Donald Trump victory would be both fallacy and foolish. Socialism, like other evils, doesn't disappear. It just morphs into something else.

March 5, 2020
Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke gestures after endorsing Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden at a campaign rally Monday, March 2, 2020 in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

Beto O’Rourke is back and bobbing for Joe Biden

Beto O'Rourke, the arm-bouncing, cadence jabbering Howdy Doody of Texas -- the white Barack Obama, as some affectionately dubbed -- has come out of hiding and come back to politics. He's bobbing for Biden.

March 3, 2020
Tom Steyer takes photos with guest at the unity breakfast Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Democrats treat black voters like they’re stupid

Democrats seem to be struggling with black voters. Has President Donald Trump, with his chugging economy and prison reform plan and immigration control stolen the left's thunder? Could be. But speaking to blacks on the campaign trail shouldn't have to drift into rapper shake-the-booty land. Honestly, it's not that tough.

March 3, 2020
Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, right, hugs his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, before ending his presidential campaign during a speech to supporters, Sunday, March 1, 2020, in South Bend, Ind. (Michael Caterina/South Bend Tribune via AP)

Pete Buttigieg exits, but Democratic field remains insane

Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has dropped his run for the White House, opening doors for former Vice President Joe Biden to take his votes, or maybe Sen. Bernie Sanders, or former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, or one of the women, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. It's a real potatoes, potahtoes moment for Democrats. Buttigieg was Bernie is Bloomberg is Biden is -- etc., etc., etc.

March 2, 2020
In this Jan. 16, 2013, file photo, a camera is mounted near the rear window of a police car in Little Rock, Ark. The device is part of a system that scans traffic on the streets, relaying the data it collects to a computer for sifting. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File) **FILE**

Big Brother grows alarmingly bigger

Once upon a time, America was free. Now, it's not so free. And this story out of Coral Gables, Florida, about a man's court fight to rid his community of a privacy-dinging, constitutionally questionable automated license plate reader program, helps explain why.

February 29, 2020
White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow talks with reporters about the impact of the Coronavirus on markets in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Larry Kudlow at CPAC: ‘The Lord loves free enterprise’

Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council -- meaning he's the key White House money policy guy -- said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, while sharing the stage with Ivanka Trump, that this election is, simply put, a pit of capitalism against socialism.

February 28, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign event in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Bernie Sanders, Communist Cuba’s newest newspaper tool

A newspaper in Cuba has seized on Bernie Sanders' kind comments about its authoritarian leadership literacy program and and used them for propaganda purposes to show how even a member of the U.S. government can sees the good in the Gestapo-esque. Hmm. Who would've seen that coming, right?

February 27, 2020
In this Feb. 5, 2020, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, walks with Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, center, and her husband, Andrew Moffit, over a recently opened pedestrian bridge to a campaign event for Bloomberg, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun activism casts cold chill

Michael Bloomberg's gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety, is pouring millions upon millions upon millions of dollars into the 2020 elections -- $60 million to be exact, with $8 million alone slated just for Texas. And while leftists may cheer, fact is, freedom-minded Americans should be feeling the chill.

February 27, 2020
From left, Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer, greet on another on stage at the end of the Democratic presidential primary debate at the Gaillard Center, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C., co-hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The standard is the Constitution

The Democratic Party has been corrupted by socialist influences -- no doubt about that. But what's interesting is a) the Democrats brought this on themselves and b) the fact that they did has made all of America focus on the debate between democratic socialism, versus socialism, versus communism, versus whatever. We need not, however.

February 27, 2020
In this Jan. 9, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump points as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally, in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Donald Trump would ‘KO’ Bernie Sanders, says Rasmussen

In a Rasmussen kind of world, in a Rasmussen kind of scenario, President Donald Trump would crush Sen. Bernie Sanders in a race for the White House if elections were held today. Two thumbs up to the man in the MAGA hat.

February 26, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the Gaillard Center, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C., co-hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Bernie Sanders stumbles on ‘authoritarian’ socialism

Even Van Jones couldn't believe Sen. Bernie Sanders didn't do a better job on the Democratic debate stage with the "socialism question" and explaining why the particular brand he favors won't lead to, well, death. Honestly, that's 'cause he can't. Socialism is to America like a square peg is to a round hole.

February 26, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign event in San Antonio, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Bernie Sanders should have been stopped in 1981

Sen. Bernie Sanders is the Democrats' front-runner, and the fact he's an open socialist -- hidden communist -- is the clanging of the gong, the sounding of the alarms, that this country, this land of the free, is one batch of votes from becoming the land of the lost. The fact is Sanders never should have held public office in the first place.

February 25, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., shakes hands with supporters during a campaign event on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, in Austin, Texas. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Bernie Sanders admits he hasn’t a clue of the cost of his socialist stuff

In a "60 Minutes" interview with host Anderson Cooper, Sen. Bernie Sanders acknowledged that he's not yet put a "price tag" on much of the proposals he's pushed. That's kind of a big concern -- yes? So was his obvious inability to look Cooper in the eye while answering certain questions. Deceive much? It's the socialist way.

February 24, 2020
This Feb. 1, 2017, file photo shows then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, joined by K.T. McFarland, then-deputy national security adviser, during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

America is in peril, with wolves prancing at the door

America stands at a crossroads. Freedom -- or not. If we can't trust our intel and law enforcement, whom can we trust? But more than that, America's government is in turmoil. America's culture is in a tailspin. Yet: Americans, if enough want, could put a sure stop to the prancing of the wolves at our door.

February 22, 2020
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined at right by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., pauses during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Russia Collusion Two wafts into being

The New York Times just released a report about the intelligence community's concerns that Russia is winding into gear to reelect President Donald Trump this November. Make way for the Russia Collusion Two, same as the first: all lies, lots of impeachable possibilities.

February 21, 2020
This April 28, 2011, file photo shows President Barack Obama with then-outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and then-Defense Secretary-nominee Leon Panetta, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Richard Grenell critics ought to remember Leon Panetta

President Donald Trump has named Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, as the new acting director of national intelligence, and now the anti-Trumping faction is going nuts, claiming Grenell does not possess the necessary requirements to successfully serve in the position. Hmm. But Leon Panetta, ex-CIA chief, did?

February 20, 2020
From left, Democratic presidential candidates, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, in Las Vegas, hosted by NBC News and MSNBC. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Democrats aghast at outing as communists

In Case You Missed It: The latest Democratic debate involved a bit of back-and-forth between Mike Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders about the perils of politicking in America on a communist platform -- and all the Democrats go, what's wrong with that? This is where the Democratic Party has gone: defending communism in America.

February 20, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a campaign event in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Pete Buttigieg hardly a qualified keeper of the Christian key

Pete Buttigieg, in a CNN town hall, suggested Christians who support President Donald Trump aren't acting in accordance with the Christian faith. And then he kissed his gay "husband" and skipped off the set, exit, stage right. Not really. But you get the picture.

February 20, 2020