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Dems ditched American heroes for adults in frog suits and tiresome De Niro — all we can do is pity them  

For the better part of Trump’s first term, Democrats regularly protested that the president was “shattering norms” in dangerous ways.

Much of their rhetoric revolved around the grand task of preserving them.

But fast-forward to another Trump presidency, and they’re no longer crying about keeping norms intact. They’ve moved to the “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” phase — and way, way beyond.

On Tuesday night, many Dem politicians decided to shatter some norms, bigly, and snub President Trump’s State of the Union address.

They skipped a pep rally for awesome Americans like World War II vet George “Buddy” Taggart, National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe — who had a miraculous recovery after being shot by a terrorist on Thanksgiving Eve in Washington DC — and Team USA’s gold-medal men’s hockey team.

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Instead, some of our nation’s lawmakers chose to hang with wack jobs in inflatable frog costumes at a “State of the Swamp” event in DC, organized by the Anti-Trump organization Defiance.org.

“Tonight I defy Trump and his authoritarian project by standing in joyful, radical, peaceful resistance with the Portland Frog Brigade,” Rep. Maxine Dexter of Oregon said to the audience proudly sporting Kermit’s cousins on their heads.

“We answered with frog costumes, dancing, singing and joy when Trump wanted us to cower in fear,” she said crediting her amphibian army with keeping the National Guard out of their city.

This is the delusion of many Dem leaders. They falsely believe joy is a viable political or governing strategy, which is only true if you are keeping order at a grade-school art fair.

But hey, it ain’t easy being green.

The MVP of the alt-farce was prolific protester Robert Potylo, who goes by Robbie Roadsteamer.

Wearing a giraffe onesie and a fanny pack, Potylo — seemingly channeling the voice of Macho Man Randy Savage — bragged on stage that he was arrested three times by ICE: twice in Minneapolis and once in Portland.

“They can’t erase a movement,” Potylo said.

If the left were smart, they’d erase this clown limb of their party, pronto.

But no, actual legislators entertained the frogs and giraffes, who cheered as Rep. Seth Moulton from Massachusetts said the president “sounds like your drunk uncle.”

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey delivered what was considered a rebuttal of Trump’s address. Hapless Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, whose approval ratings live in the toilet, dismissed Trump’s speech as “just ramblings and incoherent phrases of nothing.”

Spoken like an expert.

Don’t feel left out, New York: Rep. Daniel Goldman was there, too, also using the alt programming to seize on division — and seriously greet the crowd with “Hello, my frogs.”

Other exciting guests included Jim Acosta, Medhi Hasan and George Conway, not to mention tiresome actors Mark Ruffalo and Robert De Niro, who complained about “freedoms” and “fellow citizens” being taken away and compared loving our country to an “abused spouse professing love for their abuser.”

No wonder most Democrats feels their party has not only lost its way but has no compass. They want real leaders to simply act like adults and speak with clarity and pragmatism — not glom onto adults wearing the contents of the Party City sales rack.

Over on the National Mall, Dems like Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Sen. Adam Schiff of California and Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland lamely chose to spend their time with Joy Reid, who hosted Change.org’s “People’s State of the Union.”

“These are not normal times,” Connecticut’s Sen. Chris Murphy said to the audience. “And Democrats have to stop behaving normally.”

Mission accomplished, Senator!

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