One of the things Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit fame, constantly warns his readers against is getting cocky.  Or as the Victorians liked to say, "there's many a slip twixt cup and lip."  Or going a few thousand years farther back in time, Aesop warned us not to count our chickens before they hatch. For conservatives watching President Trump go from one triumph to another, both at home and abroad, even as the Democrat primary candidates seem caught in a socialist death race, getting cocky means thinking Trump will easily get re-elected.  As the SEALs would say, though, "the only easy day was yesterday" — in other words, every step to the White House is hard, disciplined work, and only 2020 hindsight will prove whether that level of work was really necessary. However, sometimes the other side — the Democrat side — gets cocky, too.  Or perhaps it's whistling in the dark.  That...(Read Full Post)