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Maybe Not So Dead
I see lots of stories in the rightosphere telling us Democrats are in dire straits and committing electoral suicide by doubling down on unpopular positions. This seems at odds with the observation that the GOP House majority hangs by a thread and Democrats are currently winning off-year state and local elections.
If politics were about making sense, nobody would espouse communism nor vote for posturing loons and thieves.
A scary possibility is that after their 2024 debacle, Democrats may feel relieved that they no longer have to pretend to be committed to limited government, honor, sanity or respect for the values and best interests of the normal majority. Why else allow commie buffoons on the Hill to become de facto leaders and spokespersons?
The Soviets failed to crush Solidarnosc and did not control appetites for Western goods and privileges, and the USSR collapsed. In contrast, the Chinese Communists sent tanks into Tiananmen Square and dispatched the army all over the country to crush dissent, and they are still in power. If Democrats were to pretend that they really cared about the border, voting integrity, color-blind opportunity, constitutionally protected liberty, fiscal sanity and transparent government, then their entire edifice would fall as surely as did the Berlin Wall. Trump and DOGE have made them more aware of that vulnerability than ever.
European leftists know they are intellectually and morally bankrupt and are thus reduced to silencing and jailing critics. That would be happening here right now but for Trump’s incredible resilience.
Wisconsin will enforce electoral cheating. It will be gerrymandered to the fullest extent possible. They will demonize the opposition in whatever terms and to whatever extent necessary to protect the lie that they represent anything other than raw power. They will not be outliers among blue and purple states in that regard.
If economic shocks from tariffs, international turmoil, or some other events cause economic setbacks that permit the Democrats to retake the House in 2026, then all legislative and fiscal progress will end. They used Russiagate and COVID to crush out any semblance of good news during the first Trump administration — and it worked. The MSM, the tenured left, the deep state, the grifter class and the hordes of troubled suckers and zombies mobilized under the rubric of identity politics will soon come at us as surely and as fiercely as blackflies and midges in a Canadian spring. Just as certainly, those two million Biden-issued illegal alien SSNs will be turned into mail-in ballots before DOGE can cut finally them off.
It was easy to get off the couch to reject Biden and his idiot replacement. But voting to protect and affirm existing good policies seems to be hard for many people, and that inertia may prove to be fatal. The outcome of 2026 and 2028 could either secure the foundations of a golden age for the USA and the entire West or let 2024 be just a forgotten speed bump on the road to a post-constitutional, unfree, fiscally gutted America.
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It was more manageable before China kicked in, but I’m sure there was tariff imbalance even then. Might have been tolerable in the 40s especially since Europe was so knocked down.
Times change.
There are a lot of people who would like to buy their first home, who might like to have a word with you.
Housing problems are mainly due to restrictive regulations and zoning. The tariffs will only make raw materials more expensive which will make houses more expensive to build.
We used to build houses without importing the wood from Canada, China, etc. And they were more affordable then too.
Also getting rid of a bunch of illegals will free up some housing.
Most politicians and parties fall for this mistake. Trump is better off picking the 80/20 issues due to the opponents to blindly pick to be against whatever he is for