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The Democrats: Alone and Defenseless in a Cruel, Cruel World
Liberals are freaking out all over the place, and it is absolutely delicious to watch.
They (liberals) are exactly the same people they were on November 8. Everything they had the day before — their smarts (or lack thereof), their work ethic, their skills, their passions, their vision — is still there. Trump’s election didn’t do anything to them. And yet they’re reacting to the election like they’ve been physically assaulted.
The people who do illogical things like panic over elections do so for reasons that are logical to them. To us, they’re insane, but to them, it is the only logical thing to do in response to what’s going on.
They may have some reason to panic, though, because for the last 16 years, progressives have used culture as a weapon against their ideological enemies. Don’t want to bake a cake because of your faith? Too bad, we’ll sue your business out of existence. Want to host a kickoff dinner for one of America’s largest trade shows? Not if we have anything to say about it, bucko. Want to be a Christian and have a cable TV show? Good luck with that.
“You will be made to care!” has been the standard attack of the Democrats in their war against traditional values, but that is changing, and quickly. With Trump, progressives are now faced with a national leader who doesn’t really care what liberal society says and thinks about him. Trump has been the butt of jokes from east-coast liberals since Reagan was President, and he is still pretty much the same outspoken person today as he was back in 1987. Not only does Trump not care about what the establishment media says about him, with the dawn of the age of social media, he doesn’t have to use the establishment media to get his message out.
Trump’s election neutralizes the most effective weapon the progressives have had at their disposal, so of course liberals are now panicking. For 16 years, ever since the days of the Dixie Chicks and “Bush lied, soldiers died!” progressives have tried to set the cultural agenda for this country, and for the most part, they’ve succeeded. As it stands now, culture, along with education, are the only two cultural forces left to progressives that can used as a bulwark against the overwhelming superiority of Republicans in politics at both the state and national level, and culture may be waning fast as Trump and the force of his personality moves into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
As of January 21, the future of the Democratic party as a nationwide political force will rest upon a handful of antiquated socialists and a few regional, coastal (probably corrupt) politicians.
No wonder they’re panicking.
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the hypocrisy of the totalitarian left knows no bounds
And what are they going to do about it?
Have to disagree with Geraghty’s concern. The liberal 28 Days After reaction to Trump’s win is healthy and productive. For commonsense conservative policies that is.
I don’t want a smart, center-left, third-way response. Bring on the full Corbyn/Sanders/Warren takeover of the Democrats. Propose 50%, 60%, 70% marginal tax rates. Alienate Jewish voters, writers and contributors with full-throated BDS campaign and the selection of grand mufti Ellison to head the party.
The insanity and inanity of the Dem response was dialed to eleven by a few factors.
First, the shock and awe of losing, and losing unexpectedly, to Donald J. Trump. Many of us experienced something like it in April. We got the the mumps vacccine, they got the adult mumps.
Second, the demonstration of the impotence of the concerted effort of media to destroy Trump. We’ve watch the entire media go through the first few stages of Kubler-Ross.
Finally, the decisive impact of this election on the future electoral success Dems really believed was guaranteed to them by their Judis-Teixiera dream. That’s what in large part accounts for the hysterical popular vote reaction. Dems know what many conservative critics tried to deny: this election gives the GOP maybe its last best chance to achieve commonsense conservative control over POTUS, Congress, the federal courts and most statehouses and maybe even find our footing with legal immigrants.
If we don’t blow it.
“When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.” – N. Bonaparte
Ah, there’s the rub.
The part the left doesn’t get is Donald Trump is a New York developer. He’s probably been called everything in the book and probably to his face in the same room. Unions, politicians, newspapers, television, his friends, his family… he’s mostly immune and when he reacts he reacts like a New Yorker in the street, ‘HEY! I was walkin’ here!’
So the left is stuck with a guy who isn’t a politician, got elected for being Trump and is pretty happy with himself… and that makes him hard to shame.
So liberals ‘Freak away!’ Besides being shrill is their only voice, they don’t ‘talk’ about anything they shriek, ‘THE SKY IS FALLING’… only problem is this is the same response for everything.
Yes, we can enjoy their shock.
But we must not let down our guard. They are still very dangerous.
All the Fake News hysteria is about trying to regain credibility and stature for Leftist mass media. We must take this opportunity to stay on the attack about how they failed to deliver relevant information, how they continue to mix opinion in with the news, how they fail to live up to the journalistic ethics they claim to prize, how they are guilty of collusion with Team Hillary and Team Obama, and how they cannot be trusted.
Likewise, we need to quit giving money to the universities. If you want to give, give to departmental programs/initiatives/scholarships in departments that are not Leftist (you might have to do a great deal of homework to find non-Leftist departments at your alma mater).
They may be down, but this is only one major battle in a long war, and they have strongholds in the high places of culture.
Concur.
Trump’s response to the left:
MJBubba– “Yes, we can enjoy their shock. But we must not let down our guard. They are still very dangerous.”
This is very true, nothing worse than corning a wounded animal BUT this election proved that the ‘people’ of America aren’t as gullible as the libs want to believe. With the advent of the internet and sites like Ricochet, their tactics, tantrums and rants are being shown in the light of day. (Please let these idiots Tweet more because they just look more clueless!)
Like the French Revolution, the Lefts ‘Revolution’ just gets more extreme until they are eating each other like Bill Mahar confessing that calling Mitt Romeny ‘the end of the world’ was hyperbole but Trump is a fascist… that was a liberal celebrity telling everyone that what was behind the curtain was a lie.
Don’t lie back but be empowered to call fools fools when they are foolish… this President has been acting the fool for years and after 8 years he finishes by being more petty and more foolish.
Let the ‘victim march’ be their legacy, while actually building and empowering is the conservative achievement.
Punched it up for you a little, there, @fordpenney.
Kevin Creighton (View Comment):
Boss Mongo– Nice ‘punch up’… and… mic drop for the Boss!