Yesterday, I read articles by Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness, Dr. Tom Borelli on Conservative Review, David Catron on The American Spectator and Clarice Feldman on American Thinker. They al;l said much the same thing. That was yesterday, I have seen many others in the last fortnight or so, and in fact, they are saying what I am saying here today. I’m going to mostly quote VDH here, but any of them will do, and it’s self-evident to your own eyes anyway.
At the rate the Democrats are going, 2020 = 1972. I don’t know if you remember 1972, but the Democrats crashed and burned, losing 49 states to Nixon. But 2020 may be worse. Let VDH tell you.
[W]hat is strange about the new envisioned progressive agendas for 2020 is that no serious Democratic presidential candidate next year could ever run on them.
Instead, what we will see over the next few months are insidious efforts to ignore, disown, or recant endorsements of Democratic candidates for president. And if not, Democrats will be trapped by their own rhetoric and virtue signaling—and end up going the full McGovern in 2020.
Venom. The new progressive Democratic Party is prepared for existential war. Vice President Mike Pence cannot be said to be a “decent guy.” Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is old and in the way. America is not much above “garbage.” Immigrants arrive crushed that the “propaganda” did not match the reality of a pathological America. Yesterday’s condemnations from Jeremiah Wright’s pulpit sound mild today. In such a race to the bottom, expect in the next 22 months that each current slur and smear will be seen as counterrevolutionary within 24 hours. Yet most Americans do not appreciate their country being trashed by those who apparently know little about it.
Green Deals. Much has been written about the “Green New Deal,” specifically its socialist redistribution schemes, and its notorious rapid phasing out of the internal combustion engine, which drew the polite ridicule from Feinstein and even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Sound like anything you’ve seen and heard (unendingly)? Me as well, continuing.
Anti-Semitism. The recent failure to condemn explicit anti-Semitism, as voiced by some new anti-Semitic, anti-Israel left-wing congresswomen, reveals that the Democratic Party is captive to an entirely new manifestation of a tired, old ideology. […]
Abortion. It was an unwritten rule that there were two sure ways to lose voters on the abortion issue. Again, ethics and morality aside, there were a few clearly understood no-go, political red lines.
On the pro-abortion side, the red line was usually defined roughly as infanticide, ostensibly killing the baby as it passed through the birth canal or in fact was already delivered. […]
Reparations. There is no national support for reparations for contemporary African-Americans, nearly 160 years after the Civil War.
The argument is neither coherent nor workable. Do immigrant blacks from Africa or the Caribbean qualify despite no American familial historical experience with slavery or Jim Crow?
Open borders and the end of ICE.
Cancellation of student debt.
And on and on and on it goes, where it stops nobody knows. But I’ll bet a fair amount of money that nobody campaigning on half of those points is going to win the election, especially against a candidate that actually fights for his (and our) vision of America. That’s one thing.
But there is another. As David Catron (link above) reminds us; in 1994, the Democrats lost the House majority they had held since Eisenhower. They didn’t get it back until 2006, and lost it again in 2012, regained it in 2018, and are on track to lose it in 2020. Why? Because they have become increasingly (and vocally) radical, all the things VDH discussed above. This is America, and they would be seen as fairly radical, even in Europe.
Indeed, in the UK, the main reason that Teresa May remains the Prime Minister is that Jeremy Corbin also propounds all the stuff above, as so, as horrific as many conservatives perceive her, she was the best least horrible on offer. Sad when the least bad choice wants to give your country’s sovereignty away and pay somebody with billions of tax money for the privilege. That’s how bad Corbyn is.
Forty years ago Margeret Thatcher explained it thusly, “The one thing about leftwing politicians is that they are always fanatical. They never let go. It’s their religion.” Nothing has changed.
It is going to be a very noisy couple of years, as the idiot stepchildren learn a few facts of life, but they will, or they’ll be forcibly retired and then we’ll get on with it. Or they won’t and we may well see another civil war. But I think the first much more likely, the average American voter may well be lazy, but he isn’t stupid, and when the screeching gets annoying, he’s been known to shut it down.
Probably will again.
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