Posted on 12/28/2016 2:32:54 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
How George Soros Destroyed the Democratic Party The Left ultimately destroys itself. December 28, 2016 Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. 
It was the end of the big year with three zeroes. The first X-Men movie had broken box office records. You couldn’t set foot in a supermarket without listening to Brittney Spears caterwauling, “Oops, I Did It Again.” And Republicans and Democrats had total control of both chambers of legislatures in the same amount of states. That was the way it was back in the distant days of the year 2000.
In 2016, Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states. That’s up from 16 in 2000.
What happened to the big donkey? Among other things, the Democrats decided to sell their base and their soul to a very bad billionaire and they got a very bad deal for both.
It was 2004. The poncho was the hottest fashion trend, there were 5 million new cases of AIDS and a former Nazi collaborator had bought the Democrat Party using the spare change in his sofa cushions.
And gone to war against the will of the people. This was what he modestly called his own “Soros Doctrine”.
“It is the central focus of my life,” George Soros declared. It was “a matter of life and death.” He vowed that he would become poor if it meant defeating the President of the United States.
Instead of going to the poorhouse, he threw in at least $15 million, all the spare change in the billionaire’s sofa cushions, dedicated to beating President Bush.
In his best lisping James Bond villain accent, Soros strode into the National Press Club and declared that he had “an important message to deliver to the American Public before the election” that was contained in a pamphlet and a book that he waved in front of the camera. Despite his “I expect you to die, Mr. Bond” voice, the international villain’s delivery was underwhelming. He couldn’t have sold brownies to potheads at four in the morning. He couldn’t even sell Bush-bashing to a roomful of left-wing reporters.
But he could certainly fund those who would. And that’s exactly what he did.
Money poured into the fringe organizations of the left like MoveOn, which had moved on from a petition site to a PAC. In 2004, Soros was its biggest donor. He didn’t manage to bring down Bush, but he helped buy the Democratic Party as a toy for his yowling dorm room of left-wing activists to play with.
Soros hasn’t had a great track record at buying presidential elections. The official $25 million he poured into this one bought him his worst defeat since 2004. But his money did transform the Democrat Party.
And killed it.
Next year the Democracy Alliance was born. A muddy river of cash from Soros and his pals flowed into the organizations of the left. Soros had helped turn Howard Dean, a Vermont politician once as obscure as this cycle’s radical Vermont Socialist, into a contender and a national figure. Dean didn’t get the nomination, but he did get to remake the DNC. Podesta’s Center for American Progress swung the Democrats even further to the left. And it would be Podesta who helped bring Hillary down.
The Democrats became a radical left-wing organization and unviable as a national political party. The Party of Jefferson had become the Party of Soros. And only one of those was up on Mount Rushmore.
Obama’s wins concealed the scale and scope of the disaster. Then the party woke up after Obama to realize that it had lost its old bases in the South and the Rust Belt. The left had hollowed it out and transformed it into a party of coastal urban elites, angry college crybullies and minority coalitions.
Republicans control twice as many state legislative chambers as the Democrats. They boast 25 trifectas , controlling both legislative chambers and the governor’s mansion. Trifectas had gone from being something that wasn’t seen much outside of a few hard red states like Texas to covering much of the South, the Midwest and the West.
The Democrats have a solid lock on the West Coast and a narrow corridor of the Northeast, and little else. The vast majority of the country’s legislatures are in Republican hands. The Democrat Governor’s Association has a membership in the teens. In former strongholds like Arkansas, Dems are going extinct. The party has gone from holding national legislative majorities to becoming a marginal movement.
And the Democrats don’t intend to change course. The way is being cleared for Keith Ellison, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus with an ugly racist past, to head the DNC. Pelosi will oversee the disaster in the House. And Obama will remain the party’s highest profile national figure.
There could hardly be a clearer signal that the left intends to retain its donkey herding rights. Soros and his ilk have paid for the reins. That is why Pelosi, with her access to donors, will retain her position.
The left had recreated the Democrat Party and marginalized it. Much of this disaster had been funded with Soros money. Like many a theatrical villain, the old monster had been undone by his own hubris. Had Soros aided the Democrats without trying to control them, he would have gained a seat at the table in a national party. Instead he spent a fortune destroying the very thing he was trying to control.
George Soros saw America in terms of its centers of economic and political power. He didn’t care about the vast stretches of small towns and villages, of the more modest cities that he might fly over in his jet but never visit, and the people who lived in them. Like so many globalists who believe that borders shouldn’t exist because the luxury hotels and airports they pass through are interchangeable, the parts of America that mattered to him were in the glittering left-wing bubble inhabited by his fellow elitists.
Trump’s victory, like Brexit, came because the left had left the white working class behind. Its vision of the future as glamorous multicultural city states was overturned in a single night. The idea that Soros had committed so much power and wealth to was of a struggle between populist nationalists and responsible internationalists. But, in a great irony, Bush was hardly the nationalist that Soros believed. Instead Soros spent a great deal of time and wealth to unintentionally elect a populist nationalist.
Leftists used Soros money to focus on their own identity politics obsessions leaving the Dems with little ability to interact with white working class voters. The Ivy and urban leftists who made up the core of the left had come to exist in a narrow world with little room for anything and anyone else.
Soros turned over the Democrats to political fanatics least likely to be able to recognize their own errors. His protégés repeated the great self-destruction of the Soviet Union on a more limited scale
Soros fed a political polarization while assuming, wrongly, that the centers of power mattered, and their outskirts did not. He was proven wrong in both the United States of America and in the United Kingdom. He had made many gambles that paid off. But his biggest gamble took everything with it.
"I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche," Soros complained of the Republican wave in 2010.
But he has been trying to do just that. And failing.
"There should be consequences for the outrageous statements and proposals that we've regularly heard from candidates Trump and Cruz," Soros threatened this time around. He predicted a Hillary landslide.
He was wrong.
As Soros plowed more money into the left, its escalating radicalism alienated more of the country. Each “avalanche” was a reaction to the abuses of his radicals. It wasn't Trump or Cruz who suffered the consequences. It wasn't even his own leftists. Rather it was the conservative and eventually the moderate wings of the Democrat party who were swept away by his left-wing avalanches.
The left did not mourn the mass destruction of the moderates. Instead it celebrated the growing purity of the Democrats as a movement of the hard left. It did not notice or care that it was no longer a political force outside a limited number of cities. It anticipated that voters would have no choice but to choose it over the "extremist" Republicans.
It proved to be very, very wrong.
George Soros spent a fortune to turn a national party favorable to the left into an organization that has difficulty appealing to anyone not on the left. He wanted to control a country he did not understand. And, as the left so often does, he achieved his goals and in doing so destroyed them.
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Not so sure that wasn’t , or should I say ‘isnt’,part of his plan.
Can’t we look the other way and let the Russians sneak in and kidnap him?
I love the comparison to the “James Bond Villain”.
Dr. Evil from Austin Powers was an unwitting caricature of George Soros!
It will not require very much for this to happen. Russia will get a tradeoff from Trump. The Art of the Deal.
Bump!
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His kids are worse.
Soros is 86. One of these days he is going to die and go to Hell. But you Democrat fools are going to be left holding the bag for his handiwork for decades to come.
FOr whatever the Russians did or did not do, SOROS did and publicly an should be punished before any Russians..............
I have posted often on the danger George Soros represents.
The problem is that all the levers of political power , with few exceptions, are in his hands. The article points out how he controls Democrat money through a series of 527 sham entities. It is not just Soros' own money or the money of his own trusts, he now has control of virtually all the money flowing into the Democrat party. In addition, he's well on his way to controlling most of the money that gets donated to political campaigns or is detoured into 527s. That means the pickings get smaller for Republicans.
Combine this with the ability of Obama to shake down our major corporations and trade organizations out of sheer fear of what he will do to them, and you have even more money diverted. It need not be said that in addition to a financial shakedown, Obama has already demonstrated his ability to move these entities into his support column even when the support his radical program is clearly not in their interests. One need only name AARP or the American Medical Association to give an idea of the grave threat presented on this front.
But the threat posed by Soros is not limited to the money he controls. By virtue of his control of MoveOn.org and Huffington Post and so forth, he has a great deal of power over the Internet. We already know that Obama does not need much power over the conventional media outlets because he already has it.
As demonstrated in the last election, the Soros groups can put boots on the ground in virtually any precinct he chooses and he has great resources to mobilize a rent-a- mob to disrupt town hall meetings and to discredit tea party patriots by making them look aggressive.
We have seen bosses controlling patronage and ethnic groups throughout American history but the scope of their influence has usually been limited to cities or occasionally to a state or even a few states. In Soros we see the embodiment of bossism spanning the entire nation.
When one combines this kind of power in a Marxist in a world in which there is virtually no institutional check or balance, the threat to the republic is apparent. How much can one expect of Blue Dog Democrats when they know that they will get no money for their own campaign but instead will be confronted in a primary challenge by a well-funded Soros loyalist and overwhelmed by a wave of foot soldiers? Just as no one could stand up to the bosses of Tammany Hall, no elected official will be able to stand up against George Soros if he decides to turn the screws.
Yeah, the Soros-funded Left has dug the grave of the Democrat Party. Obama gave them a false sense of security, but all throughout his term, the Democrats were being hollowed out. Then with the defeat of Hillary, they would in theory be waking up to their utter devastation at the hands of Trump, but there really is no “they” there left outside of the Soros minions, so no one to wake up. Tim Ryan was their last chance at sanity . . .
If ever there was any doubt that Obama was controlled by Soros this week took it all away. Soros, the Nazi, the Jew hating Jew got just what he wanted.
My state went for Trump and re-elected a worthless Democrat Governor.
Wall Street, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley.
The Democrats were at war with themselves for years.
It's possible that Soros money changed the Clintons, but Pelosi was Sorosian even before Soros came on the scene.
A lot of the party was headed towards this years debacle for a long time.
Great read thanks
Yep!
Trump can put an end to the Democrat Party.
Libya.
Investigate the actions of Obama, Hillary and Soros in overthrowing the government of Libya.
Even the government employees flinch at the thought of Hillary ordering someone to shove a bayonet up Qadaffi’s behind.
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