Posted on 06/27/2017 7:25:36 AM PDT by DWW1990
The democrats’ unprecedented losing streak continues. As Rich Lowry noted a couple of days after Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama’s chief legacy is the total collapse of the modern Democrat Party. In the handful of special elections this year—including in Georgia and South Carolina on last Tuesday—nothing has happened to change that. ...
Nevertheless, as the recent war on President Trump and the more distant—but certainly recent enough—debate on marriage reveal, U.S. liberals don’t necessarily need to win elections to further their leftist agenda. In fact, as most any sentient political observer of the American scene is aware, arguably the sturdiest plank of the democrat platform—abortion—became legal in America, not because of what occurred at the ballot box, but because of the tragically foolish decision of seven unelected justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. As the ban (now lifted) on the so-called “travel ban,” the seemingly never-ending Trump-Russia collusion farce, and the Trump obstruction-of-justice myth prove, if the electorate won’t cooperate, the American left well knows that it can almost always rely on the cooperation of the courts and the mainstream media.
(Excerpt) Read more at trevorgrantthomas.com ...
Alexander, Corker, Flake, Gardner, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Gardner, Toomey, Capito, Fischer, Collins, Wicker, Sasse are all Democrats in R jerseys.
When more than half the other side is advancing your agenda, you don’t need to win elections.
Good article.
Good point! Not enough real conservatives in the GOP!
I thought so!
Liberalism/conservationism starts with the role of government, not the policies and issues. With McCain, Graham and other friends they’ve moved the “proper role of government” well left. Because of that, even many (most?) Republican proposals are what used to be called liberal.
It seems almost nobody in DC, including Trump, thinks a small, limited government is proper. They may differ on where the money comes from and goes but not really the amount. And individual freedoms come from government and can be limited as “needed” rather than being inalienable rights.
We need to get back to discussing/debating the role of government. For example, the health insurance debate should start with what is proper for the feds to do, then move into how the proper policies will be implemented and paid for. But a majority of Rs in congress assume that most/all of Obamacare’s aims are proper and are arguing over how to explain and pay for them in a way that “looks conservative”.
He is correct, but the cause goes back before the modern Democrat party... whether one defines that as the perverted progressive policies of Wilson or the failed New Deal of FDR (who sadly was somewhat boosted by Hoover’s centralizing tendencies) or LBJ’s atrocious “Great Society” welfare state or BO’s drooling fascism of crony capitalism and a war on Christianity....
The Democrats (and too many Republicans) desire to destroy Liberty is a philosophical outgrowth of the idea that man is unaccountable to a higher standard or Creator.
Whether you want to point to Immanuel Kant or Nietzsche or Sartre or some other thinkers, so much of our pains today result from an age old problem of human beings wanting to be a law unto themselves.
The Garden of Eden, man.
Yeah, it’s a shame that we are having to debate what is government’s role in healthcare, etc. GET GOVT. OUT OF IT!
Absolutely true.
The leftists have many other weapons in their arsenal that the right doesn’t, or is unwilling to use.
They have the propaganda organs, they have taken over the agencies and institutions, they run the schools, they have Hollywood, they have activist judges and they have the mobs in the streets.
They also have an activist, religious fervor that is totally missing from the right. They are much more willing to take to the streets and get in your face.
The only time the right showed this type of passion was with the Tea Partiy days, but it’s totally dissipated.
How sad that one of our major political parties has decided to partner with the Great Deceiver: http://www.trevorgrantthomas.com/2014/05/the-devil-and-democratic-party.html
Once you give away a bennie, you will have hell to pay if you ever try to take it away.
The GOP calls is a victory, if they DON'T LOSE.
There's a massive material, psychological and practical difference there! Our last Presidential election was SEISMIC! We proved that we DO NOT NEED the GOP.
Muzzle the media by displaying the lies, and you take the bite out of the left.
rwood
Thankfully, that seems to be happening more often these days.
Exactly! There needs to be more passion (wise and disciplined—unlike most of what we see from the left) on the right, especially among Christian conservatives.
Democrats play to win, Republicans play to break even.
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