Losers: How the Party of Jefferson became the ‘Party of Soros’

World Tribune ^ | January 2, 2017 | Staff

[Brad from Tennessee]

Blinded by their desire to defeat George W. Bush’s re-election bid in 2004, Democrats allowed leftist billionaire George Soros to buy out their party, an analyst said.

Defeating Bush “is the central focus of my life,” Soros declared at the time. It was “a matter of life and death.”

Soros pumped $15 million into Democratic coffers in 2004. In 2016, he contributed $25 million to ensure a Hillary Clinton victory.

Soros lost both elections, and killed the Democratic Party in the process, Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, wrote for FrontPage Mag on Dec. 28.

Soros “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.”

The Democrats “became a radical left-wing organization and unviable as a national political party,” Greenfield wrote. “The Party of Jefferson had become the Party of Soros. And only one of those was up on Mount Rushmore.”

As his influence grew, “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. (John) Podesta’s Center for American Progress swung the Democrat Party even further to the left. . .

[Bon mots]

[Dogbert41]

Perfect.

[tiki]

Twins!

[lapsus calami]

 

 

"And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand."

 

 

[Sasparilla]

Times have changed. On July 4, 1826, at the age of 90, John Adams lay on his deathbed while the country celebrated Independence Day. His last words wereThomas, “Jefferson still survives.” Jefferson had died five hours earlier at Monticello at the age of 82.

[yarddog]

This is my opinion and if yours is different, that is OK with me.

The Democratic Party of Jackson, or of the 1870s basically has no connection to the current one. Same for the Republican Party.

Theodore Roosevelt’s idea of Progressiveness bear little to no resemblance to what the believe now.

Now that I have said it, I will not try to defend it, it is just my own idea but I doubt if I will change as I have thought it over for a long time.

[Vince Ferrer]

"And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand."

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

[exDemMom]

Defeating Bush “is the central focus of my life,” Soros declared at the time. It was “a matter of life and death.”

Bush won, yet the evil Soros continues to live.

[Sicon]

Shillman Journalism

Am I the only one who finds this label ironic/amusing?

[AndyJackson]

The Democratic Party of Jackson, ... has no connection to the current one. Theodore Roosevelt’s idea of Progressiveness bear little to no resemblance to what the [GOP] believe now."

Funny how serving the people got trampled under the mad rush to serve special interests.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[M-cubed]

Talk about foreigners influencing an election......Damn!

[lapsus calami]

 

 

From the article - "As moderates were pushed out, liberals “celebrated the growing purity of the Democrats as a movement of the hard left,” Greenfield wrote, adding the left, “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's like what a FReeper (whom I cannot recall) said on a thread a number of years ago - it's about a dozen crumbling cities versus the rest of us. And the contrast has become rather stark the more time has gone on.

 

 

[Impy]

The dems embraced socialism loooooooooooong before Soros was born.