The Fusion Party

National Review ^ | May 30,2017 | Victor David Hanson

[Hojczyk]

The Democrats are following the lead of the progressive media — together, they now form the anti-Trump brigade.

Is there a Democratic-party alternative to President Trump’s tax plan?

Is there a Democratic congressional proposal to stop the hemorrhaging and impending implosion of Obamacare?

Do Democrats have some sort of comprehensive package to help the economy grow or to deal with the recent doubling of the national debt?

What is the Democratic alternative to Trump’s apparent foreign policy of pragmatic realism or his neglect of entitlement reform?

The answers are all no, because for all practical purposes there is no Democratic party as we have traditionally known it.

It is no longer a liberal (a word now replaced by progressive) political alternative to conservatism as much as a cultural movement fueled by coastal elites, academics, celebrities — and the media. Its interests are not so much political as cultural. True to its new media identity, the Democratic party is against anything Trump rather than being for something. It seeks to shock and entertain in the fashion of a red-carpet celebrity or MSNBC talking head rather than to legislate or formulate policy as a political party.

The result is that in traditional governing terms, the Democratic party has recalibrated itself into near political impotency.

Donald Trump has been given a great gift in that his gaffes are seen by most Americans in the context of an obsessed and unhinged Democratic-media nexus. He is pitted against a new fusion party of media elites and aging political functionaries, who all believe that America should operate on their norms, the norms of Washington, New York, Hollywood, and Malibu — all places that symbolize, to most Americans, exactly how the country has gone wrong.

[lewislynn]

It's Victor DAVIS Hanson and he's a anti/never Trumper now pretending to jump on the Trump train.

Trump has an unbelievable ability to expose frauds without even trying.

[FreedomNotSafety]

When and on what basis was VDH outed as NeverTrump?

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.nationalreview

Does sound never Trump to me.

[FlipWilson]

He’s almost right. The Dems have abandoned policy but what they have taken up is far worse than following the MSM in a hysterical fashion. Their aim, at least of the serious in their party, is to end it. It is far too risky to allow the illusion of a real democracy to continue. It’s time to rig the system so that they never lose again. If it can be done and preserve the illusion of free elections for the masses, so be it. If not, oh well.

Shut down free speech, shut down elected officials ability to actually govern (substitute with judges and an unaccountable bureaucracy) and there you have it. Removing Trump is first on the menu. There they have the collaboration of the McCain wing of their party.