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Kavanaugh Casualties
National Review ^ | Oct. 9, 2018 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/12/2018 5:56:42 AM PDT by libstripper

hen the Christine Ford saga finally ended with the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a lot of truth had distilled out, along with the evaporation of prior pretensions and misconceptions.

The hearing confirmed that the traditional JFK/Hubert Humphrey Democrat party, as once envisioned by a Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, or Jim Webb, is long kaput. In its place is being birthed a hard-left progressive movement that absorbs the ideologies and methodologies of its base and that now incorporates all sorts, from Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist hipsters to Black Lives Matters, Antifa, and Occupy Wall Street protestors.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; christineford; confirmation; kavanaugh; losers; radicalleft; smearcampaign; smearkavanaugh; trump; vds
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One of the most brilliant articles VDH has ever written. I could quote some of the highlights but would miss so much other absolute brilliance that I just leave the entire thing for each of you to read and enjoy.
1 posted on 10/12/2018 5:56:42 AM PDT by libstripper
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That’s the message that has to get out. It’s getting late in the game...voting has already started. Chipping away at the black and lower-middle class vote is a good strategy. That’s where the fear of “guilty until proven innocent” leads to lynchings (not all that long ago) and jail time.


2 posted on 10/12/2018 6:02:33 AM PDT by grania ("You don't give power to an angry left wing mob")
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To: libstripper

VDH’s YouTube videos are excellent. I highly recommend.


3 posted on 10/12/2018 6:11:51 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: libstripper

It hit me as I read that article that one of two things will happen in the next six years:
1. The right keeps winning and the D party is destroyed, to be replaced by a more centrist party of adults.
2. The left starts winning and the United States is destroyed. And I don’t mean a few more decades of “going down a leftist path”. We are at the end of the leftist road. If the D’s in their current state gain control, this country’s demise will be measured in months. Not years and not decades.

Time will tell.


4 posted on 10/12/2018 6:17:25 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: libstripper

“One of the most brilliant articles VDH has ever written.”

That’s saying something.


5 posted on 10/12/2018 6:19:11 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: cuban leaf
Time will tell.

The problem I fear is demographics.

The Millenial generation appears to have bought into Socialism hook, line and sinker. And unlike previous generations they are clinging to those views as they move into their 30's. If something drastic does not happen the slow, steady march of FReepers to the grave will eventually leave them in control of this country.


6 posted on 10/12/2018 6:19:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

This is why I moved from Seattle to a farm in south central Kentucky in 2011. The good news is that homeschooling, social media, the internet in general, etc. are undoing the indoctrination of public schools. I understand the generation coming out of public school right now are far more conservative than their older brothers and sisters.

And, of course, ultimately, this life is a mist. Here today and gone tomorrow. One gets wrapped up in its cares at their own peril.


7 posted on 10/12/2018 6:22:30 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: grania

References to the effect that Diane Feinstein had “shot herself in the foot” with the late revelations in the hearings did not go far enough. With luck, they probably will get Kevin de Leon elected, and though he is no bargain, destroys the “senior Senator status of DiFi.

But worse for the Democrat party in general, the calculus of the entire election was shifted, and districts that normally would be comfortably Democrat suddenly became much more competitive, and marginally Republican districts then became a little more defensible. The “conventional wisdom” that the Democrats stood a good chance of taking over the House, if not left for dead, certainly got a serious kick in the head. A similar “blue wave” at the state and local levels is also not all that likely to be much more than a ripple.

The Democrats lost the “Mushy middle”, and the reliance on the female vote seems a little over-optimistic.

Democrats cannot count on the surety of the Black vote any more, and fully-employed Hispanics know which their bread is buttered on.


8 posted on 10/12/2018 6:25:36 AM PDT by alloysteel (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: libstripper

Victor David Hansen is one of the most brilliant minds in this country. He is so intelligent and wise. We try to never miss his columns.


9 posted on 10/12/2018 6:25:44 AM PDT by jazzlite
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To: traderrob6

Please read the whole article. You’ll see why I wrote that comment.


10 posted on 10/12/2018 6:25:59 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: cuban leaf

“Never Trumpers had always assured their former conservative colleagues that Trump would either fail or prove liberal.”

I am not nor have ever been a “never Trumper” but I initially believed that Trump would prove to be far more liberal than he made himself out to be.

I am ecstatic to have been proven wrong.


11 posted on 10/12/2018 6:26:55 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: libstripper

VDH’s YouTube videos are excellent.


12 posted on 10/12/2018 6:28:32 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: libstripper

He needs at least 25% of Tucker’s show every night.


13 posted on 10/12/2018 6:32:23 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: traderrob6

I am not nor have ever been a “never Trumper” but I initially believed that Trump would prove to be far more liberal than he made himself out to be.

I am ecstatic to have been proven wrong.


You and I are redundant. One of us must die. ;-)

i.e. I completely agree with every letter of that post.


14 posted on 10/12/2018 6:32:24 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: libstripper

Here is the “Cliff Notes” version...

DNC = CPUSA = NAZI = FASCIST = ISIS


15 posted on 10/12/2018 6:35:24 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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I like the French Revolution imagery VDH uses here. The "centrist" democrats are like the Girondists being eliminated by the radical Jacobins.
16 posted on 10/12/2018 6:36:14 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: cuban leaf
Let me suggest a #3:

The Left starts winning, but the people in left-controlled districts begin feeling an uncomfortable "this isn't what I voted for" sense of dread. This leads to internal strife, as traditional Democrats fight to take back control of the part, while the Right watches. The Left's winning streak begins to wane, and the Right entrenches itself for the next decade.

-PJ

17 posted on 10/12/2018 6:37:53 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: libstripper

“Please read the whole article...”

I did and it is spot on. I don’t know that I’ve ever read anything by VDH that isn’t.


18 posted on 10/12/2018 6:37:53 AM PDT by traderrob6
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“He needs at least 25% of Tucker’s show every night.”

Absolutely....Replace him for that balding liberal imbecile that he insists on giving airtime every night.


19 posted on 10/12/2018 6:42:28 AM PDT by traderrob6
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Absolutely....Replace him for that balding liberal imbecile that he insists on giving airtime every night.

Indeed, that lispy guy is a loser, offers nothing.

20 posted on 10/12/2018 6:45:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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