Almost stopped reading right there.
I'm not sure any Progressives are capable of following this advice. It's in their DNA -- they are compelled to hector anyone who is their intellectual inferior (which is anyone who disagrees with them).
You mean, actually go out there into redneck America? And forgo all the cultural fabulousness of the coastal urban Utopias? And actually have to attend Fourth of July picnics and Christmas parties? And pretend to LIKE IT?
Never happen.
This constant “she wont he popular vote” meme (she didn’t, more people did not vote for her than did) is proof of the left’s disdain and contempt for flyover country.
Fortunately the Democrats are way too arrogant to take his advice.
Only problem with this recommendation is that Democratic policies ALWAYS destroy the real America that is outside the big cities.......so how is moving there going change peoples hatred for same?
DUH!
Note to Michael Barone: It’s not the DemocratIC party; it’s the Democrat party.
To personify that thought. Jennifer Palmieri needs her own South Pacific desert island and 3 days supply of water.(Too much?)
On the other hand, I hope she and her charming countenance continue to get endless TV time.
“Get out of Washington,” he said. “Go home, back to the states.” Leave the latte-soakedtaskedlatesttusked coastal cocoons. Return to your hometown or set down new roots, and run for office in the heartland — and not in university towns but in real America.”
This is advise they will never heed.
Liberals are, to a man, all star-struck morons, like children they are hopelessly drawn to the limelight. Liberals are pathologically hooked on attention, the glare of the MSM spotlight, and they think that by association with the glitz and hype of the media and their ‘celebrity supporters’, they TOO will be regarded as super heroes, glamorous starlets, larger than life characters as seen in films and on the news.
They ALL need to grow up and re connect with the SUBSTANCE without which politics by any description is a pointless and unworkable exercise in futility.
Lesson from this:
Make New Yorkers unhappy with the system. Same for LA, Philly and Chi-town.
How to do that?
Starve them out. Cut federal aide to this, reduce it to that. No more pork barrel for demorat city states. Let infrastructiure be their own problem. Put the DOJ on local corruption. Send their corruptocrats to jail.
As local taxes and crimes rise, conditions deteriorate and the quality of life ratchets down, these self centered city states will become more interested in GOP politics.
Shhhh! They’re burying themselves just fine, let them keep talking.
As long as Democrats are pro-abortion, they are rabid dogs, who do not belong in any public office. The behavior of the Democrats in the past four weeks is further demonstration of this fact. They will destroy every legal structure if it fails to give them power.
It is pointless and delusional to give friendly advice to rabid animals, as Barone does here.
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But at the moment this is looking like 2000. Back then, they acted like W was not the president and lost in the midterms. They continued on into 2004 the with the same attitude and got swamped again. Took em 6 years to right the ship.
>> ... undercuts the theory that nonwhites, tormented by oppression and seething with grievance, will remain overwhelmingly Democratic forever.
Grievance can work both ways. I’m pretty sure that there were plenty of Trump voters with grievances over how they have been treated during the last 8 years. I’m also pretty sure that there are quite a few non-whites with grievances over how they have been force fed the propaganda that the Democrats love them and Republicans hate them, yet have failed to see any improvement in their lives over the last 8 years.
If Republicans are smart, they also will not count on the “grievance vote”. If Trump does a great job, he will be re-elected with the “gratitude vote.”