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Vulgar Displays of Power
The Ivy Exile ^ | 21 Mar 2023 | Ivy Exile

Posted on 03/22/2023 2:14:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan

During the Obama years professional progressives could afford a certain smug magnanimity, confident that demographic change had bequeathed permanent lock on power. It was smarter to nudge the great unwashed toward what was decided than boil the frog too quickly.

So the populist reaction of 2016 struck many as profound betrayal: perpetrators had to be punished, examples made, and push brought to shove. What began as institutional resistance amid the Trump interregnum has become actively vengeful governance under the Biden regime—a policy agenda nonsensical as to most of its official objectives but coldly strategic as retribution against structural opposition, not just punishing saboteurs but putting subjects in their place.

Whether wrecking American energy to wreak far worse environmental damage elsewhere, printing enough funny money to substantially devalue the dollar, insisting on demonstrably harmful Covid mandates, or ushering in millions and millions of unvetted migrants, it amounts to a sort of shock treatment to corral and humiliate an unruly electorate that has been found wanting.

Yet the crass opportunism only guarantees greater backlash and further delegitimizes the actual progressive project, or whatever’s left of it. Generations of hard work and good faith have been squandered in just a few short years, trading credibility and potential for spiteful self-indulgence.

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To: Boogieman

I think it was in Michigan where the Green Party candidate (Stein) who came in 4th managed to get some kind of recount—Hillary had lost by only a little over 10,000 votes so they were hoping to flip Michigan into her column. It seems to me that dragged on for quite a while.


21 posted on 03/22/2023 4:03:38 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Fuzz

I always figured that the reason she did not concede in the early morning hours of Wednesday was that she was too drunk by that time to appear on camera.


22 posted on 03/22/2023 4:06:39 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Sicon

Let’s finish the thought.

As you say, they won in 2020 by cheating. They did anything it takes to get rid of Trump.

Now that they’ve tasted this they cannot stop. The Red Wave of 2022 became a trickle. More ballot harvesting and deliberate miscounting in places like Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Georgia. Alaska used ranked voting to set the steal. It’s all baked in now.

They’ll use the 2020/2022 model in 2024.

It’s over.


23 posted on 03/22/2023 4:12:26 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Fuzz

Sure, because every administration has all of their vetting documents leaked to the press /sarc


24 posted on 03/22/2023 4:53:19 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Evidently the fringe left has seen "something nasty in the woodshed" Ala Stella Gibbons)
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To: Fuzz

Wait, not all, only 100 covering 40 something administration officials.


25 posted on 03/22/2023 5:29:45 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Evidently the fringe left has seen "something nasty in the woodshed" Ala Stella Gibbons)
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To: Rummyfan

‘Whether wrecking American energy to wreak far worse environmental damage elsewhere, printing enough funny money to substantially devalue the dollar, insisting on demonstrably harmful Covid mandates, or ushering in millions and millions of unvetted migrants...’

a perfect encapsulation of why I cannot vote for a democrat, regardless of my personal feelings for that democrat or his opponent...


26 posted on 03/22/2023 6:12:18 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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