Posted on 03/01/2017 7:15:41 AM PST by MNDude
I just listened to a few minutes of Glenn Beck, and he predicted that 2018 the Democrats will have the biggest landslide ever because we can see from the number all of the angry democrats appearing at townhall meetings that they are clearly imitating what the Tea Party did in 2010. Your thoughts?
That next generation they have coming up is so radical and out of touch with Americans they can not let them into the limelight for very long. These people can not even pretend to be good or American. Dems are in trouble, they have let the far left become the loudest part of their party and not can not make them sit down.
On a serious note, I think you and others are correct to point this out.
Where as once the Democrats were clever to cobble together a political coalition of disparate groups via identity politics, I believe they had to do this for political survival as their anti-American (socialist) message simply was not resonating with the electorate outside of the hardcore left. Thus they had to wrap together the fringe groups along with minorities to stave off electoral defeat.
Bill Clinton started this and pretty well mastered it. Al Gore came within an eyelash of beating Bush, as did Kerry to a lessor extent.
No matter how many may deny it, Obama had a built in structural advantage because of his race along with the benefit of two very weak Republican opponents.
Now, however, Democrats have become completely wrapped around the axle of identity politics and have become the Party of the freaks, Marxists, and social outcasts. The more they try to fight Trump the more they publicly identify themselves as nothing more than these societal malcontents bound together with their Marxist brethren.
I believe that indeed the Democrats will continue to decline in power and prestige. The tide is already turning and will turn more and faster as society as a whole begins to publicly transition to open support for Conservative ideas (Republicans). In this, Hollywood, the media, and academia really are on the trailing edge of this transformation.
They didn't understand the Tea Party. They didn't understand the votes for changing Congressional leadership, in part because it was clouded by Obama. But they clearly did not understand or recognize the great simmering angst of the public even as demonstrated by huge "wrong track" numbers. They just dismissed all this up to a few angry white males. So misunderstood and wrong were they that they didn't see Trump for what he represented and they consistently kept denying he had any chance whatsoever.
So the cultural elites are really on the trailing edge of what I think will become a permanent political realignment that I believe we are currently witnessing.
So, I think your comments are essentially correct in identification.
First answer gets it right.
A centrally-organized astroturf showing of “activists” at town halls has nothing in common with the TEA Party. My political activity increased substantially then, I went to the first big convention in Nashville, saw enough of it to know it was/is genuine grassroots.
Beck’s a fool.
Could be the last two mid terms were landslides for the out party. But, the ugliness of these people as seperat from the tea partiers will not go unnoticed. They are not acting as effective partisans, but as anger and that is not something that people will not notice.
Trump will have two years to make the case for his policies. Predicting what will happen in 2018 is a bit premature. If the economy is booming with more Americans participating in the workforce, the Reps will do just fine in the midterms.
Beck is drinking again?
5.56mm
I used to think that Glenn Beck was a pretty smart guy, but he lost his mind when he became a Trump hater. I was a subscriber to his channel, I pulled the plug and refuse to listen to anything he has to say anymore, he’s just crazy!
Can we deport Beck? what a waste of oxygen..
Can we deport Beck? what a waste of oxygen..
But not for Beck's reasons.
Can you give it find a direct quote? Did Beck say the Democrats BELIEVE they can win big, or did Beck say HE was buying into the notion?
My opinion: the Democrats will lose bigly next year.
I heard an interesting view about Beck’s decline from, of all people, Alex Jones (don’t laugh, hear me out). Hillary was supposed to win the election. They were going to shut down almost all conservative media (that includes Rush, Drudge, everyone). Beck was meant to be the last man standing, and was supposed to be the controlled “conservative opposition.” He was meant orchestrate public opinion on the conservative side of the one-party duopoly. I.e., nothing “happened” to Beck; he was playing out his assigned role, which was many years in the making.
In any case, the manic Alex Jones may be crazy about some things, but he’s making much more sense than Beck these days.
It’s much more likely that the REAL Tea Party will reemerge and be completely reenergized now that we have a shot at implementing many of our goals. President Trump will likely have the wind at his back if it looks like the uniparty is frustrating the long-deferred goals of the 2010 Tea Party.
I swear, that is exactly what he said! I just did a Google search on it and here’s all I could find:
Yea, like GOP voters aren’t going to vote.
You know how it is. Listening to Beck is kinda like when you keep blowing in a toothache to see if it still hurts.
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