The Origins of Progressive Agony
In the wake of Obama, the Democratic party was a shipwreck, to be saved only by Hillary and the Supreme Court . . .
What has transformed the Democratic party into an anguished progressive movement that incorporates the tactics of the street, embraces maenadism, reverts to Sixties carnival barking, and is radicalized by a new young socialist movement? Even party chairman Tom Perez concedes that there are “no moderate Democrats left,” and lately the rantings of Cory Booker, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez confirm that diagnosis....
Obama, the Fallen God
Paradoxically, Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 and 2012 and yet helped to erode the old Democratic party in the process. …
The 2016 Election
The 2016 election understandably embittered and radicalized Democrats…
Then came Trump, who considered politics as a sort of televised WWE wrestling mat, and who enjoyed the political fray as much as he had when he once climbed into a real Wrestlemania ring with Vince McMahon.…
The System
Progressives soon woke up to the reality that without power they were unable to stop Trump, and so they embraced any desperate means necessary to trap the ogre. …
The Supreme Court
More exasperating still was the loss of the Supreme Court, the last bastion of elite brilliance and superior morality…
Thank you, StormFlag. VDH gives a great summary of the past year.
maenad: "(in ancient Greece) a female follower of Bacchus, traditionally associated with divine possession and frenzied rites."
(See also, Democrat.)