Posted on 10/27/2022 6:39:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The party of old left-wing progressives has become one of rich regressives. And once country-club Republicans are becoming a party of middle-class populists.
Our two parties have both changed, and that explains why one will win, and one lose in the midterm elections.
The old Democrats have faded away after being overwhelmed by radicals and socialists.
Moderates who once embraced Bill Clinton’s opportunistic “third way” are now either irrelevant or nonexistent.
Once considered too wacky and socialist to be taken seriously, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the performance-art “squad,” the radicals of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and her hard progressive wing are today’s Democratic Party kingpins.
The alienating radicals of Antifa and Black Lives Matter often serve as the new party’s shock troops on the streets. They opportunistically appear to push the party to embrace no-bail laws, defunding the police, and the destruction of the fossil fuel industry.
Since none of those positions poll even close to 50 percent with the public, the Democrats routinely either slur their opponents as racists, nativists, and climate denialists or obsess on another Trump psychodrama distraction from the Russia collusion hoax to the Mar-a-Lago raid.
What “blue dog” centrists are left in the Democratic Party either keep mum or, like Tulsi Gabbard, flee in disgust.
Donald Trump also recalibrated the Republican Party and helped to turn it into a nationalist-populist movement that would rather win rudely than lose politely. The MAGA agenda pushed Jacksonian deterrence rather than unpopular nation-building abroad. It finally focused on fair rather than just free trade. Republicans now unite in demanding only legal immigration and promoting domestic investment rather than globalist outsourcing and offshoring.
In response, many of the old Bush-Romney country-club wing left in disgust. Others licked their wounds as fanatical NeverTrump something or others.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
term limits
He could have added, the Deep State Neocon warmongers are all Democrats now.
Let's pray citizens can see what the left has become...
Haven’t you noticed all the RINOs getting crushed in the primaries this year?
No argument for that all one has to do is open eyes and look around.
Karl Marx would be proud of them.
A lot of Republicans want ALL immigration to stop. We need to assimalte what we got WE DONT NEED ANYMORE.
“ Trump is not a populist, just because the media says so.”
He’s also not a Republican, just because HE says so.
The flip side of this coin is that the Republicans have systematically purged a lot of their RINOs, as they are called today. A process that goes all the way back to the formation of the Republican party.
President Andrew Jackson was so contentious that the many people opposed to him left his party to form the Whig party. The leaders of the Whigs were, unlike Jackson, pro-business.
This lasted until the Slavery issue came up. The Whig leadership just saw slavery as business, so could not bring themselves to oppose it; but the rank-and-file of the party could not abide slavery in the least. And the Whig leaders were just as entrenched in the leadership as the RINOs are today.
Well, the anti slavery rank-and-file broke off to form the Republican party, leaving the Whig party to whither. But still loathing the Democrats, the former Whigs infiltrated the Republican party and began their long march to take over its leadership.
Since that time, the “business uber alles” Republicans have had their ups and downs, but always opposed American nationalism and populism. Only in recent years has there been a populist uprising that culminated in President Trump, which explains why RINOs hate him so much.
This!
He is making the Republican Party his now, it’s the Cheneys that are on their way out of the Party.
Yes, I remember it well. It was on September 14, 1977. There was a giant, nationwide game of “Red Rover” between the Democrats and Republicans. But when all of the Democrats had gotten to the Republican side, and all of the Republicans had gotten to the Democrat side, they just decided to switch parties, since it was easier at that point than everyone walking back to the opposite side again.
“Whenever somebody claims “all the racists went to the Republicans in the late sixties” I ask them to name them.”
Another good line is to say “Oh, then how did George Wallace win 5 states and almost 25% of the popular vote in the 1972 Democrat primary if all the racists had joined the Republicans by then?”
“A lot of Republicans want ALL immigration to stop.”
Then you’d better figure out a way to either slash entitlement spending or start popping out twice as many kiddies real fast.
But the Republican base isn't with McConnell and hasn't been for some time. Neither are the party elected newcomers of recent years, along with a considerable number of longer-time Repub pols who never marched with the McConnell cabal.
Sorry but we don’t call ‘white liberal elites’ from Martha’s Vineyard and both coasts ‘elites’ because they shop at Walmart.
Democrat elites are propped up by the violent black underclass - which is why democrats support putting criminals back on the street before their victims are out of the hospital.
It’s also why traditional blacks, Hispanics and Asians are joining with Republicans to fight the jerks...
He really is. He has a unique way of nailing it.
It seems VDH referenced you in his article, as one of those something or others. We are what we post.
I agree, it is just that some of those with money, and power have changed sides. I never agreed with the R’s on many things, there is very little I disagree with in the American first wing led by MAGA.
The unions still push D voting, but there are less members. Unions have long been big business, and a jock strap for corporations.
"...The alienating radicals of Antifa and Black Lives Matter often serve as the new party’s shock troops on the streets..."
Bill Whittle said back in 2014-2015: "Black Lives Matter is the street muscle of the Democrat Party."
That is spot on.
Great graphic, dead...did you create that one?
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