Posted on 02/24/2018 5:26:22 PM PST by BBell
The gun-confiscation Democrats are playing a dangerous game. Entrusting legislation to politically correct lynch mobs — which is the first instinct of Democrats after any tragedy — doesn’t make for good policy or good politics. In the feverish mood of the moment, a Democrat could propose house-to-house confiscatory gun sweeps and receive a standing ovation in certain quarters. But the desire for that demagoguery will pass and the Democrats will find themselves once again on the wrong side of the gun issue.
Even Obama dimly understood the toxic politics of gun confiscation and gun bans. After he accused Americans of bitterly clinging to their guns in 2008, his pollsters told him to knock it off and conceal such views in the softer language of “sensible” restrictions. He could have made gun confiscation his signature issue during the period the Dems controlled Congress. But he didn’t, recognizing that that would have been even more unpopular than Obamacare.
It is not clear, apart from their usual fear of the media, why Republicans approach this debate so skittishly. It is one of the few issues on which they can appeal to non-Republican women and minorities, many of whom own guns. One of the reasons Hillary lost is that the public sized her up as a gun confiscator.
Under the mau-mauing of the media, politics becomes a contest to find the most emotionally satisfying “solution” to offer the mob. But pols who succumb to that temptation don’t fare well in divided districts. To retake the House, the Democrats will have to run the table. That will require more moderation and discipline than they possess. Every time they call for Republicans to “give back NRA donations” and the like they cement their reputation as the party of gun confiscation.
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... if even remembered by short-attention-span America in November.
Get ready for cwii. Time to gird our loins.
They're attempting to run on passion, the sort of passion that gets out the voters. For a very long time that was to their advantage. It isn't quite so clear-cut these days. The working class vote they counted on deserted them in '16 and this is no way to get it back, in fact, it's about the worst imaginable way to try.
But they own the microphones and they're going to use them. Those of us on the receiving end of this hate campaign aren't going to forget who was on the giving end.
It cost them deeply in 1994. They’ll try it with each succeeding generation, until it takes. Meanwhile, they keep indoctrinating the next generation.
Modern day lynch mobs. Democrat style
A true democracy is nothing more than a lynch mob that has 100% control
But with the added ingredient of teenage fascist punks screaming “We’re coming to get you, NRA people!!!”
Ironic in that ‘democracy’’ is a corruption of a Greek wording ‘mob rule’’.
It cost Algore the WH in 2000.
Yup. Even lost Tennessee.
The 'Rats have become the Party of the non-Working Class (themselves included).
wisdom
Nah - not now - If the Dems had the WH and the seats the Repubs have, we might need to start to muster, but not now.
Don’t bring a rope to a gun fight.
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