Posted on 01/15/2022 4:33:01 PM PST by MtnClimber
Send the Marxist elements of the Democratic Party back to the ash heap of history.
In the post-Trump era, the pundit class remains obsessed with the state of the Republican Party. Is it still in thrall to Donald Trump? Does it remain committed to “democracy,” as circumstantially defined by those clutching pearls as they whisper the question fretfully? Can it sustain a sufficiently broad coalition, ranging from economic libertarians to the “Let’s Go Brandon” contingent, in order to take what appear to be highly winnable elections in 2022 and 2024?
Beneath this breathless focus on the Republican Party and its electoral prospects, a much larger story hides in plain sight. What is acceptable political discourse today, and how aberrant is it from a historical perspective?
In the first several decades of the republic, the ideological divide was between an agrarian-populist party and a commercial, mostly classically liberal party. While these coalitions marched under different party banners at varying times, the philosophies they embodied, by today’s standards, would fit neatly into the center and rightward ends of the political continuum.
The modern Democratic Party retained centrist vestiges throughout the 20th century, but by the end of the Clinton Administration its moderate wing (best embodied by the Democratic Leadership Council) was a spent force. At the presidential level, Democrats nominated increasingly left-leaning candidates (whether out of opportunism or conviction) although these candidates dressed up as centrists for general election purposes. Similarly, Democratic congressional and local candidates moved as far Left as their respective electorates would allow. Today’s Democratic congressional caucuses contain very few moderates; the Blue Dog Coalition in the House of Representatives, which counted 59 members among its ranks in 2008, now numbers only 19, despite maintaining a majority in that body.
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And how to rid the deep state of these vermin?
“Send the Marxist elements of the Democratic Party back to the ash heap of history.”
Yes! And this time, understand that the evil-doers must suffer some consequences. And this time, we understand that the fight against evil is eternal; this is a battle, not the war. The “right” lost the Cold War by thinking that they had won it.
Hotseshiite.
Democrats have Always been about greed, power and control.
Control over blacks.
Control over women
Control over what youthinkk, say and do.
Don’t erase the history of what they have done,nor the price they must pay for their purposeful destruction.
There is no easy or simple answer Fighting them is going to be a grind for decades.
The problem is,a large minority of the population has become retarded, and thus embraces socialism or worse, and vilifies free markets. It is no longer a fringe viewpoint.
I think I know what he meant, but that's confusing and poorly drafted.
Sure, at some point the Democrats will realize they have gone to far and Clintonism will come back. That's the way politics works (if politics still does work). I'm not really going to cheer over it. It's just what usually happens. The Democrats are going to a lot of harm before it happens (and do harm after it happens, too).
On the other hand, if they're the bureaucratic party, the state party, the Karens' party, there's a limit to how far back they can go. If their base is to be the people who support them strongly now, it's hard to see how they win over moderate working-class people.
States that are red need to make the changes necessary to elevate third parties and marginalize the ‘rats. Opposition is good. Seditious leftism is not.
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