Posted on 11/06/2024 12:24:22 PM PST by MtnClimber
Ever since the rise of Barack Obama, Democrats have seen themselves as destined to rule. With his presidential victory in 2008, they created a seemingly unbridgeable political empire. With the support of big cities, young progressives, universities, the media and an ever-expanding government workforce, the party – led by what Roger Kimball calls ‘the Syndicate’ – imagined it could stay in power indefinitely.
Given their advantages and the clear vulnerabilities of their only serious opponent, Donald Trump, Democrats should have expected an easy time in this presidential election. Instead, Trump won a convincing victory last night, with Republicans also winning control of the Senate and possibly the House of Representatives. Worse yet, from the progressive point of view, Kamala Harris was forced during the campaign to bow to Trumpian views on trade and immigration, a clear sign of her political weakness.
How did this happen? Much of it has to do with the imperiousness of the Democrats. The party elite and their financial backers live in a rarefied world where only their values and interests seem to matter. As Jacob Siegel has shown, they and their analogues in Europe are so convinced of their rectitude that they have grand plans to control the media and democracy for the long-run, through the control of election rules, mainstream media and, most critically, big social-media platforms.
These elites, like the financiers of the City of London or the landowning aristocracy during the height of the British Empire, have good reasons to want to keep the current imperial order. They did well financially under the rule of their frontman, Joe Biden, even if most Americans have not gained much since 2020. As even Ezra Klein, one of the few perceptive pundits in progressive media, has noted, these elites rule over the party with a ruthless sense of their dominion, while ‘ignoring the sentiments of legions of Democratic voters’. Only when they had no choice, did they whack Biden, despite his obvious frailty and plummeting popularity. They then gave the rank and file no role in the selection of the presidential candidate.
To these Democratic imperialists, like their equally deluded British antecedents, politics need only serve the most deserving – that is, themselves. They are adept at virtue-signalling about left-sounding causes, but are loyal to their class interests in all things. They are ultra-progressive on social and cultural issues, but are not keen on redistributing income or wealth, and are hostile to any constraints on their market power.
Of course, some in the oligarchy, notably Elon Musk, backed Trump in this election. But the bulk of the big money bankrolled Harris. When Musk began supporting Trump, the Atlantic – owned by Harris’s good buddy, Laurene Jobs – accused the X owner of ‘bend[ing] the knee’ to ‘strongman politics’. I guess when oligarchs like LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, George Soros or Bill Gates get the cheque book out for Harris, they are acting for purely selfless, public-spirited reasons.
In its glory days, the British Empire had the best weapons and the most cash. But, as occurred in the American Revolution, it did not always know how to best use them. Similarly, despite the Democrats having near total control over the media, and raising three times as much money as the Trump campaign, their candidate failed to make much of an impression on what we used to call Middle America. Instead, Harris cultivated the support of the elite’s court jesters, as evidenced by her final Pennsylvania event with Lady Gaga, Oprah and Ricky Martin taking the stage. She would have been better off sharing the platform with, say, state governor Josh Shapiro or senator John Fetterman, Democratic politicians who can reach working-class voters.......
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I wonder how many people would like to have their boot on the throat of one of these globalist elitists?
I just want to piss on their graves.
I think they want to take boots off necks more than putting any more on.
I wonder what message the Democrats will run on in 2028? Their mantra has been pure hate based on the “evilness” of the man Donald Trump, but he will be ineligible next time around. Whoever we run, I can’t imagine them hating anyone as much as they hate Trump.
I’m sorry to say - but this deep-state, woke, elitist, crony oligarchy STILL rules this land and still hold the same positions they did yesterday
They will not give it up easily
Trump’s victory in the election guarantees nothing. Nothing is off the table for America’s deep-state, democrats and everyone who has power, wealth and status because of them.
The next stage of this war hasn’t even started.
Yep. Dems have held the presidency for 12 of the last 16 years and they are practically suicidal after being dumped by the American people.
But don’t expect them to look inward and reflect on their policies and actions after the historic election.
Trump’s victory in the election guarantees nothing. Nothing is off the table for America’s deep-state, democrats and everyone who has power, wealth and status because of them.
The next stage of this war hasn’t even started.
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I agree. But other nations have been able to purge their prior oppressive regimes once the people stand up. The authority and power to divide and conquer the Democrat bureaucrats in the Executive and Judicial branches has been handed to the new Republican Party. While it will not be easy, I expect them to put for the effort that we as voters demand.
I think you are correct. I expect many deaths and much collateral damage.
For the next 4 years the evil dems will be angling to make sure Biden’s 25 million illegals get to vote in 2028
The elites figured they could throw money at her campaign and push her over the finish line. They didn’t realize how bad she actually was and she had a record which said a lot about her.
Normally when Democrats lose, they EAT their own! The knives come out! They hate losers and blame everyone else besides themselves. Popcorn anyone?
Biden wants to have a meeting with Trump. Probably to make a deal so that Trump will not seek justice and throw Puppet Biden in prison the same way Biden was going to do to Trump.
Trump should say “NO DEAL”. Trump holds ALL the cards now, and the truth (and God) are on his side.
Oh, they will be back. They will be back. Those bastards never sleep. Never. They are going to lie low, lick their wounds, but evil is never utterly destroyed in this world of men.
But let’s enjoy the here, and the now. We have two years to do something.
It was more than that. It was an “all hands on deck” panic. So much so that the uniparty had to out itself and the Bushes and Cheneys came out of the closet to support Kamale.
At the time, the media was only nominally working for The Syndicate. They covered up Obama's college activism, glossed over his electoral tactics of driving his opponents out of the races against him, and failed to investigate his associates (Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers) or his qualifications (his books, his experience).
It wasn't until Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 that the media became radicalized against the right. Once the media blamed themselves for letting their "objectivism" get in the way of stopping Trump, the new LAAP-dog media emerged that swore an oath of fealty to The Syndicate with omertà becoming the new code of ethics for journalism.
-PJ
Yes, democRAT crimes should be prosecuted. They made up fake crimes and prosecuted/impeached Trump. Real crimes done by the ‘RATs should be prosecuted using the same rules that the left used against conservatives for the last eight years. Unless it splashes back and harms them, the left won’t stop.
The oligarchy missed the ball completely. Maybe they were advised by Carville since he never made it to first base. What a bunch of fools.
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