Posted on 01/18/2025 9:49:15 AM PST by Libloather
What the 2024 election results made clear is that the Obama coalition is dead. If Democrats are to have any shot at reclaiming power, so too must be the niceties and mores of the Obama era.
Yes, Democrats must get mean – ruthlessly, bitterly mean. This is not to say, however, that they need merely to cast aside the former first lady’s once-famous, now-infamous messaging mantra. No, what I prescribe is not just a new approach to political discourse but a new theory of opposition party politics.
Trumpism has corrupted America in many ways, but one of the most obvious is how voters now expect lawmakers and surrogates to be truly vicious cultural warriors for them. One can see manifestations of this in the congresswoman Nancy Mace’s deranged bullying of the congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride, the endless and deliberate mispronunciation of Kamala Harris’s first name, and the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the top fundraisers in the House of Representatives.
This phenomenon also exists on the left. The coffers poured open for Jasmine Crockett following a tête-à-tête with the aforementioned Taylor Greene, during which Crockett mocked her colleague’s “bleach-blonde bad-built butch-body”. And one could argue the strongest period of the Harris-Walz campaign – at least in terms of Democratic enthusiasm – was during the “weird” and “couch” sagas of Brat summer.
As the commentator SE Cupp recently observed, “it doesn’t get said enough, but Trump’s enduring legacy will be convincing BOTH parties to lower the bar, and that possessing moral authority on anything is no longer a currency that matters”. Democrats can either bemoan the fact the fundamental rules of politics and discourse have changed or they can adapt to it. In the four years to come, emboldened voices on the right will work to expand the Overton...
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The funny thing is that Donald Trump is (was?) not a Conservative.
More than anything else, Trump is a nationalist. He wanted secure borders. Do something about illegal immigration. Use tariffs to negotiate better trade deals with other countries.
For everything else, he was willing to deal with the "Swamp".
Instead they decided to reject him.
Reminds me of:
Gay horse walks into a bar.
Bartender says, “Whataya hav’n buddy?”
Gayhorse says, “Hayyyyyyy..”
Hahahaha. Awesome. Yes, go low. No, lower. No, lower! Keep going! Hahahaha! With any luck, these kind of fools will continue to have influence in the Communist party. Keep doing what you’re doing, Commies. It just makes it more clear which is the responsible party.
Nice to see the UK’s Deep State freaking out, too.
Note to theirs and ours: You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet...
When have Bolsheviks ever stopped being as nasty as possible?
The DUmmies at the DUmp are all for this and calling us terrorists.
You’d think democrats are angelic listening to them.
We’ve watched them abuse Trump for years, but they think the problem is that they are ‘too moral.’
That’s the face of a guy who’s just been told that his rectal syphilis is clearing up nicely.
Yup,it’s easy to imagine that all of his best friends are 8 year old boys.
The rats can’t go any lower.....legally.
Theydefamed Trump so badly that there were twio assassination attepts , maybe more.
Do the rats what to start shooting MAGA supporters, is that next? That would be a huge mistake but let their anger and low approach continue.
The rats are guilty of lawfare, violating the ciovil rights of Truimp and other Amwricans in political battle. Now thats over, they are so very angry.
The rats have a chance: Become civil or illegal. If they go illegal as in more fascism, many of them will die at the hands of law enforcement.Their bomb making houses will be raided.
We do not tolerate fascism in our country. And never will.
And the more fascist the dems become...the more votes they lose except for their cannon fodder nut jobs who have terminal Trump derangement syndrome. These nut jobs will receive a Darwin Award.
Yes. Democrats have got to change and start getting dirty. Time to start calling Trump Hitler. Time to make up lies about Trump colluding with Putin to steal the election. Time to...er...wait... Um. Never mind. Just got carried away there. Just dreaming. Democrats would never, never, never get that low.
The demonRAT limbo bar is already set on the floor at the ninth circle of Hell.
I’ve been a fan of Britcoms since Doctor In The House...which was before Monty Python. One of my favorite Britcoms is from the 1980s...The Young Ones. They always made fun of the Guardian by making references to their typos. The Guardian has,for years,been known for their laughable typos.
Wowser, he wants them to go low? Next he will be calling on dems to orchestrate assassination attempts, offer criminals freedom in exchange for making up crap against DJT, have the FBI spy illegally against US citizens, pursue lawfare against their opponents, weaponize social media and msm, and definitely start making comparisons to Hitler&co...
Gaydar is spinning like a fan.
… so too must be the niceties and mores of the Obama era. …Eh? The “Obama era” had no such things, but was full of violence and vile talk.
Really, Biden’s slurs against Justice Thomas come to mind.
Trying to put your political opponent in jail is not mean enough?
Allowing democrats are to have any shot at reclaiming power is an act of bowing to the communist party.
If the Democrats got any lower, they would be in the Earth’s core. It’s insane anyone could imagine the Democrats haven’t already dropped disgustingly low with no legal, moral, or ethical boundaries. Was the author not paying attention to Democrat actions the past 8 years, but especially in the past two years? Evil is the most appropriate word.
They freak out over language, while trying to imprison the leader of the opposition, while trying to toss him and the third party candidates off the ballot, while engaging in wide-scale political censorship, while imprisoning dissenters, while using dehumanizing slanders and fearmongering, while excusing and sometimes even cheering on violence and destruction on their side, while doing absolutely every horrible thing they accuse the opposition of doing, while promoting every immoral think they can dream up...
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