Since when have Democrats (and leftists in general) NOT gone low?!?!?!?
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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This lunatic thinks the DemocRATs problem is that they have been TOO NICE! Rarely have I read anything so completely out of touch with reality.
A big part of it is that Trump was not OK with all the Neocon perpetual wars.
They always double down, don’t they? It’s what happens when your fundamental assumption is “we’re never wrong.”
Since when have Democrats (and leftists in general) NOT gone low?!?!?!?
I sort of hope that Democrats listen to this nonsense. In two years there will be elections for the entire House of
Representative and 1/3 of the Senate seats.
The handwriting on the wall is that Democrats like RFK,Jr; Tulsi Gabbard, and Senator Fetterman are all cooperating with the new Trump Administration. They are the smart former Democratic robots, who have seen the people speak, who have seen the contempt that the current Democratic Party has for the public and know what kind of “pay back” will happen unless there is change.
Darn it!
That picture of the author broke my Gaydar. Its needle shot through the case, the front door and stuck in a tree in in my front yard!
SHEESH.....Faggot warning.
As Sen. John Kennedy said of Dem. Joe Biden recently,
“Rock Bottom has a basement!”
The Dems can’t go lower, they have made a basement.
Q if you are born out of wedlock but your parents Marry a few years later, are you still a Bastard?
I know a guy who is in that position. His father is in that basement.
Have they ever done otherwise?
They went on endless rants about how Trump was Hitler, meant the end of democracy and would literally destroy the Earth. They illegally coordinated with state prosecutors to accuse him of crimes that have never been labeled as crimes before. They encouraged people to kill him before and after an assassination attempt that almost succeeded thanks to their inexplicable failures. Exactly how can they go any lower?
Don’t quit your day job, Peter.
Je looks like a little b...
“typical Brit rentboy/jernalist...”
All that’s missing is the glasses, the coffee and the plaid....lol.
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