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The Democrats Retreat From Reality
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 27, 2017 | Matthew Continetti, Editor in Chief

Posted on 01/27/2017 5:58:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

“Retreat” is an appropriate description of what took place in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, this week. Senate Democrats took a break from not confirming President Trump’s cabinet to visit this historic city in a state the president won by 40 points. According to Politico the assembled were scheduled to hear from associates of the Clinton family and to “hold lessons on how to talk to real people.” Oh to be a fly on the wall.

I like to imagine Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer nodding sagely as Joe Manchin, the only Democratic senator with a modicum of common sense, asks a group of Trump voters to explain why calling people drug-addled unemployable racist misogynistic fascists is not, in fact, the best way to earn their votes. It’s moments like these when Barbara Boxer’s absence from the Democratic caucus would be most felt, I think. Faced with Trump supporters, the former California senator likely would respond with a hysterical and barely coherent monologue involving climate change, immigration, abortion rights, and gun control, all the while oblivious to the fact that these were the very issues that brought Trump to office. At least Boxer has pizzazz. These days the role of the clueless liberal proclaiming her moral supremacy over the déclassé is left to the nondescript, soporific, Dolores Umbridge-like Patty Murray. Here is yet another example of national decline.

“Real people” are what the Democratic Party is sorely missing. By real I do not mean the members of a specific ethnic or religious or cultural or regional group but simply those men and women who are uninterested in the latest trend embraced by the left....

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TOPICS: West Virginia; Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: brock; democrats; hillary; trump

1 posted on 01/27/2017 5:58:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At some point they’ll figure out how to rebuild a viable message. They won’t be hysterical & stupid indefinitely.


2 posted on 01/27/2017 6:02:58 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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To: ctdonath2

Yeah, they will....


3 posted on 01/27/2017 6:08:18 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: ctdonath2

* They won’t be hysterical & stupid indefinitely. *

Care to place a ca$h wager? HA!

I’m all in...


4 posted on 01/27/2017 6:08:46 PM PST by heterosupremacist (views/opinions of the author posted do Not necessarily reflect the views/opinion(s) of the poster)
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To: ctdonath2

Some people need the /sarc tag, fyi...


5 posted on 01/27/2017 6:13:22 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Intersectionality needs to be deprojectmanagerized.
6 posted on 01/27/2017 6:13:52 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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The bullying, stupidity and histrionics will increase until they are ‘encouraged’ by some level of force to crawl back into their closets.


7 posted on 01/27/2017 6:15:36 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: ctdonath2

They won’t be hysterical & stupid indefinitely.


Maybe not. But they may not survive long enough to overcome it.


8 posted on 01/27/2017 6:17:09 PM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: marktwain

My, what a loss.


9 posted on 01/27/2017 6:23:12 PM PST by Pravious
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

See tagline.


10 posted on 01/27/2017 6:40:37 PM PST by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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Somehow l don’t think a recording will emerge & get e-mailed to conservative news service.


11 posted on 01/27/2017 6:41:52 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fox News tracks down John Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlJZ-G8cTE8


12 posted on 01/27/2017 6:52:48 PM PST by eaglestar
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To: ctdonath2

They cannot fake authenticity. Authentic people can spot others like themselves. Conversely, they know immediately when someone is *other*. Authenticity cannot be learned. Let them have all the meetings and trainings they like.


13 posted on 01/27/2017 7:12:32 PM PST by reformedliberal
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To: ctdonath2
They won’t be hysterical & stupid indefinitely.

I'm not so sure about that. The moderately sane, genuinely patriotic types, were booted out of the Democrat party ranks a long time ago.

All that remains are the leftists, utopians, freaks, and misfits. They couldn't buy a clue with a banker's stack of hundred dollar bills.

14 posted on 01/27/2017 7:17:33 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reality Oppositional Disorder.

The only known cure is a 165 grain, copper jacketed lead injection, at 1,350 feet per second, but the treatment is frowned upon at this time.


15 posted on 01/27/2017 7:24:45 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: eaglestar

Boy, Lewis sure had nothing to say to Jesse Watters did he!

He looked pretty grouchy to me and I am sure was aggravated that Watters had tracked him donw.


16 posted on 01/27/2017 7:25:43 PM PST by Finnwolf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How can you retreat from something
You’ve never been in touch with???


17 posted on 01/27/2017 7:28:21 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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