[Publius]

My first Publius Essay in many months.

[Publius]

Ping.

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[TASMANIANRED]

Bump to me.

[RobRoy]

Publius, I commend you for a job well done. It actually held my interest and would spark all sorts of side commentaries by my liberal friends.

Nicely done!

[roaddog727]

Excellent analysis,

Thanks!

[yeetch!]

Great insight here

[Noumenon]

The crux of the matter:

Are Democrats Americans or UNeesians?
Are they citizens of America or citizens of the world?
Do they truly believe that Bush is Hitler and that this country is no better than Nazi Germany?
Are they seriously considering emigrating to Canada? Or France?
Whose side are they on, anyway?

The answer to these questions is straightforward:

Their words are poison and their actions are treasonous. They are not merely betrayers of America and all that it stands for, they are also traitors to humanity.

It's time we started treating them as such.

[TXBSAFH]

Excellent and on point.

[KC_Conspirator]

Now the signs are all in place for another great Democratic debacle, but with one major difference. This time, the Democrats are headed for the ash heap of American political history.

Not according to "Time". I just read an article predicting, yet again, the fall of the GOP.

[eureka!]

Bump for lunchtime read...

[KC_Conspirator]

Great essay. I don't quite agree on all of it. I would argue that social change did not alienate middle America. Its been going on for quite sometime and started rolling after WWII when more blacks entered the work place and Truamn desegregated the military.

I also think that leftist democrats have taken over the party and alienated mainstream America; from gay marraiage to reparations.

[jpl]

This is a great essay and I agree with most of your points here, but I think we need to be really careful in writing out the death certificate of the Democratic party prematurely.

It's a foregone conclusion at this point in time that the Democrats have no chance of winning at the national level campaigning on their true agenda; America is a slightly right-of-center country and has been for quite some time. However, the Clintons are proving themselves to be far smarter than I had given them credit for before. They fully understand that if they're to succeed they need to lie their way into power, and that campaign is already beginning in earnest. And they don't need to fool the entire country, they only need to fool a relatively small percentage of the people in order to pull it off.

In the end I don't think she'll be able to pull it off, but it's entirely within the realm of possibility that she could, and there are a lot of things that could still go wrong for us if we're not careful. It would be a big mistake for us to begin underestimating our opponents, because not all of them are as buffoonish as Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer.

[Sam the Sham]

What makes the New England connecton so toxic is that New England is the most European part of America. That is the theme with Kerry and Dean. An open desire to turn America into a part of Europe. With its bicycles and pre-automobile street grid and laid back ways and static economy and abundance of cultivated entertainments and disinclination by the Red Sox to do something as gauche as winning, Boston feels something like Frankfurt.

Another party is coming. The Perot economic nationalist/protectionist cultural conservative constituency is still out there. And it seethes every time it hears Bush talk about "jobs Americans won't do". And it will take from both Dems and Repubs.

[NetValue]

Great essay. Thank you.

[colorado tanker]

Nice essay, but I have to disagree about the cause of the Reagan Democrats. I think the split in the Democratic Party in the 60's happened over Vietnam. The Scoop Jackson Democrats, later dubbed "neocons" came over to our camp. The deal was cemented in the 70's when the Dims became pro-aborts, which began the great realignment of evangelicals and conservative Catholics and Jews, who had been part of the Roosevelt coalition, over to our side. Few Democrats left the party over race, however - even George Wallace went back to the party.

Given the multiple boxes the Dims have locked themselves into, I don't see how they get back in the majority any time soon.

[N. Theknow]

2005: The Splintering of the Democratic Party

Did you misspell "sphinctering?"

[You Dirty Rats]

I think that the biggest practical hurdle for the 'Rats going forward is the Senate. In two close elections the 'Rats carried 19 or 20 states. They have conceded the entire South, old Border States and Rockies. They only have 45 Senators (Jeffords is a de facto 'Rat) because of some older officeholders in solid Republican States like the Dakotas. Over time, they will lose more seats. Even if they manage to win the White House and the House, they have no real chance at the Senate anytime soon. Without the Senate, it's hard to get anything done.

The only place 'Rats have accomplished anything remotely liberal since 1976 and the infamous 94th Congress is in the Courts. Legislatively, they have been dead for thirty years.

[King Prout]

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[RetroWarrior]

I would prefer to call it "The Sphinctering of the Democratic Party!

[Protagoras]

A wonderful essay. I enjoyed it throughly. Thanks for writing and posting it.

It remains to be seen whether many of your predictions and analysis are spot on, but they are thoughtfully arrived upon and I'm book-marking it.