The author also points out that the establishment Republicans hate Trump almost as much as the Dems, because he is upsetting their apple cart as well.
And, oh by the way, he also lambastes the media for being partisan hacks as well.
For the Chicago Tribune, an actually fairly insightful piece (if you bother to read the whole thing)
The progressives are doing to the Democrats as we did to the Republicans. We just do it in a more civil way.
I have a hard time fallowing how the hard left has any chance at power. People eventually become tired of hysteria when the things they believe are happening don’t happen. Tump’s not Hitler and no amount of yelling that he is will make him so.
“This president [Trump] has given them [hard left] an opportunity to reach for one thing they didn’t have during the last eight years of Barack Obama:
Power.”
The most incredibly stupid comment anyone could write.
The progressives are doing to the Democrats as we did to the Republicans. We just do it in a more civil way.
But the reason they screwed up is because the let the establishment rats do to them in 2016 what the establishment did to us in 2012. Bernie was their candidate. Mod Dems would have gotten behind Bernie but leftists wouldn’t get behind Hillary.
Too bad, so sad.
Well if you gotta read it first what the hell’s the point in commenting? /s
A good piece as you say. The D party with a defective front-runner and having shafted Bernie who is too extreme for the base anyway is in a world of hurt, and their media allies are fighting the wrong battle.
What amazed me the most is how far the left has fallen in so little time. Who among us was sage enough to predict this a year ago? They’d make a fortune at the track...
Kass is the Tribune’s answer to the Sun Times’ Royko (may he RIP). He’s not there yet, but he tries.
Because that's what this wild, seething game is all about now: control of the Democratic Party, or what's left of it.
Nope, I'm not buying the premise that Democrat centrists control the party. CPUSA has been the Dems' "steering committee" since around the time that the Soviet Union fell. More recently, other radical groups such as RevCom have helped consolidate that far-left grip on the party.
If there's an internal struggle in the party, it may be a more moderate group seeking to take power from the Marxists. Doubt if that will happen, though.
This has been discussed on FreeRepublic not too long ago. The general sense is the Dems will lurch even farther to the left and will be a fringe party, the rump of its former self. The author get it right. All except that part about power.
This is what it looks like when the LORD hardens hearts. These folks have chosen the road to Perdition, and that is where they are going.
The democratic party already have their brown shirts. White men are their Jews. All they will need is a worse economy, win a few elections and a Reichstag fire.
This article is simply more of the same BS where the enemedia swore for months over and over again that Trump was done, Trump has no chance, no path to 270, etc.. I lost count of the number of times Trump was done and was definitely going to take the whole GOP down with him.
And as far as anger being stoked, if the Dems and the enemedia keep up this crap that they’re doing now, which was the same crap that got Trump elected in the first place, only now it’s ten times worse, the losses to the Dems on 11/6/2017 will be staggering because it won’t be the left’s anger that’s stoked, but the anger of the rest of the country.
The Dems are still clueless as to why they lost, they are in total disarray, and still have no clue as to how to get back into power. If they go radically left, that is, double-down on why they lost on 2016, by 2020 they will be a rump party on their way out like the Whigs.
And it will all be even worse for them if they put white-hating, racist nutjobs like Keith Ellison in charge. They’ll finish the job of driving whites out of the party, this time as a matter of policy. President Trump has just pealed the unions away from the Democrats, and Obama stabbing Israel in the back at the U.N., combined with President Trump’s staunch support of Israel, will dry up the Jewish donations of the Dem party.
And to top it off, none of the above is even really going to matter one whit if President Trump gets the economy roaring again and reduces the REAL unemployment rate of U6 with REAL jobs that pay REAL wages, and not the part-time Walmart clerk jobs that make up the bulk of the “new” jobs under Obama. People ultimately care about providing for their families more than they care about anything else, and THAT’S how they will vote in 2018 and 2020.
Thanks for posting this.
It’s almost like the more “reasonable” Dems are akin to Kerensky who was overthrown by Lenin, and the radical Dems hope to bring about another October Revolution in America.
Ed
“The problem for the republic in this Trump vs. “the media” fight is this:
With the American establishment collapsing under its own weight like some mad King George, attacked now by both the hard left and the nationalist right, there is one thing that is absolutely necessary:
The credibility of the media. But that credibility is lacking, isn’t it?”
The credibility of the media is absolutely necessary?
What bunk. It is only necessary to keep the establishment in power. The establishment has lost much power, and is in the process of losing more.
We are recreating a media that may be partisan, but is openly partisan.
Long live President Trump!
Strange article. He never really gave any clue as to how Trump is going to make it possible for the left to get power. In fact if there’s any point to this article, I missed it.
I’ve met Kass. He’s a flaming a**hole.
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” “Because that’s what this wild, seething game is all about now: control of the Democratic Party, or what’s left of it”.
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An EXCELLENT article;
They are destroying themselves.
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And his whining about how media stories would be dismissed as partisan attacks, well, no duh, sweetheart.
You have run around crying wolf for the past 70 years and I would not believe you if you said it snowed in Alaska.
They aren’t screaming because he’s conservative but because he isn’t Garland.
Nothing in the piece either changes or addresses the long understood reality that every single path to power the hard left has requires disarmament early on.
Open borders was a fool’s errend and it exposed leftist operatives on this forum. Why push something so stupid and dangerous that it was bound to fail and damage them badly? Because they need a larger armed force than the populace if the populace refuses to be dissarmed.
The flood of illegals was going to give the republican candidate who could credibly address the issue the republican nomination. That was clear three years ago.
And here we are.
Pushing harder left creates a power vacuum.