Posted on 02/02/2018 2:50:19 AM PST by markomalley
The government shutdown is over, but its end marks the beginning of a new era of American politics. While the political world spent the last year fixated on President Trump, the under-reported story is the incredible transformation of the Democratic Party, something that will have a big impact on both policy debates and electoral politics.
In short, Democrats have evolved into a base-driven, radicalized party, embracing not only an increasingly liberal platform but also the kind of burn-it-down tactics that repel independent, educated, and suburban voters.
It’s a shift that’s come so fast and furiously that voters are largely unaware of it, and Democratic political operatives hoping to win congressional races want to keep it that way. Democrats would like the 2018 midterms to be a national referendum. Targeted Republicans in battleground areas, however, should not simply play defense. They should contrast their accomplishments with the increasingly liberal Democratic Party. They should make 2018 a choice.
Just look at the Left today. The moderate, pro-business Blue Dogs are nearly extinct. Of the 32 Democrats in the House of Representatives who voted against Obamacare in 2009, only two of them are still in Congress today. This is not your father’s Democratic party. The recent government shutdown should make that clear. For anyone paying attention, this is now the party of Elizabeth Warren. If Democrats win back the House majority this fall, Maxine Waters is in line to become the next chair of the House Financial Services Committee. If Democrats take back the Senate, Bernie Sanders will become chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
More than a third of the Democratic conference in the Senate has endorsed Sanders’ “Medicare for All” bill, which would cost, according to some estimates, $32 trillion over 10 years. In the House, the swing to the far Left is even more striking with more than 60 percent of Democrats endorsing John Conyers’ “Medicare for all” bill to nationalize health insurance.
This is not a straw man argument or conservative fear mongering. Single-payer healthcare is undeniably the stated policy position of the majority of the House Democratic conference.
Shining a light on the liberalism of modern Democrats will be critical for Republicans holding the House. Historically, the incoming president’s party gets clobbered in the first midterm election, losing on average 32 seats in the House. Voter enthusiasm and participation are typically higher among an energized angry opposition than they are among the content ruling party. For example, in 2010, the House Democrat majority lost a whopping 63 House seats. The current Republican advantage in the House stands at 24 seats.
The liberal enthusiasm has, however, proven helpful in one key way for Republicans. Across the country we’re seeing packed Democratic primaries with multiple candidates all trying to move one step to the left of each other. In Virginia, one Republican-held seat has 10 Democratic challengers in the primary. When they’re all settled, it will not be hard to make the case that Democrats are the party of single-payer healthcare and higher taxes.
But defining the other side is not enough. Republicans should promote their record of accomplishments (tax cuts most especially) and tout the strong economy. Already more than 3 million workers have received bonuses as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Energy costs are coming down thanks to this reform. Jobs, profits, and companies themselves are already coming home. Most importantly, more than 90 percent of workers will soon see more in their paycheck, with the average family seeing a tax cut of more than $2,000 this year. Since the tax cuts passed, their popularity has risen dramatically alongside soaring economic confidence.
Of course, not a single Democrat in Congress voted for these tax cuts. There’s no room for lower taxes, economic expansion, and free market principles in today’s Democratic Party. By focusing on the stark contrast between the Republican policy agenda and the one outlined by today’s Democratic Party, Republican candidates will be well equipped to stem the tide this fall.
I think one needs to through in Mad Maxine and Drooling Joey to the mix. The three define today’s Democrats.
I think one needs to through in Mad Maxine and Drooling Joey to the mix. The three define today’s Democrats.
The bulk of the Democrats you see now...are like characters out of some WWE-wrestling contest....all seemingly fake and made-up.
They fail to realize that once the satanic globalists are finished using them on this stage, they will be trashed and tortured like all the other victims of satan and hell. That's what he does.
They seem to think that they will be taken care of by the king of hell as his special elite assistants. That's not his value nor his style. Every entity and human under his sway suffers--greatly--particularly sooner or later.
He is, after all, a great deceiver and liar.
The DIMRATS love to lie and deceive--they will realize how wholesale they have been played the fools, lied to & deceived by their pied piper from hell.
Just like those who practice voodoo and witchcraft often end up destroyed themselves. They find out too late that the devil and unclean spirits hate them as much as they hate everyone else.
Just like those who practice voodoo and witchcraft often end up destroyed themselves. They find out too late that the devil and unclean spirits hate them as much as they hate everyone else.
They will throw Kamala at us in 15 months. I don’t know if they will roust Liawatha from her drum circle.
While the enemedia is trying to fabricate the same air of inevitability around Harris that they tried around Hillary, in the end if things are going well she (or any other Dem) has no chance.
I’m glad that Trump was able to weather the 11th hour BS thrown at him in the 2016 race, because I suspect this will become the norm going forward - and it was nice to see it fail.
“In short, Democrats have evolved into a base-driven, radicalized party, embracing not only an increasingly liberal platform but also the kind of burn-it-down tactics that repel independent, educated, and suburban voters.”...
Akin to “Black Lives Matter”...lost on the way to no where, not sure where they are going but making good time.
‘in the end if things are going well she (or any other Dem) has no chance.’
consider this; Milwaukee, Detroit, and Philadelphia failed to turn out the black vote for the unrelateable Clinton in the numbers she needed to win...Harris will not have that problem...
The collapse of Clinton-Obama control has created a vacuum in the party. State and local party organizations continue to exist in some parts of the country.
In Illinois, Madigan is the Democrat party; not Obama, not any national figure.
In Georgia there is no cohesive Democrat party. Putting all the outside money on an outside candidate for the 2017 special election just further weakened the local Democrat party.
Each state and locality has a different story as to the condition of the local party. After all is said, the National Party is ultimately the sum of the local parties ... if they exist.
Now *there's* a thought
Yes their is something to this. She attracts well healed liberal boomers that share her epistemology and who also have let the DNC/Progressivism become their Religion, very much like they what they saw in HRC. They vote, they are active and they donate, they are true believers. The question begs are their ranks thinning and are they a force for the near future or do they fade away. They have no bench, Harris? all hat no cattle just like BHO, yes do not take her lightly, but if their bench is like "Kennedy" that did the response? Oye-Vey....
Actually the Rat party is now simply the non-White party.
Every nation has its traitors and Warren is merely one of them.
Earlier generations would have known what to do with her.
Well put!
White turnout for Trump was decisive, and should definitely increase if the economy is humming along. I live in NJ, where people elected Chris Christie twice because no matter how liberal they were, he was better for their wallets. Trump should have the same bounce, and any gains she makes in the ghettoes (if she does - if they are better off they might not want a change) should be more than offset by other ethnicities embracing the real American Dream.
For all of the publicity about “Trump vs. Hispanics”, like blacks, Hispanics who come here legally also lose jobs to illegals - they don’t want them.
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