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The Left Can't Come to Grips With Loss of Power
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 05, 2018 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/05/2018 6:31:10 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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1 posted on 07/05/2018 6:31:10 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

They’re like children who didn’t get their way and are throwing a tantrum.


2 posted on 07/05/2018 6:35:15 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Hojczyk

I would make this observation. If 7 November arrives, and the GOP doesn’t lose a single House seat, and the GOP gain two or three Senate seats (which I anticipate)...after all the Fake News, Russian-meddling talk, hype on the immigration stuff, etc...there’s no plus-up for two whole years of anti-Trump effort, then they are screwed for 2020.

Even the mojo of former President Obama probably would not help them at this point.

It’s surprising when they sit there and try avoiding the topic of three-million jobs created, and how they missed the chance to be part of the success....is what gets me. There were a hundred ways to play out the past 18 months, and they selected the worst possible way of gamesmanship.


3 posted on 07/05/2018 6:38:19 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Hojczyk

The Left is stuck in a self-destructive feedback loop. This will continue until they lose badly in the November elections. Then I think they will abandon the political process and just turn to violence.

I noticed a trend decades ago that Leftists wanted schools to teach “Critical Thinking”. But this wasn’t about logic and reason and analysis. No, no, no. For the Left, “Critical Thinking” just means blind acceptance of Marxism or its equivalent.

The Leftists on the scene today — even the “intellectuals” — have almost no ability to use real tools of logic, reason and analysis. They never learned. They don’t see the need. They only know how to tell lies or to shout down their opponent if the lies don’t work.

When they really comprehend that their game is a failure, they will burn the cities down.


4 posted on 07/05/2018 6:41:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If you beleive the dog, then take his advice.)
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To: EdnaMode

Now there’s #WalkAway… is #WalkAway a rejection of Liberalism, or a desire to return too it?

To reject (aka: #WalkAway) not the traditional values of classic Liberalism, but the Leftist authoritarianism, race baiting, identity politics, calls for violence, censorship, blind hate of Trump and his supporters and seeming hatred of the old working class Blue Collar Democrat coalition… (once the backbone of the party). That which the party has now apparently become? #RestoreLiberalism #RejectAuthoritarianism

Seeing the number of 1% Hollywood and media celebrities spitting vile venom and angry condemning of Trump and all who support him, has the Democrat party abandoned its old roots and now become the party of the rich gated community 1% and the cheap labor of illegal immigrants? Seems to me almost a desire to return to a form of feudalism (rulers and ruled, not governed by consent). #OneWonders?

https://youtu.be/oRZJGXH7wzg


5 posted on 07/05/2018 6:43:57 AM PDT by FiddlePig (The biggest threat to your sacred liberty is to not value it!)
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To: Hojczyk

If democrats can’t keep total power they have no problem to do anything to weaken the country.
The hire people from the shallow end of the gene pool to be their moth piece they wonder why no same person trusts them they abuse the use of stupidity.


6 posted on 07/05/2018 6:48:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Hojczyk; rodguy911; Kaslin; hoosiermama; Liz; LS; radu; The Mayor; Albion Wilde; ...

Holocaust survivor responds to Liberals “If you don’t like the country; leave!”

“David Tuck, a concentration camp survivor has a message for people comparing our border facilities to concentration camps. He says it’s “sickening” that people would use the border situation to disrespect the souls who endured torture and internment in the camps, and to those exterminated in gas chambers.”

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=130779

Video at link.


7 posted on 07/05/2018 6:49:27 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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Inflexible, rigid liberalism....as democrats used to accuse others.


8 posted on 07/05/2018 6:53:28 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Problem was not Trump collusion, but an FBI-Intelligence conspiracy with Obama.)
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I watched the old “In Search Of” episode on Jonestown, the other day. It couldn’t have ended any other way. It’s the same with the Democrats, and that should be scary. Their politics are completely understandable, in the correct light. The comments from the “pundits” show that they do not know what is going on.

Write-ups like this and most of the drivel from FAUX News also sound like they are from sportscasters, commenting on a game. “They should do this...” or “They should have done that...”. It sounds like they just wished the game were more exciting.

Jonestown wasn’t a game, and that kind of ending is what is really at stake, here.


9 posted on 07/05/2018 6:55:51 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

That show creeped me out a few times as a kid.

Now it’s funny to watch.


10 posted on 07/05/2018 7:01:42 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just who are you? The Archduke of Guacamole?)
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To: Hojczyk

I expected the ‘rats to slow down over time on their protesting ,but
They are getting more deranged every day.
Now they’re in ‘one uppsmanship’ mode.
Each trying to out protest, verbal abuse, confrontation the previous.
The idiotic crescendo keeps building.

So far its been primarily verbal, limited confrontational.
But I expect it to get physical, rioting, who knows what.

Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.


11 posted on 07/05/2018 7:05:14 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: ClearCase_guy
3 months to election day. They have walked out on a plank. They are trying to get back on the ship, at least the leaders of the dim party are. They are doing it by masking their true beliefs but trying to get the focus back on them from the Waters crowd. Can they pull it off, I don't think so because Trump brilliantly has made Waters the focus of his attacks which will keep her animated. Howyer, number two, (in more ways than one) is in the hospital. Trump needs keep focus on Waters and the commie who won in NYC. We don't need support from those walking away so much so as just not having them vote period. The only bad card in the deck right now is that POS Mueller who is doing his best to lay on hit on the Donald through a loss in the midterms.
12 posted on 07/05/2018 7:05:16 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
When they really comprehend that their game is a failure, they will burn the cities down.

Bingo. Once they see their real failure, there will be riots and destruction which will increase in scale. Since they are all yellow cowards afraid of any real repercussions, they will do this in their own areas.

And real Americans will be shocked and dismayed and flee to other political parties or groups.
13 posted on 07/05/2018 7:07:46 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Hojczyk
I heard a comment the other day that seemed to address this issue well.

I can't recall who said it, but what was said was this:

Liberals believe that the answer to all problems is government control whereas Conservatives believe that, for the most part, the private sector holds the answer.

It makes sense that when Conservatives take control of the leadership of the government, Liberals would melt into irrational hysteria...and that is exactly what has happened.

It is also worth adding that because the Left has polarized the electorate, the voice of the middle of the political spectrum--that voice which would usually add a dollop of reason and calm to the political debate--has been drowned out by the screaming coming from the Left.
14 posted on 07/05/2018 7:08:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: pepsionice

I am increasingly concluding that the “Blue Wave” is a myth. As the article says, there is nothing positive being put out by the “progressives”.

Think back to the most noteworthy parts of Hillary’s campaign. Her three major proposals for improving the country were …. ?? (crickets chirping)? Instead, her campaign consisted almost exclusively of “Don’t vote for Trump, you deplorables, he’s a bad man!”

I’m not aware of any improvement in the democrat message … in fact, it’s only gotten worse.


15 posted on 07/05/2018 7:10:04 AM PDT by JohnEBoy
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I had a coworker that was a rabid liberal/socialist and my B-n-law also an admitted socialist and Trump/conservative hater.

Man, these two would begin frothing at the mouth and become very aggressive verbally just at the mention of DJT/God/Conservatism/border security...on and on.

I have no doubt whatsoever these two would resort to physical violence. Keep your friends close...enemies closer. lol

16 posted on 07/05/2018 7:10:12 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: EdnaMode

The inmates are now running the asylum.
What passes for moderates in that party placed
all their chips on Hillary, and lost.

It’s Occupy Wall Street’s party now.


17 posted on 07/05/2018 7:11:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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18 posted on 07/05/2018 7:11:50 AM PDT by Cheerio
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To: JohnEBoy

What the commentators keep forgetting is that the MSM overplayed its hand in the 2016 election. By attacking Trump 24-7 and virtually every newspaper and media outlet endorsing Hillary they led most of the public to conclude they were biased and untrustworthy.

They made their bed, now they have to lie in it.

Nobody cares about the MSM anymore—they are now well understood as leftist/Democrat propagandists—and ignored.

There is no audience of “moderates” to receive their propaganda anymore.

It is too late to walk it back...


19 posted on 07/05/2018 7:15:48 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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20 posted on 07/05/2018 7:15:57 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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