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The end of the beginning
americanthinker.com ^ | Howard Hyde

Posted on 10/15/2018 12:32:53 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

The Kavanaugh confirmation is the high water mark of the conservative resurgence in America that began nearly ten years ago, when Barack Obama was elected president and the Democrats began steadily losing legislative seats across the country, first at the state level (1,000-plus and counting) and then nationally. Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), whose primary symptom before violent tantrums is denial of reality, led the Democrats to engage in tactics against Judge Kavanaugh that might have been surefire winners prior to the Trump era, however unprecedented they might be in their degree of viciousness and disregard for over a thousand years' tradition of civil justice.

It is difficult to overstate the stakes. If the Democrats had won, Trump might not be able to get a single qualified Supreme Court justice confirmed from here to 2025, no matter how many vacancies opened up.

But as any open-eyed person not suffering from TDS will tell you, it is futile to party like it's 1996, or 2008,or even 2015. Trump has carpet-bombed the old rules of the game (that is, that Republicans always capitulate) out of existence.

The Democrats' gambit failed (albeit by a cliffhanger-thin margin), and now the wages of its risk are fully exposed. It's hard to see how they could possibly block Trump's next Kavanaugh, and the one after that. Go lower? Be more vicious? Pre-emptively plant media stories of preschool perversions and Ku Klux Klan membership about every judge on Trump's Top 100 list? Prophylactically assassinate them all?

In their TDS blindness, they missed the opportunity of one of their most effective strategies: divide and conquer.

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To: yuleeyahoo

Juding from the violence that the lib/commies have unleashed, those clowns are cones of John Wayne Gacy.


21 posted on 10/15/2018 3:28:05 PM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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To: RoosterRedux

“plant media stories of preschool perversions”

Next thing will be potty training issues.


22 posted on 10/15/2018 3:32:21 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
"In what way are conservatives winning? "

The non-surgical treatment for cancer is, generally, a long slow process...

So you think we should operate on the patient before trying non-surgical procedures??

23 posted on 10/15/2018 3:37:39 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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