WASHINGTON POST BLAMES TRUMP FOR DEMOCRATS’ LEFTISM

Powerline ^ | July 27,2019 | PAUL MIRENGOFF

[Hojczyk]

There’s good news, bad news, and fake news in this Washington Post article by Michael Scherer. In fact, they all appear in this sentence:

[Trump’s combustible formula of white identity politics] has pushed Democratic presidential candidates sharply to the left on issues such as immigration and civil rights, as they respond to the liberal backlash against him.

The good news is that the Post has been forced by events to acknowledge that Democratic presidential candidates have moved “sharply to the left.” The bad news is that the Post has a fallback position: the move to the left is President Trump’s fault.

This is also fake news. In 2016, Bernie Sanders ran basically even with Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries and caucuses. Only by manipulating the process was the Party able to ensure that a socialist wouldn’t be its nominee.

Donald Trump is not the cause of this sharp move to the left. Democrats didn’t take Trump’s candidacy at all seriously when Sanders began to emerge and, throughout the nominating process, remained convinced Trump couldn’t win the general election.

Scherer’s article is full of references to polls and surveys that purport to show this and that. However, he presents no evidence that the Democrats’ leftism is driven by Trump. Democratic candidates are spouting leftist dogma because the Party’s left-wing base believes the dogma, which for decades has been the dominant view on the college campuses where they were educated.

The ascent of the academic left has nothing to do with Trump or his alleged white identity politics. He was a Democrat when the left consolidated its hold on academia and relentlessly brainwashed college students with identity politics, the politics of victimhood, etc.

[rockinqsranch]

SHEESH!

[Steely Tom]

WASHINGTON POST BLAMES TRUMP FOR DEMOCRATS’ LEFTISM

Bound to be the very next phase!

— Donovan, Mellow Yellow.

[SaxxonWoods]

If so, Trump is brilliant.

[BeauBo]

Washington Post fake news is also Trump’s fault.

It goes without saying, that Global Warming and Continental Drift are also, all because of him. And racism too, yeah, that’s the ticket.

[gibsonguy]

Schmukie just came out for reparations is that Trump’s doing too?

[falcon99]

Note how the leftists always blame someone else for their actions. It is never their responsibility. Someone made them do it. Sounds like a bunch of immature children.

[N. Theknow]

Next thing they will blame him for turds not having a shiny end.

[RedStateRocker]

Bernie and Trump both basically believed what they said.

That was so radical that heads imploded in both parties.

There is a solid chunk of ‘the left’ that is genuinely radically socialist (communist), just as there is a solid chunk of ‘the right’ that is strongly strict Constitutionalist.

In other words people who actually understand the ideas behind the issues and care about politics the way others care about sports or religion (not that one can’t care about more than one).

And then there’s a huge chunk in the middle who just want the election to be over so they can go back to Big Bang Theory or NCIS.

[butlerweave]

OMG !! the Dems will fall off the Planet

[pasr]

took time to write this I was laughing so hard

[TnTnTn]

Bahahahahahaha......and they expect anyone with two functioning neurons to vote for them???

[SES1066]

Only by manipulating the process was the Party able to ensure that a socialist wouldn’t be its nominee.

Yet I seem to recall that, in the 2016 campaign, Secretary Clinton was almost completely unable to differentiate herself from Senator BS in any substantive policy.

[justa-hairyape]

The problem with the never ending double down betting strategy, is that you eventually run into the house betting limit.

[Retvet]

And leftists call President Trump deranged.

[antidemoncrat]

I think he is also responsible for the lack of sun spots for the last two year.

[yoe]

Our first Socialist President was Bary H. Obama; wife Michelle is still a depressing figure in the Media...her speeches are full of I am, we are owed something....

this Media will not be bothered, their owners are cowards; only liberals parrot what the socialist news men are selling...precious few readers believe their fairy tales i.e., lies

Only a man like President Donald Trump can bring America through this nightmare of silly, easily offended, too weak minded, under-educated citizens to think for themselves...hence thinking Socialism offers safety in that someone will take care of them...forever. That is called a pipe dream, probably because whatever the liberal smokes, causes that mind to be muddled.

We need an American like President Donald Trump, he fights for American's.

[Oscar in Batangas]

FINALLY! Something is NOT George Bush’s fault.

[Henry Hnyellar]

Michael Scherer needs to read up on correlation and causation.

[windsorknot]

This is the trash you’ve come to expect from The Jeff Bezos Rag.