Posted on 09/03/2019 7:19:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Doug Ogden doesn’t know what to do.
The 75-year-old retired law enforcement officer is disgusted by President Donald Trump. But he can’t imagine voting for a Democrat in 2020, either. A self-described independent in South Carolina, Ogden doesn’t recognize the modern-day Democratic Party.
“The state of the Democratic Party is wild against wilder,” says Ogden, standing with his arms crossed at a recent town hall meeting for Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg. “It scares me.”
At the core of Ogden’s concern is a broader question about the direction of the Democratic Party and its values in the age of Trump. While Democrats are united in their fierce opposition to the Republican president, most party leaders agree that Democrats will not reclaim the White House simply by running against him; they must give people something to vote for.
But nine months into the first year of the 2020 campaign season, Democrats are no closer to resolving the big questions dividing their party by race, generation and ideology than they were on the day of Trump’s inauguration. And as the campaign enters a new heightened phase after Labor Day when far more voters begin paying closer attention, there is increasing pressure on Democrats to answer the questions behind their extended identity crisis. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
What a nice bunch of people to have move in to Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Not.
Doug - Embrace the Trump!
As it now stands, the Democrat Party is a dangerous organization. Mainly for the fact that evil hates good. And when evil hates something, they try with all their might to destroy is. As Cain murdered Abel.
“All decent people are disgusted by him.”
“Decent” people are not necessarily honest people. They have merely compromised their principles sufficiently to be somehow “comfortable” and have mistaken that for “decency”.
Is the “disgust” for the results that Trump has consistently met or even exceeded on many levels, or is it somehow to do with the mannerisms and the “unPresidential” behavior they have detected on the part of the current occupant of the Oval Office?
Donald J. Trump can be rude, crude, or even sometimes a little bit lewd, but for all that, he is pretty darned shrewd. And “shrewd” Trumps everything else, in my notion.
If you want to live in hellholes like Newark , Detroit, the South Side of Chicago, and most of Baltimore - - with leaded water, vast corruption, daily murders and shootouts - vote democrat...
If you want to live in a sane country without illegals working under the table pulling down wages, without PC insanity, without idiots thinking plastic drinking straws are the biggest danger to the 'earf' - then vote Republican.
The Associated Press declared war on the American people in 2013:
https://blog.ap.org/announcements/illegal-immigrant-no-more
At this point they are best understood as enemy propaganda.
"PDJT is successfully draining desperate Democrats out of the swamp."
There! Fixed it.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
Well, we handed them all three and we alll have watched how they botched that.
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It’s all about the Bush Plan for North Mexico.
The GOP has spent the last 30 years actively preventing the citizens from stopping the illegal alien inundation.
The “comments” section to this article was great.
Oh, wait, AP eliminated the comments section.
I guess they didn’t want any deplorables speaking out of turn....
And exposing them for their true agenda -- which was hidden in the past.
Biden, Warren, Harris, Spartacus. They would never tell you their true policies until Trump came along and teased it out of them. Every one of them is now exposed to be as Communist and wacko as Crazy Bernie and the Squad.
Go President Trump!
The 75-year-old retired law enforcement officer is disgusted by President Donald Trump. But he can’t imagine voting for a Democrat in 2020, either.
IOW, the Associated Press' partisan media shill Steve Peoples is trying to push the idea that, if only the Pubbies would dump President Trump, a whole bunch of disaffected Demwits would immediately support the Republican Party.
Thanks Olog-hai.
Democrats having an "identity crisis" misses the point.
The Democrats are tripping over themselves to support the most radical agenda since Stalin. The middle no longer exists in the Dem party. It's full throttle Leftist Marxist. And Biden has joined in.
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And don't forget the Electoral College, that's the core white supremacist pro-slavery male dominated sexist mechanism (·) that put President Trump into office in the first place!!! /sarc
Politics is always and only about power. So, I'll quibble -- none of the positions favored by Demagogic Party candidates, elected officials, and regulars has one thing to do with truth or justice or fairness.
Trump forced the hand of home grown communists... Trump winning wasn't in their plan.
You're right pundit - there isn't a 'middle' in the democrat party - it's full tilt commie.
Hey cgbg,
I agree with that the AP stylebook change is a major historic pivot. Is there any hope after we’ve got rid of newspapers?
Probably not.
Loved reading your FR profile — and great, I’ve got a bunch of short stories and books to get my hands on. Thanks, FRiend.
And your comments on FR that you posted in 2002 are prescient! You described the UniParty and GOPe to a T.
“Independent” = Liberal that’s ashamed to admit it.
The only identity the democrats have is what satan allows them!
An identity crisis is, when no one knows who you are.
Problem for the leftists is, we know who they are.
I think this is the continuation of the Obama and Hilary agenda. This is what they wanted to do and then that mean old Donald Trump destroyed their Marxist utopian visions. Boo hoo.
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