Posted on 01/04/2020 3:11:44 PM PST by upchuck
Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed, there were roughly 300 state and federal elections during the Trump years and Republicans did horribly in most of them. The 2020 vote was a continuation of that trend. Trump’s landslide defeat left him humiliated, and the Republicans lost their Senate majority.
Trump cried fraud and tried to whip up his followers, but they turned their backs. He went from idol to scapegoat in an instant. It seemed they could forgive him everything but losing. Many temporarily retreated from political life, the way evangelical Christians did after the ignominy of the Scopes trial.
President Joe Biden faced an interesting dynamic in his party. The political power was with moderates. The intellectual power was with the left. People of color, whose views were largely more moderate, became the crucial swing faction.
As president, Biden resisted the interest groups that wanted him to address health care first. Instead, he did child and earned-income tax credits, infrastructure, expanded early childhood education, expanded prison reform, and so on — what some writers called “reparations by any other name.” He gave regulatory czar Elizabeth Warren a special portfolio to take on Big Tech.
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HACK..
I like the alien invasion part best. Glad we won the inter-galactic war.
White Owls.
What are red blooded American patriots smoking?
Murphey is the scum bag that trash talked Sarah Palin.
It was MC Nuts who lost to Obama not Palin. I voted
for the ticket only because of Palin.
Murphey gave everyone bad advice.
Ridiculous is right.
Fixed it.
Did you read the comments? There’s a whole lot of fruitcakes who seriously believe in liberal snake oil.
An ex-RINO’s wet dream. Brooks is 100% wrong in his prognostications, so this is good news.
What is it with all these leftist Canadian idiots living in the USA. He should take his crackpot fantasy back to Canada.
More like
“Three weeks into his Presidency, Joe Biden and Vice President Stacy Abrams committed suicide by shooting themselves in the back of their heads and Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as President.
I keep telling David, don’t take the purple acid.
When your prediction of the next decade hinges on a binary event just 10 months hence, and you discount one outcome, you’re not predicting.
There are no moderates in the Dem party...
And the thought of a President Biden... it's just laughable.
Don't make me read the post!
President Joe Biden faced an interesting dynamic in his party. The political power was with moderates. The intellectual power was with the left.
Point being that the reality is precisely the opposite of Brooks's statement above.
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