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The Cult Of Pelosi Is A Deadly Thing For Democrats’ Future
The Federalist ^ | January 15, 2020 | Christopher Bedford

Posted on 01/15/2020 11:26:32 AM PST by Kaslin

The cult of Pelosi isn't just a 'hot take' or a 'be smart,' it's a mindset through which Washington's media elites interpret the world. It's false, and the harsh light of reality easily shows as much.


There are many cults in Washington, D.C. The Founding Church of Scientology sits between Dupont and Logan Circles. The earth-worshiping Defenders of Wildlife are just a few blocks south, their entrance guarded by imposing bronze grey wolves. One block north, the Human Rights Campaign dispatches starry-eyed adherents with clipboards to recruit followers, and to the east lie the child-harvesters. Two blocks away, the remnants of the Church of Her keep Hillary’s flame burning; and crowning them all: the mighty cult of SoulCycle.

But today, the city has another faith working reporters into a fervor, and her name is Nancy Pelosi.

Reporters have called her “basically invincible,” a “political grandmaster,” an “icon of female power,” a “rockstar” and, time and time again, “a fashion icon.” Reporters have venerated “her clothes, her hand gestures, her facial expression” and placed a halo ’round her head. Activists projected her image on San Francisco’s city hall and a D.C. restaurant dedicated a Christmas tree in her honor.

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing to President Donald Trump what no one else has in the nearly three years since he took office: She’s making him squirm.” Business Insider pronounced two days after Christmas. “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to accomplish what no one else has even tried in the past three years: sticking it right back to Trump,” RawStory echoed the same day in an article that includes “squirm” in its headline.

Time magazine featured her portrait on its cover this month for the third time, with a dramatic, black and white photograph: “Why Nancy Pelosi Went All In Against Trump.” It’s just the latest in a months-long chorus of praise rising for her apparent victory against President Donald Trump. It’s a chorus gulped down by reporters, talking heads, staffers, and activists across the city.

The vote to impeach the president — which won’t result in his removal from office and was achieved on a strictly partisan line plus two no’s, a “present” and an actual defection from her party — was sandwiched between the the speaker’s House passing funding for the president’s wall then his long-touted trade deal. Then Pelosi held the articles for weeks, demanding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bend to her will. The press lauded her strategy and waited dutifully for the senator to crack, but of course he did not, as was easily predictable to anyone with even a limited understanding of who actually had the leverage and how McConnell has ruled his chamber.

The weeks over which the speaker fought her losing battle weren’t dominated by coverage of McConnell’s terrible meanness, as she might have hoped, but instead lost to Christmas, the New Year, and then the president’s wins against Iran. And what now?

As the impeachment trial arrives in the Senate in time for the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, it isn’t looking like a win for Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who will lose invaluable campaign time on a trial for which everyone already knows the end. One Washington Post columnist thinks this a master stroke by Pelosi, although his contention is based entirely on a questionable belief that Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Vice President Joe Biden are the men most fit to defeat the president in a general election.

But Washington’s minority power isn’t simply about the public opinion battles and the next election — a minority can actually win decisive victories. When President Barack Obama handily won his 2012 re-election and gained two seats in the Senate, giving his majority more room to maneuver, Washington held its breath for the swathe of progressive victories sure to follow.

Sequester was doomed and amnesty for illegal immigrants was the talk of both parties; bipartisan hawks were prepared to give their blessing to American intervention in Syria and the terrible murder of children at Sandy Hook had guaranteed the passage of bipartisan gun-control. None of those happened, though, because three conservatives, Sens. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul, won victory after victory “by shifting public opinion and navigating parliamentary procedure.”

Reid, then routinely lauded as a master of the Senate by political reporters trading propaganda for access to power, was powerless to stop these three Republicans despite his electoral gains and the popularity of his president. Student loan bailouts, climate legislation, and any other host of leftist dreams would see no sunshine that decade.

This is what controlling from the minority looks like, but when they saw it the Washington press corps dismissed and derided it. Today, they’ve almost certainly forgotten it, moving on to heap praise on a losing Democratic “fashion icon” despite not a single recent, actualized and concrete victory to her name.

Then, these are the same people who looked at the images of President Trump giving a widely lauded speech to the nation from the seat of power and chose to instead see a display of Pelosi’s awesome leverage over him. That very night, Pelosi pointed her clapping toward Democrats sitting on their hands while the president lauded gains in black and Hispanic employment, signalling for them to stand and not fall for a political trap. What did Washington reporters see? Her invisible power over a president they believe she can rule like a child.

The cult of Pelosi isn’t just a “hot take” or a “be smart,” it’s a mindset through which Washington’s media elites interpret the world. It’s false, and the harsh light of reality easily shows as much. But reality is powerless to stop “the conventional wisdom” of the Beltway.

Overconfidence is a slow-working, terrible thing. It may lead its wearers to see an “invincible” “grand master” when there is none. And more, to see victory ahead when there is only defeat.


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1 posted on 01/15/2020 11:26:32 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

They misspelled a word in the title...................


2 posted on 01/15/2020 11:27:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Kaslin

Pelosi is not their future.

AOC is their future.

Equally deadly if not more so.


3 posted on 01/15/2020 11:29:21 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Red Badger

Which word?


4 posted on 01/15/2020 11:32:33 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Red Badger

Haha. N-aughty, naughty...


5 posted on 01/15/2020 11:33:04 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Kaslin

cult


6 posted on 01/15/2020 11:33:24 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Kaslin
If there's ever a democrat President elected in the future we need to start impeachment processes the day he/she/it is sworn into office.
7 posted on 01/15/2020 11:33:36 AM PST by GOPJ (Glacier National Park removed signs warning glaciers will be gone by 2020 (ten year old sign))
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To: Red Badger
They misspelled a word in the title...................

I see what you did there....

See You Next Tuesday
8 posted on 01/15/2020 11:35:55 AM PST by Karma_Sherab
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To: GOPJ

. . . but of course that could only occur in the second half of said president’s term, since Democrats would control the House in that scenario.


9 posted on 01/15/2020 11:40:37 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: shelterguy

huh?


10 posted on 01/15/2020 11:46:55 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Think about it for awhile.


11 posted on 01/15/2020 11:48:51 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Kaslin

The left likes to say Trump is arrogant and full of himself. Perhaps, but I’ll be damned if he holds a candle to Pelosi. This woman thinks she is the Queen of America. The arrogance and entitlement that spill from her demeanor is astounding.


12 posted on 01/15/2020 11:50:08 AM PST by FlipWilson
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13 posted on 01/15/2020 11:52:53 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: shelterguy

what word would you have used?


14 posted on 01/15/2020 12:03:50 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Red Badger
They misspelled a word in the title...................


15 posted on 01/15/2020 12:04:59 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Democrats sue Iran over the right to use "Death to America" as their 2020 campaign slogan!)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

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16 posted on 01/15/2020 12:06:04 PM PST by bitt (A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY)
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To: Bon mots

Schiffless and his DC Squat Squad!

Thanks to Bon mots!

17 posted on 01/15/2020 12:08:56 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Democrats sue Iran over the right to use "Death to America" as their 2020 campaign slogan!)
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To: Kaslin

HEHEHEHE................


18 posted on 01/15/2020 12:11:19 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

AOC is their future.

Exactly. AOC is rallying against the built in money arrangements in the DNC.

https://theblacksphere.net/2020/01/aoc-refuses-to-pay-up/

Nancy Satan is yesterday’s news.


19 posted on 01/15/2020 2:06:28 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

Remember..their goal is POWER and more POWER for the sake of POWER. Everything is directed toward that end. They have been at it since the days of Woodrow Wilson.


20 posted on 01/15/2020 2:15:36 PM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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