Posted on 01/24/2020 12:50:28 PM PST by Kaslin
We’ve now witnessed seven Democratic debates ahead of the Iowa Caucus this February. At this point, it’s clear that Biden, Sanders, and Warren have a legitimate shot at becoming the nominee, whereas the rest will likely go home after the first few primaries. These frontrunners are now the subject of a growing dilemma that’s undermining party unity and raising questions about its future vision.
Four years ago, the Republican Party had to grapple with the rise of Trump, who undermined Republican orthodoxy whenever it suited him. Democrats enjoyed watching Trump make a mockery of his fellow candidates and the entire primary process as he split the Party and severed the head of the Republican establishment. Little did they know that Trump, whom they didn’t consider a serious candidate, could galvanize enough popular support to actually become president and remake the Republican Party altogether.
Currently, Democrats are facing a similar dilemma. The leading candidates have very different visions for the Party and for the country. It remains unclear whether or not unity can exist between the (comparatively) moderate establishment faction of the Party, represented by Biden, and the radical anti-establishment faction, represented by Sanders and Warren.
Hillary’s shocking defeat in 2016 gave the populist movement on both sides of the aisle momentum to last a generation. Trump’s presidency will leave its mark on Republican politics just as Reagan’s presidency did 30 years ago with the revitalization of Goldwater conservatism and an America-first foreign policy. The same can be said for Democratic politics, as Sanders and Warren are claiming to fight for the American worker over the greed of the corporate elite.
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Whatever a moderate dem is these days, I can’t see them voting for the indian or the communist.
I can’t see the rabid part of the party voting for the groper.
should be interesting.
THey will have unity again once President Trump is reelected:-)
The democrat party almost collapsed after Ronald Reagan. H. Ross Perot saved them. It’s now up to Donald Trump to finish the job.
Seven?
I thought there were two or three.
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No because their voter base are mindless robots who will vote D no matter how out of control their Fascist masters get.
Democrat Party’s biggest problems:
1) It has been playing identity politics for so long and made so many promises to individual balkanized groups that it is unable to keep its promises to them all and hence they are increasingly coming into conflict with one another.
2) Their voters are becoming increasingly enamored of socialism, but as an organization they rely on shaking down the wealthy and corporate types to make shady insider deals. Increasingly their voters are distrusting them as corporate shills, while their donors are going to wise-up to the fact that they’re sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
3) The power of the traditional mainstream media to shape and mold public opinion in their favor has been fading for thirty years, and appears to be on its last legs.
4) Their bench of potential candidates for high office is populated with old, corrupt, perverse, disgusting, repulsive individuals.
Their biggest hope:
Young people have become enamored of socialism and are sticking with it even as they age. If nothing changes we’ll reach a tipping point where 50.001% of the electorate are socialism fans. And they ain’t voting Republican.
The dim party is made up of many factions and not everybody in the tent gets along. I’ve said for years this would someday bite them in the ass and that day is closely approaching.
clearly the Democratic Party is dead. Compare the current platform and rhetoric to that of ten years ago and see he change. It has become a socialist party.
It’s down to Biden and Sanders.
grapple with the rise of Trump, who undermined Republican orthodoxy whenever it suited him
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President Trump has been the most conservative President upholding Republican principles since Reagan.
Maybe by orthodoxy he meant what they do not what they say.
Trump did expose a lot of their lying and conniving.
We were promised a fence in 1986.
It’s now finally being built in 2020.
Against the opposition of both parties.
That's a killer. In order for it to work, they've all got to be on the same page, each supporting the other, whether they believe in what the other believes or not.
That’s why they’ve invented this word, intersectionality.
Trying to convince them that things which are against their self-interest are actually for their bigger picture self-interest in the long run.
They ain’t buying it.
I believe the Democrat Party will be dead when there are
no more Democrats in Congress or in charge of state houses
or state legislatures or cities or counties.
If they live through it and what is coming...
Maybe
President Trump’s Republican primary opponents were more respectable than the current DemRats.
Jeb Bush—Former Governor of Florida
•Ben Carson—Neurosurgeon
•Chris Christie—Governor of New Jersey
•Ted Cruz—U.S. Senator, Texas
•Jack Fellure
•Carly Fiorina—Former Hewlett-Packard CEO
•Jim Gilmore—Former Governor of Virginia, 2008 presidential candidate
•Mike Huckabee—Former Governor of Arkansas, 2008 presidential candidate
•John Kasich—Governor of Ohio
•Andy Martin
•Rand Paul—U.S. Senator, Kentucky
•Marco Rubio—U.S. Senator, Florida
•Rick Santorum—Former U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania; 2012 presidential candidate
•Donald Trump—The Trump Organization CEO
I’ve been hearing about the death of both the Dem and GOP for years, and I doubt that I will see the death of either in my lifetime. In fact, it has been an oscillation between the two for nearly all of my lifetime.
For instance, who comes after Trump that can rally the conservative wing of the GOP? Or is Trump just another 30-year black swan, and we go back to the mediocrity or worst that exemplified the presidency from 1989 to 2016?
The Debates:
June 26-27, 2019*
July 30-31, 2019*
September 12, 2019
October 15, 2019
November 20, 2019
December 19, 2019
January, 14 2020
February 7, 2020
February 19, 2020
February 25, 2020
March, 2020
April, 2020
* Because of the number of candidates running, these debates were run on two nights, 50% of the candidates per night.
There should be NO FUURE for these evil, god-less, devil-worshipping, anti-American SOBs. Anyone who supports, condones, approves, and/or votes for these communist POSs has, in essence, committed treason against the USA...but evern more so, against their own selves. To continue to do so means they’re dumber than a box or rocks.
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