Democrats Are Freaking Out, And They Should Be: Even the New York Times is desperately pleading to Democrats to change their tune

The Federalist ^ | 08/28/2020 | David Marcus

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The New York Times ran an article Wednesday about how voters in Wisconsin are responding to the riots by switching their support to Donald Trump. This is a very strange thing to see in the progressive Gray Lady. Anybody who follows the paper and its politics closely knows exactly what is happening here. It is a desperate plea to Democrats to change their tune on the violence sweeping across American cities.

And Democrats seem to understand this as well. Joe Biden released a video Wednesday in which he provided his clearest condemnation of the riots, looting, arson, assault, and destruction of property committed by left-wing “protesters.” Biden said that while protesting was utterly American, these acts are not. He said they were wrong. He did not however, tell people specifically to stop and more importantly, he made no suggestion as to what government and law enforcement should do to stop it.

And it’s not just Joe Biden; look at this tweet from Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy.

This is a far cry from the senator’s remarks on June 5 after rioters burned buildings and looted stores in Minneapolis, when he said, “These protesters are not terrorists, they are Americans seeking change. They are acting in a peaceful manner and law-enforcement should be used to protect their right to free speech.”

The Democrats and some of their stalwart media allies are clearly attempting a major course correction here, but they have a problem. It’s not just that changing their tune on wanton destruction at this late hour is transparently political — a point Don Lemon blurted out on TV this week telling Chris Cuomo that it’s showing up in the polls and in focus groups — it’s that not everyone on the left is on board with the shift.

Just last night, as the party of Jefferson and Jackson was trying to get tougher on these criminals, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow had a guest come on to present a “reality check” against South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s convention speech, which was firmly fixed on the riots. That guest? Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. Yes, that Jenny Durkan, the one who said the occupied CHAZ zone in her city would usher in a “summer of love.” It did not. In fact, murder occurred there before it was forcibly shut down.

Durkan told Maddow essentially that everything is fine. Don’t believe all those images of fires and broken glass, stealing and shooting, people being harassed at restaurants, and police being cursed at by over privileged young white women who have no idea what they are talking about, just trust Mayor Jenny.

CNN went one better. Covering the “protests” in Kenosha, Wisconsin this week they had a reporter standing in front of a raging fire with a chryon below him that read “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting.” This is literally an internet meme about people pretending everything is fine while in a burning building.

Literally, this is fine. pic.twitter.com/m53Cm0BXlK

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) August 27, 2020

This is a very big problem for the Democrats who got no bounce from their Zoom convention or picking Kamala Harris as Biden’s running mate. And while polls, what few polls there are have been, are steady, there are warning signs as Trump’s approval ratings are increasing and his convention is garnering praise.

The establishment Democrats and whoever approved the piece in the Times clearly see what is going on here and know they have to fix it fast, but there is no reason to believe that the progressive wing of the party with its outsized media presence will accept this shift to the center quietly.

They too see their moment as the NBA goes on a boycott, as woke corporations bend the knee to them. They don’t care about Joe Biden, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made clear in her convention speech that didn’t even name him. Frankly, the Trump presidency is the best thing that ever happened to them and aside from Trump himself, they would be the biggest political beneficiaries of four more years.

Democrats understand this all too well. That tweet from Murphy above? He deleted it. Here’s why. He’s like a hostage.

I don’t normally delete tweets, but just got rid of one that mistakenly gave the impression that I thought there was an equivalency between property crime and murder.

Of course I don’t think that. So I just took it down.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 27, 2020

Sometimes in politics you can smell fear, and that odor is plainly wafting all around the Biden campaign. Thus far they have been able to avoid any positions that clash too directly with their far left base. But now they know they must condemn the progressives committing crimes, who they have previously only referred to as peaceful protesters. They have already started, albeit very carefully as with Biden’s milquetoast remarks yesterday. But that is not nearly enough, and right now for Joe Biden there are no good choices.

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David Marcus is the Federalist's New York Correspondent. Follow him on Twitter, @BlueBoxDave.

[Armando Guerra]

I wish I could find the image that I saw here previously of 2 ballot boxes, 1 labeled antifa and the other law and order. It was a simple but powerful image for this election.

[Rurudyne]

If you don’t shoot rioters and looters they keep on rioting and looting. Crime without consequences is destroying cities.

They’re just afraid people will start shooting Leftists who are rioting and looting... iow Democrat voters.

[sickoflibs]

I saw no evidence of that until the Trump/GOP RNC that brought the riots into the forefront.

Dems failed plan:
1) Deny the BLM riots.
2) Blame Trump for instigating the riots with his tweets
3) Say it's Trump's fault because “its on is watch”(while saying he has no business sending in the Feds to protect federal property)

First signs were Dems admitting that not all the protests are peaceful this week.

They don't care the least for the victims, not even the blacks ones, they just worry about the election.

[Liz]

WHAT'S NADLER SAYING NOW? when they first erupted, Democrat Jerrold Nadler said
the riots were a "myth"-----that the arson and destruction were more like "peaceful protests."

[simpson96]

The Dem party owns all this horribleness hook, line and sinker.

[SmokingJoe]

In recent history, every year there have been massive riots in big cities, Republicans have won and won big in subsequent elections.
Don't see why this year should any different. The riots this year have been if anything, the worst by far.
Slow Joe is one dead puppy. He just don't know it yet.

[Rurudyne]

Some who dies in the commission of a crime like rioting and looting has received all the process they were due.

[Vaduz]

Democrat party dies a slow death shovels are ready.

[Norseman]

The Democrat mayors, governors, and Bidens are the frogs and the AOC’s, BLM, and antifa are the scorpions here.

Synopsis of The Scorpion and the Frog from Wikipedia:

“A scorpion, which cannot swim, asks a frog to carry it across a river on the frog’s back. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: “I couldn’t help it. It’s in my nature.”

I don’t know if the Democrat Party is doomed to die out. That’s probably unlikely. But Biden’s election prospects very well could because the scorpions of the Progressive Left really don’t like the Dems and might not care if he loses because of all this ongoing carnage because, well, “It’s in their nature.”

And those Democrat mayors and governors are just now realizing they’re well out into the middle of this lake of protests and rioting.

[BradyLS]

“They’re mostly peaceful when they ‘protest.’ Mostly.”

[bert]

The Democrat party is already dead. The party is noe the socialist Progressive party. Only ignorant fools are still in the belief they are democrats

[Track9]

That belligerent creep Murphy and his penchant for coercion only wash if you’re used to being treated like you’re on a plantation.

[RayChuang88]

How are they going to back out unless they can convince one George Soros to tell the Open Society Foundations to “cool it”?

[Rich21IE]

They want the riots to continue and oddly enough, so do the Mayors of these broken Democrat cities. They seem to think Detroit is the prime example of what a city should look like. Dresden after fire bombing of WWII.

I say, more power to the rioters; may they burn their Democrat cities to the ground. Then they can sit, starve and freeze amongst the ruins all the while raising taxes on the remnant.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Maybe we’ll find out who’s behind it when the Dems try to control it and fail.

It sure won’t be because a “Free Press” uncovers the truth and reveals it to Americans.

[Liz]

Ct Democrat Senator Murphy BEFORE: remarks on June 5 after rioters burned buildings and looted stores in Minneapolis.
“These protesters are not terrorists, they are Americans seeking change. They are acting in a peaceful manner
and law-enforcement should be used to protect their right to free speech.”

DEMOCRAT SEN MURPHY AFTER:

[immadashell]

That was all the more true for committed Republicans in Kenosha. Don Biehn, 62, owner of a flooring company, was standing in line at a gun store on Tuesday afternoon.

If you can’t protect it, you don’t own it.

[tet68]

Mostly peaceful isn’t.

The Pitbull was only slightly rabid...?

[Red Badger]

Too late, Dems.

You created it.

You own it.

You instigated it.

You cheered it.

You financed it.

EMBRACE THE SUCK!..........................

[GraceG]

When the Rioters come to riot in a city where the police have been neutered.

Vigilantism is the ONLY OPTION!

Well if you count DEATH it is the ONLY OTHER OPTION!