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The Coming Dem/Progressive Civil War
Townhall.com ^ | September 24, 2021 | Nicholas Waddy

Posted on 09/24/2021 9:09:36 AM PDT by Kaslin

Conservatives, Republicans, and Trump supporters should start licking their chops in anticipation, because in the very near future the spectacle we've long been waiting for will finally materialize: Democrats and “progressives” will form one of the most brutal and effective circular firing squads of all time!

The trigger for this bloodbath on the Left will be simple: after months of painstaking legislative sausage-making, Democratic efforts to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill plus a $3.5 trillion social spending and entitlement bill, will collapse in a heap. The Squad's recent success in getting funding for Israel's “Iron Dome” stricken from a spending bill was a mere shot across the bow. The bigger problem is that the least that Congressional progressives will accept, in terms of new federal funding of their pie-in-the-sky priorities, is far more than moderate Dems, afraid of being swept away by a “red tide” in the 2022 midterm elections, will vote for. The more time that passes, moreover, and the lower “resident” Biden's approval numbers sink, the harder it becomes to corral leftists and centrists into voting for compromise legislation.

Ergo, the Dems' big bet on history-making social spending and entitlement expansion is about to come up empty. The new dawn for the welfare state, for “climate justice”, and for (integrity-less) “democracy” that Democrats and progressives predicted when they captured the White House, House, and Senate in January 2021, has instead become a nightmare in which the Left cannot accomplish any significant reforms at the federal level, but it can be held accountable for the policy mistakes of the Biden Administration, and for the resurgence of COVID, inflation, illegal immigration, street crime, and more.

It's enough to drive all your favorite liberals absolutely batty!

All this, however, is just the appetizer. The main course will be the internecine fighting and backstabbing that this series of political setbacks will engender.

For one thing, consider that Joe Biden “won” the 2020 election only because the media and social media conspired to suppress any negative stories about him and his family, no matter how accurate. Biden barely campaigned, and most ardent progressives, not to mention many young and minority voters, viewed him, and continue to view him, with disdain.

Nonetheless, as the anti-Trump in 2020, the entire Left, and the entire Democratic Party coalition, was prepared to support Biden – as were many independents, because of the warped, carefully curated version of reality they were fed by a compliant press. All this, plus the widespread violation of election laws to ensure that even suspect mail-in ballots (for Biden) were counted, netted “Sleepy Joe” a margin of victory in the three critical states of Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin of 10,457, 11,779, and 20,682 votes, respectively.

Whew! That was a close one!

Thanks to his already-accumulating policy failures, however, the media's love affair with Joe Biden is already at an end. Coverage of the Biden Administration has become vastly more negative and critical, and journalists themselves have become more aggressive, accusatory, and disrespectful.

How much worse, therefore, will the atmosphere in the White House Briefing Room become when Biden's agenda in Congress goes down to epic defeat? At that point, it will be clear to progressives (and most elite journalists count themselves among them) that the grand bargain that the Left made when it accepted Joe Biden as its standard-bearer – that a familiar, if desiccated, white male face could ensure electoral victory and the passage of most of their wish-list items in Congress – was an exercise in futility.

Combine Biden's impending legislative humiliation with his increasingly disastrous polling numbers (Rasmussen now has Trump defeating Biden by ten points in a rematch), and the gloves will assuredly come off as progressives unload on the putative leader of their movement and their party. To say that the fur is about to fly would be an insult to catfights everywhere!

And that's not all. As the Left loses faith in its “moderate” leadership, both in the White House and in Congress, questions will inevitably arise about Biden's fitness to remain in office, as well as his medium- and long-term political viability. Some Democrats and progressives will promote Kamala Harris as a younger, female, and more diverse alternative to Biden. Others will recoil at that prospect, given Harris's obvious negatives, including her rhetorical stumbles and her rank unpopularity.

The truth, therefore, is that in political terms the Dems and progressives really did bet the farm on Joe Biden in 2020. They have no viable Plan B, in case he should prove to be a dead end, at least not until the primary process begins in early 2024 and they can begin to choose a more suitable successor.

In the meantime, all that leftists can do is wallow in squalor and misery...and curse themselves for not choosing Buttigieg, or Sanders, or Warren, or Klobuchar in 2020, when they had a tantalizing opportunity to “win it all” and usher in a new era of Big Government, and instead shackled themselves to a corpse, and an unprepossessing corpse at that.

Conservatives, Republicans, and Trumpers should rejoice, therefore! Our recapture of the House, Senate, and presidency may not be guaranteed, but the humbling of our enemies and tormentors is about to begin in earnest. To say that the months and years ahead will present us with “opportunities” would be the understatement of the century!


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1 posted on 09/24/2021 9:09:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 09/24/2021 9:13:05 AM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: Kaslin
moderate Dems

How many of those are there?

3 posted on 09/24/2021 9:14:05 AM PDT by Pollard (Some people like to argue just to argue.)
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To: Kaslin

Proverbs 24:17-18 (NIV)
Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice, or the Lord will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from them.


4 posted on 09/24/2021 9:19:21 AM PDT by Joann37
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To: Kaslin

Hollow succor for the shell of a country they’re leaving us.


5 posted on 09/24/2021 9:20:13 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Kaslin

Liberals aren’t a real group. They are a gaggle of criminals, each with their own looting scheme. When in power they fall on each other, just like any underworld criminal organization. They only “work together” when they are fighting a common enemy.


6 posted on 09/24/2021 9:20:44 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...violent, rival street gangs.
Don't worry though, they'll still find time to attack you and me, and the rest of America, while their partisan media shills spew DNC talking points.

7 posted on 09/24/2021 9:20:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Kaslin

Oh no, and think about the suffering of the poor RINOS as they watch in horror at infighting of their brothers in the elitists clubhouse of DC.


8 posted on 09/24/2021 9:21:43 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: Kaslin

The message Democrats might get from this is not that the far left over reached, but they were hampered by a couple of Democrat moderates and Joe Biden’s incompetence. So the Democrats will go even more full-on Marxist.


9 posted on 09/24/2021 9:24:15 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Kaslin

The Socialists vs the Communists?

I have my doubts


10 posted on 09/24/2021 9:25:16 AM PDT by Pollard (Some people like to argue just to argue.)
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To: farming pharmer

Any pushback bu Republicans will be labeled as White Supremacy and Racism. Our Republican party does not have the stomach to fight through that.

If we are to get off this path of destruction, it will only come from within Democrat factions and pushback from them.


11 posted on 09/24/2021 9:30:09 AM PDT by Max_850
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To: Kaslin

“They have no viable Plan B”

sorry, Plan B is in full swing.
Flood the country with “New Voters”.

We didn’t have the guts to kick out the existing 10 million, soon it will be 30 million.

CWII has already started.


12 posted on 09/24/2021 9:35:03 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuitss)
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To: Pollard

There are more Unicorns in the zoo than there are “moderate” Democrats.


13 posted on 09/24/2021 9:36:19 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Seruzawa

They also ARE NOT LIBERAL. Call them as they are.

Also, the Marxists run that party because Big Tech Billionaires raised in areas like the PNW and in California are indoctrinated hard core leftists who control most if not all communication in the modern world, and they funnel tons of cash into globalist One World causes and give money to violent agitators jut like their hero Soros. This includes the no border BS. The bad grifters in power including most GOP too, do as they’re told from the money puppeteers. We’re not voting our way of this. The power mad sociopaths have too much power and money and are also running all federal agencies as well.


14 posted on 09/24/2021 9:38:18 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: SunkenCiv

Don’t worry though, they’ll still find time to attack you and me, and the rest of America, while their partisan media shills spew DNC talking points.
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that’s why the media lead public lynching campaigns against the couple in Minnesota and Kyle Rittenhouse. To set examples out of those who dare defend their lives or private property against the left’s paid for domestic street terrorists.


15 posted on 09/24/2021 9:41:54 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Kaslin

“...The Squad’s recent success in getting funding for Israel’s “Iron Dome” stricken from a spending bill...”

The House approved $1 Bln for the Iron Dome....


16 posted on 09/24/2021 9:43:54 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Joann37

“...Do not gloat when your enemy falls...”

No, don’t gloat...Just stomp them further down....


17 posted on 09/24/2021 9:45:26 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: snarkytart

Liberal hasn’t meant “liberal” since the 60s. The OED needs to update the definition to include “totalitarian, criminal, looting scumbag”.

The early liberals, way back in the 1800s wanted change but didn’t want the govt involved because they feared the govt’s misuse of power. My how things have changed. Now they are nazi monsters. They are actually building concentration camps in Australia and Canada. And in Washington state.

If people can be forced to vaccinate for the “public good” they can be forced to take psych drugs or get lobotomized as well.


18 posted on 09/24/2021 9:53:12 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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19 posted on 09/24/2021 9:57:30 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: JBW1949

“...Do not gloat when your enemy falls...”

No, don’t gloat...Just stomp them further down....

Plenty of time to gloat over a flattened corpse


20 posted on 09/24/2021 10:51:11 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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