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Posted on 06/05/2025 5:45:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I have a lot of Democratic friends who are extremely disappointed with their party leaders. They tell me that the Democratic Party is currently rudderless, weak, passive, lacking a compelling message. I try to be polite, but I want to tell them: “The problem is not the party leaders. The problem is you. You don’t understand how big a shift we’re in the middle of. You think the Democrats can solve their problems with a new message and a new leader. But the Democrats’ challenge is that they have to adapt to a new historical era. That’s not something done by working politicians who are focused on fund-raising and the next election. That’s only accomplished by visionaries and people willing to shift their entire worldview. That’s up to you, my friends, not Chuck Schumer.”
There have been only a few world-shifting political movements over the past century and a half: the totalitarian movement, which led to communist revolutions in places like Russia and China and fascist coups in places like Germany; the welfare state movement, which led in the U.S. to the New Deal; the liberation movement, which led, from the ’60s on, to anti-colonialism, the civil rights movement, feminism and the L.G.B.T.Q. movement; the market liberalism movement, which led to Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and, in their own contexts, Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev; and finally the global populist movement, which has led to Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Brexit and, in their own contexts, Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
The global populist movement took off sometime in the early 2010s. It was driven by a comprehensive sense of social distrust, a firm conviction that the social systems of society were rigged, corrupted and malevolent.
In 2024, I wrote about an Ipsos poll that summarized the populist zeitgeist...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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How patronizing. How do you know what I think? You’re a character from the Capital in Hunger Games
the Trump Musk spat has sucked all of the oxygen out of Rat World — the Rats are insignificant
The Rats have been adrift ever since they abandoned labor, embraced free trade, women’s rights, and now homosexual wokeism. They are ruled by elitists, who paid off the urban machines to steal elections for them, but now that model no longer works, and is getting exposed. Black men in particular have woken up to the reality that the Rats are a women’s party, and skin color no longer matters much to unify them.
‘Ef ‘em. I enjoy watching their collapse. Hopefully, more will go to jail.
The last election was still pretty close.
Yeah, just think how close it would have been if Trump hadn’t won the electoral college, the popular vote, and all the swing states.
Yeah, personally I think there should be more caution about the dems. The dems vote without thinking as a block, no matter how dumb it is.
The RAT party started as a defender of slavery. They even went to war over the issue. After Lincoln took away their slaves they championed the universal slavery of socialism. The RATs have always been the party of evil.
Victor Davis Hanson points out that, although the numbers are close, it is despite his legal problems and the united opposition of all our institutions. In this context it was a landslide.
The RAT Party Is dead alongside the old Media. They lost because normal people can’t stand them. The voice of what is left of their Party is AOC, Bernie, OMAR, Crockett, Smith, Hackeem, Walz and many more knuckle heads that think lying is all they need. That won’t work anymore. Their only chance is that the GOPee will eventually form the circular firing squad. They have already started.
What do you expect? The RATS rose to prominence that little dweeb Davy Hogg, the Repubs secret weapon. Also, with the many worms like Jasmine Crockett, Rosa de Lauro, maxipad waters, nanancy pigLIESi, and the list is quite long all jockeying to position themselves to run in 2028. This is not a winning list. When the RATS are desperate enough, even the murdereous of benghazi’s name rise to float in the scum.
It was only a matter of time before the general populace got tired of being hectored by a bunch of purple haired weirdos.
I’m so relieved we dodged the bullet of Commielaw and Tampon Timmy.
Exactly.
Correct.
I stopped reading with I have lots of Democratic (sic) friends...
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