Posted on 08/13/2025 4:35:48 AM PDT by texas booster
The last election shattered the complacency of the ruling class. For the first time in a long time, the men and women who believed that the future belonged to them, no longer did. The culture war, they began admitting in the post-election moratoriums, had gone against them. They had not just lost an election, they had fallen away from the zeitgeist into their own echo chamber.
And no one wanted what they were selling.
The Democrats and the larger movement around them has stumbled trying to make a comeback. But they have had a consistent strategy beyond the clumsy efforts to revive the BLM riots as the ICE riots or to file endless lawsuits that even liberal Supreme Court justices are growing tired of, and that is to fracture the successful coalition that President Trump built.
Ever since Trump took office, the media, which acts as the ideological attack dog for the movement, has been trying to find wedge issues. Some have been conventional economic ones meant to split away the emerging working class base, but others are ideological wedge issues targeted at dividing MAGA, first around foreign policy, and then around Jeffrey Epstein.
The issues themselves are less important than what they reveal about Democrat tactics.
The Left has closely analyzed the Trump coalition, found weak points and is running information operations to exploit those weaknesses and, when successful, playing divide and conquer. It belatedly figured out that MAGA, unlike past Republican coalitions, was virtually invulnerable to external criticism, shaming and moral blackmail because it was unconcerned with respectability.
Shaming Trump supporters no longer worked because MAGA did not care what the media or anyone outside the movement thought. Or at least that was supposed to be how it worked.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
A very weak stretch there.
“I turned around and gave him a Nazi salute and shouted “Seig! Heil!” and went on my way. The look on his face was priceless”
OMG thank you for that, all leftist need to have that done to them.
I think you have described why the Dems have half a chance - our side is stupid because it focuses in on the micro, individual issues, and ignores the macro, big picture...perusing comments on FR over the past few years has shown that many are becoming woke without appearing to realize it. IOW - far too many are eating up the 💩 the Left is feeding us and trying to get other “conservative activists” to believe it’s good stuff and that the commies are right.
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