Posted on 11/12/2016 9:08:52 PM PST by aquila48
We geniuses in the news media spent only the last month telling you how Donald Trump was losing this election. We spent the last year telling you how the Republican Party was unraveling.
And here we are, with the Democrats in tatters. You might want to think twice about our Oscar and Super Bowl predictions.
Despite all the discussion of demographic forces that doomed the G.O.P., it will soon control the presidency as well as both chambers of Congress and two of every three governor’s offices. And that’s not just a function of James Comey, Julian Assange and misogyny. Democrats who believe so are dangerously mistaken.
Other factors conspired in the party’s debacle. One in particular haunts me. From the presidential race on down, Democrats adopted a strategy of inclusiveness that excluded a hefty share of Americans and consigned many to a “basket of deplorables” who aren’t all deplorable. Some are hurt. Some are confused.
Liberals miss this by being illiberal. They shame not just the racists and sexists who deserve it but all who disagree. A 64-year-old Southern woman not onboard with marriage equality finds herself characterized as a hateful boob. Never mind that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton weren’t themselves onboard just five short years ago.
Political correctness has morphed into a moral purity that may feel exhilarating but isn’t remotely tactical. It’s a handmaiden to smugness and sanctimony, undermining its own goals.
I worry about my and my colleagues’ culpability along these lines. I plan to use greater care in how I talk to and about Americans more culturally conservative than I am. That’s not a surrender of principle or passion. It’s a grown-up acknowledgment that we’re a messy, imperfect species.
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“If Clinton had succeeded in stealing the election the MSM would be praising itself for shutting us down. But MSM is afraid for their jobs so now they will say ANYTHING to get us back. ANYTHING.”
you nailed it. it’s nothing but a head-fake.
Hey Miss Marmelstein, you’re up late. Go get em girl! :)
TRANSLATION: It's not that the People really support Trump, but that the Democratic Party royally screwed-up this election.
REALITY: It's both.
” I’m just messy and imperfect (and hurt.)”
Not me. I’m simply still pissed.
“They are STILL doubling down on blindness and arrogance. “
they’re so clueless they can’t even tell they’re being arrogant while trying not to be.
He takes endless shots at the deplorables in the body of the text. I read the whole thing. Bruni spends one sentence on marriage “equality”, nothing on transgender bathrooms and the rest about how Trump is going to screw up in two years and his ilk will regain the Congress.
Waiting for my husband to come home from his show! He’s another irredeemable.
Frank Bruni should go back to giving one star restaurant reviews.
Even as he vows to “use greater care in how I talk to and about Americans more culturally conservative than I am,” he oozes moral superiority by merely saying it. He is declaring these people his inferiors, but he will “rise above” his impulses to tolerate those inferiors. It makes one’s stomach churn.
To my thinking, this author gives Trump too little credit for his insight. The democrats missed what was happening to the middle class working folk, to be sure.
They also missed the fact that the people have had immigration concerns since 1965 without a discussion of who should be invited to come and live and work here. In more recent times the people have simply walked in and started taking jobs and entitlements without the slightest thought to assimilation. This is a discussion we finally stood up and demanded.
I believe Trump has taken the right approach, criminals first, a solid barrier to entry, verification of the right to work here, and down the road, the right to evaluate those who have met the test of assimilation and hence, the right to become residents. (But at the end of the line, behind the ones who came here first and followed the rules.
Obama could also have eased the job situation a little at the cost of some of his ideological purity. How much would it have hurt to continue to mine coal, frack on public land, and build a pipeline or two? The environmentalists would have objected and perhaps not even understood, but he could have found a way to appease them and put a lot of people back to work.
Obama also could have clamped down on the secret email system (which he was aware of) and the pay for play in the Foundation (which he should have been aware of). This would not have made a dent in the Clinton’s millions, but could have kept her legal enough to win the election.
Now lets not forget the supreme court, we needed to get involved with Trump and he made all the right choices — including providing some names. This will go a long way toward the maintenance of our constitutional Bill of Rights. Who said that freedom of religion, speech, assembly, and the right to bare arms were not about to go away. Oh, and Trump is not going to end the right of the states to permit gay marriage or self funded abortion, it is not going to be something that the left really needs to fret about.
There are plenty of things that the democratic party could have done besides looking down their noses at us Trump supporters and calling us every name in the book. None of which really apply to Trump IMO. They made so many mistakes that they deserve the restructuring issues they will have for the next several years. Now get out of the way and let the GOP keep some campaign promises.
LOL! Best post on the thread!
“It’s a grown-up acknowledgment that we’re a messy, imperfect species”
I wonder who he thinks pollutes the species with imperfections...
I bet he must have laughed and applauded when Hildabeast referred to us imperfections as deplorables and irredeemables.
Certainly the Dems had a chance to see it coming. Bernie Sanders, whose behavior subsequent to the convention has led me to conclude that he was never a serious candidate but a patsy set up for a fall, found himself with not just a viable campaign but a very persuasive one to elements within his party that, like elements within the Republican party, were thoroughly sick of the establishment Kabuki dance and desirous of change. What he got, $600K from the Clinton Foundation and a condescending pat on the ass, caused him to leave the party, where he now is once again an outsider looking at the wreckage within. And characteristic of Her Heinous, there was no real attempt to incorporate the passionate following he identified into her campaign. The message I saw (and I'm hardly a Sanders follower) was "all right, little people, you've had your fun, now take your places on the benches and start rowing," which attitude was precisely why they were backing Sanders in the first place. This is political ham-handedness on a high order.
Another part of the equation was that much of what used to make liberals liberal, i.e. a belief in free speech, freedom of conscience, freedom in general from a smothering and oppressive government, was no longer part of the Democrat recipe. No old-school liberal would support political correctness, hate speech laws, and rigid ideological censorship in press and the academy. The proprietors of the Democrat party now thrive on them, and on the authoritarian structure necessary to enforce them. That may be labeled progressive but it certainly isn't liberal. And a lot of liberals recognize that.
The present political dynamic is that the Republican establishment is stunned, stinging, and consigned to the corner even in a nominal victory, but don't worry, they'll be back. The Democrat establishment is defeated, reeling, but in the absence of credible opposition, resurgent. They'll be back too. Neither party is through this, Trump has bought us a little time, that's all, in which we'd better sort it out.
People on the hard left refer to people like the Clintons as “neoliberal”. The term is taken from European political culture, where “liberal” still refers to classical liberalism.
Neoliberals are different than classical liberals, however. They are Davos Man- globalist or transnational, shills for their corporate sponsors, elitist, willing to sell out their own country and impoverish their countrymen.
Don’t get me wrong, people on the left hate us and distrust us. But they detest the Clintons for some of the same reasons we do.
And most of them ended up voting for her, anyway.
Donald will rip them up one side and down the other for offering the same ole same ole that got them a rout in 2016.
:)
The fake confessional in full bloom. The pretend “we get it and we’ll behave now”.
Yet all they can do is cover the “protests” rather than call them what they are - professional anarchists paid to riot by left wing agitators. How about sharing that truth above the fold before you pretend to get it and behave?
How about actually congratulating Kellyann Conway for a brilliant campaign? Nope. I have never seen an artice or news story on that.
They say they hate money taking over politics. How about a nice article bashing Hillary Clinton for trying to buy the election spending hundreds of millions of dollars and praising Trump for not only spending a pittance but for not taking a single penny of donation money for his own presidential campaign so he will not be beholden to even a single donor?
Nope, no stories like that you commie rags and Marxist TV news agitprops.
To hell with you all. Take your phony apologies and stuff it. You haven’t learned a damn thing nor will you change a thing.
Recovering the older sense of “liberal” is going to be a very important thing. Trump seems to be comfortably within that older sense. The things that our modern left are calling intolerance, is the exclusion of oppressive elements, elements that end up being illiberal, not (in the old sense) liberal.
Dinesh D’Souza nailed it long ago when he wrote his book “Illiberal Education.”
Illiberalism has now come around to bite illiberals on the ass.
Agreed. I don’t get why these pundits and talking heads think we want to listen to them now. They still think the American people are stupid. They will never change.
After denial, the next step to acceptance is what... bargaining?
We seem to be here now.
Patience patience my dear friend.
They’re going through the steps that end in acceptance.
Patience, patience, and don’t say never — because God doesn’t say never, and Trump’s rise was an act of God.
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