Posted on 12/08/2016 4:48:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Things look different now, and not just because Donald Trump was elected president. It has been clear that most voters have been rejecting big government policies, and not just in the United States but in most democratic nations around the world.
Leftist politicians supposed that ordinary voters with modest incomes facing hard times would believe that regulation and redistribution would help them. Evidently most don't.
The rejection was apparent in the 2010 and subsequent House elections; Republicans have now won House majorities in ten of the last 12 elections, leaving 2006 and 2008 as temporary aberrations. You didn't hear Hillary Clinton campaign on the glories of Obamacare or the Iran nuclear deal, and her attack on "Trumped-up, trickle-down economics" didn't strike any chords in the modest-income Midwest.
Republican success has been even greater in governor and state legislature elections, to the point that Democrats hold governorships and legislative control only in California, Hawaii, Delaware and Rhode Island. After eight years of the Obama presidency, Democrats hold fewer elective offices than at any time since the 1920s.
Things look similar abroad. Britain's Conservatives, returned to government in 2010, are in a commanding position over a left-lurching Labour party. France's Socialist president, with single-digit approval, declined to run for a second term. European social democratic parties have been hemorrhaging votes, and got walloped in Sunday's Italian referendum. In Latin America and Asia, the left is declining or on the defensive.
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For all of their losses, Hillary still had a strong showing; the left is regrouping, not collapsing.
The left is definitely not giving up. That’s probably why they’ve been far more effective over the last few decades than their actual numbers would imply. The left still holds many levers of power. I’m sure Trump is no dummy. The left will make nice if necessary (against a powerful foe) so long as they keep moving the goal posts to the left. What we need is a leader who forces them to reach across the aisle to the RIGHT for a change.
I agree. This talk of the left collapsing is the biggest bunch of nonsense I’ve ever heard.
“Leftist politicians supposed that ordinary voters with modest incomes facing hard times would believe that regulation and redistribution would help them. Evidently most don’t.”
Considering that the right this election cycle offered them “big government” economic policies also, but in a more entertaining way than the left, the validity of Barone’s statement remains to be seen. By the way, is it all right to point out how far left we have moved lately, or are we supposed to continue to march in lock step.
Their numbers indicate that there were more leftists/Hillary voters than centrists & conservatives/Trump voters; no reason why they should give up...
Yup, half of the electorate voted for her or Jill because they promised to steal from the rest of us and give it to them.
They expected her to be Robin Hood, but the legendary Robin Hood stole from the government, and gave it back to the taxpayers, while the real Robin Hood most likely was less discriminate about whom he stole from, and kept what he stole, as the Clintons have.
But there is a new generation of Lefties--led by the Castro brothers (Joaquin and Julian) from Texas and Gavin Newsom from California.
Every liberal is a totalitarian thug.
The collapse of the political POS punks/progressives/criminals/collectivists/Clintons/democrats/dummies/dhimmis/deceivers/marxists/mohammedans/socialists/scumbags/tyrants/totalitarians.
People all over the world are throwing off the shackles of their oppressors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyT9jTW7MHc
Citizens are standing up. The finest Americans have voted.
HOORAY Donald J. Trump. Thank you, sir.
I believe Americans and other non globalists are going to be in power all across the globe.
Barone makes some salient points.
However, my fear is that if the Democrats had chosen
a different snake-oil salesman they still could have
won this.
Embracing Bernie’s Free College scam would have turned out legions of Millenial voters. I’m still somewhat stunned they didn’t try that.
I don’t know how Bernie would have played outside of snowflake nests; blacks seemed to have less use for him than they did for Hillary.
“For all of their losses, Hillary still had a strong showing; the left is regrouping, not collapsing.”
Of course they will continuing trying to regain power, but this election shook the foundations of their many decades long approach to consolidate power. It showed that the demographics models they’ve been dependent upon can shift. It showed that the biased support they’ve consistently had from the MSM, entertainment industry, and academia can be circumvented and that a candidate can now ‘go around’ them. It also further unmasked their bias, such that everything that comes out of the MSM these days is looked at differently than before.
If Trump does what he says, and actually does help the inner cities, establishing real entrepreneurial zones with incentives, and stop violence there, the demographic voting that the democrats have depended upon may significantly change. If he carries through with real, meaningful voting regulations that ensure accurate elections and suppress fraud, this will also have a significant effect. Stopping illegal immigration will take away another avenue that the left has counted on as a means of permanently shifting the demographics in their favor.
In short, you’re right that they will keep trying, but this was a very hopeful election.
I wish this kind of stuff would just be ignored. Pure evil never retreats, pure evil is never destroyed. The left is pulling back, collecting it’s thoughts and finding new ways to become evil. they will be back with a vengeance and we shouldn’t be complacent.
I’m happy with the outcome but still wary of the Dems; they’ve already begun working on the groups that left the plantation to either sit out the election or actually vote for Trump (or a third party).
The left still has a firm grip on the press, academia and much of the judiciary.
At least for now, SCOTUS will not lurch any further left and with all the GOP governors and legislatures, state courts should not either.
The huge challenges will be academia and the press.
The left will be with us as long as Satan walks the Earth.
Interesting thing happened to me last night. I ate late on the way to the airport to pick up my wife, and sat at the end of the sushi bar at a Japanese place. There was an empty space next to me, then what was clearly a group of four sitting two on each side of the corner. As I was sitting there overhearing snippets of conversation, I came to realize these were election operatives, and I’m pretty sure they had worked for a failed Dem campaign for state rep one county over.
Their conversation was quite interesting. For one, I don’t think many Republican campaigns for state rep here have the sort of horsepower this group represented. For another, their attempts to noodle out what had just happened with Trump, and what it all meant, were engrossing. One guy brought up the idea of peeling off the non-Evangelical vote, and the other told him that after Trump, that whole model was dead. There was also the comment made that they think there will be a recession, since things have been going so swimmingly for the last 7 years, and it can’t go on forever, and that will make him vulnerable on reelection. It was all I could do to not laugh out loud at that one. I’m old enough and business savvy enough to know what a good recession recovery looks like.
The point to this being that they didn’t sound like they were going anywhere, and they seemed like some fairly sharp operators. So the election is over - and we better all get to work on the next election.
Being wary of the Democrat Party is a sign of wisdom, My FRiend. The Democrat Party was conceived and birthed by Satan and his demons in the deepest and darkest pit of Hell. And like the evil demons they are possessed by,its members never rest. When they are defeated here, they spring up there. One has to constantly be on one’s toes and alert to fight the evil they generate.
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