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Does the Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Work?
American Greatness ^ | 6 Nov, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/06/2025 9:25:52 AM PST by MtnClimber

Democrats wield chaos as a strategy, overwhelming voters with nonstop turmoil that obscures blame and rallies key groups—leaving Republicans scrambling to counter before the clock runs out.

We can draw a few conclusions from an off-year election, when iconic races in blue states went, as expected, overwhelmingly Democratic.

Nevertheless, there is only a year left before the midterms. So Republicans must react to even these paltry results.

1) Democrats’ chaotic nihilism still works. The chaos strategy causes so much turmoil, noise, and negative media coverage that the confused voting public simply cannot sort it all out. The public wishes the upheaval would just go away and often blames those with the most current authority—logically, the incumbent Trump and his administration.

2) Every day of Trump’s first year, there were either campus eruptions, Tesla firebombings, street violence against ICE, or crazy district judges’ injunctions.

The bedlam becomes force multiplied by unhinged outbursts from Democrats like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Eric Swalwell, and the proverbial Squad.

The latest firecracker was thrown by a now Biden-like, faltering Nancy Pelosi, who recently screamed on CNN that President Trump “is just a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the Earth.”

The public has no time to sort out all the actual causes for such mad hattery. It knows only from Democrats that the commotion is roughly correlated with “Trump.”

Note that there is never a positive Democrat “Contract with America,” since it is impossible to advance anything popular or moderate past its now firmly socialist base.

3) Democrats also use the chaos strategy to target key electoral groups.

In this week’s election, Republicans finally grasped the purpose of the pre-election shutdown.

It was designed to galvanize key constituencies to get out the vote in a low-turnout year.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; antifa; blm; covid; leftism

1 posted on 11/06/2025 9:25:52 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


2 posted on 11/06/2025 9:26:20 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Apparently. It will not end well, however.


3 posted on 11/06/2025 9:28:21 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: MtnClimber

VDH omits that free ranging, free wheeling Federal judges are a main ingredient of the Dems chaos strategy. They are tying up the Trump agenda for months. They disobey the Supreme court ruling, that their decisions are only valid in their jurisdiction. Of course Justice Roberts does not punish them, though he is the managing judge of the entire Federal judiciary.

Like the managing partner of a law firm.


4 posted on 11/06/2025 9:35:40 AM PST by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity )
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To: MtnClimber

It sure appears to be. The new age “americans” are dumber than sh** and will continue sending their bank account data to the Somalia princes and princesses.


5 posted on 11/06/2025 9:38:48 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Another day of DemonRAT shutdown another great day for Chunky "Raw Cheeseburger" Schumer.)
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To: blackdog

You are right because it is bringing the ultimate penalty upon them!


6 posted on 11/06/2025 9:41:02 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: MtnClimber

Does satan’s chaos strategy work?
Lol. Absofreakinlutely.


7 posted on 11/06/2025 9:47:24 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: MtnClimber
So many voters not paying attention had no idea NYC elected an IslamoPinko. Many are still living their lives unaware.

It's a contrast Republicans should be happy to pound on the electorate everyday.

Commie versus Free market.

Normal versus insanity.

Success versus failure.

Domestic tranquility versus riots

If we can't win these arguments on the policy and politics we aren't trying.

8 posted on 11/06/2025 9:47:29 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: dennisw

Roberts hates Trump it’s as simple as that.


9 posted on 11/06/2025 10:10:24 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: dennisw

“Roberts does not punish them, though he is the managing judge of the entire Federal judiciary.”

Roberts will begin enforcing that ruling about the time he’s getting ready to swear in President-elect Gavin Newsom. The “justice system” is only wielded against conservatives and Republicans as they are predisposed to act peacefully.


10 posted on 11/06/2025 10:14:33 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: MtnClimber

Entropy wins, in the long run.


11 posted on 11/06/2025 10:27:09 AM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Tallguy; iamgalt

U get it! ++++++


12 posted on 11/06/2025 10:45:50 AM PST by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity )
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To: MtnClimber

No but their get out the vote does. Next year we better get out or we really will be out!


13 posted on 11/06/2025 10:52:36 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US;-))
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To: MtnClimber

Of course it works. The old “that guy is so bad you must vote for me or suffer the consequences” scares the sh!t out of the uniformed voter.


14 posted on 11/06/2025 11:09:13 AM PST by Dan Zachary
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To: MtnClimber

negative media coverage

This is precisely why we need a ground game, volunteers spreading the word door to door. No ground game is why we lose. In NJ a good ground game could have unified both the Trump vote among Blacks and Puerto Ricans and the white suburban vote of 2021. To depend totally on the AIR game is a strategic and tactical mistake.


15 posted on 11/06/2025 12:19:53 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: MtnClimber

Yes.

We have a VAST hoard of low info ‘voters’, that KNOW the REPUBLICANS are in power in all 3 branches of government.

Therefore, any pain that they may feel is CAUSED or ALLOWED by them.

Facts (logic) mean very little as they take brain power to process, and they do not wish to take the time/effort/whatever to delve into them.

Hating Trump (emotion) is enough for them.

Just wait, it’ll merely be a few more hours before he and his policies brought down that plane in Louisville!


16 posted on 11/07/2025 5:37:04 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Sin is a reproach to any nation.


17 posted on 11/07/2025 5:37:51 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: gundog
Entropy wins, in the long run.

But before that, demographics does.

18 posted on 11/07/2025 5:38:58 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Dan Zachary

BINGO!

GMTA

19 posted on 11/07/2025 5:39:30 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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