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| Victor Davis Hansen: The Left Can't Come to Grips with Loss of Power |
| 2018-07-06 |
| [National Review] There’s no better explanation for the current progressive meltdown. Key Trump administration officials have been confronted at restaurants. Representative Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) urged protesters to hound Trump officials at restaurants, gas stations, or department stores. Progressive pundits and the liberal media almost daily think up new ways of characterizing President Trump as a Nazi, fascist, tyrant, or buffoon. Celebrities openly fantasize about doing harm to Trump. What is behind the unprecedented furor? Just as Barack Obama was not a centrist, neither is Trump. Obama promised to fundamentally transform the United States. Trump pledged to do the same and more ‐ but in the exact opposite direction. The Trump agenda enrages the Left in much the same manner that Obamacare, the Obama tax hikes, Obama’s liberal Supreme Court picks, and the Iran nuclear deal goaded the Right. Yet the current progressive meltdown is about more than just political differences. The outrage is mostly about power ‐ or rather, the utter and unexpected loss of it. In 2009, Obama seemed to usher in a progressive revolution for a generation. Democrats controlled the House. They had a supermajority in the Senate. Obama had a chance to ensure a liberal majority on the Supreme Court for years. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 The GOPe is none too thrilled, either. But let's not get cocky. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-07-06 19:05 |
| #5 The left's ideas have not had support at any time in my life -- they just lie about them until they sue a federal agency into implementing them, and a judge (carefully picked) to rubber-stamp them. They had control of most media until the "fairness doctrine" was removed, and they HATED the existence of alternate voices. Now they hate the alternate voices in the internet, and are desperate to shut them down as well. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-07-06 10:43 |
| #4 I believe the left has always had less support for their opinions than anyone perceived. A lot of folks vote Democrat because their grandfather did, that sort of thing can't be counted on now. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-07-06 10:20 |
| #3 BLUF - Voters in 2016 bristled at redistribution, open borders, bigger government, and higher taxes, but progressives are now promising those voters even more of what they didn’t want. Furious over the sudden and unexpected loss of power, enraged progressives have so far done almost everything to lose even more of it. That's how you get More Trump. Dr. Hanson didn't say it; he didn't need to. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2018-07-06 09:57 |
| #2 Power is their god. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-06 08:16 |
| #1 Well, if you (secretly) know that you're second rate and hold a position way above your abilities, you can't feel safe unless you have absolute control. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-06 04:00 |