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| VDH - 'The New Nihilism' |
| 2019-02-21 |
| [VDH Private Papers] As the 2020 election nears, there is as yet no coherent Democratic response to the Trump agenda. If Trump himself is unpopular and polarizing, his agenda is for the most part in sync with a majority of Americans who like the 3% annualized GDP growth; near-record peacetime unemployment; record natural gas and oil production; young, scholarly and constructionist justices; pro-Israel Mideast politics; and realism about NATO laxity, the flawed Iran Deal, and the Paris Climate Accord, Chinese mercantilism, and the past inability of the U.S. to translate battlefield victories abroad into lasting security and strategic advantages. Yet hatred of Trump himself, as well as fear of a successful Trump agenda, has unhinged his opposition. From 2017-19, progressives sought to abort the Trump presidency through furor at his person and often pathetic attempts to invoke the Emoluments Clause, the 25th Amendment, the Logan Act, Articles of Impeachment, the Mueller special counsel investigation, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s counter-intelligence investigation of Trump, and cherry-picking federal justice to stay Trump initiatives. All failed. Now the Left has decided to offer not just invective, but a new array of alternatives‐often of a radical sort that we have not seen or heard about since the 1960s. The Democratic Party is now in the hands of newcomer establishment figures such as Senators Corey Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Mazie Hirono; socialist Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren; newly elected representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib; and activists like Linda Sasour, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, and the usual Hollywood celebrities‐all of whom Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and former Vice President Joe Biden futilely try to appease. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 TY Walter :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-02-21 20:12 |
| #3 "Nihilists! *bleep* me! Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, but at least it's an ethos." "The Democratic Party is now in the hands of..." Not to insult their mothers, but all of these people seem to be either incompetents or power-mad grifters who couldn't be trusted to run a bake sale. That does not bode well for the country. But hey, at least we'll get a lot of free stuff, right? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-02-21 20:06 |
| #2 I believe they're going for "If I can't own it, nobody will" strategy to ignite the next civil war. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-02-21 15:02 |
| #1 The 2018 elections showed them Dems and their media cohorts they were on the right track, so they doubled down. I hope it's the death of progressive thought - again. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-02-21 11:58 |