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2023-07-07 -Land of the Free

Victor Davis Hanson - What the Left Has Left for America

[American Greatness] The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000.

The antecedents to its current madness were once previewed in the old party’s extremist wing of campus radicals of the 1960s and 1970s. They were accentuated by Black Lives Matter and Antifa during the Obama years, forged during the COVID lockdown and George Floyd riots, and polished during the era of Trump derangement syndrome.

On almost every issue, Democrats have repudiated their prior reverence for the Supreme Court.

They distrust individual liberty and free expression.

They now worship the money and clout of corporate America.

Racial ecumenicalism and integration are seen as passé.

There is little need for borders to protect vulnerable American workers, given the advantages of inviting in millions of poor illegal immigrants without audits.

Democrats have transmogrified into a Soviet-style socialist binary of rich and poor, run by an elite nomenklatura that dictates its orders to its foot soldiers of the underclass. An entire new left-wing vocabulary—clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, dregs, chumps, ultra-MAGA, semi-fascists—has come to express their hatred of the middle class.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-07 01:16|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 On almost every issue, Democrats have repudiated their prior reverence for the Supreme Court.
Remember when San Fran Nan said a Supreme Court decision was like the word of God?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-07-07 09:08|| 2023-07-07 09:08|| Front Page Top

#2 The Word of the Lord, or of Gort,
Once Supreme, now supremacist, [snort]
All-knowing while Roe-ing,
Starts Democrats crowing,
"Woohoo, we're aborting the Court!"

Posted by Graque Gremp2207 2023-07-07 11:45|| 2023-07-07 11:45|| Front Page Top

#3 The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000.

Hanson give Bill Clinton too much credit. Actually, he gives Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter too much credit as well.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-07-07 12:09|| 2023-07-07 12:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Democrats have transmogrified into a Soviet-style socialist binary of rich and poor, run by an elite nomenklatura that dictates its orders to its foot soldiers of the underclass.

I suspect it's more like the old Soviet Politburo than a nomenklatura...more like a small committee that uses Zoom or something like it for their meetings. In the old Soviet Union, the guy who controlled the Politburo was the guy with all the power...guys like Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. In the current American Politburo, Baraq might be a member, he is certainly the front man, but I'd be surprised if he's the chairman. We can only guess about who that person might be.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-07-07 12:23|| 2023-07-07 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Head of Sales would be my guess, twitting about oppression while hanging with Tom Hanks on a luxury yacht in the Aegean.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-07-07 16:36|| 2023-07-07 16:36|| Front Page Top

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