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The Patriot Post Digest 11-17-2016
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This is hardly a short-term setback from which Democrats can simply bounce back. As The Wall Street Journal notes21, “One result of Mr. Obama’s tenure is that Democrats lack a deep bench of younger candidates for federal office, including the Presidency in 2020. A third of all House Democrats will now come from a mere three states — California, New York, and Massachusetts.” That’s astounding.
When you consider that, as of 2014, 44 U.S. senators and more than 200 House members were former state legislators22, this reality becomes a painful indicator to Democrats that their immediate congressional future looks bleak.
Ironically, what’s not yet clear to Democrats is the reason for their stunning and repeated losses. Indeed, at a press conference earlier this week, Obama claimed8, “I believe that we have better ideas, but I also believe that good ideas don’t matter if people don’t hear them and one of the issues that Democrats have to be clear on is that, given population distribution across the country, we have to compete everywhere.”
That’s right, it’s not bad policies; it’s bad PR. As if Democrats don’t have a massive super PAC in the form of the Leftmedia23.
And as one Democrat strategist put it, “We have to take the time to figure out what happened. It’s obviously much more than cyclical.”
You don’t say.
While they take time to discover the obvious, Democrats are still blaming everyone and everything but themselves, including FBI director James Comey. Meanwhile, the Leftmedia pinned Hillary Clinton’s loss on a “white-lash.” Because not voting for a white woman is racist — perhaps, we suppose, because her husband was the first black president24.
The alternative explanation — that Americans may actually be rebelling against the Democrats' increasingly radical left-wing policies — is simply unimaginable.
But rebelling they are.
ObamaCare, the pinnacle of Obama’s achievements, is crumbling, executive overreach has extended farther than ever, and Americans are generally fed up with the government. But Democrats aren’t willing to swallow that pill.
And instead of thinking that perhaps they’ve veered too far left, Democrats are now debating among themselves whether to head even further left — as evidenced by the fact that Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, a radical black Muslim member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, has launched a credible campaign25 to be the next DNC chair. Ellison launched his career as a member of the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, and he’s a man who likened 9/11 to the Nazis' Reichstag fire — in other words, an inside job meant to create a pretext for going after Muslims. And Democrats are considering putting him in charge of the party.
Reason’s Scott Shackford writes26, “As the Democratic Party struggles to figure out what it’s going to stand for now, we’re going to see a lot of ‘progressive vs. centrists’ framing.” But as progressives aim to drive the party even further left, tomorrow’s centrists will likely be today’s leftists.
Only in a party that’s already pivoted sharply left could socialist Bernie Sanders gain a credible foothold, only to be bested by an establishment candidate who holds some positions even more radical than Sanders'. Shackford explains, “What made Sanders remarkable as a candidate was not that he was a democratic socialists getting open popular support from Americans … [but] that there were parts of his ideology — his foreign policy and support for privacy — that were less interventionist than Clinton.”
You’d think that after repeated and crushing defeats under the Obama banner (and now Clinton’s), Democrats would begin to tie the defeats to that banner. Instead, they’re waving it even higher, because naturally, if we as Americans disagree with them, the error is not theirs, but ours.
Perpetuating the attitude that cost them this election is unlikely to win them the next one. So by all means, Democrats, keep up the good work.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Upending the Leftist-Dominated Educational Status Quo27 — The Left’s cultural power all begins with education.
‘Tolerant’ Academia Seeks to Purge Jefferson28 — If moral superiority is their only goal, they’re in for a rude awakening.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Victor Davis Hanson: “For many non-whites, Trump’s message was more about class than race. Inner-city dwellers share many of the same worries as the poor whites of the Ohio Valley and southern Michigan. Some blacks have more in common with poor whites than with Colin Kaepernick or Van Jones. And many whites have more in common with less affluent blacks and Latinos than with Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush. These populist economic interests had been ignored by Democrats and Republicans, as coastal-corridor economies made 30-somethings in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street multimillionaires — with only crumbs left for those who work with their hands. In other words, Trump miraculously won the Electoral College despite adversarial media and hostile Democratic and Republican establishments. He ran with relatively little campaign spending, virtually no ground game, few political handlers, little celebrity backing and few establishment endorsements. And he won because he rewrote the traditional rules of red/blue presidential politics.”
SHORT CUTS
Upright: “Just because ‘our guy’ won, Economics 101 hasn’t been repealed. Donald Trump is still a populist, not a fiscal conservative or a states' rights federalist. … The best of Trump is quite good — corporate tax cuts, moratorium on EPA regulations, securing the borders — but these can be offset, if not undone, by the bad. It’s not enough to win. Trump must succeed. Populism is good politics, but bad economics.” —Larry Elder
Alpha Jackass: “A man who lost the election by two million votes or more is now the president-elect. His election sparked a wave of hate crimes across America. This is a simple statement of fact.” —Harry Reid (It’s also a simple statement of fact that many of those “hate crimes” are against Trump supporters.)
Blind rhetoric: “I know over the past week a lot of people have asked themselves whether America is the country we thought it was. The divisions laid bare by this election run deep, but please listen to me when I say this: America is worth it, our children are worth it. Believe in our country, fight for our values, and never, ever give up.” —Hillary Clinton, who did more to create those divisions than just about anyone
Hope ‘n Change: “Don’t mope. And don’t get complacent. The majority of the American people believe in a diverse, tolerant, optimistic, dynamic, inclusive vision. … I promise you that next year Michelle and I are going to be right there with you, and the clouds are going to start parting and the sun is going to come back out, and we’re going to be busy, involved in the amazing stuff that we’ve been doing all these years before.” —Barack Obama
Proud loser: “We have a constitutional obligation to do congressionally directed spending. I’ve never apologized to anybody. I go home and I boast about earmarks. And that’s what everyone should do.” —Harry Reid
And last… “The same media that didn’t ask BHO about his plans to be 'flexible’ with Putin is upset that Trump didn’t inform them of his dinner plans.” —Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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