What will be the best metaphor for the Democrat Party in the 2020 Presidential campaign? The explosion and crash of the Hinderburg? The Titanic being ripped open by an iceberg? The Nazi's futile stand at Stalingrad? All are apt and relevant in my mind.
Despite more than three years of persistent propaganda by the Democrats trying to portray Donald Trump as a puppet of Russia's Vladimir Putin, Trump has become more popular and managed to deliver on a raft of campaign promises that many doubted would ever be fulfilled. Incomes are up across the board, minority unemployment has fallen to historic, unprecedented lows, the life span of Americans is increasing, deaths from opiod overdoses are down and the flow of illegal immigrants is being staunched.
All of this noise by the Democrats and obsession on trashing Trump has prevented the media from taking a serious look at the release of purloined DNC emails on the eve of the 2016 Democrat Convention. That incident almost always is characterized as evidence of Russian interference. But that was not true. The emails apparently were taken by DNC employee Seth Rich and sold to Wikileaks.
The real truth that has been ignored is how the DNC establishment tried to cook the nomination process in the favor of Hillary Clinton and, at the same time, sabotage Socialist Bernie Sanders.
Having learned nothing from 2016, the DNC establishment is once again trying to sabotage and undermine Bernie Sanders. They are correct that a Bernie candidacy at the top of a Democrat ticket is a guaranteed disaster for the party come November 2020. But it also is true that Sanders' supporters are rabid fans and will fight to the death for their candidate. While they were shutout for the most part from the 2016 Convention, that is not likely to happen this go round.
The rise of Bernie Sanders marks the shattering of the Democrat consensus ushered in by the Presidency of Bill Clinton. He is not a Democrat. He is a Socialist and has almost 60 years of quotes and actions that have not been scrutinized by the media nor the public. Imagine seeing the 37 year old Bernie praising the Ayatollah Khomeni and condemning Jimmy Carter and the U.S. hostages held by Iranian radicals in the takeover of our Embassy in Tehran. Yeah, that's a real winner on the campaign trail.
There is not a single Democrat running now with the aspirational messages and themes that marked the campaigns of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. They eschewed fear and negativity. They embraced hope and optimism. Each dead a version of making America great.
The current crowd of ideological dwarfs infesting the Democrat Presidential field cannot even acknowledge the remarkable, unprecedented performance of the economy under Donald Trump. His fight to secure a new trade agreement with China and with Canada and Mexico, resonates with the blue collar workers that once were considered the foundation of the Democrat Party. Not any more. Those voters are saying adios to the Dems and flocking to Trump.
The Democrats are a cross between a freak show and a clown car. They eagerly embrace murdering unborn children, protecting illegal immigrants, denying inner city black parents the right to choose decent schools for their kids, demanding protections for transgender crazies and disarming law abiding Americans. Those are not messages that reverberate among the working class and those striving to give their kids a better life. Where is the hope.
What is certain is that the Democrats have boarded the train that is going to run off a cliff down the road. And that road is getting shorter everyday. Look for the Democrat establishment to rally around Amy Klobuchar in a bid to stymie the surge to Bernie Sanders. I do not think it will work, but the establishment is going to fight like hell and use every scheme and cheat available to stop Sanders.
Sir,
I wouldn’t be surprised if the voters elect the avowed socialist who would be labeled as the communist candidate for president.
The real question is what shenanigans the Democrat establishment come up with to prevent Bernie’s nomination. We’ll see how well he does over the next month through Super Tuesday. The polls show him surging.
Posted by: Jack | 03 February 2020 at 08:47 PM
Bill H,
How dare the US put more than 10% of her population into uniform to fight a world war where a million of them became casualties, 400,000 dying! Why think of all the money that could have been made supplying both sides. Then the problem of transitioning to a peacetime economy after spending 43% of GDP per year on the war could have been been avoided. It's not like there was a more important principal at stake than making money, keeping the debt low, and having consumer products abundantly available.
Posted by: Fred | 03 February 2020 at 09:50 PM
Sid Finster,
as for the popularity of Trump ... the hubby of a cousin (both have a PhD in Chemistry) became a partner in a large US consulting corporation and moved to Texas, where he now lives in a lovely (occasional flood, frogs, snakes and alligators aside) gated community. The man likes Trump and thinks he does a good job.
Given the point that he likely is a millionaire now he may have an easier way to see it that way than a rust belt worker (whose rusty jobs were deliberately off-shored and, despite Trump's habitual penal taxery and tweeting, very very very probably won't come back).
The by Trump so called "Mr. Apple" said the same thing about Trump's dream of MAGA 'All American I-Phones (AAIP?) and All American Apple Comps (AAAP?)' a while ago. So to speak - that party is over and I can stop breathing till im blue in the face and it won't change.
I disagree with his view of Trump and his policies and choose do not discuss it with him or my cousin to prevent messing up the general "extended family peace".
In the job I have a georgian colleague (nice guy) who (for to me inexplicable reasons) is a fan of Shaakashvili (IMO an unfriendly caricature of a bad politico) and so I also choose not to talk about it with him for the same reason.
Posted by: confusedponderer | 04 February 2020 at 05:08 AM
Sid Finster,
#re: "But will that be enough to get Trump re-elected?"
Well, so far Trump has managed to basically kill off (so far just politically) every potential competitor in his party, with Mc Cain just dying away.
Trump likely will no hesitate a second to throw no longer useful "tools" under the bus if he feels it neccessary (bad news for shadow foreign secretary Giuliani).
As for the rest, there, however late, is Romney, but Trump has already starting to insult him verbally and on tweet for daring dissent publicly. That'll go on and get worse the closer the election date comes.
Except for him - who's there in the GOP to challenge Trump?
Hardly Mitch McConnell. He is about 78 already and then in impeachment was a ... Trumpist extraordinaire. If he went into the next election, and would be elected, he'd be brisk 80 then and people will perhaps bet whether he'll survive the end of his term.
Well, Trump himself is a guy who has a hard time to handle dissent
treasonor disobedience and pretty much freaked out when he noticed that his wife dared to watch CNN on Air Force One (and not, as ordered by Trump, dumb up herself with Hannity & Crew on FOX).The GOP problem, nevermind actual Democrat chaos, is that they don't have an alternative to Trump left, and practically and strategically that is a problem.
Posted by: confusedponderer | 04 February 2020 at 08:19 AM
Democrats today use the buz word they are for "working families". Not sure if this means they support child labor or not, but that is their favorite call sign.
What this means in California is a two government union job per family which puts them soundly in the Upper 10% income wise - threshold being $250,000 a year in income -easily achieved with two $150,000 government union jobs per family.
Don't believe this taxpayer-funded income disparity is happening in California?
Look up the website "Transparent California" which lists the full compensation packages for all government employees at any level from schools, city councils and theSacramento behemoth.
Yet again, Democrats target others as the enemy when they are the ones guilty of doing the very same thing - except using OPM to reach their own Upper 10% "working family" goals.
Posted by: Herman Young | 04 February 2020 at 09:10 AM
why trump still be a president?
Posted by: Rental Mobil Jakarta | 06 February 2020 at 09:23 PM
------- Jakarta
He be elected. this not Indonesia.
Posted by: turcopolier | 07 February 2020 at 04:45 PM