A poll from The New York Times and Ipsos recently found that the voters see the Democratic Party as prioritizing issues that are not priorities in their own lives. That view was only likely reinforced this weekend in the selection of the Chair and Vice Chair of the Democratic Party. The Democratic leadership doubled down on the very issues identified by the Times as leaving voters disassociated from the party. As someone raised in a liberal Democratic family in Chicago, the continued emphasis on identity politics and far-left policies is bizarre and baffling.
The New York Times published a story titled “Most Americans Say the Democratic Party Does Not Share Their Priorities” that notes:
Asked to identify the Democratic Party’s most important priorities, Americans most often listed abortion, L.G.B.T.Q. rights and climate change, according to a poll from The New York Times and Ipsos conducted from Jan. 2 to 10.
The issues that people cited as most important to them personally were the economy and inflation, health care and immigration, the poll found. The kinds of social causes that progressive activists have championed in recent years ranked much lower.
That was evident from the start of the DNC election, highlighted appropriately by an MSNBC host.
Notably, Kamala Harris is reportedly consulting with Hillary Clinton on how to address her defeat. It was a telling turn since Clinton seemed to blame everyone from James Comey, self-hating women, Russians, Bernie Sanders, and misogynists for her defeat. That comes after many of us noted that Harris was re-running the same Clinton campaign with identity politics at the forefront and refusing to answer questions on key issues.
It appears that Harris is not the only one relying on the Clinton handbook for spinning defeat with more identity politics. At the outset, MSNBC host (and Washington Post writer) Jonathan Capehart asked who “believes that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’s defeat.”
Every single candidate declared that the election was indeed the result, at least in significant part, of “racism and misogyny.” That included Marianne Williamson, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, DNC Vice Chair Ken Martin, Wisconsin Democrat party Chair Ben Wikler, former Bernie Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir, former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official Nate Snyder, and Newton, Massachusetts Democratic City Committee executive member Jason Paul.
Not one noted that Harris was an awful candidate who refused to do anything other than the most favorable, controlled interviews. Even James Carville (who predicted Harris would defeat Trump) had an increasingly rare moment of clarity after the election. Carville called for a moment of “honesty” and said “We ran a presidential election, if we were playing a Super Bowl, we started our 7th string quarterback. That’s what happened, okay?”He added that it would have helped to have a presidential candidate who could “actually complete a sentence.”
Even the outgoing DNC chair Jaime Harrison declared last week that it was a mistake to go with Harris and that they had a better chance just sticking with Joe Biden despite his obvious mental decline. That is brutal.
However, it went from bad to worse as critics lampooned the DNC as becoming a parody of itself from a singing pitch for Chair to an explanation of gender rules that left many perplexed.
The DNC then elected a chair in Ken Martin, the longtime leader of Minnesota’s far left Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, who demanded for Trump to be tried for treason after the Russian bounty controversy (which was contested by the Trump Administration).
They then added David Hogg, 24, as Vice Chair, a far left advocate who previously called on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished and for the defunding of police. Hogg’s selection is particularly curious after an election where immigration proved a major issue favoring the GOP. Hogg has also called the NRA a “terrorist organization.” His reason for the NRA designation? January 6th: “The NRA needs to be designated a terrorist organization for the role their supporters played in staging an insurrectionist coup.”
The Democratic Party has become a ship of fools. I previously worked Democratic campaigns from Ted Kennedy to Mo Udall to many Illinois candidates. The party was truly a party of the middle class with centrist values, including support for free speech. It cannot seem to break from identity politics as its primary focus and reason for being. Worse yet, it is “reimagining” the 2024 election in a way to keep reality within a comfort zone.
Many of us want to see a stronger and more centrist Democratic party. Yet, there is an irresistible impulse to push the same button despite every indication that it is a really bad idea:
The irony is that MSNBC’s host led this effort by asking every candidate to attribute the loss in part to racism and misogyny. The ratings of MSNBC and CNN cratered after the election and Fox routinely exceeds both networks combined in audience figures, including the coveted 25-54 demographic. Yet, Jonathan Capehart wanted to start with a group homage of identity politics. When everyone replied robotically in the affirmative, Capehart replied “That’s good, you all passed.”
Indeed, they did, but that was hardly the test.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
“As someone raised in a liberal Democratic family in Chicago, the continued emphasis on identity politics and far-left policies is bizarre and baffling.”
Perhaps more baffling… do you still have ‘your’ Blue Check card, Professor? If so, why?
@JAFO
I respect the Professor very much, but confusing to me, too. ‘Raised in’? As in, you never asked questions before now? That may be very presumptuous on my part, but come on – might as well say, ‘Well, I was Catholic, then t came out that most of our prominent priests were psychologically damaged.’. Pfft. Weak sauce, when so many of us have seen for so long, just as they did in my metaphor.
That family Turley mansion (try living in a sh*tty apartment for $3000/month and trying to accommodate 8 people) has been expansive for too long, methinks, much as I respect him, and sorry: broadly this has been crystal clear since at LEAST 2008, again, more broadly.
The Professor talks about the working class, blah, blah, blah, but still ignores the fact that his ‘generational’ party are the ones that fought for slavery, rejected civil rights, were happy to have white indentured servants, created unions to exploit immigrants that didn’t know any better, and on and on.
I understand that a family religion is tough to overcome, but come on: can anyone point to a time when the dems were on the right side of anything if they weren’t lying through their teeth to gain power they had lost, because basic decency had won for a short time, and they thought they were royalty? And can anyone point to a time when the mutually privileged didn’t lap it up like milk?
And I’m equally sorry, Professor, you are one of those privileged, much as I love you. You are.
What we are seeing burst are the bubbles of elitism, and it is glorious. The modern democratic party are the oligarchs. Their defection from that fact, and all facts, is all you need to know. Do not let them rule us again. Ever. This can never be.
Another good recap video, this one by a black dude. The part at 10:00 in is insightful, and much like Turley – being raised in a Democrat home – and in his 20’s before he walked away (back in 2004).
https://babylonbee.com/news/to-announce-theyve-given-up-completely-dnc-selects-david-hogg-as-vice-chair?
I get it. Racism is why the American people elected Obama. Put you all back in chains has always worked to keep em down on the plantation. There’s lots of advice from people on the left recommending a change of direction for the Democratic Party and yet they elect new officers who are doubling down on woke. It’s obvious that there is lots of talk on the surface but no change deep in the chest where the heart resides. It could be possible that their leadership all were subscribed puberty blockers at a young age which drastically slowed the growth of their brains. Far fetched you say. Not. (Aside), are they still paying James Carville to go on MSNBC?? To predict that he will not correctly predict the political future??
A hilarious review from Australia:
Like the pussy he is, Trump saw the stock market drop another 600 points this morning and ran away from his stupid tariff threat on Mexico.
Wrong. Trump said he would put in place tariffs over the border fentanyl trafficking crisis with Canada and Mexico.
“We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty; we reached a series of agreements:
1. Mexico will immediately reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, particularly fentanyl.
2. The United States is committed to working to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico.
3. Our teams will begin working today on two fronts: security and trade.
4. They are pausing tariffs for one month from now.”
–Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) February 3, 2025
This is what Trump wanted. This is what he used the tariffs for. And he got what he wanted. The pause it let them know he is not afraid to use them again. This is what winning looks like. This is what leadership looks like. The whole world is watching.
Trump is going to speak to Trudeau this afternoon. We will see what that looks like.
So you’re saying if Mexico decided to not cooperate and slapped on its own 25% tariffs, you’d be happy with the consequences.
@Upstate
And you know better than anyone: we grow all of that produce right here in the USA. We brew a sh** of a lot of beer, right her in the USA. *I* have an avocado tree, for Pete’s sake, they are *free* for me, as in ZERO dollars, (and /I share them with neighbors, so they are free for them, too). The modern dems are a kind of pathetic hard to quantify; learn how to grow a plant, children. I guess if you are 25 and work on a laptop from home in Manhattan inside of a brownstone your parents paid for, it might not register. The only people this could concern are a teeny, tiny minority, and they deserve to be stuck due to that fact. Enjoy your non-avocado toast because you don;t know your a$$ from a hole in the ground. The rest of us will be just fine. Spectacular even, because we don not have to deal with your insufferable boosheet anymore.
“…we grow all of that produce right here in the USA.” Not in the winter time, genius.
“This is what he used the tariffs for.”
The threat of tariffs is *not* a win. It’s a loss to American businesses and consumers. The threat creates one of the things most destructive to wealth creation: Uncertainty.
That threat now lingers because it is paused for 30 days. It is like a sword of Damocles hanging over the head of American businesses and consumers.
There is no such thing as a “good” (Mexico beefing up border security) at the expense of economic suicide. There is no such thing as a “good” (Covid lockdowns) at the expense of massive economic damage.
🤣🤣🤣
He just forced the Mexican government to deploy 10,000 Mexican soldiers to the border to stop illegal invasion and fentanyl. That in exchange for a 30 day reprieve of the threat of tariff. I bet you stink at poker and board games requiring critical thinking skills.
Traveler,
Critical thinking is not a trait of woke leftists. Nor do they understand business, economics, and strategy.
I think Trump has more leverage on Trudeau. Trudeau is out as PM, elections are up coming, the conservative, dont recall his name off hand, is looking strong. If Trudeau’s party wants a win, and not get the blame for the tariffs, Trudeau will be more likely to deal. Besides, what Trump is asking for is not unrealistic, stopping the flow of fentanyl into America.
# Well maybe but it might be Crown Royal. Get used to rye whiskey.
When s market is created an entrepreneur will fill the void. Let’s see if this doesn’t morph into a new found manufacturing base for America. Think of the jobs created, the reduction of carbon emissions by manufacturing here instead of shipping and transportation across large distances. Quality control
# Speaking of which, could we get more Greek olive oil in here? It’s twice the cost of its Italian clone.
Check with Upstate farmer, i think he grows olives at his farm.
Traveler,
Sorry, no. If I had the capital for a heated green house, maybe. The energy input required to get through our winters would likely make it cost prohibitive.
I watched this video this morning. Middle class suburbanites should consider this, to help save money:
I figured, just fing with your nemesis.
How about this one:
A liberal is just a conservative that hasn’t been mugged yet.
Spinning wheel got to go round.
https://youtu.be/SFEewD4EVwU
Scheinbaum capitulated – moving 10,000 mexican troops to the border immediately tasked specifically with shutting down the flow of illegal drugs and immigrants into the US. During the next 30 days Trump officials and Mexico will negotiate what else mexico needs to do to stop the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants.
This had nothing to do with a minor blip in the stock market.
Trump has been consistent from the start – these particular tarrif threats are in retaliation for the flow of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants.
And that China, Mexico and Canada can get rid of them – by taking these problems seriously.
Trudeau has been in off and on negotiations with Trump all day. Expect a similar announcement that Canada has capitulated before the end of the day. It might take longer to see something from Xi.
This is little different from Columbia’s president refusing to take deported columbian citizens are required by treaty, and then flipping within hours when faced with the threat of tarrifs.
This is a negotiating tactic – a very effective one.
But it is necescary if you use the threat of tarrifs as a negotiating tool that you are not bluffing.
Mexico was unwilling to gamble that Trump was not bluffing.
I would bet the same is true of Canada before the end of the day.
John Say,
Exactly!!! Trump is a business man. The whole world knows that. The Saudis did during his first admin. He was someone they felt they could deal with. Of course they had to be leery. Both sides did. They both jockey for the best deal they can get. Generally neither side gets everything they want but come to a compromise they can both live with.
The deal with Mexico is a win.
More, on The Ship Of Fools. I have actually read the book, by a lawyer, Sebastian Brant, written in 1494. It was a modern English version and a good read. I also bought a German copy, a few years back, intending to renew my German of college days, but I have not yet gotten around to it Anyway, I did not realize until today when trying to find a modern English free version online to link here that it was Plato who originally came up with the phrase:
From Wiki: Benjamin Jowett’s translation of Plato’s text
Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better. The sailors are quarrelling with one another about the steering — every one is of opinion that he has a right to steer, though he has never learned the art of navigation and cannot tell who taught him or when he learned, and will further assert that it cannot be taught, and they are ready to cut in pieces any one who says the contrary.
They throng about the captain, begging and praying him to commit the helm to them; and if at any time they do not prevail, but others are preferred to them, they kill the others or throw them overboard, and having first chained up the noble captain’s senses with drink or some narcotic drug, they mutiny and take possession of the ship and make free with the stores; thus, eating and drinking, they proceed on their voyage in such a manner as might be expected of them.
Him who is their partisan and cleverly aids them in their plot for getting the ship out of the captain’s hands into their own whether by force or persuasion, they compliment with the name of sailor, pilot, able seaman, and abuse the other sort of man, whom they call a good-for-nothing; but that the true pilot must pay attention to the year and seasons and sky and stars and winds, and whatever else belongs to his art, if he intends to be really qualified for the command of a ship, and that he must and will be the steerer, whether other people like or not, the possibility of this union of authority with the steerer’s art has never seriously entered into their thoughts or been made part of their calling.
Now in vessels which are in a state of mutiny and by sailors who are mutineers, how will the true pilot be regarded? Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing?[3]
——————
I would also add that there was a bit of “illegal alien invasion” regarding Brant’s book. I recall reading somewhere, that unscrupulous people would gather up the local mentally ill and village idiots, put them on a cheap ship, and set it off to land in the harbor of some other city. That process today is called “turfing”, and is how hospitals rid themselves of poor patients.
# good one floyd… very pretty
Isn’t it fair to say that Democrats are trapped by identity politics? Their most important private sector voting bloc is African-Americans, who provide the margin of victory for them in states like Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and keep them competitive in other states. And the price for this loyalty is small: the rhetoric of victimization. Women are a less important bloc because almost half will vote Republican in most elections; nevertheless they can be decisive when there an energizing issue, like abortion. Once again, the price is low: more rhetoric of victimization. These blocs are like life-preservers. If held onto, they guarantee success at some level. Even if Democrats hope and half-believe that they can swim without them, it is natural that there is a fear to let go.
They are.
Which should give the Libertarian Party a shot at legitimacy.
Only those clowns are too stupid to realize that or how to take advantage of it.
“Which should give the Libertarian Party a shot at legitimacy.”
Unfortunately, to my best recollection, the Libertarian Party hasn’t had a truly libertarian platform or candidate in about 25 years (since Harry Browne). When you have a legitimate chance to win, I can understand the justification for pragmatic position compromises, even if I may not agree with them. But when you are running as a marginal protest candidate/party, which is primarily an exercise in voter education, there is no excuse for descending from the high ground of your philosophical principles. Many, if not all, of the later LP candidacies were nothing but scams designed to fleece donors.
Read carefully:
Charles Darwin did NOT conclude that by uniting marginal communities of species alterations, the survival of the fittest species would be overtaken and reduced to non-reproduction.
This is a socio-political construct, intended to remove the dominance of the particular fittest species and replace it with a conglomeration of marginal species, who, when so united, can outnumber and ultimately eliminate the survival of the fittest species.
That, my friends, is the definition of today’s Democratic Party.
My buddy, AI, agrees with me:
People often “double down” when they are wrong because of a psychological phenomenon called “cognitive dissonance,” where the discomfort of facing information that contradicts their existing beliefs leads them to reinforce those beliefs even stronger, rather than admitting they might be mistaken; this can be driven by a need to protect their ego, maintain consistency in their self-image, or simply avoid the psychological pain of changing their mind.
Cognitive Dissonance:
When presented with evidence against their position, people experience discomfort and may choose to dismiss the new information or strengthen their original stance to reduce this dissonance.
Ego Protection:
Admitting to being wrong can feel like a threat to one’s self-esteem, so people may defend their position even when faced with contradictory evidence.
Groupthink and Social Pressure:
In certain social situations, individuals might double down to conform to the group’s opinion or avoid being seen as weak.
Lack of Self-Awareness:
Sometimes, people might not even recognize that they are wrong, leading them to continue defending their position without considering alternative viewpoints.
Democrats – people who think Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute, but no way David Hogg gave a Nazi salute.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/david-hogg-give-nazi-salute/
Raising one’s arm in a closed fist does not a Nazi salute make. A raised closed fist is the universal symbol for strength and resistance.
I agree. A Nazi salute is a salute given by a real, live Nazi. Like this guy, who was a fantastic artist, but was sadly an American Nazi. I can not figure out how the Saturday Evening Post kept him on so long???
Crockett joins D leadership soon as well.
Crockett like Jeffries has an IQ 80
@Traveler
Unfortunately, the majority of young America now has a sub-100 IQ; the ‘young’ is important. We are raising, quite literally, idiots. That David effing Hogg was chosen to co-lead the DNC should tell you all we need to know, but understand completely: this is very much a reality in 2025 among that and subsequent cohorts (basically anyone under 40). We have already seen over the past four years what passing the torch to the stay-at-home-and-do-Etsy-crafts or OnlyFans, laptop/phone generations (plural, at this point) would do to this country if we ever, ever gave them true power. They were largely running the show under Biden and the best they could do were Antifa and CHAZ (ie.e glorified temper tantrums replete with ‘parental’ forgiveness). Having the House is the only thing that saved us since 2020, however dysfunctional that has been.
It is not too difficult to see where people who are smarter than the truly mentally handicapped, yet a chasm away from those who would be considered highly intelligent, think they are ‘smart’, particularly when they are given an ‘advanced degree’ for paying the requisite sum requested by their institution. Trust me as someone who has been around education for decades: this is a fact, not a conjecture.
It does not bode well for the future, and with modern young people, it is only getting worse year by year; and we we aren’t even talking about politics, just brains made of mush that seem to be incapable of forming useful, even to themselves, neural pathways beyond instant gratification, personal pleasure, and the elimination of challenge or critical thought. The rest of us will not live forever, and we do not get to retire and relax, likely ever, in our lifetimes. Not an option when so much s at stake.
https://www.healthline.com/health/average-iq
Read the Bell curve long ago James. Genetics, the rest comes from good nutrition, healthy family and good parenting to get kids in the right direction. Even then some don’t make it.
About fifty more points than you, in other words.
Somebody hand the Dems a bigger shovel – the hole they are digging is not deep enough to escape their DOOM LOOP yet! IDIOTS!
@Anonymous
Now is not the time to get cocky. I guarantee you there is a large chunk of the modern left under 40 who think all of this is just fantastic (to whit: AOC, who has not waned at all in popularity among her ochort), and you’d better believe they will be voting in the midterms, likely in record numbers. This is far, far from over.
Repeat after me, Jon. President AOC and Attorney General Kamala Harris….
Though you’ve shilled for the side that no longer wants open elections, so there’s that. You might just win on that front.
The reason for D unpopularity within their own base is entirely related to not being able to put trump on trial for his treason and espionage within 4 years after he tried to overthrow an election. Full stop.
President AOC🤣🤣🤣
How about just their plain incompetence and unbridled corruption?
^^^Spoken as the stock market crashes in response to trump tariff taxes and an unelected oligarchy is in the process of overtaking the government. Bet you think that’s actually going to work out for you.
Hyperventilating is bad for you and is unsustainable.
Ooooh the horror, the horror!
# Crown Royal tanked
Good cause I have been tanked on Crown Royal!
Dow is off 0.35%; S&P 500 off 0.86; NASDAQ off 1.26%. NASDAQ has been volatile lately largely because of the unknown financial impacts of DeepSeek on NVidia and other AI intensive stocks. This is a crash to you? I would suggest you retain an investment advisor, left on your own you are likely headed for the poorhouse.
He’s counting his $6M in his Roth account 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve traded almost everyday for 30 years, and of late make a good deal of my income in the grain markets. Granted, I tend to only categorize markets as crashing, jumping or treading water…
Markets are setting up for a sizable fall, but what happened today was a pullback to buy short term. What I label a ‘gentleman trade’. The market stakes out where it’s going to go and then retraces as big money salts the odds in their favor. In other words, they’re pulling stupid magat money in on longs when markets are heading for a fall.
I suspect that fall will take much more money from you before you finally realize what’s on. Hedge funds and banks have been net short for a couple months now.
Ya thinK??? Here, from Kunstler, today:
Now, the fate of the blob itself is a thing somewhat apart from the fate of this evil vaudevillian Democratic Party fronting for it. A purge of the blob is pretty clearly underway. USAID was shot dead like a rabid dog over the weekend. The agency had gone completely rogue, serving (Mike Benz explains) as the pivot between every nefarious operation coming out of the CIA, the DOD, and the State Department’s many black box units. The billions of dollars laundered out of USAID went to support hundreds of NGOs, many of them dedicated to harming the life of this nation, such as the orgs that handed out money to illegal aliens and advice on evading detection in-country. And these many NGOs represented an employment racket for the “elite overproduction” of grads coming out of universities with useless degrees and Maoist political training. There was, of course, a giant revolving door between these NGOs and the activist ranks of the Democratic Party.
And, on Zero Hedge, more about USAID :
Musk told the more than 682,000 listeners who tuned in that the president “agreed we should shut it [USAID] down.” This would be one of the largest planned cuts to date, and the fate of USAID is likely that it will lose its independence and be rolled into the State Department.
“As we dug into USAID it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have actually just a ball of worms. If you have an apple with a worm in it, you can take the worm out. If you have a whole ball of worms, it’s hopeless. USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple you just need to get rid of the whole thing. That’s why it’s got to go. It’s beyond repair,” Musk explained.
The move to end USAID as a stand-alone agency comes as the DOGE creator revealed: “Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/musk-doge-cuts-usaid-ball-worms-no-apple-must-get-rid-whole-thing
Floyd
It eerily parallels Cloward-Piven in the bankrupting and fleecing the nation taxpayers.
“fate of USAID is likely that it will lose its independence and be rolled into the State Department”
That is a done deal, according to an announcement made by Rubio this afternoon.
@Traveler
You and many others are projecting and do not seem to realize that the cohort you are mocking doesn’t care even a tiny little s*** what any of us think and will continue to act according to their programming. Do not relent, we are not anywhere close to done.
James
I been fighting these Communist slits my entire life, just as my Daddy did and his Daddy did an so on and so on. Don’t you worry about me!
How far out in left field do you play?
All the way across the fence
Dear Mr. Turley, I have observed among my very liberal neighbors, friends and family that their politics has become their religion. They are correct and that’s it!! No room for correction in their minds. Perhaps once the entire Party goes belly-up then will Democrats realize their platform is a non-starter? Mr. Jeffries is again showing they are the party of hate, violence and destruction.
J H Kunstler dealt with this very issue this morning. Great article, and here is an excerpt:
Think of the Democratic Party as the entertainment arm of the overall operation. Its aim has basically been to induce you to doubt your sanity. You were asked to swallow one fabulous absurdity after another — lockdowns, vaccines that don’t prevent illness, mostly-peaceful arson, US soldiers in puppy masks, pronoun police, shoplifting-is-reparations, the wide-open border — an epic acting-out of manifold mental illness in living color. The climax was drag-queens in the primary schools, obese men in fright-wigs presenting nightmare varieties of Mom-as-monster, often with some exposure of their male junk as part of the act. Suburban mothers watched approvingly, insisting on video that this was all wholesome, edifying fun for the kiddies (while some of the more insane moms went even further at home, coaxing their little kids toward medical “transitioning”).
Can you grok how insane all this was? So, if you were a Democratic Party strategist, perhaps the first thing you’d consider these days is to stop being insane. Second, at this particular juncture, you might consider apologizing to the people of this land for your heinous antics of recent years — like an alcoholic parent who has acted very badly against the family — and promise to make the effort to get your sh!t together. This is obviously the part that Democrats are struggling with now, and it explains why they pretend to be at such a loss to make course corrections. Of course, any further failure to come to grips with all this will lead to the death of the Democratic Party. Never in history has a political faction gone out in such pathetic ignominy.
https://www.kunstler.com/p/last-rites
Right on all counts. But you forgot the kid who was absent the day his school got shot up who just got elected vice-chair of the DNC. David Hogg is another small piece in the banishment of the Dems to the political wilderness for at least another 12 years.
I do hope MAGA(ots) are happy. Trade wars always end great don’t they?
This column has nothing to do with tariffs and trade wars – your name-calling is a perfect example of why the Dems got thumped on 5 November. Let me paraphrase: “Name-Calling always ends great doesn’t it?”
That’s all they got……pathetic.
National tariffs by a large economy has only been tried twice since 1900. Stalin’s USSR. Mao’s China. National tariffs fly in the face of free trade and are a tool — a failing tool — of left wing extremists.
It’s rough winning this much! I am really looking forward to AG Bondi delving into the Democratic Crim Family with Director Kash Patel kicking a$$ and taking names. Whew, so much winning, hey did you see Elon says he can cut the deficit down by a Trillion?
# The reason the US is wholly self sufficient.
The US may be capable of self sufficiency but the cost of living would rise dramatically. An iPhone costs $2/hr in labor to gather materials and build in China. In the US it would be $30/hr. Estimated price for an iPhone completely built in the US made with American materials could be anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000.
The best comparison I can come up with is the collapse of the British empire in North America. They had a fairly good thing going with their 100 year policy of salutary neglect. They got themselves in debt from the war. Then they made a massive miscalculation and shifted from relative neglect to intolerability.
One could point to the time and distance problem for communication in the 18th century as a contributing factor to their ignorance of life in the American colonies. But that problem doesn’t exist today. There is no excuse. This party is that far gone. They are just as intolerable and I pray this peaceful revolution purges them from existence.
OLLY,
I am thinking it is the woke mind virus has infected the those at the center of the DNC and them and the elites whom see themselves as everyone else’s betters, refuse to read the room, refuse to read their own polling, refuse to listen to their own base and voters and continue this mad march off the cliff. All the moderate and traditional Democrats need to stop following these fools, let them go over the cliff and reshape their party back to what it once was.
When a party, any party, no longer represents their voters, it is the right of the voters to vote for another party or someone else.
I am thinking it is the woke mind virus has infected the those at the center of the DNC and them and the elites whom see themselves as everyone else’s betters, refuse to read the room, refuse to read their own polling, refuse to listen to their own base and voters and continue this mad march off the cliff.
Upstate, I like the way you think. I said the following in JT’s other post for today: And if by the midterms, the American people still believe the Democratic party is the “Wuhan Lab” of politics,… Trump has a new Operation Warp Speed working on this.
“One could point to the time and distance problem for communication in the 18th century as a contributing factor to their ignorance of life in the American colonies. But that problem doesn’t exist today. ”
There are potential impediments to effective communications other than time and distance. The total lack of a receiver with the capability to comprehend what was sent would be one of those.
There are potential impediments to effective communications other than time and distance.
Hence “contributing”, not only. Your other factor is certainly in play today.
The French politician, Ledru-Rollin said something like, “There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them”. This pretty much sums up the Democrat party right now. There is no real leadership. What they are doing is chasing what are now mostly insignificant, or fringe, issues, while ignoring the things that really matter to most people. I suppose this is what happens when your voters live in an echo chamber and are concentrated in small pockets around the country. I would love to do a statistical deep-dive into Dem voting demographics. Its pretty clear when you look at a heat map of voters, that a sizable number live in inner cities. A portion of these folks are professionals, but a lot of these inner cities are filled with slums, too. I would say that a big portion work in state and federal govt, about 80% or so of blacks vote D, a substantial number of Hispanics, fringe alphabet folks, and some old-fashioned suburban, white liberal voters, but the GOP pretty much owns the suburbs. Even in “blue” states like NJ, if it wasn’t for Newark, Trenton, and Camden, it would a solid red state. Its going to be very hard to keep these fringe voters in the Dem tent while trying to expand to the moderate/independent voter.
Ship of Fools, how appropriate, get rid of the donkey and move to the Jesters hat with bells as the emblem of their party.
# Personal of liking this case and will read up on it.
It’s a bit unusual because it’s an interpretation or asking the court if they can read. The court will not legislate from the bench nor legislate nor direct much of anything except the narrow reading.
It’s a fun one.