The term “one-trick pony” applies perfectly to the Democrats. When I was a kid, the Democratic Party stood for something; advocated for things – was “the party of the working class,” or at least they claimed. Now, they barely pay lip service to any policy ideas. The ones they do are still all bad, but they have become a party obsessed with one thing and one thing only: Hating President Donald J. Trump.
When was the last time you saw a Democrat, either elected or a “journalist,” advocate for something? Not against, mind, like your Second Amendment rights, but actually for something? I guess, technically, they advocate FOR higher taxes, but they do so by trying to let tax cuts expire. And open borders, well, they advocate FOR those by simply ignoring existing law by refusing to enforce it.
But when was the last time they campaigned on some ideas?
Hillary Clinton ran on being Hillary Clinton – the “historic” shatterer of “glass ceilings” and the like – but not many ideas. Or her record, for that matter – “Vote for the person most responsible for returning open-air slave markets to Libya!” doesn’t really look great on a bumper sticker.
Joe Biden was older than dirt, senile as hell, and as accomplished as a wadded up Kleenex. But he swore he’d “restore our image in the world” and other meaningless, worthless crap like that. Feel restored yet? Nowhere did he campaign on giving his degenerate family members pardons, at least as far as I can remember.
Kamala Harris swore she would…do something. It was never clear she wanted to do anything. She ran for the nomination in 2020 seemingly out of boredom, but only ended up inflicting that on everyone else. It is difficult to believe that, deep down, she knew why she was running.
Well, they did all have one thing in common: They weren’t Donald Trump. While that sounds stupid and obvious, it is the basis of everything the Democratic Party does these days.
Can you imagine proposing to your husband or wife with, “Marry me, I’m not that last person who broke your heart”? That sounds stupid, but only because it is. And it is what Democrats were doing then and it is what they are doing now.
Their annual meeting, or whatever that thing up in Minnesota last week was, amounted to a full-throated commitment from the party to every left-wing cause that made voters run from them.
It is the basis of their fundraising, every dollar of it. They’re “fighting Donald Trump” or “standing up to Donald Trump” or “will stop MAGA” from doing whatever it is they think MAGA is doing. Honestly it doesn’t matter – they don’t have specifics and their followers don’t need any. It’s as simple at “If Trump is for, I’m against it,” whatever “it” happens to be at any given moment.
“Which failures of the Trump administration do you want Democrats to prioritize?” opened a recent “interview” of supporters from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.” The provided answer options? They were “His disastrous handling of the economy. His abysmal record of breaking promises. His decision to leave crucial international agreements like the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization. His decision to shut down crucial agencies like the Department of Education. His horrendously unqualified judicial nominees. His targeting of independent news media like NPR, PBS, and MSNBC. His threats to voting rights His attempts to roll back so much of President Biden's progress. His attacks on Medicaid and benefits the American people have worked so hard to earn.”
MSNBC is “independent”? On what planet?
On the planet where “people have worked so hard to earn” health insurance created for poor people in Medicaid. Do they really think a welfare benefit with zero minimum income level, but with a maximum income level, is something people “earn”? How would you do that? Sit on your ass all day and get fired from a job where you made too much money to qualify?
These people rendered wildly ignorant or just plain stupid by their blind hatred of Donald Trump. But it works, or works well enough still. Half the country starts off from a brain-damaged perspective, anything but hate would only confuse them. Pathetic and sad, but their vote counts just as much as yours does.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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