Well, that didn’t take long. The Democrats’ romp during the off-year election just a week or so ago was pretty damn depressing. We lost, completely. Even where we expected to lose, the margins were higher than we expected, and the Democrats’ morals— as demonstrated by electing a Jew-hating race communist in New York, and a sociopathic murder-onanist as Virginia Attorney General—were even lower than expected, to the extent that’s even possible. We were feeling pretty bad. We were worried about a year down the road when the midterms come. And then, less than a week later, the Dems completely collapsed on the shutdown.
And I mean completely collapsed. They collapsed like a Chi Com highway bridge. It was an utter defeat and a huge humiliation. This was evidence of a Democrat civil war, with a total rejection of the ultra-left faction by exactly the number of merely super-left Senate Democrats. They realized that starving their own shiftless constituents by withholding their SNAP benefits and failing to pay their parasitical government employee constituents was a losing strategy. It’s like if Cleavon Little in “Blazing Saddles” had threatened to shoot himself and the Republican townspeople said, “Yeah, go ahead.” (I’ll let you go find the non-FCC language compliant version on YouTube yourself).
The Republicans weren’t playing, but the Dems were. It was an act. It was a fake fight by fake fighters.
Retreating is the smart move when it becomes obvious you have a losing tactic instead of hanging on to pretend you are fighting for the benefit of your rabid base when all you’re doing is losing. But that’s only if you are pursuing a coherent political strategy as opposed to hysterical public self-love. The ultra-left Democrats might as well be that creepy dude loitering at a playground in a raincoat – they were pleasuring themselves while disgusting everybody else. It was bad tactics and bad strategy on top of that. But none of it mattered, not to them at least.
See, they desperately want a “fighter,” who will presumably make everything better by the magic power of his/her/their fighting. That’s all they talk about. “We need a fighter, a fighter, a fighter!” You may have thought they had reached peak feisty, but apparently not.
And who will they fight? Donald Trump and, by extension, you. But that’s the thing – their whole purpose now revolves around fighting Donald Trump. There’s nothing beyond that. It’s pure opposition. Their goal is not to actually do things that will make things better for their voters. They had President Eggplant for four years, and he certainly didn’t make things better for anyone. But he sure stood up to the guy who wasn’t president anymore, you dog-faced pony soldiers. When your entire objective is to fight, your focus, by definition, can’t be on helping your own people. Their focus is on
Donald Trump, which I’m sure he loves, and we should love it, too. “Take That, Trump!” helps us. Sure, the fighter fetish plays in blue cesspits like Virginia and New Jersey, yet it’s not usually going to be enough in the purple places that matter. But hey, it feels so good!
We Republicans had our own fighter yearning phase in the recent past, but it really wasn’t the same. After the 2012 Romney debacle, we wanted somebody to stand up to both the Democrats and the Fredocon establishment. Remember how they tried to force Jeb! on us? This was the guy who kept telling us that illegal aliens flooding into our country constituted an act of love, which was true in the sense that what happened to Ned Beatty while canoeing down that river constituted a kind of act of love.
But what Dems don’t get when they talk about wanting a fighter is that it’s not really a fighter that they need. The fighting part is merely a means to an end. What they really need is a winner. They need somebody who succeeds in enacting their policies and defeating their opponents, not just somebody who puts on a good show of being a jerk before losing – you know, like the Dems did the other day.
Sure, we all like the fighting part. It’s cool and fun to watch the other side get beaten and battered. But it doesn’t matter if, at the end of the game, we end up with one in the L column. It’s winners we want, not just fighters.
We Republicans understand this distinction. Trump was a fighter, sure, but he was always a winner, and he started winning early in the 2016 primaries. I wasn’t a Trump supporter early on. I was much more of an old-school conservative, supporting Ted Cruz. I didn’t know what to make of this guy. I knew I liked a lot of the things he said, like booting the Third World invaders out of our country, cutting taxes, and generally owning the libs – again, we’re not against the fighter part. We love the fighter part. The fighter part, which included mean tweets at the time, was cool and fun, but that wasn’t the real appeal of Donald Trump. What was his real appeal was that this guy just kept on winning. He beat all the other Republicans. He beat really good Republicans, as well as Jeb! and the other losers. The guy was a winner, and winning takes precedence over mere fighting.
Back to the mean tweets. Mean tweets were a fighter’s tactic that he has largely dispensed with over the years. Why? Well, he’s replaced tweeting – fighting – with actually exercising power and putting checks in the “Win” column. Why fire off a mean tweet about Rosie O’Donnell, where you can have your Justice Department issue regulations and file lawsuits ending all the perverted and weird trans creepiness that she and the white wine women of her hideous ilk love so much? Trump doesn’t just know how to fight. He knows how to win. The Democrats know how to fight. Win, not so much lately, at least not in places that don’t already trend blue.
It all goes to authenticity. Trump is an authentic winner. He’s a winner because he’s a fighter, but the fighting is not the point. The fighting is just the engine. Democrats have no controlling ideology except what gives them power. This makes them superficial. It’s all about performance. It’s all about posing. You can see it every time you walk through your suburban neighborhood and pass some woman’s townhouse with a “Hate has no home here” sign, and she’s cheering on the murder of Charlie Kirk and the potential murder of Stephen Miller with more erotic ecstatic enthusiasm than she ever faked for her male-identifying consort.
It’s not real. It’s not authentic. Look at super-fighter Jasmine Crockett. This ridiculous graduate of a tony private school spoke like Eliza Doolittle until she figured out that she could wow the Democrats with ghetto fabulous jive. That’s not who she is. That’s only who she presents herself to be – you go, fighter girl! – and the Democrats eat it up. It’s all fake. It’s all a fraud. That’s the thing about demanding a fighter. It’s all about the public performance rather than results, which is pretty much the thing about all Democrat ideology. “Look at me, I’m a good person because I’m stealing money from hard-working people and giving it to free-loading bums. Respond to the virtue I’m signaling!” But it’s not real.
Real is not just winning elections, but making things happen. Look at the massive change Donald Trump has brought in less than one year into his second term. It’s enormous. The Democrats? Nothing but a lot of whining and pining for a pugilist. Let them focus on performing. Let them go find a fighter. We already have a fighter, but more importantly, we have a winner.
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Editor’s Note: After more than 40 days of screwing Americans, a few Dems have finally caved. The Schumer Shutdown was never about principle—just inflicting pain for political points.
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