This is from our special correspondent in Flyover Country, Dennis the Peasant:
It’s only July, but Dennis is going out on a limb here and tell you the November elections are not going to be kind to the Democratic Party. As it stands I cannot imagine the Republicans losing either the House or the Senate.
Why? Well, let’s count the ways, starting with the state of the opposition…
At present, the face of the Democratic Party on any given day is either Nancy Pelosi trying desperately to muddle through her daily press conference, or Maxine Waters advocating the harassment and intimidation – both forms of violence – against citizens whose political views she disapproves of.
The face of ‘The Resistance’ on any given day is Michael Moore, Rosie O’Donnell or Kathy Griffin. Unlikable multimillionaires all, madly tweeting of the hell of living under Trump from their Hollywood mansions. When you have Tom Arnold on your side, and The Resistance does, it’s time to start thinking about where things went horribly, horribly wrong.
The face of the ‘Unbiased Press’ is CNN each and every day. The face of CNN is Jim Acosta. “Nuff said.
And if that isn’t enough…
The ‘Future of the Democratic Party’ is, as of this day, a 28 year-old ‘Democratic Socialist’ by the name of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her real-world accomplishments to date consist of graduating from college to a career as a barmaid and waitress. She won a primary in a part of the country that thinks Bill DeBlasio is a good idea. She’s for open borders, guaranteed jobs for all, free education and health care for everyone, and against law enforcement, the 2nd Amendment, and anyone making more money than she does.
All this will play well for Democrats in November.
But it doesn’t stop there.
Let’s not forget the Never Trump faction of the Republican Party. Beyond their viceral hatred of the President, what do Bill Kristol, Max Boot, George Will and Jennifer Rubin have in common? The only thing they’ve ever done in life is run their mouths. That and the fact that their self-appointed status as learned gentlefolk is far more important to them than actually doing the hard, dirty work implementing the principles and policies they claim to support. Theirs is the rage of the impotent. To the extent they are not ignored, they are mocked.
And then there’s the John Kasichs and Jeff Flakes of the party. The first an opportunist, the second an incompetent, neither of whom can quite come to the understanding that Donald Trump has exposed them for what they really are. You could say the same for Jeb Bush. These men are part of the country club set of the Republican Party, a set that gave their party two incompetent presidents (both named Bush), and two incompetent presidential contenders in McCain and Romney. They don’t understand the frustration of the proles, and probably never will. Being men of weakness, they have either been pushed aside or have voluntarily left for other environs… and now they wait in the smug certitude that sooner or later, Trump’s voters will see the error of their ways and beg forgiveness.
So… What we have going into November is a Democratic Party fronted by two hugely unpopular politicians and one waitress, supported by the remnants of the Ineffectual Wing of the Republican Party .
The policies the Democrats espouse, to the extent they espouse anything coherent at all, revolve around impeaching Donald Trump, allowing unrestricted illegal immigration via open borders, abolishing or ignoring the 2nd Amendment, raising taxes, and expanding the reach of government.
How can that not win?
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It is pleasant reading wishful thinking from fellow neoliberals, but it is also pleasant eating an ice cream cone.
Democrats do not win elections because they ever explain how it will work to steal more money and fritter it around. They win because they develop fake issues, such as "Trump colluded with Russia," endlessly repeated on the networks with even skeptical Republican legislators mired in committee investigations of it. Scandals emerge a week before the election to reinforce the notion that Republican candidates "are not people like us." (The dossier about pissing prostitutes, built around a factual Trump trip to Moscow, was to be such a dirty trick.) And various Republicans commit gaffes, like the "legitimate rape" comment, which are taken out of context and used to smear the rest.
How might Democrats win? Because people like me will stay home. In November 2014, Republicans had just re-acqired the "power of the purse" and written budget after budget conceding every policy issue to Obama. We got nothing in that Congress except the right to export oil, so that we could move credits from coast to coast rather than tankers. We had a Speaker who told us that these surrenders would "clear the decks" for victory next time — then surrendered again. I did not take a ballot in November 2014, and that has been my most consequential decision since voting for Pat Buchanan in the 1992 primary and having President G.H.W. Bush immediately declare a 90-day moratorium on federal rule-making.
In 2016, we were told that the White House was the final obstacle that would let us "repeal Obama-care," a clear and attractive goal seven years in the making, and I voted for Trump despite doubts about whether he had clear enough concepts. By Election Day, Trump had been taught to chant the meaningless "repeal and replace." A year later, with Lisa Murkowski intoning that she didn't come to Washington to "hurt people" by giving them their freedom back, and John McCain's famous "thumbs down," even that is in tatters. Congress's only accomplishment is to enact a reform of the business tax code that both parties privately admitted for a decade was driving companies out of the US. It is still mandatory to buy crappy health insurance but the penalty is now $0. Republicans did not repeal Obama-care but merely broke it, a decision they are likely to reverse in the next Congress as part of a "bipartisan compromise" if it allocates new money to their dopey "opioid epidemic." My state is not voting for US Senate and I wrote on March 4 about my loathsome choices for Congress.
Yes, the Democrats have nothing but resistance, proud incivility, and promising free stuff to various voting blocs. Their core constituency is welfare disbursors, around which they are trying to assemble a coalition of beggars, tramps, thieves, excuse-makers, and people playing pretend. But the Republicans are no better. They have individuals in Congress who understand the vision of liberty; but as a group, they have no vision beyond granting favors to their high rollers. Export-Import Bank, the ethanol boondoggle, Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, Planned Parenthood, stigma-free entitlements, all are intact. Republican majorities everywhere and no results. You see, now we need 3/5 of the Senate (except when we don't).
I will vote for Trump in 2020, even if he should actually grab women by their pussies, even if he should actually shoot someone on the streets of Manhattan. But this November, I will again not take a ballot.