Excerpt from Pat Buchanan’s typically thoughtful article:
It is imprecise to say this city [Washington, D.C.] is divided over Trump. It is rather almost solidly united behind what millions of Middle Americans believe to be a deep state-media conspiracy to overturn the 2016 election and effect a coup d’etat against a president whom this city detests but fears it cannot defeat in 2020.
This is the leftist elite joining with leftist save-the-spotted-whales protestors and street thugs. The elites provide the political direction, the funding, and the media air cover (look for National Review to cough up a Conservative Defense of Antifa when necessary). The street protesters and thugs provide the shock troops.
What unites them is, of course, Orange Man Very Bad and, of course, Must Get Rid Of Orange Man Bad.
If current trends continue, soon it will become Must Get Rid Of Orange Man Bad By Any Means Necessary.
I wonder if Buchanan is too optimistic in his conclusion, which notes that Ronald Reagan followed the 1960s. The country was not as divided then–the rot was not as deep. In 1972, Nixon could win California, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, etc. The identity politics rot has penetrated deeply into those states, and the left has been able to indoctrinate multiple generations of voters into it. California statewide elections today are less competitive than Botswana’s, and the Dem Party is working diligently to keep “intact its 53-year, uninterrupted rule.”
Excerpt from Pat Buchanan’s typically thoughtful article:
This is the leftist elite joining with leftist save-the-spotted-whales protestors and street thugs. The elites provide the political direction, the funding, and the media air cover (look for National Review to cough up a Conservative Defense of Antifa when necessary). The street protesters and thugs provide the shock troops.
What unites them is, of course, Orange Man Very Bad and, of course, Must Get Rid Of Orange Man Bad.
If current trends continue, soon it will become Must Get Rid Of Orange Man Bad By Any Means Necessary.
I wonder if Buchanan is too optimistic in his conclusion, which notes that Ronald Reagan followed the 1960s. The country was not as divided then–the rot was not as deep. In 1972, Nixon could win California, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, etc. The identity politics rot has penetrated deeply into those states, and the left has been able to indoctrinate multiple generations of voters into it. California statewide elections today are less competitive than Botswana’s, and the Dem Party is working diligently to keep “intact its 53-year, uninterrupted rule.”
I hope he’s right.