Friday, January 12, 2018
You can smell the Democratic
desperation every time one of them speaks, every think tank spewing
out propaganda about President Donald Trump in the desperate hope
that if they dirty him up enough, Democrats can take back the House
or Senate.
This is risky gambit, especially
because they – and their allies in the media – have pumped up the
volume so high, they risk making their audience deft.
Like most politically weak, the
Democrats have decided to widen the circle, draw people out into the
streets in order to scare up strength they as a party no longer have.
Everything hinges on the 2018 midterm
elections. If Democrats fail to take back the Senate, they will lose
their chance to divert the GOP's takeover of the Supreme Court.
And if they fail to take back either
the Senate or the House, they risk seeing their agenda games vanish
like smoke.
The 2016 election damaged Democrats
because the GOP took control of all three branches of government and
have the potential to change the political landscape for a generation
or more.
This is why they need to attack Trump.
Democrats see him as the weak link, someone they can accuse of being
mentally ill or corrupt or in league with the Russians. They paint
him as sexist, racist and perhaps even homophobic, not because he is
any worse than an average American male, but because Democrats need
to reshape him as a monster, to rally their own support and shake the
support of the GOP, who can be shaken.
Trump is not a Nazi or the anti-Christ,
but Democratic followers, the deluded masses who do not realize they
are being used as pawns in this power game, become enraged as their
hot buttons are pushed.
Credo and all the other left wing
lobbyists spin this evil plot to keep the masses excited, building
hopefully to a crescendo that will conclude with victory next
November.
The smear campaign waged in Alabama is
only the beginning of the kind of campaign we will see waged across
the country, although Democratic weakness is and always will be
money. They will not be able to concentrate their attack in November
they way they did for Alabama, and since the GOP tends to raise more
money by far than Democrats, you can expect many more people being
shoved out onto the street and many more shrill attacks by desperate
Democrats.
While Democratic spin doctors are
telling their following and media that off-year elections always see
big swings, and that Democrats have the potential to take not just
the Senate back but the House as well, the truth is much more
painful. Most likely the new congress we seek in 2019 will largely
resemble the one that exists today.
The better Democratic think tanks think
this, too, and it scares the hell out of them.
They need to push Trump into a complete
meltdown at a proper time this year in order for the odds to change
in their favor, and so we'll see more unnamed sources in more
Washington Post stories, and more silly reporting by HuffPost and
CNN, all with the desired end to make the president look like a
buffoon, and to shake him the way they managed to shake Nixon, and
LBJ.
The bigger problem for Democrats is
that Trump might get enraged by their antics, may even curse up a
storm behind closed doors, might tweet out startling quotes, but he
won't be shaken by a press or a party he already sees as pathetic and
helpless.
The more the Democrats widen the circle
of power in an attempt to make up for their lack of power inside, the
more they risk uniting the GOP the way the Chicago protests in 1968
helped Nixon win as president for the first time.
Democrats also have another problem:
lack of inspiring candidates.
Sanders engaged young people for a
time, but he's four years old and he also carries the baggage having
endorsed Clinton, who had cheated her way to the nomination, after
Obama bankrupted the Democratic Party by saddling it with his
campaign debts – his real enduring legacy, and one that may come to
haunt him as he watches the GOP win again in November.
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